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McLoone Adds Digital UV-Inkjet Printer

(News | New Products)

May 05, 2014, ... will be responsible for 25% of McLoone’s production, approximately half of the company’s flexible material output. The first large-scale roll-to-roll printer in the company’s 60-year history, the DSI ...

IPS Provides Flushability Testing

(Flexpack)

May 02, 2014, ... paper towels, hand towels, feminine care items, and other materials are not. It’s these non-flushable items that have proven to be the bulk of what is discovered when evaluating clog masses, he says. Kyra ...

SoftSolutions Offers Real-Time Production Management

(News | New Products)

April 30, 2014, ... workforce performance culture. Flex monitors workforce performance metrics directly from a company's operations. Automates actual labor and material costing by job directly from equipment to ERP. Reduces ...

Techkon USA Offers Print Color Control System

(News | New Products)

April 19, 2014, ... software solutions for the global print and packaging communities, has launched PressLink, closed loop print color control solution. It is said to offer pressroom automation, materials waste reduction, ...

Z-Flute Boxes for Kitty Litter are Purr-fect

(Coating/Laminating)

March 08, 2014, ... solid bleached sulfate (SBS) and sheeted the material into 24x36-inch sheets. OlymPak Packaging & Printing prints the sheets in register and converts the folding carton. The combination of holographic ...

Discount Labels Adds Domino UV Inkjet Printer

(News | New Products)

February 25, 2014, ... to not only provide reliable high quality printing but also increase uptime and throughput and decrease makeready, maintenance, and material waste. With features such as CleanCap automated printhead cleaning, ...

Cartotecnica Veneta Adds QuadTech Color Quality

(News | New Products)

February 18, 2014, ... station. Job data is automatically saved for recall providing makeready, material, and labor savings. With Huber Group’s ink technology, the company can use just one set of color base inks for varying ...

Web Lines | The Case for Shorter (and Longer) Acceleration Times

(Slit)

February 04, 2014, ... at low speeds. The case against rapid acceleration Many advocates of rapid acceleration do so in the name of machine output. Obviously, any time spent at lower speed does not process as much material ...

Para Print Joins DuPont's Plate Recycling Progra

(News | New Products)

February 04, 2014, ... services, as a participant in a key program to recover, reuse, and recycle DuPont Cyrel flexographic printing plates and related materials. The program, known as TR3, is consistent with the goal of both ...

AWA Announces Seminar on Linerless Labels

(Label/Tape)

January 31, 2014, Held in conjunction with the Global Release Liner Industry Conference, the one-day event will cover material, technology, and machinery developments   AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS | AWA Alexander Watson ...

Thinfilm Builds Stand-Alone Smart Sensor Label

(Label/Tape)

January 20, 2014, ... CTO, “A key breakthrough for this demo was the low-voltage complementary logic we announced in June [2013]. Polyera and our other materials partners have played an essential role in helping us move products ...

Martin Automatic Reports Sales to Chinese Converter

(News | New Products)

January 08, 2014, ... Reportedly, the first MBSC and STR helped reduce the converter’s defect rate on that press by 2% and material waste by more than 1.6 tons in less than a year. With a compact size, the MBSC and STR combination ...

Chinese Label Converter Adds Second Martin Splicer

(News | New Products)

January 05, 2014, ... the first MBSC and STR helped reduce their defect rate on that press by 2 percent and their material waste by over 1.6 tons in less than a year." With a compact size, the company reports the MBSC and ...

Gilbreth Packaging Boosts Production with Titan

(News | New Products)

December 16, 2013, ... Positioning systems that help reduce material waste for a more sustainable solution. The new slitter can process a wide range of materials to a minimum slit width of 25 mm (1 in.) on both 76 and 152 ...

Sustainability in Packaging Subject of Conference

(Green Converting)

December 09, 2013, Presentations will focus on efforts by major companies to achieve packaging that is good for the environment as well as the bottom line   LEATHERHEAD, SURREY, UK | The Sustainability in Packaging ...

Easy Open Feature for Pinch Bottom Bags

(Bag Pouch News)

December 09, 2013, ... possible to use this consumer-friendly opening feature on packaging made of BOPP laminated polypropylene tape fabric, a very lightweight but strong packaging material. Due to its simple and practical ...

Label Trends | The Future of Linerless Labels

(Label/Tape)

November 20, 2013, ... make. Today’s traditional pressure-sensitive labels are available from many label stock manufacturers and the materials can be run on many label printing/converting and application equipment. The value ...

Splicing | Nonwovens Converter Opens New Markets

(Nonwovens)

November 18, 2013, ... with manual roll changing, I estimate we save 208 hours per year with the Martin, and each splice also saves us around five meters (16 feet) of material. Expressed in percentage terms, the Martin MBS has ...

Coating Matters | Hot Melt Coating Technology, Part 2

(Coating/Laminating)

November 11, 2013, ... by precision machining of these surfaces may seem minuscule, but in applications involving high volumes or costly coating materials, the economic gains can be great. The effect of variations becomes progressively ...

MTi-Polyexe Reduces Downtime, Improves Quality

(News | New Products)

November 03, 2013, ... continues to run today. While the line runs well, one constant issue the company had was the shafts supporting the rolls of material on the machine were extremely heavy—over 300 lb each. This made it very ...