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Precision AirConvey Corp. Baler Aids Environment

(Green)

January 25, 2012, ... environment. Ideal for baling edge trim, label matrix, and other converting, printing, and packaging waste, the unit collects and densifies the paper, plastic film, PSA, or other waste material conveyed ...

Avery Dennison Wins TLMI Award for Green Initiatives

(Green Converting)

December 13, 2011, ... Materials Business Unit has received the 2011 Environmental Leadership Award from the Tag and Label Mfrs. Inst. (TLMI). The award, given by the TLMI Environmental Committee, recognizes the leadership efforts ...

Jury Is Announced for DuPont Packaging Innovation Awards

(Flexpack)

December 08, 2011, ... jurors will consider excellence in one or more of these areas: innovation, sustainability, and cost/waste reduction. The deadline for entries is Feb. 24, 2012, there is no fee for entry, and DuPont materials ...

Screw & Die Design Models

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

December 05, 2011, ... library of rheological data.  In the end, this is what engineers are looking for... accuracy and simplicity for a wide range of materials at a reasonable cost.  From my point of view, the price of his ...

Slot Die Coating | The Pressure Is On

(Adhesive Coating)

December 01, 2011, ... thin, and precise converting operations, a customized coating system is necessary to have a technical edge. Building the system from the material up to the process sets the stage for a high precision tool ...

Release Liner Market: Growth Projected, but Threats Remain

(Label/Tape)

November 10, 2011, ... as challenges due to environmental issues. Sustainability, raw material costs, and the relative use of paper- and film-based liners (http://pffc-online.com/search?searchword=release+liner) were the topics ...

Acucote Installs Martin Automatic Splicer

(News | New Products)

October 26, 2011, ... variety of substrates, including paper, paperboard, film, and fabric. With many jobs averaging only about 5,000 ft, frequent material changes are necessary. “When we are adding adhesive to this range ...

Web Handling: Top 7 Causes of Wrinkles

(Web Handling)

October 09, 2011, ... all kinds of problems. Excessive parent roll run-out can translate into vibration and web flutter. Inconsistent or poor quality web material can end up creating wrinkles through the whole process. No roller ...

Inspection: Lighting the Way

(Controls)

August 21, 2011, ... within the press and be able to communicate with slitter/rewinder equipment for fast, efficient marking and removal of defective roll material. Finally, a system must collect and store performance data ...

PCR Milked for Flex-Pack

(Flexpack)

August 21, 2011, ... substantive solution that meets both needs was resolved when one of Hood’s customers suggested it take a look into using post-consumer resin (PCR) as part of its converted packaging materials. At Hood’s ...

Green Converting: Landfill Diversion

(Green Converting)

August 16, 2011, ... struggle with garbage. The root of our challenges with garbage and waste always comes down to one question: Where are we going to put it? Since the 1980s, population growth and advances in material and ...

CPP Gets Converters on Track with Conference Program

(Trends/Management)

August 16, 2011, ... Large consumer product companies also have taken an active stance, sometimes in the absence of complete information, to produce lists of acceptable and unacceptable ink raw materials for food packaging. ...

$2 MM Folding Carton Expansion at Menasha Includes Sheeting

(Carton Box News)

August 04, 2011, ... that's what we are here to do." With the expansion, Menasha can buy and store raw material, subsequently cutting six weeks of waiting for delivery of ordered materials, and carry out the sheeting process ...

Package Design: Make an Impact

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2011, ... & Gamble partnered with Be Green Packaging to repackage Gillette's Fusion ProGlide razor with a formable pulp tray made of renewable bamboo and bulrush fiber-based material to move away from the clamshell ...

Static Beat: Why Static Is Worse at High Speeds

(Static Elimination)

July 31, 2011, ... materials, surface roughness, contact pressure, and slip. Slip increases as the film speed increases. In Figure 1, the film tension difference across the roller is caused by bearing drag. This tension ...

Show Preview Narrow Web & Label: Labelexpo Europe Evolves

(Trends/Management)

July 31, 2011, ... pharmaceutical, or personal care label — will be printed on the same material. In the fourth session, participants will print a label of their choosing. A special Package Printing Zone will introduce ...

Education Training: School's in Sessio

(Trends/Management)

July 31, 2011, ... that seeded Gordon Graydon high school (and others) in the mid-1990s with matching funds, and Belanger gets inks and materials donated by supportive suppliers. But big-ticket items like presses are different. ...

Eco-One Plastic Additives To Be Used for Food Service Containers

(Green Converting)

July 27, 2011, ... with the least amount of environmental impact. It is our company mission to drive continuous improvement with material reduction, energy conservation, and recycling awareness without compromising performance, ...

Sheet at High Speeds

(Sheeting)

June 30, 2011, Sheeter designed for materials such as metallized paper or highly glossed label paper features a cutter, delivery, and stacking systems said to achieve Sheeter designed for materials such as metallized ...

Europe Faces Plastic Bag Bans

(Yo's Yarns)

June 21, 2011, ... a waste product after use, but a valuable raw material. One prerequisite is, however, that it is correctly collected within recycling systems. For this purpose, the EU has developed a packaging directive, ...