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- Facing a Slowdown
- (Magazine)
- December 30, 2005, ... for packaging converters is very good. “Eighty or 90 percent of the packaging materials produced by converters ends up on a consumer product, although there is quite a strong industrial packaging market, ...
- The Digital Demand
- (Magazine)
- December 30, 2005, ... press prints on a range of substrates, paper or filmic, pressure-sensitive or non-supported. Compatible materials include self-adhesive papers, synthetic (including polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate, ...
- A Perfect Match
- (Magazine)
- November 29, 2005, Macaran proofs color labels directly on flexo substrates with Latran's Prediction. Digital Proofing Macaran Printed Products prints high quality flexographic labels on a broad range of pressure-sensitive ...
- New Products
- (Magazine)
- November 29, 2005, ... during loading and shipping. Designed to protect rolled and cylindrical materials with diameters between 18 and 22.5 in., cradle features a strong cushioning construction said to make it ideal for stacking, ...
- Need a Hand?
- (Magazine)
- November 29, 2005, ... lost productivity, and lost money. In addition to damaged rolls and materials, employee safety is a major risk when rolls are handled manually. Consider roll handling equipment. Your workers—and your company’s ...
- Stora Enso Raises Prices
- (Archive)
- November 14, 2005, Stora Enso Specialty Papers has increased prices for its European customers for its wet strength label and flexible packaging papers. PRESS RELEASE IMATRA, FINLAND—Stora Enso Specialty Papers has increased ...
- Fuel Surcharges Hit Shippers
- (Magazine)
- October 30, 2005, ... raw materials, packaging, and finished products to reevaluate the bases on which they calculate and impose fuel surcharges to be borne by the shipper community. The motor carrier community’s concerns have ...
- Testing Machines
- (Magazine)
- October 30, 2005, ... with three scales for testing various paper stock, cores and corrugated, and baled scrap paper. A 0–100 arbitrary scale obtains relative moisture indications on other materials. This electrical resistance-type ...
- Linerless: The Compromise for VDP Labels?
- (Magazine)
- October 30, 2005, ... to reduce costs has been the driver in the development of linerless self-adhesive materials, which are, basically, a roll of printable face material, silicone coated on the face and adhesive coated on ...
- Sun Chemical, Flint Ink, and BASF Raise Prices
- (Archive)
- October 17, 2005, ... ANN ARBOR, MI—To offset escalation of raw materials, energy, and freight costs, Flint Ink has implemented the following price increases and freight surcharges: Product Price Increase Surcharge ...
- A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI
- (Magazine)
- September 29, 2005, ... steam, and other materials. They are dispersed into the atmosphere or directly into the surrounding working area. What can we do about this? Leaving it to disperse into the work shop is certainly not a ...
- Profit Squeeze
- (Flexpack)
- September 29, 2005, ... by 6% and Turkey by nearly 8%. Decline in Exports to Americas In total, European flexible packaging converters produced about ,9,800 million of converted materials in 2004. Approximately ,690 million ...
- RFID: The Next Generation
- (Magazine)
- September 29, 2005, ... are with static electricity and testing of the labels. According to Jay Perry, Simco Industrial Static Control, “Unfortunately, the involvement of RFID with packaging materials has changed everything ...
- Converting Industry News, Part 1
- (Magazine)
- September 29, 2005, ... feed opening; a five-wire auto-tier; a slick material tension chamber that self-adjusts to materials of less friction to maximize bale density; and the Pathfinder touchscreen operator interface. SUPPLIER ...
- Hurricanes Impact Whole Nation
- (Magazine)
- September 29, 2005, ... And what about the materials that comprise the products themselves? Price increases for resins, coatings, and films having oil-based components started long before the hurricanes hit. These recent weather-related ...
- Climate Control
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2005, ... damage the quality and printability of label materials, leading to customer complaints and reruns. Clear plastic labels are used on bottles and other containers for beverages and pharmaceuticals and in ...
- Churning Out Quality
- (Flexpack)
- August 30, 2005, ... Admiral uses a Henkel Liofol 100% solids polyurethane adhesive that “works really well on a wide range of materials.” Installation, says Frank, “was very smooth. We were running good product within three ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2005, ... our demanding requirements for working successfully with our wide variety of materials and substrates. It is quite common with our product range to have many small production runs, and we also use many ...
- New Products
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2005, ... Many Materials without Solvents Soma Engineering, Lanskroun, Czech Republic; +420 465 350 811; soma-eng.com The Lamiflex laminator is able to operate with solvent-free adhesives. Can process a wide range ...
- Are We Outsourcing our Future?
- (Magazine)
- July 30, 2005, ... New plastics, processes, and materials were being synthesized and commercialized in our industries. This expansion continued through the 1960s. Not till the early 1970s did we encounter significant competition, ...