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Innovation for Solving Problems

(Innovation Station)

February 18, 2016, ... solve problems I never even knew I had. Both types of innovation are exciting, both for the supplier and the user. One of the big differences between incremental and breakthrough innovation is the amount ...

AGL Celebrates 20 Years in Business

(Coating/Laminating)

February 15, 2016, ... brands in laminators today. The company specializes in custom-designed industrial laminators. In 2001 AGL introduced the films division supplying consumable laminates, mounting adhesives, and backing ...

Coating Tech Institute Registration Is Open

(Coating/Laminating)

February 14, 2016, ... in a short amount of time. This event is designed for companies in any fluid coating industry, from adhesive coated tapes to lithium ion batteries. Those wishing to register for the course, which costs ...

Label PRomotion | Legal or Lethal? How Far To Go with a Label to Generate Buzz

(Label/Tape)

February 10, 2016, ... gotten huge amounts of media coverage because of it. That said, most manufacturers don’t come close to matching his deep pockets in the event of a lawsuit; and are unlikely to enjoy a highly controversial ...

Maxson Roll Stand Is Self-Loading

(News | New Products)

February 05, 2016, ... arm. This arm moves back and forth through a screw drive to accommodate various size rolls. Then clamping pressure is exerted to drive the chucks into the core. The roll stand is mounted on tracks, which ...

Domino Digital Label Press at Work in UK

(Label/Tape)

February 02, 2016, ...  Michaela Smith, business manager for Charapak Labels, says, “Our customer was previously having their labels flexo printed and were carrying huge amounts of stock on the shelf and spending a lot of money ...

ITW Pillar Launches Maintenance Indicator for Treaters

(News | New Products)

February 01, 2016, ... in significant amounts of non-performing and rejected product.” Helker adds, “It will also be very likely that at the time the Maintenance Indicator activates, other key internal components such as electrodes ...

Show Preview | FTA’s 2016 Forum and INFO*FLEX

(Print)

February 01, 2016, ... in the Solutions Theater.   Lohmann Tapes (Booth 609) will show DuploFLEX EB and DuploFLEX EBX plate mounting adhesive tapes and compressible substructures for quick, complex, and long flexo print ...

Ceresana Issues Study on Bags and Sacks

(Bag Pouch)

January 26, 2016, ... the amount of per-capita consumption and the number of re-uses but also and especially on the quality of the different waste managements and disposal and recycling systems. In Europe, an amendment of the ...

ULS Report Issues Study on Packaging Efficiency

(News | New Products)

January 23, 2016, ... of the original study in 1995 and the followup in 2006. To gauge efficiency, more than 300 containers in 56 grocery categories were examined to determine the amount of packaging required to deliver a ...

Graphic Arts Advisors Issues Report on 2015

(News | New Products)

January 17, 2016, Mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring in the packaging and paper industry are covered in the year-end report MOUNTAIN LAKES, NJ | Graphic Arts Advisors offers the Target Report, which has been chronicling ...

Screw Design for Film Extrusion

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

January 11, 2016, ... does is deliver the desired output at the desired melt temperature and pressure, with a minimal amount of variation of each of these parameters. When this happens, gauge uniformity is optimized (at least ...

On Print | UV LED Is Beyond the Tipping Point

(On Print)

January 11, 2016, ... Hg bulbs with LED is becoming very appealing to the production manager, but it will be a nightmare if the formulations are not ready first. Of course, with its low profile, the LED system might be mounted ...

Double E Delivers Stored Material to Converting with Solis Accumulator

(News | New Products)

January 10, 2016, ... closed-loop tension control system from Siemens that enabled the machine ensures consistent moving web tension during a manual splice, plus the ability to change material storage amounts accurately and ...

Mamata Machines Make Zipper Poly Bags

(Bag Pouch)

December 26, 2015, ... giving full control on process at different stage of making zipper bags. Rigid mounting of seal head reportedly avoids any vibration and performs clean vibration-free seal resulting in clear seal and cut ...

Phoseon Offers Flexo Retrofit Installation Kit

(News | New Products)

December 17, 2015, ...  • Supply modules • Cooling system (for water-cooled only) • Water manifold (for water-cooled only) • Custom mounting brackets • UV shielding (if necessary) • Chill plate (captures excess UV ...

Smithers Pira Report Looks at Security

(News | New Products)

December 13, 2015, ... says the study, both at the simple ID card level and at the eID level, with an increasing amount of security components to combat counterfeiting. Paper driving licenses are rapidly disappearing as cards ...

Vortec Supplies Ionizing Air Knives

(News | New Products)

December 11, 2015, ... to the target by a uniform sheet of amplified air. Air amplifiers use a small amount of filtered compressed air to deliver a powerful, high-velocity sheet of laminar air over wide areas. Company says design ...

Flexible Packaging | Child-Resistant Slider an Important Step Forward in Safety

(Flexpack)

November 30, 2015, ... to open or obtain a toxic or harmful amount of the substance contained therein within a reasonable time and not difficult for normal adults to use properly, but does not mean packaging which all such children ...

Lloyd Instruments Jig Is for Contact Lens Blister Pack Testing

(Controls)

November 28, 2015, ... a special mount in the jig’s sliding baseplate. As the test machine’s crosshead is driven upwards, peeling the foil on the lower blister pack, the baseplate slides horizontally, to ensure that the peel ...