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One Step Ahead

(Label/Tape)

February 29, 2008, Consumer brands and products are launched on an almost daily basis. It's a vivid demonstration of the constant, exponential growth in the label and narrow Consumer brands and products are launched on an ...

The Market Matures

(Label/Tape)

February 29, 2008, ... process and on narrow web combination-process presses is increasing. This opens new opportunities for label converters to widen their product offerings. Threats and Opportunities Raw material and energy ...

Experience Speaks: Terry Fulwiler

(Archive)

January 31, 2008, ...  What is the biggest threat to the converting industry right now? Overcapacity. The barriers to entry are not great (at least not in the narrow web segment), and there are a lot of players. This ...

PFFC Pilot/Lab/Technical Facilities Directory

(Magazine)

November 30, 2007, Is there a problem with your process? Fix it! These technical facilities stand ready to help. Adherent Laboratories 3804 Dunlap St. North, St. Paul, MN 55112; 651-247-3364; tom.quinn@adherentlabs.com; ...

Spear Opens Facility in South Africa

(Archive)

November 25, 2007, ... AFRICA | Spear has begun operations at its new facility in Johannesburg, South Africa. The 5,500-sq.-m. facility will produce pressure-sensitive, cut-stack, and OPP wrap labels on a wide and narrow web ...

What's new product

(Magazine)

October 31, 2007, Narrow web new products from: Tailored Solutions, Tharo Systems, AzonPrinter, EskoArtwork, Degraf, Gidue, and ADSI. Narrow Web Machinery, Accessories, Services Management Software Is Enhanced Label ...

A Paradise of Print

(Tapes)

October 31, 2007, Gathered in Hawaii for an annual meeting and awards ceremony, TLMI members prove how they excel at the art of creating narrow web tags, labels, and packaging. TLMI Awards The Tag and Label Mfrs. Inst. ...

Release Liner Special Report, Part 1

(Tapes)

October 31, 2007, ... a new business platform. With brand manufacturers continuing to proliferate variants of the same basic brand in terms of flavor, scent, etc., print runs are becoming shorter. The narrow web label converter ...

Chinese Converter Ensures Quality

(Archive)

October 31, 2007, ... during wide web printing operations. The six PrintVision/Helios units are designed for 100% automatic inspection of narrow web and mid-web applications, including labels and folding cartons. These units ...

Ready for Change

(Magazine)

September 30, 2007, ... label converting. By the 1970s, Gintzler recognized the growth potential in narrow web labels and began to move away from the offset and tape businesses. Today Gintzler’s 54,000-sq-ft facility serves ...

WHAT'S NE

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... | PFFC-ASAP 412 Hot Melt PSA Offers Clarity Duro-Tak 34-659B hot melt PSA, suited for both wide and narrow web applications, reportedly exhibits excellent clarity on polyolefin films and is ideal ...

WHAT'S NE

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, ... a choice of Flexcel NX mid or narrow imager, modified Flexcel flexo plates, and Prinergy workflow system for packaging. On display at Graph Expo. PFFC-ASAP 404 Measure Nip Width at 30 Points Sensor ...

REPORTER CLIPS

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, Narrow web converting industry news from: TLMI, HP, PacSys, PAT Technology Systems, IDTecEx, and Tarsus Group. Covering the Full Spectrum of Narrow Web News, Events & Activities For Converters’ Eyes ...

Treat 'em Righ

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... presses and versatile new narrow web flexographic presses that can handle a wider range of substrates and incorporate a greater variety of converting processes in-line than ever before. After nearly ...

Renewing CMM Enthusiasm

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... credit for the effort expended to create a working atmosphere at this year’s CMM. The two new demo centers—one for flexible packaging and another for narrow and mid-web converting—unquestionably drew the ...

Working Undercover

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... enhance the product authentication properties of a label on a narrow web press using specialty inks. Fluorescent, photochromic, chemichromic, thermochromic, magnetic, and color-shift inks are just a few ...

Shining Stars

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ...  Packaging—26 in. and less Narrow Web SleeveCo. for Bolt House Blue Goodness Rotogravure was the only possible choice to achieve the numerous effects within the shrink sleeve on this winning entry. ...

Knowledge = Power = Success

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ...  Fox Valley's most popular programs are on process printing, conducted in cooperation with the Flexographic Technical Assn. (FTA). Seminars on narrow web and wide web printing are limited to eight people; ...

First Class

(Magazine)

May 02, 2007, ... and Narrow & Mid-Web Converting—featuring running equipment. Sponsoring the Flexible Packaging Tech Center will be Bobst/Schiavi, Profama, Hudson-Sharp, Comexi, AirTrim, and BST Pro Mark. The Narrow ...

World View

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, The Packaging and Label Gravure Assn. Global held its 10th Annual Operational Conference in Miami at the Radisson Hotel February 21-23. Attendance was The Packaging and Label Gravure Assn. Global held ...