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Credit Chaos

(Trends/Management)

December 31, 2008, ... flexible packaging (Rank Group/Alcoa), labels (Genstar Capital/Fort Dearborn), and rigid containers (Rexam/O-I Plastics). The industry has been characterized by strategic and financial buyers operating ...

Sustaining Technology Hunger

(Editorial)

October 31, 2008, ... simultaneously held annual association meetings this past October. The Tag & Label Mfrs. Inst. held its meeting at The Breakers in Palm Beach, FL, and the Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators ...

Getting Carded: Card Making comes of age for Converters

(Offset)

October 31, 2008, ... in. The format of the Diamond 2000LS is versatile to accommodate specialized products, including styrene backlit signs, vinyl labels, and product tags. A UV-curing system from Grafix incorporates ...

Ink Dispensing: Mix to Match

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

October 31, 2008, ... on a label, and unique, brand-specific colors increasingly are used as a means of differentiating a product on the crowded shelf. Furthermore, there is less room for error. Customers demand exactly the ...

KBA, FLEXcon Premiering Unique Substrates at Graph Expo

(News | New Products)

October 13, 2008, ... in graphic advertising applications or for product identification labels. FLEXcon’s glow-in the dark is a plastic substrate that has been pre-primed to offer consistent printability with either UV or ...

Shrink Expands

(Label/Tape)

September 30, 2008, Don Earl, founder and president of Overnight Labels, says he is serious about making the highest quality narrow web labels and packaging required by the Don Earl, founder and president of Overnight Labels, ...

October Carton & Box Reporter

(Carton Box)

September 30, 2008, ... an integral part of IPCO's label and re-run work. Prinect Image Control automatically evaluates mini spots during production and corrects any tonal and color discrepancies in the prepress stage, making ...

Graph Expo Growing In Stature

(Trends/Management)

August 31, 2008, ...  GASC also reports plans are underway for the debut of PackPrint, a package printing, folding carton, flexo, and label-focused tradeshow. Produced in partnership with the Flexographic Technical Assn., ...

Sticks to Flexo

(Label/Tape)

August 31, 2008, Jason Grossman, president of Paragon Label Co., laughingly describes his custom wine label converting operation as a very bizarre label company. After Jason Grossman, president of Paragon Label Co., laughingly ...

New Product Digest

(New Products)

August 31, 2008, ... and performs well as a removable tape or label on most surfaces. Product is FDA compliant for use with most food and drug packaging. Said to offer durability and to maintain constant, smooth peel adhesion ...

Newly Topcoated Cothene Film Offers Superior Performance

(News | New Products)

August 19, 2008, ... requiring high quality graphics. Available in frosty clear or white, it is designed for "no-label look" applications and recyclable with polyolefin substrates. "Our new topcoated Cothene offers an economical ...

Mid-Gloss Paper is Upgraded

(News Eclips)

August 18, 2008, ... opacity and higher degree of print contrast, Raflacoat Plus provides brighter colors and better printing definition, thus enabling better-looking labels and even more complex designs. See http://www.upmraflatac.com ...

Future Events

(Events)

August 11, 2008, ... Inst. of Technology, Printing Applications Laboratory, Rochester, NY (585-475-7429; www.seminars.cias.rit.edu). June 3–4 | AWA Intl. Sleeve Label Conference, Alexander Watson Assoc., Hyatt Rosemont ...

ETI Converting Signs Five Contracts at Drupa

(News | New Products)

August 03, 2008, Continuing the success it has enjoyed during its nearly 20 years as a manufacturer of p-s label converting equipment, ETI Converting Equipment reported that it signed five contracts during the just completed ...

August What's New Product

(New Products)

July 31, 2008, ... definition. UPM Raflatac | 828-651-4800 | www.upmraflatac.com PFFC-ASAP 320 Films Aid Product Identity Brushcal lines for domed labeling are offered in a variety of colors and textures, including ...

Roll Out the Red Carpet

(Trends/Management)

July 31, 2008, If you plan to attend Labelexpo Americas 2008, you'll witness a first for the event, which is being held September 9-11 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center If you plan to attend Labelexpo Americas ...

Green Gravure

(Gravure)

July 31, 2008, At a time when many flexographic printers and converters are focused on “growing green,” one New York-based converter of flexible packaging and labels is going one better: by going green — and gravure ...

Web Exclusive: Are Sleeves Ready for Narrow Web?

(Archive)

July 31, 2008, While the number of machines with sleeve technology is growing in label printing, many users still are hesitant about using them. Sleeves became a standard on flexographic presses for package printing ...

Start with Security

(Label/Tape)

June 30, 2008, Counterfeiting of packaging and labels has become far easier to perpetuate in recent years. Originally a problem related to items such as currency, passports, Counterfeiting of packaging and labels has ...

Printing Partnerships

(Special Reports)

June 30, 2008, ... to protect their products, not just through monitoring the manufacturing and distribution chain but, critically, at item level via print — in all its forms — on packaging and labels. Print's Function ...