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FTA Raises the Bar

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, Highlights of FTA's annual forum 'Reaching New Heights,' and some of the most noteworthy Excellence in Flexography 2003 award winners. (Package graphics included!) Highlights of FTA's annual forum 'Reaching ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

June 29, 2003, ... exhibitors and 370,000 visitors expected. Exhibits will include prepress and premedia; printing; book binding and print finishing; paper converting and package production; and materials and services. Proud ...

At NPE 2003 SPI Promotes Petition to Offset the "China Factor

(News | New Products)

June 24, 2003, ... trade show carried on in the halls below, reveals the intense interest in China, the Asian marketplace overall, and how it is affecting manufacturers, including converters and package printers, and manufacturing ...

Products

(Magazine)

May 31, 2003, ... gearhead delivers 3 arc-min positional accuracy in a package size that is just 2 mm (sq) × 37 mm long. With a rated torque of 5 in.-lb and a maximum torque of 24 in.-lb, gearhead has both an input shaft ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

May 31, 2003, ... in Gravure For its new hard candy, Chocfuls, Cadbury Trebor Allan wanted two different package sizes, excellent color reproduction, and lots of detail. Sonoco, Hartsville, SC, made it all happen. The ...

Splash & Pop

(Flexpack)

May 31, 2003, A new W&H Astraflex is giving customers of Pliant Corp.'s Langley plant eye-popping flexible packages with the splash afforded by printing with ten colors. A new W&H Astraflex is giving customers of Pliant ...

'Business as Usual Isn't an Option' for 900 Flexographers at FF

(News | New Products)

May 18, 2003, ... opened with a consumer-product company summit that addressed the present-day demands of package buyers and the most practical approaches that printers and converters can utilize in meeting them. Orchestrated ...

FTA Awards Exemplify High-End Flexo

(News | New Products)

May 04, 2003, ... There, nearly 1,000 flexographers seized the opportunity to study the winning print jobs and comment on modern-day applications and flexography’s growing share of the package-printing market. In keeping ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

April 30, 2003, ... Stratton, the new chairman of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), to begin a review of the test protocol used by CPSC to determine which types of packages legally are considered to be “child ...

Going, Going... Gone

(Magazine)

April 30, 2003, ... of America (PIA). Raine conducted an e-survey with 50-plus key purchasing and supply-chain managers from Fortune 1000 companies that represented an economic cross-section. In addition, converters, packagers, ...

New Products for the Converting Industry

(Magazine)

March 31, 2003, ... offers excellent cohesion, flexibility, and adhesion to various polyolefin films and metallized foils. Can be used as a surface printing ink vehicle. Control Web Tension with Digital Package Andantex ...

New Products for the Converting Industry (2 of 2)

(Magazine)

March 31, 2003, ... PixFlow software workflow package, a laser imagesetter, and an in-line system for automatic processing of digital plates. Hot Melt Application Is SimplifiedNordson Corp., Duluth; GA; 770/497-3425; nordson.com ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

March 31, 2003, ... technology, and consumer packaged goods, is designing the critical elements and creating global standards for the next-generation bar code—called the EPC Network. EPC is an evolution of the traditional ...

Think Lean

(Magazine)

March 31, 2003, ... be posting good performance figures. What other industry would accept its most expensive piece of capital equipment sitting idle 40%-50% of the time? Why does the package printing industry accept such ...

PLGA Offers Many Views of World of Gravure

(Magazine)

March 31, 2003, ... Smurfit-Stone Entry: Tide Category: Special Structure Carton Winner: Smurfit-Stone Entry: Adidas Category: Film/Film Flexible Package-Process Winner: Printpack Entry: Perugina Biscotti Category: ...

New Product Digest, Part 1, PFFC, April 2003

(Magazine)

March 30, 2003, ... as a surface printing ink vehicle. Control Web Tension with Digital Package Andantex USA, Wanamassa, NJ; 800/713-6170; andantex.com User-friendly web tension control system for printing, label, paper, ...

New Product Digest, Part 2, PFFC, April 2003

(Magazine)

March 30, 2003, ... processing digital flexo plates. System includes PixFlow software workflow package, a laser imagesetter, and an in-line system for automatic processing of digital plates. Hot Melt Application Is SimplifiedNordson ...

Flexo Prepress for Boxmakers

(News | New Products)

March 17, 2003, ... film sets in line-screen halftone or the emerging stochastic screen for other applications requiring extra large formats, like that of process-color offset or wide web flexible package printing. This ...

KPG and Presstek Partner to Expand DI in North America

(News | New Products)

March 13, 2003, Presstek and Kodak Polychrome Graphics (KPG) announce a partnership under which KPG will market, sell, and service direct digital imaging presses and related consumables in the US and Canada. HUDSOH, NH, ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

February 28, 2003, ... in pharmaceutical product packaging, Arlington Press, Vernon, CA, an Impaxx co., added carton production to its product line with the installation of a Comco UV flexo press. A leading maker of package ...