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Rohm and Haas to Showcase Technologies at Ink Conference

(News | New Products)

September 28, 2008, ... variety of press conditions. The resins are both used to manufacture waterbased inks used on packaging materials from corrugated boxes to flexibl e films. They yield higher strength dispersions with better ...

Lightfastness in Package Printing

(Process Management)

August 31, 2008, When you take into account the time and effort spent on supplying packaging with precise colors, it follows the expectation that these colors should stay the same during the product use cycle When you ...

News Clips

(News Clips Archive)

August 31, 2008, ...  Pamarco Global Graphics adds multibeam laser capabilities in its Batavia, IL, and Warrington, UK, facilities. Delkor, Minneapolis, MN, a supplier of flat pad and tray packaging, has received ...

Weight Reduction

(Archive)

August 31, 2008, Coating Excellence Intl., a supplier of specialty flexible packaging, has made sustainable development an essential element of its business plan — and ultimately its business success — for the past decade ...

Earth-Friendly Print

(Print)

August 31, 2008, ... to bring production back to North America.” Transport and fuel usage are important aspects of responsible ink, printing, and packaging production. Whenever ink suppliers can support their nearby customers, ...

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 ...

COF Testing: Why Does it Matter?

(Process Management)

July 31, 2008, Coefficient of friction (COF) is a property critical to the optimum processing and handling of packaging from filling operations through to the consumer. Coefficient of friction (COF) is a property critical ...

Roll Out the Red Carpet

(Trends/Management)

July 31, 2008, ...  Tarsus reports more than 26% of label converters in North America also produce flexible packaging. Past show figures indicate a 50% increase in attendance from flex-pack and folding carton suppliers. ...

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 ...

August 2008 PFFC What's New Products: Part tw

(New Products)

July 31, 2008, ... preprint liner or other packaging where high-temperature processing could cause conventional overprint varnishes to pick, soften, or smear. Typical applications include retail packaging, POP displays, ...

August 2008 PFFC First Glance

(Magazine)

July 31, 2008, Breakdown Breakthrough A new biobag for Jordans Organic Cereals, converted by Alcan Packaging, Dublin, Ireland, wins a DuPont Award for Packaging Innovation. Breakdown Breakthrough A new biobag for Jordans ...

Web Exclusive: Are Sleeves Ready for Narrow Web?

(Archive)

July 31, 2008, ... flexible packaging, serviettes and tissue products, shrink sleeves, and increasingly all types of labels. These are also the main fields of application named by Torsten Scholz. In his opinion their ...

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 ...

A Golden Opportunity

(Trends/Management)

June 30, 2008, ... will be subject; whether this is new packaging for the customer; and whether the customer is looking for new graphics. Dedman said digital presses can duplicate the characteristics of another press ...

Dyne Levels Part 2

(Process Management)

June 30, 2008, ... to surface wetting. This column expands the concept to include surface modification to improve adhesion. The introduction of plastic packaging films more than 50 years ago required surface treatment ...

News Clips

(News Clips Archive)

June 30, 2008, ... the Sustainable Packaging Coalition. Dow Chemical, Midland, MI, increases prices for all hollow plastic pigment latex products by US $0.11/lb (dry) and styrene acrylate and vinyl acrylate products ...

Linoprint Modular Drop-on-Demand System Debuts at Interpack

(News | New Products)

June 24, 2008, ... integrated, says the company, just as easily into existing lines as into new lines, and are designed for packaging firms and suppliers of packaging lines. The Drop-on-Demand systems are aimed at a different ...

Dyne Levels Part 1

(Process Management)

May 31, 2008, ... films. Organic solvents used in solvent-based products assure good wetting of commonly used plastic films. They have surface tensions of 20-24 dynes/cm, which is well below the surface energy of packaging ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ... labels, cartons, and flexible packaging is said to offer fast and easy setup without a prepress department, with lightweight sleeve tooling, and with minimum crewing. Available in six to ten colors standard, ...