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Not Just a Pretty Face

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2009, ... Packaging Intl. The Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators, Fort Mill, SC, bestowed this year's top Metallized Product of the Year Award, named in honor of PFFC's former publisher Peter Rigney, ...

Celplast Metallized Products, Davis-Standard Host One-Day Course

(News | New Products)

March 25, 2009, ... product requirements are becoming more demanding,” says Jim Lush, Industrial Account Manager at Celplast. “As a result, the challenges of web handling and winding films in the flexible packaging industry ...

Metallized & Vacuum Coated Products Are Credited for Excellence in the AIMCAL Competition

(News | New Products)

March 24, 2009, The Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators bestowed this year’s top Metallized Product of the Year Award,to Graphic Packaging Intl. FORT MILL, SC | The Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters ...

Bloomer Plastics Converts Custom Films

(Substrates)

February 28, 2009, ... acetate, acid copolymers, ionomers, ethylene vinyl alcohol, metallocenes, and other custom compounds. Markets served by Bloomer Plastics include packaging, graphic arts, protective films, automotive, metal ...

People News: February

(Magazine)

January 31, 2009, Ilene Gordon, president and CEO of Alcan Packaging, is named the Best Executive (for non-services businesses-more than 2,500 employees) at The 5th Annual Ilene Gordon, president and CEO of Alcan Packaging, ...

Color Control

(Label/Tape)

December 31, 2008, ...  ability to convert film-based in-mold labels — its premiere packaging niche — particularly with the Heidelberg Image Control system that automatically adjusts color to match a previous press run and kee ...

Creating e-Pedigrees

(Print)

December 31, 2008, Variable data marking and coding isn't a foreign concept to most package converters. For years, many have been placing variable data on packaging materials Variable data marking and coding isn't a foreign ...

NPTA Alliance Elects 2009 Board of Directors

(News | New Products)

December 14, 2008, Alliance, the leading paper, packaging, and supplies organization in North America, elected its 2009 Board of Directors at its recent 2008 Annual Convention CHICAGO, IL | NPTA Alliance, the leading paper, ...

Bag Sits Flat

(Bag Pouch)

November 30, 2008, ... A unique, box-like profile combines the best features of a stand-up pouch with those of a true flat bottom bag. Plastic Packaging Technologies (PPT) becomes a trendsetter with the installation of a ...

Web Exclusive: Slitting Film

(Archive)

November 11, 2008, Despite the fact that crude oil prices have risen sharply, in turn elevating the price of oil-based raw materials used in plastic film manufacture, this group of materials still has largely untapped packaging ...

Sustaining Technology Hunger

(Editorial)

October 31, 2008, ... address by Dr. Kenneth Marsh of Kenneth S. Marsh Assoc. on “Packaging and the Environment: Debunking the Myths.” And the following morning included a full half day of presentations (eight papers in all) ...

Nice Touch

(Carton Box)

October 28, 2008, ... in compliance with impending mandates in the European Union. Pharmaceutical packaging will be required by law to have product names, formulation, and strength displayed in Braille by October 2010. Cortegra ...

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, ...  © 2008 by The Freedonia Group Georgia-Pacific Program Drives Sustainability ATLANTA, GA | Engineers at Georgia-Pacific's Packaging Systems Optimization (PSO) program helped water-heater manufacturer ...

What's New Product

(Magazine)

September 30, 2008, ... fluorotelomer products are used to make surface-protection products such as oil- and grease-resistant coatings for the packaging industry. Reportedly, coatings resist stains, will not change the appearance ...

ITC Rules in Favor of Petition Against Woven Sacks Imports from China

(News | New Products)

September 03, 2008, ... Bag, Inc.; Coating Excellence Intl., LLC; Hood Packaging Corp.; Mid-America Packaging, LLC; and Polytex Fibers Corp. “The ITC’s decision confirms something that we have known for a long time—dumped ...

Dirge for a Plastic Bag Part 2

(Editorial)

August 31, 2008, ... bag manufacturers. They showed a video of the “tumbling tumbleweed.” I think we have all seen it. As a flexible packaging manufacturer, I was amused and asked them how they compared in terms of shipping ...

Edible Markers

(Special Reports)

June 30, 2008, ... information traceability technology that can be added to the food product as well as the packaging materials for “self-authentication.” In its simplest form, for instance, a two-dimensional package ...

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 ...

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, ...