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Diamond Packaging Recognized in Gold Ink Awards Competition

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September 25, 2006, Diamond Packaging earned a Bronze Award in the 19th Annual gold Ink Awards Competition for the Redken "Color Gels" point-of-purchase display. PRESS RELEASE ROCHESTER, NY—Diamond Packaging earned a Bronze ...

RFID Printing on Corrugated Board

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May 13, 2006, ... are used to provide low cost RFID antenna, specialty and flexible circuits, intelligent packaging, heaters/defrosters for plastic windows, and in semiconductor packaging for a wide variety of electronics ...

Illustrated Glossary of Printing Now Available

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October 22, 2005, ... as labels, displays, corrugated and folding cartons, flexible packaging, rigid containers (plastics and paperboard), bags, pouches, and multiwall sacks. Terms are arranged in alphabetical order, with ...

curious Packaging Wins Fibermark's 'Best in Sho

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September 19, 2005, ... innovation in over 50 categories, including 23 packaging categories. Entries are judged on overall appearance, decoration, printing quality, design, use of color, construction quality, and the relationship ...

Testing for Toxins in Packaging

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August 30, 2005, In September the Toxins in Packaging Clearinghouse (TPCH) is planning to commence a pilot testing program, funded by the EPA, to randomly test product packaging for toxic materials that violate state laws. ...

Packaging Must Open Up to Single-Pass Inkjet

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July 30, 2005, ... printing in the form of a matrix of stationary print heads above a transport system for the material and into production and manufacturing lines in the converting and packaging markets. A number of factors ...

COF in Printed Packaging

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June 29, 2005, Automatic packaging operations require a specific range of lubricity to process packaging products. Printing inks contribute to the package lubricity and affect both the static as well as kinetic coefficient ...

Diversified Carton Printing

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June 29, 2005, With more than 500 people at manufacturing sites and design and sales centers across North America, Specialized Packaging Group (SPG) designs and manufactures folding cartons and packaging machinery for ...

3 Tips for Better RFID Label Printing

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April 02, 2005, These three tips can help de-mystify RFID and assist in correct RFID implementation. FEATURETTE If you’re like many packaging managers, RFID labeling mandates from retailers and the Department of Defense ...

Alcan Packaging Wins Flexo Grand Slam

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March 01, 2005, Alcan Packaging has won the first ever Flexo Grand Slam Award for sweeping the three most prestigious awards for flexo package printing in the 2003/2004 season. PRESS RELEASE FAIRFIELD, NJ—Alcan Packaging ...

Film Trends Focus of of Plastic Packaging Conference

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January 23, 2005, InnoPlast Solutions and Gehrke, Kaas, & Assoc. announce the second annual conference on "Global Trends in Plastic Packaging Films," scheduled for February 28–March 3 at the Hilton Hotel-Airport, New Orleans, ...

Ampac Packaging Acquires Flexicon

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January 16, 2005, Ampac Packaging, a producer of high-performance film structures for bags and food packaging—ranging from monolayers to nine-layer coextruded barrier films—has acquired Flexicon, a manufacturer of high-performance, ...

Water-Based Printing Inks & pH

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December 30, 2004, ... reduce press-side odor from ammonia and improve press stability and performance. Dr. Richard M. Podhajny has been in the packaging and printing industry for more than 30 years. Contact him at 267/695-7717; ...

Aniline printing - 100 Years Later

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November 29, 2004, ... as it proved capable of handling many of the new packaging films, including cellophane and PE. In 1952, to remove the "aniline" part of its name and make it more acceptable to the flexible packaging ...

Packaging for the World

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September 29, 2004, With multinational clients and global suppliers, South American converter Alusa produces... Packaging for the World. With multinational clients and global suppliers, South American converter Alusa produces... ...

Agfa to Showcase Cost-Reducing Screening Technology for Packaging at DigiPack Congress

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September 19, 2004, ...  Printed offset, flexo, and letterpress onto paper, plastic, and metal foils, all at 212 lpi. Explains manager of Agfa's packaging business Kris Vangeel, "We produced these samples as evidence of the capabilities ...

Printing: Italian Style

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August 30, 2004, ... products. The company has 42 employees and a €25 million annual turnover. In 1998 a fire destroyed the flexible packaging operation, so Simplast rebuilt the operation using the latest equipment and technology. ...

Rock-Tenn Dotrix Partner to Revolutionize Digital Inkjet for Packaging and Display

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August 19, 2004, ... release. "Under the partnership agreement, Rock-Tenn has not only agreed to purchase equipment, but will work with Dotrix to help define inkjet technology developments for the packaging and display industries," ...

Ghent PDF Workgroup Releases Base Line Format for Packaging PDF

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August 03, 2004, ... for packaging PDFs. PRESS RELEASE GHENT, BELGIUM—According to the Ghent PDF Workgroup (GWG), during its late-June meeting, it welcomed a new member, set up a new subcommittee for Office Document Printing ...

Hollywood Is Venue for Entertainment Packaging Summit August 2004

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July 18, 2004, The Entertainment Packaging Summit, part of the larger Entertainment Media Expo, is slated for Aug. 31 - Sept. 1, 2004, at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel, Hollywood, CA. PRESS RELEASE HOLLYWOOD, CA, ...