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Web Lines: Wrinkling of Foils

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2011, ... or flexible electronics, you may fear that handling foils in manufacturing will be a similar wrinkle-filled venture. The most significant difference between foils and papers or films is the much greater ...

Web Lines: Is Wound Roll Pressure Greater Than Tire Pressure?

(Tension)

June 30, 2011, ... the loose and tight extremes of winding. Uncoated papers and foils tend to wind with low internal roll pressure, less than 100 psi. Pressure under a thick gauge band can have pressure 5-50x average internal ...

Brand Security Innovations Technical Report: Tamper Evidence

(Print)

June 30, 2011, ... or color; metal strips or fragments; polyester security threads; thermochromic threads; and micro-marked fibers, invisible to the naked eye. In the wider world of packaging, solvent-sensitive papers, which ...

Laser Levels Playing Field

(Die-Cutting)

May 31, 2011, ... future speed increases. The bulk of the folding carton market consists of paper products with a thickness of 9 mils or more, but plastic sheets and plastic-coated papers also are used, and these also must ...

Slit to Narrow Widths

(Slit)

May 31, 2011, The T428 two-drum surface winder can slit and rewind most papers, nonwovens, and boards to narrow widths. Maximum speed is 2,500 fpm; web width is 72 The T428 two-drum surface winder can slit and rewind ...

Roll Finishing-Cut & Sand

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

April 30, 2011, Norkol Converting Corp. is one of the nation's leading, independently owned converters and distributors of commercial printing papers. Founded in 1968, Norkol Converting Corp. is one of the nation's leading, ...

Carton & Box Reporter

(Carton Box)

February 28, 2011, ... Packaging Council, Springfield, MA, announces General Converting, Bolingbrook, IL, joins as a new principal member. Hampden Papers, Holyoke, MA, and Goss Intl., Durham, NH, join as associate members.  ...

Experience Speaks: Cynthia White

(Trends/Management)

February 28, 2011, ... 800-633-6272 Founded 1978; 105 employees 3 plants (Marathon City, WI, plant pictured) Specialization | Coated papers and waste solutions What's the best advice you ever got? Share your perspective. ...

Surface Treating: Promoting Adhesion

(Surface Prep)

February 28, 2011, ... films, nylon, vinyl, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), foils, coated papers, foams, and many other roll-to-roll substrates benefit from this categorical solution as well. Corona ...

Where Can I Find?

(Trends/Management)

February 28, 2011, ... Specialty and Converted Papers; Envelope and Bag; Folding and Set-Up Box; and Converted and Specialty Paper Products. Every year since then, PFFC has published a directory of materials, supplies, services, ...

Market Update: Coating & Laminating Special Report: Still Growing

(Flexpack)

January 31, 2011, ... films and papers answer today's demands for prestigious, attractive, and decorative finishes for a wide range of packaging substrates, while clear oxide vacuum-coated films combine high-barrier properties ...

Show Preview - Forecast for Orlando: ICE

(Trends/Management)

January 31, 2011, ... each day, more than 30 papers will be presented between 10 a.m. and noon, allowing attendees plenty of time to visit the show floor afterward. Take the opportunity to hear PFFC's “Web Lines” and “Static ...

PRIMIR To Study 'Consumables Usage & Trends

(Print News)

January 26, 2011, ... for the numerous consumables utilized by the various print processes (flexo, gravure, sheetfed and web offset, digital, and wide format) and by major application segments, such as packaging, newspapers, ...

Modular Press Makes Impression

(Label/Tape)

December 31, 2010, HANTS, UK | Edale reports Pasaco, a Polish manufacturer of coated papers and carbonless copy paper, has installed a six-color Beta flexo press. The press HANTS, UK | Edale reports Pasaco, a Polish manufacturer ...

NEWS CLIPS

(Magazine)

December 31, 2010, Hampden Papers, Holyoke, MA, achieves chain-of-custody certification to the Forest Stewardship Council, the Sustainable Forest Initiative, and the international Hampden Papers, Holyoke, MA, achieves ...

Idlers in Heat

(Web Handling)

November 30, 2010, ... for rolls and customer support manager at Webex Inc., Neenah, WI. Eggen earned his bachelor's degree from the Univ. of Northern Iowa and is a published author of several technical papers on related subjects. ...

ISCST Connects Academia with Industry

(Flexpack)

November 30, 2010, ... 300 people from 13 countries, representing 85 companies and 25 universities. Loraine Francis was chair and Blake Kolb was co-chair. A total l00 technical papers and posters were presented. Several awards ...

Coating Aids Shelf Life

(Coatings)

October 31, 2010, R-2462 water-based coating allows converters to achieve oxygen barrier properties on films and papers that extend the shelf life of products. When applied R-2462 water-based coating allows converters to ...

Looking South

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... the packaging value chain undertakes today comes back to two defining and limiting factors: value and cost. Papers are claimed to be the natural answer to sustainability issues in packaging, but release ...

Sitting/Rewinding: A Grand View

(Slit)

September 30, 2010, ... with us to identify their long-term market needs.” K&L also recently decided to expand its market presence into pharmaceuticals and food packaging papers. Toward that end, the company has embarked ...