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Chuck Larsen

(Experience Speaks)

April 30, 2010, ... results of hard work. What is the biggest threat to the converting industry right now? There are a lot of perceived threats, depending on who you talk to, from global competition, environmental regulation, ...

A time to celebrate

(Special Reports)

April 30, 2010, ... awards competition. That competition now recognizes the “green” movement with a Sustainability Award. Added in 2009, the new award honors equipment, materials, or processes that reduce environmental impact, ...

A future for photovoltaics

(Metallizing)

April 30, 2010, ... must be so much better, and the price likely will be reduced considerably over the next few years. With the markets so large, the competition will be considerable, and this too will help drive prices ...

Plants for Pretzels

(First Glance)

April 30, 2010, ... a year of R&D, Clear Lam replaced conventional petroleum-based plastics with material derived primarily from renewable Ingeo PLA from NatureWorks. To create the appropriate oxygen- and moisture-barrier ...

Xeikon Qualifies Materials

(Narrow Web)

April 30, 2010, ... press. Qualified substrates from UPM Raflatac include paper stocks as well as synthetic films, such as clear and white BOPP and PET of varying thicknesses. What's happening at your company? Send your ...

Mocon-Certified Mumbai Testing Lab Earns Independent Certification

(News | New Products)

April 26, 2010, ... complete.   The standard specifies the general requirements to competently carry out tests and/or calibrations, including sampling. It covers testing and calibration performed using standard methods, ...

ICE USA Enthusiasm Warms Up

(Yo's Yarns)

April 18, 2010, ... announced on Friday that it was shutting down 21 of its business-to-business trade publications, among them Converting Magazine. I know it sounds strange coming from someone who competed with the Reed ...

Member Benefits

(First Glance)

March 31, 2010, ... a p-s coupon product for direct mail packages that require cards to be affixed to continuous forms or cut sheets. The Technicote Membership Card consists of two thin layers of PET film bonded together ...

Narrow Web's Leverag

(Label/Tape)

March 31, 2010, ... variety, speed to market, and increased demand for short runs are the key drivers behind narrow web opportunities. Narrow web printers can produce smaller quantities of flexible packages at very competitive ...

NEWS CLIPS

(Magazine)

March 31, 2010, ... for easy access to the company's line of self-wound overlaminate PP and PET film. Sensor Products (SPI), Madison, NJ, announces an agreement with Flexpoint Sensor Systems, Draper, UT, for the development ...

Gravure Printing: Print Comes To Life

(Label/Tape)

March 31, 2010, ...  2010 Annual Conference in Miami, FL, February 24-26. The annual competition is judged by industry professionals who examine key print attributes such as attention to registration, color consistency ...

Multipack Juices It Up

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2010, ... Intl. (GPI), Marietta, GA, has walked away with the Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators' AIMCAL Metallized Product of the Year Award, named in honor of PFFC's former publisher, Peter Rigney. ...

AIMCAL Awards

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2010, Graphic Packaging Intl. juices up AIMCAL’s metallized competition by winning the Peter Rigney Product of the Year award for its 10-count multipack carton for Disney juice pouches For two consecutive years ...

Flexible Packaging: Narrow Web's Leverag

(Flexpack)

March 21, 2010, ... variety, speed to market, and increased demand for short runs are the key drivers behind narrow web opportunities. Narrow web printers can produce smaller quantities of flexible packages at very competitive ...

What’s Up With Die Lines

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

March 17, 2010, ... PET film. As can be seen in the attached picture, they are present in rolls of converted PET film. This leads us to the logical conclusion that gauge bands are caused in the converting operation… either ...

Converters Expo Staged for March 4

(Yo's Yarns)

February 28, 2010, ... Grinding, Little Chute. Call Pete (900-950-7675 x317): Manufacturer of industrial machine blades & knives. • WEBEX, Neenah. Call Dave (920-729-6666): The largest roll manufacturing co. in North America. ...

FIRST GLANCE

(Magazine)

February 28, 2010, Nature's Noodles Nature's Farm, Steinbach, MB, Canada, has introduced a line of gourmet pasta made from the company's free-range eggs (produced from hens Nature's Noodles Nature's Farm, Steinbach, MB, ...

Speaking of Productivity

(Magazine)

February 28, 2010, ... extensive portfolio of equipment that president/CFO Margaret Krumholz believes allows the company to stay ahead in a highly competitive industry. Diverse printing options include straight four-color process ...

Flexible Packaging: Capital Commitments

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2010, ... It serves multiple markets that include bakery, fresh/frozen foods (including produce), shrink films, consumer products, ice, medical, landscaping, industrial, and pet care. To service these diverse ...

Breaking Boundaries

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2010, ... received 85 entries for the 117 categories covered by its 2010 Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards competition. Judges culled the entries to 22 packages deemed worthy of recognition at the association' ...