Search

Show Preview | CPP EXPO & GRAPH EXPO 2014 Cover Printing & Converting Technologies

(Trends/Management)

September 11, 2014, ... print with industrial manufacturing. The new pavilion is in collaboration with The Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI), producers of the National Plastics Exposition (NPE). “We are excited to partner ...

Rethinking the Ban on EPS

(News | New Products)

August 11, 2014, ... “Impact of Plastics Packaging on Life Cycle Energy Consumption & Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the US & Canada Substitution Analysis” proves otherwise. Data from the report, which was compiled by Franklin ...

Essentra Introduces New Duraco Red Film Tape

(Label/Tape)

August 11, 2014, ... low surface energy plastics (polypropylene, polyethylene, and some styrenes) and metals with powder-coated paint. Duraco Red is also well suited for more typical bonding applications, such as paper, corrugated ...

IMDA Awards | In-Mold Decorating Assn. Honors 2014 Winners

(Label/Tape)

August 07, 2014, ... IMDA proudly presents the winners of the 2014 IMDA Awards. Judges for this year's event were PFFC's Yolanda Simonsis (from left), Rob Neilley, RN Marketing, and Clare Goldsberry, Plastics Today.   Best ...

Show Preview | Labelexpo Americas 2014 Enhances Focus on Package Printing

(Label/Tape)

August 04, 2014, ... by exchanging lightweight sleeves and carbon-fiber cylinders instead of entire printing inserts.     Multi-Plastics To Celebrate 35th Anniversary Multi-Plastics (Booth 1312) will celebrate its ...

AIMCAL Teams with SPE for Technical Meeting

(Coating/Laminating)

July 25, 2014, ... technical conference organized by AIMCAL and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), Newtown, CT. The conference will feature more than 100 sessions with a fourth track devoted to flexible packaging. ...

Converting Headaches? Get Relief at CPP EXPO's PFFC-Sponsored Technical Session

(Trade Shows)

July 13, 2014, ...  Packaging is not just paper, but with the ease of inkjet, it has expanded into films, plastics, metals and other various mediums. This new technology of inkjet (aqueous and UV) and toner can make colo ...

Nampak South Africa Adds Titan Slitter Rewinders

(News | New Products)

June 25, 2014, ... solutions in paper, board and glass packaging, rigid plastics, metal containers, bar coding & labeling solutions, as well as extensive recycling operations and research & development in packaging. The ...

EcoCortec Partners in Marine Clean Project

(Materials)

June 23, 2014, ... ecological problem that is growing rapidly. The great majority of marine litter (more than 90%) consists of plastics, which has become one of the biggest contaminants in the world’s oceans. As most types ...

Ceresana Issues Study on Bags & Sacks in Europe

(Bag Pouch)

June 01, 2014, ... covers the European market for plastic and paper bags and sacks. The report says that, although plastics bags are increasingly attacked by environmental activists and legislators alike, the consumption ...

Clear Lam Packaging Wins DuPont Award

(Flexpack)

May 19, 2014, ... EarthClear initiative to commercialize new packaging technologies that minimize the impact on the environment. These efforts include packaging materials made from renewable plastics, materials that incorporate ...

SGIA Honors Members for Sustainability

(News | New Products)

May 13, 2014, ... Products (Saint Peters, MO) • Kent Pad Printer Canada (Markham, ON, Canada) • Laird Plastics  (Boca Raton, FL) • Marabu GmbH & Co. (Tamm, Germany) • Modernistic (Stillwater, MN) • Visual Impressions ...

Release Liner | Global Suppliers Must Meet Local Needs

(Label/Tape)

May 07, 2014, ... in plastics, packaging, and chemicals, his company has a unique, in-depth knowledge of mergers and acquisitions in these industries, and he said that there are now 40 such transactions a year in the label ...

GRAPH EXPO 2014 to Present New Pavilion

(News | New Products)

April 30, 2014, ... the culmination of a collaboration of three industry organizations: The Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI), producers of the National Plastics Exposition (NPE), the Graphic Arts Show Company (GASC), ...

AIMCAL and SPE Come Together for Tech Conference

(Coating/Laminating)

April 20, 2014, ... Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) and the Society of Plastics Engineers have agreed to bring AIMCAL’s Web Coating & Handling Conference USA together with SPE’s FlexPackCon technical program to make what ...

Toray Lidding Film Can Take High Temps

(Flexpack)

April 20, 2014, LumiLid FDA-compliant, dual-ovenable polyester lidding films are now suited for temperatures to 400 deg F for 30 minutes   NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI | Toray Plastics (America) recently expanded LumiLid ...

Parkinson Technologies Invites Students to Facility

(News | New Products)

April 08, 2014, ... and manufacturer of large-scale web handling, winding, and plastics processing equipment, invited students from Cumberland High School to tour its facility on two separate days late last year. The goal ...

Toray Pledges $2 Million to University Engineering Project

(Materials)

March 30, 2014, Company pledges money to University of Rhode Island’s Engineering Department to help school produce top engineering prospects NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI | Toray Plastics (America), manufacturer of precision-performance ...

Tobias Transmission Densitometers Evaluate Films

(Controls)

March 24, 2014, ... show deviations from a stored reference value for all functions. Optical system allows for repeatable readings of metallized films and many types of plastics. Features include the following: • Soft ...

AWA Release Liner Event Coming Soon

(Label/Tape)

March 11, 2014, ... by Thomas Blaige, chairman and CEO of Blaige & Company, investment bankers specializing in the plastics, packaging, and chemical industries • A “label maker’s perspective” from Alan Hazlewood of the ...