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Release Liner Market: Growth Projected, but Threats Remain

(Label/Tape)

November 10, 2011, ... Assoc. (http://www.awa-bv.com), reviewed the current market for release liner on pressure-sensitive (p-s) label stock (http://pffc-online.com/search?searchword=face+stock) , a market that, he said, continues ...

Inspection: Lighting the Way

(Controls)

August 21, 2011, ... within the press and be able to communicate with slitter/rewinder equipment for fast, efficient marking and removal of defective roll material. Finally, a system must collect and store performance data ...

Green Converting: Landfill Diversion

(Green Converting)

August 16, 2011, ... packaging technology have put more pressure on companies and communities to answer this question. On the consumer side, municipal programs have started making it easier to recycle and compost in an effort ...

CPP Gets Converters on Track with Conference Program

(Trends/Management)

August 16, 2011, ... the choices include waste management, response time, pressroom flexibility and issues concerning food packaging. Advantages and disadvantages of different ink chemistries for both lithographic and flexographic ...

$2 MM Folding Carton Expansion at Menasha Includes Sheeting

(Carton Box News)

August 04, 2011, ... to exact size. Menasha sources claim the process will facilitate faster order times, improve productivity and provide pressman with flatter, fresher, squarer sheets. Because the new equipment sheets to ...

Package Design: Make an Impact

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2011, ... recycled, sustainable, biodegradable, unbleached board, die-cut on a Heidelberg KSBA. It is printed at Lithozone Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand, on a Komori Sprint 425BP press using vegetable-based inks ...

Static Beat: Why Static Is Worse at High Speeds

(Static Elimination)

July 31, 2011, ... materials, surface roughness, contact pressure, and slip. Slip increases as the film speed increases. In Figure 1, the film tension difference across the roller is caused by bearing drag. This tension ...

Digital Printing Narrow Web & Label: One or Many

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

July 31, 2011, Just because digital presses are promoted as being able to produce as little as one label doesn't mean they can't produce tens of thousands of high quality Just because digital presses are promoted as being ...

Show Preview Narrow Web & Label: Labelexpo Europe Evolves

(Trends/Management)

July 31, 2011, ... many of these challenges is to move to narrower web presses or, like the self-adhesive label industry, begin to install increasing numbers of digital printing presses.” Today, an estimated 15% of self-adhesive ...

Flexographic Printing: A Push for Growth

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2011, Myron Geiser, general manager of Capri Packaging, modestly suggests that everyone's got presses and laminators. So, we've got a new W&H pressanybody can Myron Geiser, general manager of Capri Packaging, ...

Education Training: School's in Sessio

(Trends/Management)

July 31, 2011, ... Inst., Broadview, IL, which presently offers seminars to give sales and customer service reps information on what goes on in the pressroom, soon will be teaching customer service and offering training ...

Experience Speaks: Myron Geiser

(Trends/Management)

June 30, 2011, ... as a few rolls. In the early '90s, they decided to create Capri to better service their flexible packaging needs. Capri opened its doors in 1994 with a single press and has grown into two facilities, supplying ...

Cool Electrical Enclosures

(Controls)

June 30, 2011, ETC (Electronic Temperature Control) Cabinet Cooler system keeps electrical enclosures cool while minimizing compressed air use. CE-compliant system is ETC (Electronic Temperature Control) Cabinet Cooler ...

Europe Faces Plastic Bag Bans

(Yo's Yarns)

June 21, 2011, ... received a shared press release to the industry from Heike Richter who handles the communication & public relations for IK Industrieverinigung Kunststoffverpackungen, the German Association for Plastic ...

Technical Report: Up & Running

(Slit)

May 31, 2011, Recent innovations have improved the performance of slitter/rewinders dramatically, offering superior wind quality and impressive production rates Recent innovations have improved the performance of slitter/rewinders ...

Hands-On Flexo Seminars & Golf Outing for Education Set for 2011

(Flexography)

May 12, 2011, ... brush up on their skills. DFI offers from entry level seminars to advance level for flexographic printing. The Basic Flexo Seminar is three-day class that is designed for beginning press operators, ...

Mark Andy Given FTA Technical Innovation Award

(Flexography)

May 04, 2011, Mark Andy's Performance Series line of flexographic presses has been awarded the 2011 Technical Innovation Award by the Flexographic Technical Assn. (FTA) ST. LOUIS, MO | Mark Andy's Performance Series ...

Do You Want Nips with That? Part 2

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

April 30, 2011, ... with 400 lb of load combined with a 0.25 web-to-roller coefficient of friction (COF) creates 100 lb of traction. The high pressure between nipped rollers will reject and compress air entrained by the moving ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Narrow Web)

April 30, 2011, ... the wine, champagne, and spirits category of the Pentawards this year. Glenroy Inc., Menomonee Falls, WI, launches ExpressWeb, formerly known as the Narrow Web Printer's Program, to provide surface ...

Genpak Gets Productivity Boost

(Flexography)

April 30, 2011, NEW BERLIN, WI | Flexotecnica, a div. of the Cerutti Group, will supply Genpak LP, Aurora, ON, Canada, with a new ten-color XD press designed to reduce NEW BERLIN, WI | Flexotecnica, a div. of the Cerutti ...