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Helping Bring Home the Bacon

(Magazine)

February 28, 2002, ... some pretty tough customers. Brian Weller has a pretty simple business philosophy: “As long as people continue to eat, we think we're okay.” That's because the pressure-sensitive label company he founded ...

Training 101

(Magazine)

February 28, 2002, ... and pressure-sensitive technology. Fox Valley Technical College, Appleton, WI; 920/735-5600; fvtc.edu Technical college hosts flexographic seminars throughout the year on such topics as narrow ...

Reclosability & Flex-Packs

(Magazine)

January 31, 2002, ... and recloseability: zippers sliders pressure-sensitive adhesives snap closure laser uses fitment Zippers Take Off Introduced into the market in the late 1980s by firms such as Dole, Nestlé, ...

Russian Flex-Pack Markets Holds Potential

(News | New Products)

January 23, 2002, ... market is heavily fragmented. The largest-volume Russian manufacturer of pressure-sensitive labels is Limaton-Kamenka; Konturt and Imagency are other leading p-s manufacturers. Polygrafoformlenie (St. ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

December 31, 2001, ... GmbH, Wuppertal, Germany, with annual revenues of $400 million. Jackstadt is a manufacturer of PSA (pressure-sensitive adhesive) materials based in Germany. The all-cash transaction is expected to be ...

Avery Dennison to Acquire Jackstdt

(News | New Products)

September 11, 2001, Avery Dennison Corp. reports it's reached a definitive agreement with Jackstädt GmbH to acquire Jackstädt's pressure-sensitive adhesive materials business. According to the company, the transaction is ...

Narrow Web People & Places

(Magazine)

August 31, 2001, News from: Document Management Industries Assn., Fasson Roll North America, FLEXcon, George Little Management LLC, Pressure-Sensitive Tape Council, and Spinnaker. Fasson Roll North America, Painesville, ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Magazine)

July 31, 2001, ... averydennison.com. Co.'s acquisition of Dunsirn Industries has enabled it to offer non-adhesive materials through the Rapid-Roll program, along with p-s (pressure-sensitive) materials. Single-source ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

June 30, 2001, ... presentations, the course provided the basics of the design and manufacture of p-s tapes as well as the details of testing and application. “Sharing Global Pressure-Sensitive Tape Innovations” was the ...

When You Say ''Converted Products,'' You've Said It A

(Magazine)

May 31, 2001, Converted Products Inc. does just that: It converts a great many products, from paper to film to foil to nonwovens to pressure-sensitive materials. And Shanks Converting Equipment has made it all ...

UV and EB: Making the Trek into Energy Curing

(Materials)

April 30, 2001, ... are companies that have been in it for a decade or so. Also, there are pressure-sensitive-type activities that have been going on for several years, and still, that's one of the newer areas.” So why ...

Narrow Web New Products

(Tapes)

March 31, 2001, ... create on-demand, variably imaged p-s (pressure-sensitive) labels said to be impervious to harsh solvents and acidic or alkaline contaminants. Product incorporates a thin polyester film, overlaminated ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... while our Fasson customers will benefit from the convenience of purchasing roll materials, both pressure-sensitive and non-pressure-sensitive, from a single source.” Jefferson Smurfit Acquires Corrugated ...

Formulators Look Beyond the Peel, Tack, and Shear Profile

(Magazine)

January 31, 2001, ... ago, the microsphere technology behind 3M's Post-It Notes—sticky when you need them, removable when you don't—continues to drive trends in the pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) market. "In the past we ...

Forging Ahead into the Digital Printing Frontier

(Magazine)

January 31, 2001, ... he started his post in 1985. The company now specializes in a number of narrow web applications, including pressure-sensitive labels and hangtags used by pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies. His experience ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... Waterford, NY; 518/233-2461 FSR2000 release coating is a solventless fluorosilicone release product said to allow stable release against co.'s PSA6574 silicone PSAs (pressure-sensitive adhesives). Allows ...

Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... Troy, OH, provides a bit of an anomaly in today's manufacturing employment environment. According to company president Eric Magel, the label converter and supplier of pressure-sensitive labels has press ...

Polyester Film Supplier Helps Converter Grow

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... down to size more than three years ago when it turned to Filmquest Inc. for polyester filmstock. Supplier Service Key to Growth Custom Tapes was founded more than 50 years ago as a distributor of pressure-sensitive ...

Label Converter's Business Is Prime Labels & Prid

(Magazine)

August 30, 2000, ... to spotlight its "debut," or "premiere," as an upscale supplier of prime labels. Since that time, the Troy, OH-based converter has grown to become one of the country's "premier" suppliers of pressure-sensitive ...

Specialists in Interior Packaging Branch Out

(Magazine)

June 30, 2000, ... 1,500 fpm and was made to handle lightweight substrates including paper, film, foil, tissue, and pressure-sensitive materials, Stroud reports. "We can slit down to one and a half inches wide, and the duplex ...