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Glatfelter Launches New Sustainability Section to Website

(News | New Products)

May 26, 2009, Glatfelter, a global supplier of specialty papers and engineered products, is launching a new section of its website dedicated to the topic of sustainability YORK, PA | Glatfelter, a global supplier of ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Narrow Web)

April 30, 2009, ... Drive RFID R&D TAMPERE, FINLAND | UPM Raflatac and Blue Spark Technologies, Cleveland, OH, have formed a partnership to develop products and applications in the battery assisted passive (BAP) RFID market. ...

Smurfit-Stone Honors Three Plants

(News Eclips)

April 12, 2009, ... were recognized for outstanding performance in the areas of safety, productivity, quality, and customer service. Pat Moore, chairman and CEO, says, “Employees at these facilities demonstrated an outstanding ...

Carton & Box Reporter: April 2009

(Carton Box Main)

March 31, 2009, ... via the Internet. Following product selection, www.boxshop24.com offers free downloads of die-cutting templates for the most common desktop publishing programs — QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, ...

The Great Span Length Debate | Part 2

(Web Lines)

March 31, 2009, ... to winding film product. Old turret winders that lose their optimized entry span control during indexing are a major cause of waste worldwide. It's cheating, but true, to say the answer to the great ...

Ink Room Audits Expose Deficiencies

(Process Management)

March 31, 2009, ... ink department personnel should have numeric measures and goals to guide their performance. These measures should support the goals of the converter, especially in terms of cost, quality, and productivity. ...

Students Help Pregis Reduce Scrap

(Green Converting)

March 31, 2009, ... to expose undergrads to real-world production challenges. The objective was to find a cost-effective, safe solution for the plant's material cutting process for thicker laminates. The solution ended ...

Not Just a Pretty Face

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2009, The Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators, Fort Mill, SC, bestowed this year's top Metallized Product of the Year Award, named in honor of PFFC's former publisher Peter Rigney, to Graphic ...

Static Specified

(Archive)

March 31, 2009, Static performance should be specified and designed into new equipment, and it should be a deliverable when developing a new product. Static must be controlled in many manufacturing operations, and new, ...

Improve Anilox Performance, Simplify Surface Cleaning

(News Eclips)

March 30, 2009, ... flexographic and sheetfed offset printers. The product is of particular interest to the corrugated market where on-press cleaning of large rolls is desirable as well as to the envelope market for improving ...

AIMCAL Honors Technology of the Year, Institutes Sustainability Competition

(News | New Products)

March 24, 2009, ... overlap electronically. Once set, the unit automatically calibrates itself and positions the blade to reduce setup time and improve safety while ensuring product quality because of greater predictability ...

Achieving Bubble-Free Labels

(News Eclips)

March 03, 2009, Labels that retain their readability, adhesion, and color quality for the life of the outdoor product also reinforce image durability and avoid sending a negative message. SPENCER, MA | FLEXcon customers, ...

DuPont Completes Hurricane Ike Recovery at Texas Plant

(News | New Products)

March 03, 2009, ... Manufacture of products has been under way at the site for several months as various utility and production units started up in a planned, staged process. According to Carolann Haznedar, DuPont global ...

The Great Span Length Debate | Part 1

(Web Lines)

February 28, 2009, There are at least half a dozen things that come to mind in the great span length debate. Let's review the checklist to figure out what span length is right for you. What is the best span length? How far ...

Auto Gasket Laminator is Offered

(News Eclips)

February 16, 2009, AGL announces a 64-in. laminator for the automotive gasket market DEFOREST, WI | AGL announces a 64-in. laminator for the automotive gasket market. The laminator features a 36-in. product unwind, an 18-in. ...

How Much Misalignment Is Trouble?

(Web Lines)

January 31, 2009, Shear wrinkles are the most common wrinkle mechanism, forming a diagonal crease and appearing to walk across rollers like an inch worm. The way to create Shear wrinkles are the most common wrinkle mechanism, ...

Green Is Global

(Archive)

January 31, 2009, ... processes, their end products, and their corporate responsibility policies. As we all are aware, world-leading product manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble and Unilever, along with retailers such as ...

Conserve Energy

(Archive)

January 31, 2009, ... prices will increase again as economic growth resumes. Finally, as oil extraction becomes more difficult and expensive, there will come a time when production cannot keep up with demand. To remain competitive ...

How To Become a Green Printer

(Print)

December 31, 2008, ... the long run. The EPA website has very useful information on the subject. It is a good resource for ideas that can improve sustainability efforts. Consumer product companies now are beginning to ...

Eco Inks

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

December 31, 2008, ... In recent interviews conducted by PFFC, ink suppliers cited their efforts in the development of new products and the vital role they can play in helping end-users meet their goals of “going green.”  ...