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Coating Matters | Considerations for Good Manufacturing Practice

(Coating/Laminating)

January 26, 2016, ... facility, testing consistency, raw material control, packaging and labeling, and laboratory control. Remember that these are worldwide concerns, not just domestic. Why is GMP important? For medical ...

Welcome to Innovation Station

(Innovation Station)

January 16, 2016, ... the Industrial Revolution—when it was connected to pistons driven by a steam engine, it converted pulses of raw power into smooth movement that could be used to drive machines and power locomotives. When ...

Screw Design for Film Extrusion

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

January 11, 2016, ... engineers draw on a database of screw designs that goes back many years, and Nordson’s library of rheological data on resins, which includes thousands of entries. At the company’s rheology laboratories, ...

FPI Report Tracks Trends in Foodservice Packaging Supply Chain

(News | New Products)

December 14, 2015, ... Packaging Institute searches for common threads found throughout the entire foodservice packaging value chain—from raw material suppliers, packaging manufacturers, distributors, and operators. This year’s ...

Constantia Flexibles Opens Film R&D Center

(Flexpack)

November 14, 2015, ... every year. Their focus is on supporting product and sales managers by analyzing and testing the composition of the latest film products; on developing new film formulations with our raw material suppliers ...

Label Impressions Forms Green Partnership with Precision AirConvey

(News | New Products)

November 14, 2015, ...  Each week, up to 800,000 sq ft of raw material is unwound from rolls for processing at Label Impressions’ southern California manufacturing plant. After processing, trim and matrix from the rolls need ...

In-Mold Labels | IMDA Symposium Covers Range of Topics

(Label/Tape)

November 05, 2015, ... web offset. Running sheet allows smaller runs and easier die-cutting, said Schell, whereas the only drawback is the gauge you can run. With web processing, the gauge can go down to ½ mil, and additional ...

AIMCAL Fall Technical Conference a Huge Success

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

November 04, 2015, ... in that one has the ability to collaborate with people that you would otherwise never have the opportunity to meet.  Many aspects of web handling, metallizing, film manufacturing, raw materials, extrusion, ...

Defect Detection | Filmquest Enhances its Reputation with Surface Inspection System

(Controls)

October 21, 2015, ... laminating, and finishing,” he said. “If a minor defect makes it all the way through all the processes, the printer can lose their cost of investment and may seek a claim from the raw material supplier, ...

AirTrim Unit Allows Portable Matrix Collection

(Label/Tape)

October 17, 2015, ... is said to allow faster press speeds and to potentially reduce raw material costs. “This is ideal for smaller PSA label manufacturers that desire more production efficiency but often lack the funding ...

Label Industry Global Awards Winners Revealed

(Label/Tape)

October 01, 2015, ... produced from mechanically recycled PET bottles as the raw material. Mike Fairley, chair of the judges, says, “Choosing winners from such an impressive list of companies was always going to be difficult, ...

Dow Is Honored for Sustainability

(News | New Products)

September 26, 2015, ... sustainable design was paramount for us. The result is a lightweight solution that uses less raw materials to make each package, increases transportation efficiency with empty packages shipping flat, thus ...

AWA Reports on Release Liner Markets in South America

(Label/Tape)

September 10, 2015, ... of raw material suppliers and silicone coating companies; examines the value chain and market segmentation across all the major uses; and concludes with a valuable directory providing individual company ...

Mark Andy Works to Reduce Carbon Footprint

(News | New Products)

September 09, 2015, ... has begun supplying a majority of its operational waste as raw material in the production of an alternative fuel source, ENVIRO-Fuelcubes, a green fossil fuel substitute produced by Materials Lifecycle ...

ALS Engineering Label System Is Fully Automatic

(Label/Tape)

August 29, 2015, ... within each hour. Company says the user produces those in-line in high quality, from raw material up to the assembled and ready-to-be-shipped label web, with no manual intervention. The overall system ...

Iggesund Adds Services in Asia

(Materials)

August 24, 2015, ... is also part of the service offering, the company reports, to guarantee that customers will not encounter any unpleasant surprises due to the origin of the forest raw material used in their paperboard. ...

Show Preview | Labelexpo Europe 2015 Grows To Eight Halls

(Trends/Management)

August 18, 2015, ... labels, completely different in format and color, are produced per hour. System produces those inline in high quality—from raw material to the assembled and ready to ship label web—without any manual intervention. ...

Eleven Are Awarded IMDA Accolades

(Label/Tape)

August 03, 2015, ... while meeting the most stringent chemical and abrasion resistance requirements necessary for beauty tools. The Mia 2 part incorporates complex 3D, deep draw, IMD label design, digital IMD printing, graphic ...

Show Preview | CPP Expo 2015 Adds 3D Printing Pavilion

(Trends/Management)

July 29, 2015, ... Formulated from vegetable oils and other bio-renewable resources, the system averages 65% by weight from these raw materials while meeting ISO 2846-1 standards and are GRACoL G7 certified.   KBA (Booth ...

INX to Show Range of Inks, Coatings at Graph Expo

(News | New Products)

July 26, 2015, ... of mineral oil and cobalt. Company says inks are carefully formulated from vegetable oils and other bio-renewable resources, the system averages 65% by weigh from these user-friendly raw materials while ...