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New Products

(Magazine)

January 30, 2006, ... Pompano Beach, FL; 954/946-9454; gardco.com Color proofer system reportedly allows printer to get color right the first time without the variable of manual drawdowns. Automated air-driven unit allows ...

Adhesives and Specialty Monomers Studies Coming Soon

(Archive)

January 16, 2006, ... and marketing information on raw materials, formulations, and end users, major suppliers, users, market shares, and cacities. Appraisal of trends, growth rates, opportunities, and new product needs.  ...

Trends & Technical Solutions

(Archive)

December 30, 2005, ... for a dedicated UV line is significantly less than for a thermal line. However, raw material costs are high. Catalyst inhibition can be a problem on clay-coated papers and nitrogen inerting may be required. ...

Group Focuses on Innovation

(Magazine)

December 30, 2005, ... by noting that four basic areas normally are discussed at the annual meeting. These are centered on the following: New technology—production; Development of new materials; Trends in raw materials; and ...

The Secret Strain

(Magazine)

December 30, 2005, ... is used when tension is controlled by adjusting roller speeds, what is called either draw or ratio control. How much tension upset you will get from a 0.1% speed control error depends on the material. ...

Stora Enso Raises Prices

(Archive)

December 05, 2005, PRESS RELEASE UETERSEN, GERMANY—Stora Enso Specialty Papers will raise prices for its European customers on its wet strength Label Papers and Flexible Packaging Papers by 5% as of January 1, 2006. ...

KBA, AVT Issue Q3 Figures

(Archive)

November 30, 2005, ... improvement on the figure of €1.2 million for the first six months. Net profit was €5.2 million, equivalent to net earnings per share of 32 cents. Higher prices for raw materials and energy were more ...

The RFID Buzz Gets Louder

(Flexpack)

November 29, 2005, ...  Despite these drawbacks, RFID is coming to flexible packaging in a big way (think Wal-Mart!). Since it cannot be avoided, plan now how you will adapt and use this new technology. If you’re not a leader ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

November 29, 2005, ... waste management strategies to deal with label matrix and used release liner. Raw material prices have been, and will continue to be, a challenge. This ongoing situation was compounded by the paper ...

Need a Hand?

(Magazine)

November 29, 2005, ... of material, and it depends primarily on the material. Some people handle the rolls by the material itself, by its body. That’s a convenient way to do it. The drawbacks are that you can damage the material, ...

Stora Enso Raises Prices

(Archive)

November 14, 2005, Stora Enso Specialty Papers has increased prices for its European customers for its wet strength label and flexible packaging papers. PRESS RELEASE IMATRA, FINLAND—Stora Enso Specialty Papers has increased ...

Fuel Surcharges Hit Shippers

(Magazine)

October 30, 2005, ... of course, had an impact on the converting industry, since oil is a basic raw material for many industry products. In addition, those increases now have prompted numerous motor carriers that transport ...

New Products

(Magazine)

October 30, 2005, ... Proofer employs ceramic, laser-engraved anilox rolls so cells can duplicate the exact line screen and volume as the rolls on user’s press. Tool is designed to draw down water, UV, or solvent-based inks, ...

A Quality Standard

(Magazine)

October 30, 2005, ... one roof in a 40,000-sq-ft facility. The second facility will house raw materials, printed stock, and distribution. Little also expects to hire ten more employees in the near future. CONVERTER INFO: ...

Linerless: The Compromise for VDP Labels?

(Magazine)

October 30, 2005, ... roll, which not only saves money but saves downtime for roll changes on the packaging line. As raw material prices rise and margins fall, the pressure on the label industry value chain to find new ways ...

Low-Cost Paper Applications

(Magazine)

October 30, 2005, ... raw material—pulp—and the ingredients used in pulp refining will not affect the curing reaction. Even wood-containing pulp or DIP- (de-inked paper, i.e., recycled) containing paper grades can be used. ...

Air Products Polymers Raises Prices

(Archive)

October 27, 2005, ... in raw material and energy costs. The company also has raised prices for vinyl acetate homopolymer and copolymer emulsions; all ethylene, vinyl chloride-based emulsions; and acrylic-based copolymer ...

Sun Chemical, Flint Ink, and BASF Raise Prices

(Archive)

October 17, 2005, Sun Chemical and Flint Ink increase prices due to increases in raw material costs, effective Oct. 1, while BASF imposes energy surcharges, effective Oct. 15. (sunchemical.com; flintink.com; basf.com) PRESS ...

The Case for Automatic Splicing

(Magazine)

September 29, 2005, The risks of manual at-speed splicing should not be played down. Every time you ask an operator to crawl into or lean over a turret winder to make a slice and tuck transfer, you are playing Russian roulette ...

Seafood is Served

(Magazine)

September 29, 2005, ... seafood products from Raw Seafoods Inc., New Bedford, MA. From Concept to Shelf in Five Months Scott Hutchens, VP of Raw Seafoods, says, “In December 2004, we asked Graphic Packaging to provide us ...