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HERMA Offers Resin-Free Adhesive

(Coating/Laminating)

March 25, 2016, ... tack, adhesive is ideally suited for labels that are applied to whole sausages or raw ham without a barrier layer made of film.  “The lower the resin content, the lower initial tack and final adhesion, ...

Acimga and ICE Survey US Opportunities

(News | New Products)

March 16, 2016, ... of brokers associated to the magazine Packaging World, and drawing from a database of the most representative food processing companies with revenues ranging between $2 million and $100 million). Most ...

K 2016 Show Will Again Feature Science Campus

(News | New Products)

March 13, 2016, ... and equipment for the plastics and rubber industry, raw materials and auxiliaries, semi-finished products, technical parts, and reinforced plastics products. Approximately 200,000 trade visitors from all ...

Global Specialty Products Cleaner is Eco-Friendly

(News | New Products)

March 06, 2016, ... any raw materials known to the State of California (Proposition 65) to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm. Cleans uncured or semi-cured industrial Inks (oil-based, solvent-based, ...

Economic Outlook | US Manufacturing: Dispersed Gains, Concentrated Losses

(Trends/Management)

February 28, 2016, ... of chemicals (and the plastic and rubber products that use chemicals as a raw material) is likely to continue to grow for several years. Those who continue to recite the “manufacturing recession” mantra ...

Coating Matters | Clean Coating and Fluid Preparation

(Coating/Laminating)

February 15, 2016, ... of areas that a converting and coating manufacturer needs to concentrate on to develop a clean product. These include the raw materials (substrate and fluid), the backing roll, the coating head, but most ...

Show Preview | FTA’s 2016 Forum and INFO*FLEX

(Print)

February 01, 2016, ... Scott, Berry Plastics Corp., co-chair of the event along with Paul Teachout of Nilpeter. “The 2016 events will draw from the past success to provide a well-rounded Forum for each and every attendee. The ...

Two-Way Top Flap ecoEnvelope Introduced

(Bag Pouch)

January 27, 2016, ... reply envelope. Mailers save 5%–35% on envelope and related mailing costs and benefit from operating savings and quantifiable reductions in carbon emissions, energy, and raw materials including trees and ...

Ceresana Issues Study on Bags and Sacks

(Bag Pouch)

January 26, 2016, ... ignore this norm. Bioplastics are usually exempt from bans and special taxes that are directed to bags made of PE. Plastics made of renewable raw materials (e.g. cornstarch) and/or are biodegradable ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. ...