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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. ...

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 ...

Flexo Printing | Mid-Web Press Answers Shift to More SKUs, Short Runs

(Print)

July 14, 2015, ... been a drawback for most converters.   Next came the approach of going wider with a combination of SKUs across a web, but this was never met with widespread acceptance from a practical point of view, ...

Iggesund Paperboard Expands in North America

(Carton Box)

June 26, 2015, ... is also part of the Care by Iggesund campaign, serving as a guarantee that customers will not have any unpleasant surprises regarding the origins of forest raw material. “We don’t just want customers ...

CPP EXPO Conference Agenda Covers the Industry

(News | New Products)

June 06, 2015, ... will be explained with examples drawn from both UV-cure and aqueous ink systems. The latter has been transformed by Memjet, for both productivity and cost. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 C13 UV/EB Printing ...

Enterprise Labeling | Top 5 Trends in 2015

(Technical Reports)

May 20, 2015, ... which continues to impact business in chemical and related industries internationally, is a system for standardizing and harmonizing the classification and labeling of chemicals. From raw materials to ...

On Print | UV/EB Inkjet for Food Packaging

(On Print)

May 11, 2015, ... groups, so they will become part of the polymer on curing, a great advantage given that, for obvious reasons, polymers don’t move. Additionally, the cure rates for EB are high. The only drawback of EB ...