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Web Handling: Top 7 Causes of Wrinkles

(Web Handling)

October 09, 2011, ... and all your rolls are heavy steel idlers with sealed bearings, you could try lighter-weight idlers with free-running bearings to reduce roll inertia and drag. Lighter materials, such as aluminum or carbon ...

New Custom High-Performance Rollstock Program from Rollprint

(News | New Products)

October 03, 2011, ...  Among the high-speed flow wrap materials are ClearFoil barrier-coated polyester or aluminum foil coupled with an aggressive sealant. Products that are granular, powdered, liquid, solid, and others can ...

What the Coating Bead Can Tell You

(Coating Matters)

August 21, 2011, ... most common piece of equipment utilized to improve coating bead behavior is a vacuum box. This box seals against the slot die and the precision backing roll. A displacement of air and pressure differentiation ...

PCR Milked for Flex-Pack

(Flexpack)

August 21, 2011, ... Tyler, TX, facility, which produces heavy duty plastic shipping sack and film rollstock, often for wrap and form/fill/seal applications, general manager Gulam Harji thought the customer’s idea had true ...

Pet Food Packaging: Evolution, Revolution & Innovation

(Flexpack)

August 18, 2011, ... credits for renewable energy and material usage is needed to create a clearer sustainability picture. Smaller capacity bags and pouches are laminated structures that run on form/fill/seal equipment. ...

German Label Converter Expands into Flex-Packs, Cartons with OMET Press

(Offset)

July 31, 2011, ... films." Illert adds that with new opportunities opening for the company as the result of the press purchase, “We are able to create new types of self-adhesive labels, such as peel and seal, and other ...

Package Design: Make an Impact

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2011, ...  Visy Pty. Ltd. | www.visy.com.au Sealed Air Gets into the Design Business. Should You? In June, Sealed Air, Duncan, SC, announced its Cryovac brand will offer design and marketing services for ...

NEWS CLIPS

(Magazine)

July 31, 2011, ... Canadian print facility to earn certification. Zip-Pak, Manteno, IL, opens its first China factory in Guangzhou to produce resealable zipper closures. What's happening at your company? Send ...

Sepha Awarded Leak-Test Contract

(Controls)

July 31, 2011, ... water testing device. The initial contract calls for Sepha to form, seal, and leak test 50,000 blister packs containing Aquatest's active ingredients. The company will use its blister packing and leak testing ...

Flexographic Printing: A Push for Growth

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2011, ... (OPP), and metallized polyethylene terephthalate (MPET)/adhesive sealant film-based packaging. Capri also has a 60,000-sq-ft facility in Clinton, MO. Both locations house narrow and wide web PCMC laminators ...

New Material-Neutral Organization Focuses on Packaging & Environment

(Trends/Management News)

July 14, 2011, ... ConAgra Foods, Dow Chemical Co., DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers, Kellogg Co., MeadWestvaco, Procter & Gamble, Sealed Air Corp., and Tetra Pak Inc. AMERIPEN’s function is to advocate packaging ...

Awash in Chocolate

(Flexpack)

July 13, 2011, The Wonka Wondrously Whirled Waterfall Bar, converted by Printpack, Atlanta, GA, is printed in nine colors with cold seal on 48-ga PET and laminated in-line to holographic film. It uses lavenders and purples ...

Brand Security Innovations Technical Report: Tamper Evidence

(Print)

June 30, 2011, ... to consumers and are a first-line choice as a means of reassurance of brand authenticity and purity. Good examples are over-the-cap, easily frangible p-s paper seals on jars and bottles, as well as perforated ...

EVENTS

(News Clips Archive)

June 30, 2011, AUGUST 17-18 | Sealing Technology for Packaging Processes Seminar, Seminars for Engineers, Hyatt Place, Mt. Laurel, PA; www.seminarsforengineers.com 23-24/25-26 AUGUST 17-18 | Sealing Technology for Packaging ...

Hot Melt Adhesive Grabs & Holds

(Adhesives)

June 30, 2011, ... pop-opens with high-memory board. High level of performance also offers the potential to switch to lower cost boards that are challenging to seal. H.B. Fuller Co. | 651-236-5900 | www.hbfuller.com ...

Industry Associations

(Uncategorized)

June 01, 2011, ... Recycled Paperboard Alliance (RPA) Washington, DC; 202-347-8000; www.rpa100.com Adhesive & Sealant Council (ASC) Bethesda, MD; 301-986-9700; www.ascouncil.org AICC—The Independent Packaging Assn. ...

Laser Levels Playing Field

(Die-Cutting)

May 31, 2011, ... of digital finishing machines is doing just that, thanks to the availability of compact, sealed lasers at the kilowatt power level. Digital Printing-Flexibility To Maximize Visual Impact Ideally, ...

Technical Report: Up & Running

(Slit)

May 31, 2011, ... pre-tape the web and roll enveloping of tails onto both new cores, with no fold-back, and at the finished roll for tail wipe-down and seal. These features all function together to eliminate manual processes ...

Decreased Cooling Time for Blown Film

(Flexpack)

May 31, 2011, The Aquarex line blows film downward and uses water instead of air to quench the bubble, reportedly decreasing the cooling time by a factor of 30. The The Aquarex line blows film downward and uses water ...

Post Consumer Resin Gets New Life from Milk Jugs and Water Bottles

(Flexpack News)

May 18, 2011, ... plastic shipping sack and film rollstock, often for wrap and form/fill/seal applications. Gulam Harji, general manager at its Tyler plant, learned its customer’s idea had true merit and could reduce materials ...