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Readers Choice: Top 11 New Products of 2012

(Coatings)

January 01, 2013, ... a wide spectrum of materials and equipment necessary to produce its primary products—flexible packaging; tapes, labels, and tags; cartons and boxes; and unprinted rolls and sheets. So it came as no surprise, ...

Sigma Buys New Gloucester Film Line

(Film Mfg.)

December 19, 2012, ... from humble beginnings that for Sigma started with two garment film lines purchased from GEC in 1978,” said Johnson.“Sigma has since grown to be one of the largest and most diverse film and sheet manufacturers ...

Hyde Industrial Blade Solutions Has Full Line of Blades

(News | New Products)

December 17, 2012, Score slitter and perforator blades covert rolls to sheets   SOUTHBRIDGE, MA | Hyde Industrial Blade Solutions offers a full line of blades designed to cut and finish rolls of paper, film and foil, ...

Specialty Finishing Installs Second KBA Rapida 145 Press

(Carton Box News)

December 13, 2012, ... reduced lead times and reduced inventory levels,” says Thalken, In addition, Specialty Finishing has seen the advantage of complex print forms that no longer require additional waste sheets. The two ...

Dura-Fibre Folding Carton Material Runs Well

(Carton Box News)

December 11, 2012, Heavyweight folding carton board is said to run well on many brands of presses   MENASHA, WI | Dura-Fibre says printing with heavyweight folding carton materials can be easy and reliable with its ...

Softfilm Purchases Third Davis-Standard Line

(Film Mfg.)

December 10, 2012, New line designed to produce diaper film backsheet and coated nonwovens PAWCATUCK, CT | Growing film manufacturer Softfilm of São Paulo, Brazil, is adding a third Davis-Standard line to support the ...

Newark Adds Balers in Two Locations

(Green Converting)

December 05, 2012, ... Recycling division. He added, “We are now recovering and baling more plastics, sheet metal, and large sheets of cardboard in addition to paper recyclables, so the need for equipment that is better capable ...

Web Handling | To Break or Not To Break--What is the Tension?

(Web Handling)

December 02, 2012, ... is in the ability to concentrate an applied force over a small area. With aluminum foil, you can easily skew the sheet, load everything on an edge and initiate a tear. With cling wrap, as you skew the ...

Verstraete IML Labels Have Metallic Look

(Label/Tape)

December 01, 2012, Striking effects with metallic UV inks reportedly are achieved by Verstraete for IML labels   MALDEGEM, BELGIUM | Verstraete announces metallic IML labels said to make products stand out on the shelves. ...

The Wave Moves Product from Conveyor to Pallet Safely

(News | New Products)

November 29, 2012, ... and can be used to palletize sheeted paper. Carried by a conveyor belt as if on the crest of a wave, the product is taken up by a split gripper apron while a four-sided compression aligns the layer formation ...

POP Displays | Opaque Paperboard Solves Bleed-Through Problems

(Carton Box)

November 28, 2012, ... Opacity, and was created specifically to meet the needs of the digital print market. The availability of the product in sheets up to 70 in., as well as in rolls, makes it versatile to meet Rowell’s diverse ...

McCowat-Mercer Packaging Partners with KBA for New Rapida 105 Press

(News | New Products)

November 28, 2012, ... on the printed sheet. After scanning of the control strip, the measured solid densities are presented on the screen in a graphic display. The measurements then can be confirmed as a basis for single or ...

Another Review of Die Streaks

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

November 25, 2012, We really have to talk about this topic again.  It is amazing how many times I get calls on this seemingly simple, yet universal subject.  From film to sheet, cast film, extrusion coating, laminating, ...

Davis-Standard Upgrades Technical Center

(Coating/Laminating)

November 06, 2012, With a new four-extruder coex sheet line, a medical tubing line, and more, Davis-Standard makes its Technical Center even more technical   PAWCATUCK, CT | Davis-Standard is adding capabilities to ...

LasX Reports Alliance with Brandtjen & Kluge

(Carton Box)

October 31, 2012, ... glued products. “LasX has been providing sheet-fed laser cutting and robot handling systems since 2008,” says LasX CEO William Dinauer. “We are very pleased to be working with Kluge to provide a near-digital ...

Hexacomb Expands Presence in Mexico

(Carton Box)

October 30, 2012, ... it to be operational in the third quarter of 2013. The facility will manufacture Hexacomb’s full line of paper-based honeycomb protective packaging products, including sheets, runners, edge, and corner ...

HP Reports Customer for New Press

(Carton Box)

October 29, 2012, ... IL, a full-service packaging solutions provider, will be the first US customer for the HP Indigo 30000 digital press, the new 29-in.-format, sheet-fed press for folding cartons. Nosco plans to use the ...

Epic Litho Installs Komori’s Lithrone G40

(News | New Products)

October 23, 2012, ... G40, making it the first company in the mid-Atlantic region to offer the high-performance press. Komori’s Lithrone G40 has a maximum printing speed of 15,000 sheets/hr. The state-of-the-art 40-in. offset ...

OKI Data Americas Offers Digital Web Press

(Label/Tape)

October 02, 2012, ... printing with high color quality, plus easy operation in both continuous and cut sheet modes. Company says press handles variable data and variable forms with ease, is an ideal solution for short-run, ...

Coating Matters | Understanding Rheology

(Coating/Laminating)

October 01, 2012, ... the polymer would like to “spring back” into a tight set of coils (this can result in edge bead). The trick is to “teach” the polymer a new position of rest (as a sheet instead of a pellet). Once the polymer ...