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TLMI Awards: Challenges Met

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... category. Because they are in direct contact with skin, these dry tattoos must be tested and approved by the Food & Drug Administration. Participating suppliers include Innovia Films, Technocut, Siegwerk, ...

Looking South

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... sometimes from 10-36 months. Professional wound and skin care, stoma care, surgical incision films and drapes, electrode terminals, and related applications in the medical market are strong and growing ...

Flexographic Printing: Super Setup

(Inspection/Defect Detection)

September 30, 2010, ... in the suburbs of Mexico City, started making shopping bags. Thanks to a dedicated print staff, the company grew and grew. Customers began asking for flexible packaging products, and in response, the company ...

Bag Making: Strength in Numbers

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2010, ... bag product that we continue to see people switching at a very good rate, and we had to be prepared to meet that demand. It's a hard call [to make such a major investment], but when customers are asking ...

Response to PET Shortage

(Yo's Yarns)

September 12, 2010, ... Filinski describes as booming. There’s more than one way to skin a cat! What has your resonse been to this global PET shortage? What are you doing to maintain supplies? Are you passing costs along to ...

Digital Label Printing: What's the Sweet Spot

(Digital)

September 07, 2010, ... Clients have been loudly asking for help, and the Commercialization Assessment Report series is our answer to that cry. Finally, one important thing the user will notice when they begin reading the ...

Two 'Green' Companies Honore

(Green Converting)

August 31, 2010, ... Xennovate's patented hydrocolloids for wound, skin, and ostomy applications. UK-based Tarsus Group changes the date for Labelexpo Europe 2011. At the request of visitors and exhibitors, the show now ...

Flexographic Printing: 9 Shine

(Flexography)

June 30, 2010, ... Judges praised UK-based Encore Envelopes Ltd. for the Campari Envelope, which featured a full range of shadows and highlights, skin tones, and jewelry. The entry wins Best of Show in the Envelope (Process, ...

On My Way to Tel Aviv

(Yo's Yarns)

June 12, 2010, We’re all basking in the afterglow of a Hawks win in Chi-town! Now that was a piece of teamwork if I ever saw one! You can’t capture the Stanley Cup with only one player. Not much different from our businesses. ...

Mesirow Financial Advises Shoreview Recapitalization

(News | New Products)

January 25, 2010, ... intensive skin and blister packaging and thermoformed blister markets. The Company offers innovative, high-visibility packaging solutions through a broad range of printed and plastic products to a large, ...

New Roles for Converters

(Archive)

September 30, 2009, ... presenting converters and hardware vendors with many significant opportunities. Among the potential products are new skin-mounted monitoring devices and wound dressings that would monitor the patient' ...

Henkel Launches Water-Based Heatseal for Recycled PET at PRINT 09

(News | New Products)

September 01, 2009, Henkel introduces new Latiseal B7707AR at PRINT O9. This water-based heatseal provides perfectly bonded recycled rPET blister packages and does not crystallize over time, the company reports. BRIDGEWATER, ...

Contamination Combat

(Web Cleaning)

May 31, 2009, ... with skin flakes (the prime source of dust), hair, and fibers from clothing and so forth. As webs and sheets are fed through the printing station, particles from these sources are deposited on blankets, ...

May 2009 News Clips

(News Clips Archive)

April 30, 2009, ... custody certification from Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI). The company reportedly is among the first in the blister and skin packaging niche to achieve both ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Narrow Web)

April 30, 2009, ... Scapa Medical has introduced Scapa 4005-800A, an extremely soft and conformable p-s polyurethane foam tape for direct skin applications, including wound care, consumer dressings, and medical device attachment. ...

Rohrer Corp. Achieves FSC & SFI Chain-of-Custody Certifications

(News | New Products)

April 20, 2009, ... reports. Rohrer says it is among the first in the blister and skin packaging niche to achieve both SFI and FSC certification. The company says the decision to pursue dual certification for all three of ...

Carton & Box Reporter: April 2009

(Carton Box Main)

March 31, 2009, ... on stock from onionskin flysheet paper to 48-pt microflute board. The Recovered Fiber Group of Caraustar Industries, Atlanta, GA, and Domtar Corp., Montreal, QC, Canada, celebrated the tenth year ...

Web Exclusive: Web Cleaners

(Archive)

February 18, 2009, ... elastomer roller on the MWC is said to remove all particles down to micron size. Contaminants—whether hair, skin, paint flakes, ink debris, etc.—are then immediately transferred to a precision-engineered ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Narrow Web)

December 31, 2008, ... skin applications, including wound care, consumer dressings, and medical device attachment. The tape comprises thin (0.43-mm) tan PU foam coated on one side with a high-tack, medical-grade acrylic adhesive ...

Creating e-Pedigrees

(Print)

December 31, 2008, ... for rigid packaging or thermal transfer overprinters for flexible packaging. Today, an increasing number of pharmaceutical customers are asking about mass serialization capabilities to help them create ...