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Alpha Packaging Acquired by PPS

(Trends/Management)

October 31, 2010, ... protective laminate products — FLEXcon multiGUARD. The trademark is registered in the US and Europe. DuPont Packaging Graphics, Wilmington, DE, begins production of Cyrel round sleeves at its Towanda, ...

In-Mold Breaks the Mold

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... barbeque meats eliminates a paperboard sleeve with instructions that now appear on IML labels. Sustainable benefits are realized by saving 973 tons of paper. Integral stay-cool handles allow consumers ...

Dow Industries Buys HP Indigo WS600 Digital Press

(Digital)

October 24, 2010, ... a broad range of media–from thinner flexible packaging substrates, to label and shrink sleeve media, to folding carton material. HP Indigo presses, the company says, are the only digital label and packaging ...

Sanden Machine, RDP Marathon Announce Strategic Alliance

(Label/Tape News)

October 11, 2010, ... with this announcement Sanden-Marathon has also entered into an agreement with Edelmann Graphics GmbH, Beerfelden, Germany, to be the exclusive value-added distributor of the STAR-Print (Sleeve Technology ...

Interactive Tools Aid Packaging Design

(Label/Tape)

September 30, 2010, The Studio 10 range of interactive 3D packaging design tools now includes the new Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves, a Studio Toolkit for Labels, and The Studio 10 range of interactive 3D packaging design ...

Flexographic Printing: Super Setup

(Inspection/Defect Detection)

September 30, 2010, ... press runs all solvent-based inks and has BST web guiding systems on the unwind and the rewind. It features Rossini sleeves and Praxair anilox rolls and recently was retrofitted with a new BST Pro Mark ...

Free PFFC Webinar Updates Labeling & Product Decoration Markets & Technologies

(News | New Products)

September 21, 2010, ... within all the current labeling and product decoration industries The technology innovations within the labeling and product decoration industries The global sleeve labeling market Webinar participants ...

Digital Label Printing: What's the Sweet Spot

(Digital)

September 07, 2010, ... says Karstedt. “These reports are the collective result of over 20 years of 'roll up your sleeves' work in the field, in-depth discussions with hundreds of converters, brand owners, and systems integrators.  ...

Bobst Folder/Gluer Brings New Business

(Folding/Gluing)

August 31, 2010, ... customer's business from about 10 percent to nearly 70 percent.” The folder/gluer is capable of running straight line and crash-lock cartons, presentation folders, CD/DVD sleeves, and other solid carton ...

Green Converting: Leading the Pack

(Flexography)

August 31, 2010, ... 35.5-in., nine-color variable sleeve offset presses (VSOP) from Muller Martini. With shrink sleeve and roll-fed label production being a hot market for the company, the two VSOP presses generate 20% of ...

Investing in Short Runs

(Label/Tape)

August 31, 2010, ...  The EDM200, which uses sleeve technology for both print and anilox cylinders and works with chambered doctor blade technology, is designed to work mainly as an overprinting machine. Rotocontrol ...

Two 'Green' Companies Honore

(Green Converting)

August 31, 2010, ... up to a 203-mm layflat for shrink sleeves, cold foil, and additional laminated structures and flexible packaging capabilities. Mark Andy, Chesterfield, MO, reports the installation of a Rotoflex ...

C-P Flexible Packaging Boosts Lamination with Davis-Standard Line

(Flexpack)

August 22, 2010, ... as extrusion, adhesive and solventless laminations, shrink-sleeve production, and slitting/rewinding capabilities. “Over half of our business is in extrusion lamination, so the addition of this line ...

Luminite Relocates After Fire

(Trends/Management)

August 10, 2010, Luminite Products Corp., a manufacturer of digital direct laser engraved cylinders, sleeves and plates for the flexographic print industry, has moved its corporate offices and computer graphics operations ...

Label Leaders Purchases ROTOCONTROL Flexo Machine

(Flexography)

August 05, 2010, ... semi-rotary, servo-driven UV-flexo machine, using sleeve technology for both print and anilox cylinders, and working with chambered doctor blade technology. The machine is designed to work mainly as an ...

Press Has Open Architecture

(Print)

July 31, 2010, ... open-platform architecture with towers that accept inserts for offset, flexo, gravure, and silkscreen. The offset inserts, which utilize carbon fiber sleeves with bearers, can be interchanged in any position, ...

Protect Rolls In Tough Applications

(Web Handling)

July 31, 2010, Roll Handler system protects single and multiple rolls in demanding shipping applications. Uses custom endboards and plastic sleeve plugs along with interlocking Roll Handler system protects single and ...

Seeking Distributors

(Trends/Management)

July 31, 2010, AHEMADABAD, INDIA | Arvind Rub-Web Controls, a manufacturer of a wide range of products, including rubber rollers, sleeve systems, wrinkle removers, core AHEMADABAD, INDIA | Arvind Rub-Web Controls, a ...

IML/IMD Competition Is Announced

(Label/Tape)

July 31, 2010, IML/IMD Competition Is Announced SCOTTSDALE, AZ | The In-Mold Decorating Assn. announces its first annual Student IML/IMD Design Competition to recognize SCOTTSDALE, AZ | The In-Mold Decorating Assn. announces ...

Ready for Take Off

(Label/Tape)

July 31, 2010, Printpack, Atlanta, GA, is producing five-color, flexo-printed shrink sleeves for Fuzzee Bee Beverage's ZUN (rhymes with moon) energy drink, which is packaged in a patent-pending rocket-shaped bottle Printpack, ...