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Web Exclusive: Are Sleeves Ready for Narrow Web?

(Archive)

July 31, 2008, While the number of machines with sleeve technology is growing in label printing, many users still are hesitant about using them. Sleeves became a standard on flexographic presses for package printing ...

Ready for Change

(Magazine)

September 30, 2007, ... several operations ranging from prime labels (health, beauty, pharmaceutical, and food) to converting. Also included is the company’s shrink-sleeve operation, which has experienced dramatic growth in recent ...

Alcoa's Whisker Lickin' Label: Shrink Sleeves Provide Purina Packaging with Pop and New-Found Flexibilit

(News | New Products)

December 11, 2003, ... foil, thermoformed trays, cable wrap, plastic shrink sleeve body labels, and Reynolon shrink film—serving the world’s leading consumer products manufacturers within the pharmaceutical, medical, food & ...

When It Comes to Sleeves, Thin Is Not In

(Flexpack)

August 31, 2003, “More attention is being paid to sleeve quality. No longer is the lowest-priced sleeve the automatic choice,” says Anthony Foley, national marketing manager for Edward Graphics... As a penny-pinching consumer, ...

FK Awarded Patent for Changeover-Time Reduction Technology

(News | New Products)

August 07, 2003, ... cleaning ink units; changing sleeves or intermediate mandrels and anilox rollers; replacing worn doctor blades; and putting in new inks or setting of new ink parameters, adds co. "Access can be integrated ...

Gravure Rolls Up Its Sleeves to Do Battle with Flexo

(Magazine)

April 30, 2003, What's the hottest trend in narrow web printing today? Presses that are competitively priced, use lightweight sleeves, offer fast changeovers for short runs, and utilize electronic line shaft technology. ...

Adapting for Digital or Conventional Labels

(Flexpack)

August 11, 2024, ... Substrates Particularly in Canada and in some states, there is a greater emphasis on the impact of label material on the environment. For example, in Canada shrink sleeves are essentially banned. So, ...

Surface Treatment: The Importance of Getting it Right

(Surface Prep)

May 19, 2024, ... film that are used in today's package printing sector, whether for labels, shrink sleeves, pouches or other kinds of flexible packaging, are all non-absorbent and need to be surface treated to allow ink, ...

HOW TO: Add Web Cleaning on a Budget With Jemmco, LLC

(HOW TO Guide)

May 02, 2024, ...  approach is the JemmTac™ Web Cleaning Sleeve, a game-changer in the realm of contact web cleaning. This highly affordable sleeve is designed to effortlessly integrate into existing setups, by sliding easil ...

Why Cleaning is a Must in the Flexo Industry

(Equipment/Machines - Printing)

April 28, 2024, ... or sometimes impossible, to remove later. Be sure to clean printing plates, ink chambers, anilox rolls, sleeves or cylinders immediately after each job. Ingredients needed for a "picture-perfect" flexographic ...

Recyclability & Circularity Consumers Support Sustainable Brand Packaging

(Print)

April 08, 2024, ... labels and shrink sleeves applications, deinking technologies are progressing and offer opportunities for printers seeking to support the circular economy, including new primers and overprint varnishes. ...

IMA DAIRY & FOOD Installs Sharpening Grinder for Monomaterial Cup Packaging Cutting Technology

(News | New Products)

February 11, 2024, ... more robust than conventional tools, yielding upwards of 7 million punches between sharpenings – double or even triple that of traditional cutting tools. ZERO Technology uses independent sleeves that ...

Automating Flexo Closer to Digital

(Equipment/Machines - Printing)

January 21, 2024, ... being shared. The easy transfer of specific job info such as including design specifications; substrate, sleeve, anilox and ink data; and unwinding/ rewinding, drying and tension parameters, among others, ...

Filtrona Tapes' Prism range to light up Packaging Innovations

(News | New Products)

January 15, 2024, ... "It really is as simple as that! Whether integrating tape to solutions like shrink sleeves, overwrap, flow-wraps, and many more flexible film applications, our easy-to-use applicators enable new or existing ...

Rang Dong Switches to Vetaphone for Latest Corona Technology

(News | New Products)

January 15, 2024, ... catalogue that includes middle pressing, zipper, vertical, liquid cover, and vacuum bags as well as shrink sleeves.  The plant produces more than 13.5m square metres of flexible packaging per year and ...

Sun Chemical to present range of sustainable solutions at Labelexpo Europe 2023

(News | New Products)

July 30, 2023, ... SolarFlex CRCL and SolarWave CRCL deinkable UV and UV LED flexo ink systems, and Solvawash deinking solvent-based inks for crystallisable PET sleeves, which meet APR performance protocols. Retention ...

Sun Chemical to Showcase Sustainable Ink, Coating and Adhesive Solutions at Flexo & Labels Summit 2023

(News | New Products)

May 01, 2023, ... be on display: SunSpectro® SolvaWash™ FLis a washable/de-inkable, flexo-printable, solvent-based ink series that enables brand owners to increase the recyclability of shrink sleeve labels by allowing ...

BP Solutions Moves Into Digital Labels with Mark Andy

(News | New Products)

April 18, 2023, ... One toner/flexo hybrids, only for the local breweries to switch from bottles to cans and from labels to pre-print and shrink sleeves.”  What he didn’t know was that his research would prove invaluable ...

Sun Chemical Issues Latest Sustainability Report

(News | New Products)

April 16, 2023, ... inks made with high levels of biorenewable content Sustainability-enabling series of inks and coatings for the narrow-web, label and sleeve market A new water-based coating for sheetfed commercial ...

How Flexographic Printing Can Unlock New Packaging Potential

(Bag Pouch)

April 09, 2023, ... from rising demand for flexo inks, consumables, plates and sleeves4. But if there’s one area where flexo looks set to flourish even through the toughest of times, it’s in packaging innovation — an ever-growing ...