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Web Handling | Russian Converter Growing Fast

(Flexography)

January 08, 2012, ... of the installation was a 22-in. (600-mm) Comco ProGlide MSP, fitted with nine print units and six converting stations. The press was specified for water-based and solvent inks, with ultraviolet-flexo ...

The Filmquest Group Offers New High-Barrier Plastic Film

(Flexpack)

December 26, 2011, NanoShield high-barrier plastic film is free of solvents and recyclable, extends shelf life, and can replace PVdC-based films in food packaging  BOLINGBROOK, IL | The Filmquest Group offers NanoShield, ...

BOPP from Toray Plastics (America) Offers Matte, High-End Look

(Flexpack)

December 18, 2011, ... haze and a print adhesion layer on which water- and solvent-based inks print with excellent results; a low COF; and excellent ability to bond during the manufacture of adhesive and extrusion laminations. ...

Green Bay Packaging Offers Label Stock That Dissolves

(Label/Tape News)

November 13, 2011, The Coated Products Operations of Green Bay Packaging offers dissolvable label stock that washes away under running water. GREEN BAY, WI | The Coated Products Operations of Green Bay Packaging offers ...

Hot Melt Adhesives Now a Recycling Solution at Channeled Resources

(News | New Products)

November 05, 2011, The Channeled Resources Group has added hot melt adhesives to the solutions it offers for recycling and second use of the components of p-s label stocks. CHICAGO, IL | The Channeled Resources Group ...

Overlaminating Films Resist Heat

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2011, ... films reportedly offer high heat resistance, dimensional stability, and excellent resistance to organic solvents and chemicals. Films work in environments above 125 deg C and are able to survive short-term ...

Many Flex-Pack Inks Available

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

July 31, 2011, ... packaging applications, including water-based surface film inks, water-based lamination ink, water-based paper inks, solvent-based surface film inks, solvent-based lamination inks, solvent-based gravure ...

Alternative Ink Is Offered

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

July 31, 2011, Pro-series inks are formulated as a like-for-like swap for the most popular large-format solvent and eco-solvent printers. Company says there is no need Pro-series inks are formulated as a like-for-like ...

Experience Speaks: Jim Streicher

(Bag Pouch)

July 31, 2011, ... We reclaim our solvents and have an RTO in place to destroy VOCs. Who is your hero? This is a family business, and the greatest part is working with my dad, learning from him, and applying what I ...

Multilayered Solutions: One Stop Shop

(Print)

June 30, 2011, ... coating lines to execute solvent gravure and ultraviolet coating applications. Also in-house are several three-to-five station flexographic presses used to lay down holographic laminations. State-of-the ...

Brand Security Innovations Technical Report: Tamper Evidence

(Print)

June 30, 2011, ... or color; metal strips or fragments; polyester security threads; thermochromic threads; and micro-marked fibers, invisible to the naked eye. In the wider world of packaging, solvent-sensitive papers, which ...

Film Barrier Aids Shelf Life

(Flexpack)

June 30, 2011, NanoShield high-barrier technology can be applied to PET, OPP, BON, and PLA films used for food packaging to resist moisture and oxygen from penetrating NanoShield high-barrier technology can be applied ...

Plates Reduce Dot Gain

(Prepress)

June 30, 2011, Developed for wide web flexible packaging printing with solvent-based inks, the nyloflex FAM digital photopolymer printing plate is medium hard and said Developed for wide web flexible packaging printing ...

FTA Gets Flexo Engines Started at Forum/Info*Flex

(Flexography)

May 31, 2011, ... terms of environmental impact, VOCs from solvents used to develop the plate are reduced by more than 50%. Global warming potential (GWP), including plate, packaging, and transport, is an estimated 32% ...

Hybrid Inks Have No VOCs

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

May 31, 2011, ... are formulated for indirect food packaging applications that require low-migration and low-odor inks. Inks have no VOC solvents and are free of both ITX and benzophenone. Said to provide high adhesion ...

Roll-Sleeve Film: Helping Shape Brand Identity

(Label/Tape)

May 10, 2011, ... shrink, or infrared tunnels. What’s more, solvents used for this welding process are non-flammable with low VOC (volatile organic compounds) emissions. Flexcraft Industries Inc., Newark, NJ, is a leader ...

First DuPont Cyrel FAST System Installed in Bangladesh

(Prepress)

May 09, 2011, ... of a Cyrel FAST solventless thermal plate-processing WILMINGTON, DE | DuPont Packaging Graphics has announced it has signed an agreement with PADMA Group to purchase a DuPont Cyrel FAST digital imaging ...

FTA Gets Flexo Engines Started at Forum/Info*Flex

(Flexography)

May 03, 2011, ... 58 min. In terms of environmental impact, VOCs from solvents used to develop the plate are reduced by more than 50%. Global warming potential (GWP), including plate, packaging, and transport, is an estimated ...

Dry Efficiently at High Speeds

(Coating/Laminating)

April 30, 2011, ... said to provide greater efficiency than conventional web dryers and to enable the high-speed drying of water-based patterned glue and coatings at line speeds reached previously only with solvent-based ...

Scrap Reduction Topic of Workshop

(Adhesives)

April 30, 2011, ... he says. “We do solventless lamination in Joplin, so the new technology was great. Shorter cure is something we're always interested in, because it helps us lower inventory levels and work-in-process levels.…The ...