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A Secure Alternative

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, ... replication presents a more direct route to a passable counterfeit. Holograms, diffractive DOVIDs, and other single-surface embossed diffractive optics are susceptible to this attack because they all bear ...

Bio Break Down

(Flexpack)

March 30, 2004, ... and protective packaging. Uses for Degradable Packaging Products Degradable packaging products are most often the result of blending a substance into PE. The substance attacks the PE causing degradation ...

Materials

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, ... p-s splicing tape designated 512 is suited for use on silicone and other surfaces. Comprises a polyester film single-coated with a silicone adhesive said to deliver excellent tack. Product reportedly makes ...

Muller Martini to Launch Its Newest Web Offset Printing Press at Drupa; Equipment Has Label and Packaging Printing Capabilities

(News | New Products)

March 22, 2004, ... or bottle labels on paper and other packaging applications including foils and film. Jobs can be die-cut, perforated, sheeted and stacked in one inline process. The design of the new press is based ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... by SpaceKraft is said to provide shippers with an uncommonly strong product that can be stored outdoors. It offers compression strength to 75,000 lb and can be stacked to five high. Delivered with a ...

Converters' Wish Lists: Part II

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... often is more important than immediate help, because talking to the technical service representative can at least allay some present concerns and provide a plan of attack to solve a difficulty. Converters ...

Dow Unveils Versify* Plastomers and Elastomers; New Technology to Generate Unique Performance for Flex-Pack Converters

(News | New Products)

February 26, 2004, ... plastomers and elastomers. According to the material manufacturer, Versify is a new range of propylene-ethylene copolymers designed to improve optics, sealing and hot tack performance, elasticity, flexibility, ...

Gidue to Launch Unipro Packaging Press at Drupa; OEM Also to Showcase Other Converting Machinery

(News | New Products)

February 23, 2004, ... delivery table where the stacked piles of in-mold labels printed face up can be collected easily. Gidue's New Flexo Standards Details of the new Standards for Flexo Auto-Certification program—developed ...

Narrow Web Industry News

(Magazine)

January 30, 2004, ... kraft liner. The other side of the carrier film is coated with a high-performance acrylic adhesive and backed with an 80# sheet-form release liner. A high-performance, moderate-tack silicone PSA enables ...

Uteco to Debut New Flexo Press and Gravure Products at Drupa 2004

(Flexpack)

January 27, 2004, Eurograv Ltd. reports Uteco Converting S.p.a will showcase one its new central impression (CI), 8-color gearless flexographic presses at Drupa. In addition, says the Uteco press distributor, Uteco will ...

There's a Duck in My Duct

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... groceries, hardware, office supplies, home improvement items, etc. The important point is that a tape user must know what properties of adhesion, cohesion, tack, aging, etc., are necessary for the application ...

Converting Less Ordinary

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... sizes and can be connected in series or stacked for greater voltage. Custom battery sizes and shapes also are available and are developed with the assistance of GSI's engineering department and the customer. ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... devices that have replaceable or disposable parts. The removable adhesive is protected by an easy-release 60# kraft liner. The permanent acrylic adhesive is said to exhibit high tack and peel, good ...

Products and Materials

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... The briquetting system may be adjusted to produce bricks from 8-30 in. for easy handling, stacking, and palletizing at rates to 350 lb/hr. Invisible Ink Enhances Security Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Tapes)

November 30, 2003, ... Corp., Somerville, NJ; 908/685-2333 A horizontal three-roll stack/lamination take-off with roll widths to 24 in. can produce film, sheet, and/or laminates. A heavy-duty frame with linear motion guide ...

Considering China, Part II

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... the 2001 terrorist-attack second anniversary looming, I couldn't help but think of our now threat-ridden way of life here in the US. The media purveys the belief (and I would venture to say many American ...

Furthering Substrate Functionality

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... adhesion, plasma treatment may be worth a look. According to the experts, there are few, if any, substrates the technology can't tackle, and in addition to creating superlative adhesion today, it's poised ...

Converter Panel Attracts Interest at Conference

(The Place)

September 30, 2003, ... High Performance Heat Sealing Applications.” He discussed a new family of metallocene-catalyzed polyethylenes that have outstanding toughness and excellent hot tack performance. Barry A. Morris and ...

Exercising Environmental Responsibility: Part 1

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... move. Consider a similar story involving a recent congressional election. A challenger for the position was attacking the incumbent by accusing him of trying to poison his constituents with arsenic. ...

Adhesion of Coatings to Aluminum Foil

(The Place)

August 31, 2003, ... when each bonding aluminum atom carries a single soap group. Even at room temperature, acetic acid can easily pass through a coating infiltrating chemical bonds by advanced attack and leading to adhesion ...