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The World Leader in Pouch Making Machinery

(Bag Pouch)

January 16, 2025, ... has truly embraced these goals and has a newly adopted slogan; “Think Sustainable, Think Totani”. Totani has also recently released a new machine model; the CT-40D.  This high-speed machine uses a single ...

Maplesoft – Flexible Simulation Solutions to Address Your R2R Issues

(Coating/Laminating)

January 15, 2025, ... flexible packaging, plastics, and films, and we are seeing growth in emerging verticals where the thin products are particularly sensitive to breakage and tension quality issues, such as battery and electronics ...

ELBA S.p.A

(Bag Pouch)

January 15, 2025, ... enables the service department to offer real-time and on-site technical support within 24 working hours. Thanks to manufacturing and technological capacities and due to constant investments in R&D, ELBA ...

Leaders in Building and Designing Custom Converting Equipment

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

January 14, 2025, ... Software for our machine designs.  Within our 28,000 sq. foot facility, located in West Warwick RI, we program our PLC’s and HMI’s, build our Electrical Control Panels and Machine, Weld/Fabricate, Paint ...

Path to Sustainability According to Nordmeccanica

(Coating/Laminating)

December 04, 2024, ...  We think that sustainability remains something a little more complex than the pure recyclability and compostability of flexible packaging. First, flexible packaging is not the largest contributor to ...

Flexible Packaging for a Convenience-Driven Society

(Coating/Laminating)

November 30, 2024, ... with thin barrier coating layers, can offer good barrier properties similar to multi-material laminates, while maintaining ease of recycling. The barrier coatings are necessary to create an oxygen barrier, ...

Building a Circular Economy for Stretch Film

(Flexpack)

November 10, 2024, ... at thinner gauges. This reduces the amount of plastic used which ultimately gets sent to landfills. To help determine the right film for each wrapped pallet, organizations can leverage a load containment ...

Ensuring Clean Cuts in the Converting Industry

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

October 06, 2024, ... of this blade style allow for precise cuts in thin or fragile materials. EZ Open: Designed for easy opening applications, enhancing consumer convenience. This blade style has teeth on opposite sides ...

Converter Requirements Toward Inks and Printability

(Bag Pouch)

September 22, 2024, ... on different substrates and for different purposes. Converters require many things from inks. For one thing, they'd like ink that adheres to the substrate, which conceivably could be pressure sensitive, ...

PSA Tapes Key to Enhancing EV Battery Design and Production

(Print)

August 29, 2024, ...  Establish secure bonds without introducing materials that could fuel an ongoing fire within the battery; and Deliver versatile bonding solutions for attaching mica, ceramic fibers, aerogels and other ...

A Deeper Look at UV Inks in Label Production

(Surface Prep)

August 16, 2024, ... European Printing Ink Association (EUPIA) safety standards. Coupled with digital advancements, inkjet technology has made significant strides, boasting features such as thin, precise flat ink laydown, ...

TIPA and Fresh-Lock Collaborate to Enhance Home Compostable Packaging Market

(News | New Products)

July 23, 2024, ... a compost bin with other organic material, they disintegrate and biodegrade into nutrient-rich soil, within months. TIPA's packaging is also seamlessly compatible with existing machinery throughout the ...

Driving Flexibility and Cost Savings With Modular Cutting Assemblies Exploring Alternatives to Inflexible Purpose-built Production Equipment

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

July 21, 2024, ... uses a modular machine to cut an elastomer material with 0-tension unwind. The machine slits the material to width, then rotary die-cuts it within three thousandths of an inch of accuracy. Unlock the ...

Channeled Resources Group Appoints Al Berry to Release Liner Ambassador

(News | New Products)

July 15, 2024, Channeled Resources Group (CRG), an industry-leading manufacturer of release liners, blank shipping labels, and pressure-sensitive roll label stock Channeled Resources Group (CRG), an industry-leading ...

Innovating Safety Child-Resistant Stand-Up Pouches that Meet Sustainability Goals

(Bag Pouch)

July 07, 2024, ... Child-resistant technology was implemented within a sustainability framework, ensuring that the packaging materials are engineered to be recyclable wherever possible*, which contributes to a smaller environmental ...

Flexible Packaging — In a Constant Cycle of Evolution

(Flexpack)

June 16, 2024, Just when we think flexible packaging films have reached a milestone of innovation, technology kicks things up another notch. By Rob Tiller, Managing Director, PennPac Just when we think flexible ...

Obtaining Barriers When Coating and Printing Flexible Materials

(Bag Pouch)

June 09, 2024, Thin flexible substrates of paper, film and foil are often modified, manipulated, coated or combined with other substrates, adhesives or chemical blends By Tom Kerchiss, Chairman, RK PrintCoat Instruments ...

Web Guide 101

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

April 24, 2024, ... are fixed to the machine or floor — think of these as guiding to a fixed point in space. Proper web geometry is critical for these to work properly (see Diagram A), and they always include a shifting exiting ...

SEI integrates Vetaphone on new Labelmaster KyoJet

(News | New Products)

April 14, 2024, ... is his use of the Vetaphone corona units under reduced power to clean paper webs for better gloss effects.  It’s this type of lateral thinking that sets Labelit apart from its competitors and lays firm ...

Principles of Narrow Web Slitting

(Web Handling)

April 10, 2024, ... tissue to dual-sided rolls; films ranging from stiffer polyester to thin-stretchy polyethylene; and stability presented by machine-direction (MD) and cross-direction (CD) strength issues. When I worked ...