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AIMCAL Awards

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2010, ... embossing of the holographic “jewels.”     Family Ties A “family” of various media is visually tied together by way of complementary holographic effects, winning for Vacumet the marketing award ...

Flexible Packaging: Narrow Web's Leverag

(Flexpack)

March 21, 2010, ... the convenience needed by today's “grab-n-go” lifestyles. Coupled with a broad range of materials and converting properties, flexible packaging creates the recognition brand owners want and consumers trust. ...

Flexible Packaging: Capital Commitments

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2010, ... to upgrade its lamination processes and capabilities, which already included a 40-in. Nordmeccanica Simplex laminator purchased in 2007, Packaging Personified recently added Nordmeccanica's Super Simplex ...

Click To Pick

(New Products)

February 28, 2010, ... coatings eliminate off-line lamination or foil stamping; eliminate warehousing and lead time required with laminated foil stocks; provide trapping and spot precision capabilities; offer selective application ...

Tube Film for Many Products

(New Products)

February 28, 2010, Apex 7862 barrier tube film can be formed into an easy-to-seal, easy-to-open, single or sample-use tube package for a wide variety of healthcare, personal Apex 7862 barrier tube film can be formed into ...

Bagmaking: Cleaning Up on F/F/S

(Substrates)

January 31, 2010, ... capabilities, including four- to eight-color process printing commonly found in retail product applications. The company, a part of the Nelmar Group of Companies established in 1984, installed its first ...

Nonwovens Converting: H1N1 Antidote

(Substrates)

January 31, 2010, After the death of California nurse Karen Ann Hayes last year, the California Nurses Assn. (CNA) released data from 190 facilities in nine states across After the death of California nurse Karen Ann Hayes ...

Flex-Pack = Opportunity

(Extrusion Coating)

January 31, 2010, ... in printability, better protective properties, and tangible weight reductions. Environmental Initiatives Not all films are environmentally friendly, however, and there is an increasing focus — driven ...

Technical Report: Thin Coating Challenges

(Coatings)

January 31, 2010, ... rigid; higher slot velocities can be used in subsequent zones. In a floater dryer, a rear-side-only nozzle can be used to dry the film without air movement on the wet side. A first zone dryer using parallel ...

Yerecic Label Installs 12-Color Mark Andy Performance Series Press

(News | New Products)

January 24, 2010, ... quick changeovers and print capabilities, the company reports. The P7 is also equipped to allow Yerecic to expand its product lines into thin unsupported films and is fully upgradeable to accommodate future ...

Reduce Blown Film Scrap

(New Products)

December 31, 2009, Multilayer blown film lay-flat measurement and control system for food and medical flexible packaging manufacturers combines the web gauging capabilities Multilayer blown film lay-flat measurement and ...

What Is the Right Tension?

(Web Lines)

November 30, 2009, ... consider going up or down from the starting point? The engineering root of the “right tension” for your web starts with the mechanical properties of your web. Most webs can be considered elastic, meaning ...

Films 101: Back to Basics

(Archive)

November 30, 2009, ... — will put interested parties on the path to future film success. Film Types: Understanding the Application Determining the right film for a particular application generally means considering the ...

How Static Bars Work

(Static-Beat)

November 30, 2009, ... masking films, optical properties for brightness enhancing and reflective films, and chemically active surfaces for clinical diagnostic products and for a new generation of sensors. Dust attraction ...

Experience Speaks: Lisa M. Trajkovich

(Experience Speaks)

November 30, 2009, ... are fundamental in a bad economy. What do you feel are the key qualities necessary to be a successful leader? Tenacity, patience, the willingness to always keep learning, and having a pulse on your market. ...

Cores | The Foundation of Winding

(Web Lines)

October 31, 2009, ... be tuned to your product's radial modulus of elasticity (which is a function of material properties and how tight you wind the roll). Matching core to product will create the smoothest transition of stresses ...

Engineer's Playgroun

(Coating/Laminating Main)

October 31, 2009, ... without having to tie up their own high-volume machines. Sherer says, “Anybody that mass-produces product in roll-to-roll form could possibly benefit from the facility. Those folks could come in, work ...

Durable, Yet Destructible

(First Glance)

October 31, 2009, The Destructible RFID Windshield Tag from Metalcraft, Mason City, IA, is designed to deliver a long read range at a low cost for gated communities, secured parking, and other applications protecting identification ...

Tollcoating.com Installs New Pilot Coating Equipment

(News | New Products)

October 06, 2009, ... only a few facilities nationwide to offer customers the advantage of conducting cost-effective pilot coating tests on a small scale. This enables design teams to quickly and easily implement coating refinements ...

Software Standardizes Tough Print Jobs

(News Eclips)

September 30, 2009, ... and simple automation and deals with all the complexities packaging design files contain. Packaging designers and pre-press professionals are now able create PDFs from Illustrator, without having to worry ...