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Without Boundaries

(Magazine)

August 30, 2005, ... manager, recalled the philosophy of company founder Walter Hirsh: “To be truly successful, a company has to challenge itself to find the limits of its capabilities and then create processes and equipment ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

August 30, 2005, ... grade of ethylene/methylacrylate/methacrylic acid terpolymer combines flexibility given by the acrylate component with polarity from the acidic component. The two properties combined into one resin allow ...

Churning Out Quality

(Flexpack)

August 30, 2005, ... and do it very competitively.” Other capabilities include a laboratory facility for research and development; a computerized DuPont Cyrel photopolymer system; a mounting/proofing department; Atlas, ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 30, 2005, ... of Industry News, Events & Activities Slitter Meets Demanding Requirements, Delivery Time Suominen Flexible Packaging, Nastola, Finland, took delivery of its first Proslit Eikon slitter/rewinder in ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

July 30, 2005, ... concentrate carrier resin is necessary to achieve the optimum balance of properties, performance, and total cost in extrusion coating applications. The use of calcium carbonate is not new to the polyolefin ...

First Glance

(Magazine)

July 30, 2005, ... features lacquer-coated board heat-sealed onto a metallic foil surface, with considerable exterior and interior printing surface for patient information. Discover the casino that adds value with every ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

July 30, 2005, ... and Haas. Covering the Full Spectrum of Industry News, Events & Activities EUROTALK Labor & Labels Collide by Corey M. Reardon, AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. A serious situation arose recently in ...

Brand Security & Authentication, Part 1

(Archive)

July 30, 2005, ... threads, thermochromic threads, and micro-marked fibers are other possibilities. Solvent-sensitive papers, developed to prevent information from being removed with solvent, also are available: They react ...

Brand Security & Authentication, Part 2

(Archive)

July 30, 2005, ... full authentication of every RFID tag using a simple pen-sized reader—and the RFID tag reading, ink properties, and print characteristics remain completely unaffected. Just two examples of where there ...

What's Driving Your Operatio

(Magazine)

July 30, 2005, ... capabilities needed built into the plug-and-play drive you are purchasing, or will extra options be required?); and 5) Reliability. Charles Manning, product marketing manager, mechatronics, at Omron ...

New Products

(Magazine)

July 30, 2005, ... blade but cost less than new coated blades. Made of a proprietary alloy steel with life-extending properties, blade features same microstructure and accurate dimensional tolerances as other Swedev doctor ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Flexpack)

June 29, 2005, ... applications, and properties currently used to provide peelable seals in lidding and easy-open applications. A heat seal coating is an adhesive applied to a flexible substrate as a non-blocking layer ...

Diversified Carton Printing

(Magazine)

June 29, 2005, ... which is why the company strives to establish distinct, diverse, world-class centers of printing and converting excellence. The company believes its expansive print capabilities allow it to offer a variety ...

Concave Rollers Pros & Cons

(Magazine)

June 29, 2005, ... rollers. Depending on the exact diameter profile, concave rollers may have an hourglass, bowtie, dumbbell, or parabolic profile. The mechanism: The web tracking over the larger diameters lanes will ...

"Small Guy" Equipped for Mega Growt

(Archive)

May 30, 2005, ... capabilities, specifically barrier films and packaging, as well as lamination and converter-grade films." (Mega Plastics' six existing extruders were all single-layer machines.) Clarke and the rest of ...

One Stop Shop

(Flexpack)

May 30, 2005, ... is spread out over 70 acres with production facilities for every part of the packaging supply chain. An allied facility in Malanpur (near Gwalior) is even bigger with 125 acres. Completely dedicated ...

The Design Supply Chain

(Magazine)

May 30, 2005, ... Workflows can store job-related metadata (ink colors, bar code information, etc.) and share this information with other systems. Some workflows allow package developers to tie the content of each graphic ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

May 30, 2005, News from: Pliant Corp., Ceramis, Poly Print, Godiva Chocolatier, Tyco Plastics, CPFilms, Freedonia Group, CMM, CPP Expo, Comexi, Black Clawson, Universal Converting Equipment, PPA, SVC, SGIA, and Bobst. ...

Odor & Exempt Solvents

(Magazine)

May 30, 2005, ... printing inks, adhesives, and coatings needs to be tested carefully as they can bring undesirable properties to the end products. For example, the more promising exempt solvents, such as TBAc, have ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

May 30, 2005, ... Hirata, Basell Polyolefins Application: The unique properties of polybutene-1 provide easy-opening seals used in the packaging industry. Peel performance depends on the degree of incompatibility between ...