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Flexographic Printing: Super Setup

(Inspection/Defect Detection)

September 30, 2010, ... print inspection system. Pressure To Perform The retrofit was initiated because of competitive pressures. Envases Del Pisueña wanted to optimize press performance while minimizing waste and downtime. ...

Press Meets Demands for Short Runs

(Flexography)

September 12, 2010, ... capabilities of the Performance Series are claimed to reduce setup waste as much as 60% over conventional in-line flexo technologies. The Performance Series design has also eliminated several operator ...

Plastics Recycling: Reclaim & Reuse

(Coating/Laminating)

August 31, 2010, ... finished material. This especially important with postconsumer waste because some of it may be reprocessed over and over again. Working with EREMA, Hilex Poly took its standard system and custom-configured ...

Web Lines: Are You Getting the Shaft?

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

June 30, 2010, ... and energy costs. Shafted rewinding usually requires an operator to manually inflate a pneumatic bladder and, if forgotten, leads to waste from slippage-related contamination and lateral shifting. Since ...

Multipack Juices It Up

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2010, ... reduces waste, and eliminates hot-stamping or patch-lamination production steps. Other security features also are possible since the film, in either sheet or roll form, is compatible with laser engraving. ...

Beyer Adds 4th Bobst Folder/Gluer

(Carton Box)

March 31, 2010, ... or visit www.freeproductinfo.net/pff The Recycling Div. of Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., Creve Coeur, MO, partners with Emerald Waste Services (EWS), Freeport, FL, to operate EWS's materials recycling ...

AIMCAL Awards

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2010, ... adhesive, the structure is simplified, costs less, reduces waste, and eliminates hot-stamping or patch-lamination production steps. Other security features are also possible since the film, in either sheet ...

Flex-Pack = Opportunity

(Extrusion Coating)

January 31, 2010, ... material usage, as well as less packaging waste. Paper-based flexible packaging products still are considered a sustainable alternative also. There are indications that the growth rate for the use of ...

Technical Report: Thin Coating Challenges

(Coatings)

January 31, 2010, ... products is the requirement to coat thin, functional coatings on a thin substrate. The advantages of these coatings are reduced material cost in the product and the waste stream because of less material. ...

Yerecic Label Installs 12-Color Mark Andy Performance Series Press

(News | New Products)

January 24, 2010, ... a new Mark Andy Performance Series P7. The purchase supports the company's lean initiatives, streamlining their production processes so they “don't waste time, energy or materials, giving their customers ...

Eco Fiction

(Substrates)

August 31, 2009, ... to make a real difference right now. Some of the comparisons include: Design Better Products | Rather than trying to remove waste and recycle extra materials and packaging on the back end, many companies ...

Carton & Box Reporter

(Carton Box)

July 31, 2009, ... The program highlights the natural renewability and sustainability of paperboard packaging. As part of TICCIT, milk cartons are collected out of schools' waste streams. Seeds and saplings are planted ...

Playing the Wrinkle Blame Game

(Web Lines)

June 30, 2009, ... winding defects grab the attention of converters more than wrinkles, especially anyone venturing into thinner, wider, or stiffer webs. Wrinkles mean waste. The first step in fighting wrinkles is to ...

Recycling Program for Tyvek Launched

(News Clips Archive)

June 30, 2009, Wilmington, DE | DuPont Nonwovens and Waste Management, Houston, TX, have launched a national mail-in recycling program to capture envelopes and other Wilmington, DE | DuPont Nonwovens and Waste Management, ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCTS: July 200

(New Products)

June 30, 2009, ... provide top quality silver mirror effect, adhesion, and print performance on plastics, and to improve processing efficiency and minimize waste. Company says this flatbed screen printing ink is suitable ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Narrow Web)

May 31, 2009, ... perform flexo, UV flexo, cold foil, hot foil, screen, and interstation die-cutting within the same printhead. It is said to offer faster makereadies, increased productivity, reduced waste, and enhanced ...

Stress & Strain

(Archive)

May 31, 2009, ... baggy webs in and out of slitting where knowledge eliminates waste. Tension is the first line of defense against bagginess. A baggy web under no or low tension will show its crossweb length variations ...

The Great Span Length Debate | Part 2

(Web Lines)

March 31, 2009, ... to winding film product. Old turret winders that lose their optimized entry span control during indexing are a major cause of waste worldwide. It's cheating, but true, to say the answer to the great ...

Handle Unsupported Film Without Stretching

(Slit Main)

February 28, 2009, ... missing labels and waste, presenting all defects at the correction table. While rewinding, a constant tension on the shaft and variable tension on the substrate prevents conic distortion on the roll.  ...

Edelmann and Codimag Web Offset Semi-Rotary Web Presses Are for Short Runs

(Offset)

February 28, 2009, ...  Waste is reduced, as a semi-rotary press has a straight-through web path, not looped through the press to accommodate driers and pull groups. A straight-through web path also allows register to be maintained ...