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Flint Group and Xeikon to Highlight Corrugated Printing Innovations at SuperCorrExpo 2024

(News | New Products)

August 19, 2024, ... of water-based inks and coatings. Designed to reduce the total cost to print and provide sustainability benefits, the wide range of products under the AQUACode brand has delivered long-standing success ...

A Deeper Look at UV Inks in Label Production

(Surface Prep)

August 16, 2024, ... can be time consuming. An alternative is to coat the substrate with a water-based, or more typically, UV primer. Regardless of the preferred method, this adds a step to the printing process, necessitating ...

Sun Chemical to Introduce Breakthrough Solutions for Corrugated Market at SuperCorrExpo® 2024

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August 08, 2024, ... Sun Chemical’s comprehensive solutions, including its ranges of water-based inks and coatings, anilox cleaners, color management and digital troubleshooting tools that enable enhanced efficiency, precision ...

Update on Paperboard Packaging Sustainability Trends

(Bag Pouch)

June 26, 2024, ... for recycled/unbleached boxboard, including water-based and water-soluble inks and dyes, UV EB inks, water-soluble adhesives, clay coatings, varnish coatings, polymer barriers, bioplastic barriers, metals ...

The Griff Network Invests in Upgrades to Adhesive Toll Coating, Private Label Division

(News | New Products)

June 20, 2024, ... capabilities with thermoset-cured, water-based ink -Defect and thickness inspection units on the production and pilot coaters -New pilot coating equipment to accelerate scale-up to full production ...

Obtaining Barriers When Coating and Printing Flexible Materials

(Bag Pouch)

June 09, 2024, ... quite a few coating practitioners are moving to water-based coatings with lower solids. Sometimes modification is needed to process equipment such as dryers. The search for packaging materials with barrier ...

Static Gets Worse at Higher Line Speeds: Keys Toward Maintaining Good Static Control

(Surface Prep)

May 12, 2024, ... (e.g., coated with a water-based coating that retains some water), Ken Clum, my former colleague at the Eastman Kodak Company, found that line speed and the static charge distribution interact as illustrated ...

Sandon Global to bring anilox excellence and technical know-how to drupa 2024

(News | New Products)

April 21, 2024, ... designed to prolong sleeve life, strategies for how to overcome challenges in water-based flexo printing on film and promoting its unique EDT sealing for oxidation (substrate corrosion) resistance. With ...

FACER’s Managing Director Discusses Future of Cartonboard Packaging

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April 01, 2024, ... bugbears for me – like the use of OPP laminate film on carton packaging – and we can advise them to use a water-based alternative instead. “If it’s a high-end product, often they’ll have an in-house ...

Addressing Bio-film/Compostables and Plastic Film Processing Challenges

(Bag Pouch)

March 17, 2024, ... oriented polypropylene. Films such as oriented polypropylene (OPP) films when surface treated are often suitable for conversion with water-based inks, adhesives and cold seal, as well as with heat-activated ...

Clariant to Showcase Sustainably-evolved Coatings at American Coatings Show 2024

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March 04, 2024, ... requirements and to extend the open time of water-based acrylic and polyurethane paints.” The ClariCoat digital platform has been designed to help customers find the best wetting and dispersing agents ...

Extinguishing Lithium-Ion Battery Liability with Green Packaging

(Flexpack)

February 21, 2024, ... A-D batteries, a similar but smaller product exists. In the event of a lithium-ion battery fire, water alone will not put out the flames. There is a new product offering a premixed, water-based solution ...

ETI: Pioneering Innovation in Label Manufacturing

(Coating/Laminating)

February 12, 2024, ... upon request) Printing: flexography, gravure Silicone coating: UV-curable silicone Adhesive coating: rubber-based hotmelt, UV-curable acrylic hotmelt, acrylic water-based Converting: slitting, ...

Corrosion Protection + Heat Sealable Paper = New Custom Packaging Solution!

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November 30, 2023, ... Paper Mechanics On the other side of the equation, EcoShield® Heat Sealable Paper offers an innovative recyclable packaging solution that is highly customizable. A water-based heat sealable adhesive ...

Walki Jatne, Poland Standardizes Printing Production Process with KODAK FLEXCEL NX Technology

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November 13, 2023, ... set-ups per day on each of our ten-color presses. Complicating matters were the water-based inks we print with and set-ups and changeovers were giving us a real production headache.” For Pawel and his ...

Canon Announces LabelStream LS2000 Inkjet Press for US Market Label Converting

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October 12, 2023, ... customer support. The highlights of the LabelStream LS2000 inkjet digital press include: High Density Pigmented Aqueous Based Ink The new water-based ink contains a highly saturated pigment and ...

Herzog Etiketten adds Performance Series P7 to its Mark Andy Stable

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October 09, 2023, ... the latest Performance Series P7 flexo and a Digital Pro 3 toner/hybrid. The company moved into its present 2,000 sqm facility in 1999.  The timing coincided with the industry’s switch from water-based ...

Rudolf Commissions Baldwin’s TexCoat™ G4 Lab-scale Precision Spray Unit

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September 13, 2023, ... water-based chemicals, such as durable water-repellants including PFAS-free, softeners, anti-microbials, easy care resins, flame retardants and more. Baldwin’s innovative technology utilizes the same chemicals ...

H.B. Fuller to Showcase Consumer Packaging Innovations at PACK EXPO Las Vegas

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August 13, 2023, ... tapes for repulpable packaging, and hot melt adhesives that contain bio-products Return bottles made with Earthic™ washable water-based adhesives and easy returnable packaging design with Close Sesame™ ...

Fujifilm Showcase Extensive Range of Analogue, Digital Print Solutions at Labelexpo Europe 2023

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July 31, 2023, ... press, via a demonstration run live from Fujifilm’s beta customer in the UK. Built on decades of Fujifilm inkjet expertise, the Jet Press FP790 features water-based inkjet technology, making it suitable ...