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Konica Minolta Announces Digital Press

(Label/Tape)

October 29, 2017, ... The new machine for Europe comes with a web guiding system as standard. Press can work as an in-line-finishing solution together with the GM DC330Mini or the two devices can work as stand-alone solutions. ...

AIMCAL Hosts Successful R2R Conference

(Coating/Laminating)

October 27, 2017, The event featured a number of award-winning papers covering various aspects of web coating and vacuum web coating FORT MILL, SC | AIMCAL (the Association of International Metallizers, Coaters and ...

Toray Films Touted as Foil Replacements

(Flexpack)

October 23, 2017, ... PC3, PC5, and M23 MET OPP films are designed specifically for drop-in foil-replacement and buried-barrier web applications. They are said to offer excellent flex-crack and puncture resistance and deliver ...

Medical Patches | Faustel Meets Challenge of Hydrogel Pad Production

(Coating/Laminating)

October 23, 2017, ... requirements of each application and medical device. Others are designed for use as first-response wound dressings. To ramp up hydrogel production, Katecho wanted to double web widths to 23 in. all while ...

PPC Awards | All Packaging Wins Top Prize for SlideBoxCR

(Carton Box)

October 19, 2017, ... of Adams and his bandmates. Additionally, the design has a hidden door that drops down to uncover a secret vinyl as well as invisible ink that is exposed by blue light to reveal a secret website that offers ...

PCMC Offers Press in Wider Width

(News | New Products)

September 30, 2017, The Fusion C flexographic press is now available for the first time in a 52-in. web width GREEN BAY, WI | Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC), part of Barry-Wehmiller and a global designer and ...

Show Preview | Labelexpo Europe 2017 is its Largest Exhibition To-Date

(Trade Shows)

September 08, 2017, ... connectivity displays. Three narrow and mid-web inline UV flexo printing presses will be in demonstration: the M5X, the M1 and the M6 lines, all in their latest configuration and fitted with enhanced features, ...

AIMCAL Announces Short Course Option

(Coating/Laminating)

August 23, 2017, ... are expected to attend the full event, formerly known as the Web Coating and Handling Conference and held for the past several years in conjunction with FlexPackCon, a meeting organized annually by the ...

Show Preview | PRINT 2017 Heads Back to Chicago

(Trade Shows)

August 16, 2017, ... innovative dual-head cutting technology that allows for push-button variable size chip-cutting over a multitude of web substrates at speeds up to 800fpm. Glunz & Jensen (Booth #431) will be showing a ...

Pillar Announces Surface Treatment Service

(News | New Products)

August 07, 2017, ... treatment issues, then prescribe the corona or plasma treatment necessary to rectify those surface conditions.” The company has created a web page that describes its new surface treatment service, as ...

AIMCAL Posts Agenda for R2R Conference

(Coating/Laminating)

August 06, 2017, ... Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators, has posted the agenda and registration materials for the AIMCAL R2R (roll-to-roll) Conference on the its website. The meeting, formerly known as the Web Coating and ...

Bobst Metallizer Working Well at Oben Plant

(Coating/Laminating)

July 31, 2017, ... the K5000 wide web metallizer at its new greenfield plant in El Salvador. Reportedly, the decision to purchase the new machine for OPP El Salvador was based on the company’s strategy to serve locally the ...

B&W MEGTEC Launches Drying Lab

(Coating/Laminating)

July 30, 2017, ... lab with a bench-top system for capturing the drying behavior of coatings on web-based substrates using small-size samples approximately 5 x 5 in. Located in the Development Center at headquarters in De ...

BOBST and Radex Form New Company: Mouvent

(News | New Products)

July 05, 2017, ... September 25–28, at the Brussels Expo in Brussels, Belgium. These include two all-new, high-speed, seven-color UV ink printers (LB701 UV and LB702 UV) and a digital inkjet label printer in the narrow web ...

Sun Chemical and acpo to Show Films

(Label/Tape)

June 28, 2017, The companies will feature new products created in partnership for the narrow web market at Labelexpo Europe 2017 WEXHAM SPRINGS, UK | Sun Chemical and acpo ltd. will showcase their expanded offering ...

Roller Geometry | What Is Your Roller’s True Shape?

(Web Handling)

June 21, 2017, How does a roller’s shape influence a coated product and coating defects? The variation of a roller’s geometry can produce many web handling problems. How does a roller’s shape influence a coated product ...

Sticking With It | Overview of Radiation Curable Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives

(Coating/Laminating)

June 14, 2017, ... wider than the web width to ensure full cure out to the edges. The strength of the UV light produced by arc bulbs will begin to decay over time and must be monitored closely so that line speed can be adjusted ...

BOBST Open House Celebrates Gravure

(News | New Products)

June 09, 2017, ... says Michele Vitiello, head of gravure and lamination business unit web-fed and managing director of BOBST Italia. “The event was a big success in two ways that make us proud: the success achieved from ...

FocalSpec Announces Roughness Scanner

(Controls)

June 06, 2017, The MicroProfiler MP 9000 real-time scanner measures on-line surface roughness of webs using company’s Line Confocal Imaging technology CUMMING, GA | FocalSpec, a supplier of high-resolution optical ...

Blown Film | Which Applications Are Most Suited for 7/9/11 Layers? Part 2

(Flexpack)

June 05, 2017, ... or A/A/B structure by simply using the same material in two extruders. These structures are commonly used as frozen meat and fish packaging films, frozen vegetable bags, cereal liners, forming webs, modified ...