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EDI Receives Patent for Flat Die

(Archive)

February 10, 2007, Extrusion Dies Industries has been granted a patent for a flat die design that is said to reduce downtime for lip adjustment required with each product run, enhance gauge profiles, and yield a uniform ...

February First Glance: Part 2

(First Glance)

January 31, 2007, ... by putting the product in a stand-up, quad-seal PET pouch with press-to-close zipper resealability. The pouch is said to yield operational benefits including outstanding machinability and superior COF ...

Lessons in Laminating

(Magazine)

January 31, 2007, ... laser-imaged medical film, however, this was a source of a large yield loss and limited throughput as we scaled up from an interim manufacturing site to one producing film at three times the width and ...

Muehlbauer Sells First Complete Smart Label Factory to China

(Archive)

December 04, 2006, ... areas of Smart Cards and ePassports. This strategy already yields results. Within a short time, four customers ordered the new production equipment. Semtech RFID Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sino-Tech ...

Challengers Press On

(Tapes)

October 31, 2006, ... competition yields winners in a multitude of categories employing nearly as many processes. Announced October 10 at the TLMI annual meeting held this year at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes in Orlando, FL, ...

Curing Cuts Co$ts

(Magazine)

October 31, 2006, Label printer Wilkri-Etiketten is testing a UV system, launched by IST Metz, on a pilot application. The result: higher yields plus energy efficiency. Testing/Measuring Wilkri-Etiketten’s 55 employees ...

Proof is in the Process

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September 30, 2006, ... are demanding pre-approval of shelf-ready packaging. To solve the problem, All Packaging Company (APC) has launched ShelfReady, a prototyping process that yields 3-D proofs — said to be indistinguishable ...

Web Tension: A Pop Quiz

(Web Lines)

September 30, 2006, ...  or yield point in terms of tension and elongation? (2 points) Do you use this data to set your product's web handling tension, running your products with tension proportional to their width, thickness ...

Kennedy Group Demonstrates Technology at Alien Technology

(Archive)

August 21, 2006, ... labels per minute. It also features I/O connections that enable application and system management along with accurate reporting functions. Both applicators reportedly attain Smart Therm label yields greater ...

Adopting a Process Model

(Magazine)

July 31, 2006, ... that quantify these criteria accurately. There are only five areas that matter: product quality, yield or waste, throughput, uptime, and unit cost. Improvements can be made in any of these areas by ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

July 31, 2006, ... of layers than conventional coextrusions, yielding microlayer structures that improve moisture and gas barrier, encapsulate gels and “un-melts,” and enable the economical use of high-cost materials. PFFC-ASAP ...

2006 RFID What's News, Part

(Archive)

July 29, 2006, ... reportedly is critical to ensure a high-quality, high-yield finished RFID label for end users. For more information, visit averydennison.com. Active RFID Systems Offers Asset Tracking Tag EVERGREEN, ...

Avery Dennison Announces Qualified Converters

(Archive)

July 08, 2006, ... and testing capabilities and to improve the "converter-friendliness" of Avery Dennison's RFID inlays. Alignment of these capabilities reportedly is critical to ensure a high-quality, high-yield finished ...

Films Face Off

(Magazine)

June 29, 2006, ... MOPA 0.2 cc 0.5 g Density a Cost Consideration Density, or weight per unit of volume, can be an important consideration in choosing a packaging film. In general, higher density films have lower yields, ...

Label & Narrow Web Reporter

(Magazine)

June 29, 2006, ... comes up, this is the time to hop into the game. Encoding labels on the fly for antennas integrated within a substrate presently is very time-consuming and doesn’t produce very high yield, says O’Boyle. ...

Stratum Global and Omron RFID Form Alliance

(Archive)

June 26, 2006, ... PRESS RELEASE LITTLETON, CO—Stratum Global and Omron RFID have formed a strategic relationship designed to help customers benefit from Stratum's application performance and Omron's high-yield RFID tags ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, ... significant improvements through such processing in the moduli (both machine and transverse directions), yield and break strengths, and optical properties including haze and gloss of polyethylene films. ...

Flexo is on Track

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, ... large fraction of their overall cost equation; the converting industry has not implemented “best practices” to the extent other industries have; the converter must improve yield of raw material usage to ...

Food Contact Materials Literature

(Archive)

May 28, 2006, Rapra Technology research has yielded two books on food contact materials in packaging, as well as a conference on food contact polymers. PRESS RELEASE Over the past decade, Rapra has run several large ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

April 29, 2006, ... described in this report have yielded cross-machine temperature profiles down to ±1 °C. While existing dryers may present some constraints based on their physical structure, users should expect that the ...