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- Flex-Pack = Opportunity
- (Extrusion Coating)
- January 31, 2010, ... manufacturing base and in terms of increased costs. Industry Consolidation Consolidation — especially within the flexible packaging segment — continues to change the face of the extrusion coating industry; ...
- Yerecic Label Installs 12-Color Mark Andy Performance Series Press
- (News | New Products)
- January 24, 2010, ... quick changeovers and print capabilities, the company reports. The P7 is also equipped to allow Yerecic to expand its product lines into thin unsupported films and is fully upgradeable to accommodate future ...
- Paper or Plastic?
- (Archive)
- November 30, 2009, ... the industry's future. He highlighted waste management as a critical item. But, he said, this is particularly a challenge because “everything we do in relation to the sustainability issue comes back to ...
- Expo News Raises Eyebrows
- (Editorial)
- November 30, 2009, ... SPI to contain costs. And now a personal request, dear Readers…Suzanne Zaccone, a dear friend who comes from within our own converter ranks as the executive vice-chairman and former president and co-owner ...
- Do It Yourself
- (Adhesives)
- November 30, 2009, ... with regulatory affairs as they continue to change rapidly, both domestically and abroad, as well as doing things that improve one's image from a sustainability standpoint,” notes Ragin, citing such issues ...
- Experience Speaks: Lisa M. Trajkovich
- (Experience Speaks)
- November 30, 2009, ... Protect-all is in a somewhat remote area of southern Wisconsin, so the immediate candidate pool is rather small. The management team is very hands-on with all aspects of the company, which I think helps ...
- CMM Sold to Mack Brooks Exhibitions
- (Yo's Yarns)
- November 16, 2009, ... confirmed the deal was completed on Friday, November 13, to allow MBE to have time to set things in place before the 24th. It was promised that all will be revealed on the 24th, so stay tuned HERE! So ...
- CMM Sold to Mack Brooks Exhibitions
- (News | New Products)
- November 16, 2009, Pennwell Corp. has announced that its CMM Converting Machinery/Materials Conference & Exhibition has been sold to Mack Brooks Exhibitions (MBE) TULSA, OK | Pennwell Corp. has announced that its CMM Converting ...
- FPI Says Green Packaging Trend To Grow in Demand
- (News | New Products)
- November 08, 2009, ... Two sections report on what members think are trends in four key areas and on what FPI believes are the top three trends in foodservice packaging. Findings indicate "green" has not only garnered a place ...
- Critical Trends Face-Off
- (Trends/Management)
- October 31, 2009, Exclusive PFFC research analyses critical issues within each of four major converting industry sectors. Selling Prices versus Pre-Tax Profitability | In 2008, selling prices increased across all converting ...
- Cores | The Foundation of Winding
- (Web Lines)
- October 31, 2009, ... and “Cinching: Belt Tightening Gone Bad, Part 2”). However, some core compression isn't necessarily a bad thing. If the core doesn't give a little, core pressures will be many times the pressure elsewhere ...
- Static, Be Gone!
- (Static-Beat)
- October 31, 2009, ... resistivity, we need the roller charge to dissipate within one revolution. Taking the dissipation time to be 3τ so that 95% of the charge will have dissipated results in Equation 2. And solving for ...
- Sleeve Press Features Advanced Rotation
- (News Eclips)
- October 13, 2009, ... and manufactured from stable materials, reportedly have relatively thin walls, and have no fillers in the material. Sleeves are fitted with hardened bearers (left and right) that are screwed into position ...
- New Roles for Converters
- (Archive)
- September 30, 2009, ... thin, discreet shapes, such as the letters of the alphabet and bar codes, while coating typically applies a continuous layer. The coating process can apply a wide range of coating organic or inorganic ...
- WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT
- (New Products)
- September 30, 2009, ... the adhesive lamination process. The adhesive cures up to 5x times faster than normal, company says, resulting in improved productivity, quality determination within hours after lamination, and fewer interactions ...
- Rewind Equipment: Chic & Sleek
- (Winding Unwinding Rewinding)
- September 30, 2009, ... design is not so complicated,” explains Fredrik Larsson, production manager. “It's more simple and modern looking. In the US, wallpaper is a very classical product; they don't think of modern design. In ...
- WHAT'S NEW PRODUCTS: Carton & Bo
- (Carton Box Main)
- September 30, 2009, ... Colbert Packaging Corp., Chicago, IL, introduces SecureOTC, a patent-pending package that combines a blister card within an outer folding carton for an all-in-one packaging solution for tablets, capsules, ...
- Foil Capsules Launch Sales
- (New Products)
- August 31, 2009, ... anything but ordinary. “Actually, we are a lot like other converters in that we basically take materials, like polylaminates, heat-shrink PVC [polyvinyl chloride], and aluminum foil, and custom print ...
- Eco Fiction
- (Substrates)
- August 31, 2009, ... Part of the consumer's reasoning is that terms such as biodegradable and compostable have a technical ring to them. They think: “Those people must have met a scientific standard when they use these words.” ...
- WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT
- (New Products)
- August 31, 2009, ... www.freeproductinfo.net/pff Page 3 of 6 Print on Foil The 706 Hi-Print UV press with Inline Foiler Prindor automatically adjusts for substrates ranging from 0.04-mm thin paper to 1-mm cardboard. ...