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- Golf Balls by the Dozen
- (News Eclips)
- June 23, 2009, ... construction to a one-piece design, allowing for cost reduction of up to 50% in the package and corrugated cases. The redesign permitted the elimination of multiple SKUs for warehousing, shipping and manufacturing, ...
- Web Exclusive: Flat Die Technologies Emerge as Keys to Innovation in Solar Electric Systems
- (Archive)
- May 13, 2009, ... the US government (http://pffc-online.com/news/paper_edi_awarded_us/index.html), for example, a process has been developed to produce lower-cost electrolyte and cathode films for batteries that power portable ...
- Plasma Power
- (Archive)
- April 30, 2009, ... lower breakdown voltage of process gases, gas corona treating systems can operate at an electrical voltage much less than 10 kV. While these systems provide an improvement over air corona, they fall ...
- Stop Tribocharging Your Products
- (Static Elimination)
- April 30, 2009, ... and the film is different from the rollers. With each roller contact, the film gains some charge, and the roller gains an equal amount of opposite charge. If the roller is conductive, its charge flows ...
- Web Exclusive: Matching Laser Cutters to Labels
- (Archive)
- April 01, 2009, ... a matter of the higher cost laser cutting machines being the best ones? A: Not really. Nearly four times as many label converters—but not all—will be well-served by lower cost systems if they have the ...
- FTA Environmental Excellence Awards Recognize Four Companies
- (News | New Products)
- March 29, 2009, ... recycled, than alternative packaging as they weigh less than half of the traditional multi-wall paper bags. SuperTubes have a lower carbon footprint than alternative packaging. AllpakTrojan of Renton, ...
- Achieving Bubble-Free Labels
- (News Eclips)
- March 03, 2009, ... blowers, and tillers. Thinner-gauge, flexible, white vinyl labels developed an unsightly appearance by bubbling. Even an alternative polycarbonate film didn’t yield an appealing appearance nor were they ...
- Prevent Vibrations Stripes on CI Flexo Presses
- (News Eclips)
- March 03, 2009, ... in the print and ink unit. CFRP is said to exhibit high strength and stiffness to permit extreme loads with very low deflection; low tendency to material fatigue and low specific weight. Available with ...
- Crowning Benefits
- (Web Handling: Main)
- February 28, 2009, ... more precisely at a grinding shop. Results from testing confirm the following items: The need for a crown (on uncrowned rolls); Crown accuracy (for crowned rolls); Roll alignment quality; Actual ...
- How To Find Green Projects
- (Process Management)
- January 31, 2009, ... on greenwashing, visit www.terrachoice.com. The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (SGP) allows consumer product companies to rely on a third party to ensure sustainable printing claims are monitored ...
- Green Is Global
- (Archive)
- January 31, 2009, ... for roll-fed lamination or conversion mean less roll changes, less downtime, less handling. The cost of logistics and transportation also can be lower if the weight of the packaged products to be ...
- Conserve Energy
- (Archive)
- January 31, 2009, ... electrical), calculates system efficiency losses for all components, and arrives at an energy balance. For the purposes of this article, we will compare component energy consumption using kilowatts (i.e., ...
- How To Become a Green Printer
- (Print)
- December 31, 2008, ... some carbon footprint calculators available online reveals huge variation (three times — low to high), so more practical approaches are required with accepted performance metrics, preferably those already ...
- Sustaining Technology Hunger
- (Editorial)
- October 31, 2008, ... industry. In truth, my ear is no lower to the ground than anyone else's, but I have asked how companies’ businesses are faring whenever possible. Managing editor Claudia Hine and I attended two separate, ...
- What's New Product
- (New Products)
- October 31, 2008, ... costs over conventional water-cooled UV systems. System also increases curing and production speeds. Quick-access design allows easy inspection and maintenance. Printing Research Inc. | 800-627-5537 | ...
- What's New Product
- (Magazine)
- September 30, 2008, ... reduce waste, and effectively run thinner gauge materials. Rolls not only support downgauging and thinner gauges while generating less waste but also allow an overall increase in line speeds, company reports. ...
- Boise Inc. Joins Chicago Climate Exchange
- (News | New Products)
- September 03, 2008, ... registry and trading system. As part of its membership in CCX, Boise Inc. has made a voluntarily but legally-binding commitment to achieve an absolute greenhouse gas emission reduction of 6% below its ...
- Lightfastness in Package Printing
- (Process Management)
- August 31, 2008, When you take into account the time and effort spent on supplying packaging with precise colors, it follows the expectation that these colors should stay the same during the product use cycle When you ...
- Reducing Greenhouse Gas Voluntarily
- (Green Converting)
- August 31, 2008, ... who beat the targets have surplus allowances to sell or bank, and those that have emissions above the targets must purchase CCX Carbon Financial Instrument contracts to achieve compliance. Third-party ...
- Earth-Friendly Print
- (Print)
- August 31, 2008, ... on current environmentally friendly inks and efforts to “go green.” Partly driven by marketplace demands, the PSG is focusing on natural and low-impact flexographic print ingredients and supplies to get ...