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COF Testing: Why Does it Matter?

Published: August 01, 2008, By By David Argent Contributing Editor
Coefficient of friction (COF) is a property critical to the optimum processing and handling of packaging from filling operations through to the consumer.

Assuring Quality Worldwide

Published: August 01, 2008
Nordenia Intl., a producer of films for flexible packaging applications, has installed AVT's PrintVision/Argus process control and quality assurance system at facilities in Germany, Poland, and Spain

August 2008 PFFC News Clips

Published: August 01, 2008
Stork Prints, Boxmeer, Netherlands, agrees to supply Omet, Lecco, Italy, with dedicated RSI (Rotary Screen Integration) modules for the Varyflex 520-

CMM Announces Virtual Trade Show

Published: August 01, 2008
TULSA, OK CMM is launching CMM Live!, an online virtual trade show designed to provide converting professionals with an interactive online experience.

Opening New Facility

Published: August 01, 2008
LA PALMA, CA Pamarco Global Graphics recently held an open house at its new La Palma plant, welcoming a crowd of customers, local dignitaries, suppliers,

TAPPI Offers Info on the Bay

Published: August 01, 2008
NORCROSS, GA The beautiful Chesapeake Bay is the setting for the 2008 TAPPI PLACE Conference, scheduled for September 14-18 at the Renaissance Portsmouth

Coating Gets Kosher Okay

Published: August 01, 2008
CINCINNATI, OH Michelman reports its Plate Kote paper plate coatings have all been kosher-certified by the Orthodox Union. The coatings also meet FDA

August What's New Products

Published: August 01, 2008
Mid-Gloss Strengthened Raflacoat Plus is upgraded version of company's mid-gloss paper. Machine-coated 80-g stock is said to be stronger and more rigid,

PFFC August 2008 People News

Published: August 01, 2008
Toray Plastics (America), North Kingstown, RI, appoints Richard Schloesser president and chief operating officer. At Contract Converting, Greenville,

Plastic Bag Recycling Efforts Lauded

Published: August 01, 2008
NEW YORK, NY The Progressive Bag Affiliates of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) is applauding the efforts of Penn Jersey Paper Co. and Poly-Pak Industries,

Roll Out the Red Carpet

Published: August 01, 2008, By By Claudia Hine, Managing Editor
If you plan to attend Labelexpo Americas 2008, you'll witness a first for the event, which is being held September 9-11 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center

Industry Giant Passes Away

Published: August 01, 2008
BRYAN, OH Howard B. Vreeland Sr., the owner and chairman emeritus of the board of directors for Anderson-Vreeland Co., died Friday, June 13. He was 87.

Best of Both Worlds

Published: August 01, 2008, By By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
With the price tag on a standard digital press approaching $750,000 without a finishing unit, many converters consider it an investment they simply can't afford to make

Packaging Buzz at Drupa Was Large - Very Large

Published: August 01, 2008, By By Jörg Dähnhardt, Heidelberg USA
Packaging was certainly a hot topic at Drupa this year, with new technologies on display for all areas. Perhaps the most buzz came from the largest machines

Green Gravure

Published: August 01, 2008, By By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
At a time when many flexographic printers and converters are focused on “growing green,” one New York-based converter of flexible packaging and labels is going one better: by going green — and gravure

Bagmaking Guiding: Air Solution

Published: August 01, 2008, By Edited by Claudia Hine, Managing Editor
Productivity runs at a fast pace at privately owned Duro Bag Mfg. Co

August 2008 PFFC What's New Products: Part two

Published: August 01, 2008
Process Tags, Tickets With RFID The STP (Smart Tag and Ticket Processor) incorporates company's 2nd-generation RFID technology with the ability to read

Experience Speaks: Chaim Gofen

Published: August 01, 2008
Q&A with President of CLP Industries Ltd.

August 2008 PFFC Narrow Web & Label Reporter

Published: August 01, 2008
The NorthEast Label Mfrs. Assn. (NELMA) has made a $10,000 donation to the Dept. of Industry and Technology of Millersville Univ., allowing the school to purchase a Mark Andy 10-in., four-color 2200 model press and launch a hands-on flexo curriculum

August 2008 PFFC First Glance

Published: August 01, 2008
Breakdown Breakthrough A new biobag for Jordans Organic Cereals, converted by Alcan Packaging, Dublin, Ireland, wins a DuPont Award for Packaging Innovation.

Custom Core Shafts Do the Job

Published: August 01, 2008

NEW BERLIN, WI Premier Paper Converting Machinery, a company making machines that produce fiber and corrugated partitions, now offers a custom machine

Dirge for a Plastic Bag?

Published: August 01, 2008, By Yolanda Simonsis Associate Publisher/Editor
While the dirge-like proliferating news on the subject of plastic bags isn't exactly a hymn or tune, certainly the negativity surrounding the topic is tending to sound slowly and very solemnly like grief and lamentation for the bag's future

Winding: What We Know & What We Don't Know

Published: August 01, 2008, By By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor
Winding is an amazingly complex process. Our understanding of winding can be broken into three areas: the winding process, winder design, and wound roll

Looking Back on Drupa

Published: August 01, 2008
DSSELDORF, GERMANY The giant Drupa fair is over, and the reviews are in, not only for the show but for the industry as well. Albrecht Bolza-Schnemann,

Coater Joins Tech Center

Published: August 01, 2008
GERMANTOWN, WISCONSIN Faustel announces the addition of a pilot scale model of its Vari-Coat Gravure pressurized gravure coating system to its Process

August 2008 PFFC What's New Products: Part three

Published: August 01, 2008
Mounting Materials Eliminate Press Bounce Designed to handle easily, E/bak Cushions allow for printing on rough surfaces while eliminating gear banding

Web Exclusive: Are Sleeves Ready for Narrow Web?

Published: August 01, 2008
While the number of machines with sleeve technology is growing in label printing, many users still are hesitant about using them.

Start with Security

Published: July 01, 2008, By By Mike Fairley
Counterfeiting of packaging and labels has become far easier to perpetuate in recent years. Originally a problem related to items such as currency, passports,

Printing Partnerships

Published: July 01, 2008, By By Corey M. Reardon, AWA Alexander Watson Assoc.
Product manufacturers today are facing a real battle to ensure that what they deliver to the consumer via the retailer is their genuine branded product

Fifty Years of Data

Published: July 01, 2008
RESTON, VA The Market Data Program of NPES, The Assn. for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies, celebrated 50 years of data gathering

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