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- Roll-Sleeve Film: Helping Shape Brand Identity
- (Label/Tape)
- May 10, 2011, ... film materials such as bi-axially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) shrink to 10%-20% maximum. This allows only limited conformability potential for label contouring. New label materials offer shrinkages greater ...
- FTA Gets Flexo Engines Started at Forum/Info*Flex
- (Flexography)
- May 03, 2011, ... before use. • Because the ink could be contaminated with dried bits, metal shavings, and other foreign materials, filtration is important. Clean it by using a mesh filter and a magnet to catch shavings. ...
- DuPont Packaging Graphics Increases Price, Adds Fuel Surcharge
- (Print News)
- April 26, 2011, ... increases in raw material and energy costs that have occurred in the last 12 months. DuPont Packaging Graphics claims it is the world’s leading supplier of flexographic printing systems in digital and ...
- Mutoh America Inc. Launches Recycling Program
- (Inks/Coatings/Primers)
- April 12, 2011, ... cartridge. The bigger bag size is said easier to recycle and produces less waste. Mutoh recently announced its new MP Ink, which is composed of 60% bio-based materials and contains no hazardous air pollutants ...
- AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition
- (Metallizing)
- March 31, 2011, ... Coated, Laminated, or Metallized Product category. Developed in conjunction with Detection Systems, Bayswater, Australia, the patent-pending material resembles a honeycomb that divides the metallized area ...
- AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition
- (Coating/Laminating)
- March 17, 2011, ... impactful three dimensionality. Continue to Page 2 Sustainability Awards The Sustainability Awards honor equipment, materials, or processes that reduce environmental impact, minimize energy usage ...
- INX Intl. Ink Co. Announces Price Increase
- (Inks/Coatings/Primers)
- March 15, 2011, INX Intl. Ink Co. has announced a price increase effective April 1, 2011. Company officials cite the unprecedented upward price pressure on raw materials SCHAUMBURG, Schaumburg, IL | INX Intl. Ink Co. ...
- Die-Cutter Saves Time
- (Carton Box)
- February 28, 2011, ... print, die-cutting, breakout, delivery, and waste chopping. Products can be nested together up to five across for maximum use of raw material. Edale | +44 01489 569230 | www.edale.com What' ...
- Flexible Packaging: Eco Innovation
- (Flexpack)
- February 28, 2011, ... USA, Jackson, MO, receives two gold awards for the Fresh Step Cat Litter packaging. Using its FlexZiBox solution to replace polypropylene pails enables Clorox to cut packaging materials by nearly 80%, ...
- Seafood Sealed
- (News | New Products)
- February 14, 2011, ... envelope. Available in two material combinations, metal-coated paper and thermo paper, bags also can be produced with a window and can be printed on both sides with up to six colors. Visit www.alpem.fr. ...
- Green Converting: Recycled Roll Coverings
- (Web Handling)
- November 30, 2010, ... two years of laboratory testing, a new sustainable roll covering has been developed. Some of the used material that is taken off when rollers are recovered can be recycled by this new process. What ...
- Looking South
- (Label/Tape)
- October 31, 2010, ... of continuous pressure and change. Pressure has come in various forms: lower market growth rates, raw material price inflation, and waste creation and management issues. As a result, there has been considerable ...
- Food Safety Summit Addresses Packaging, Process & Food Safety
- (Trends/Management News)
- October 18, 2010, ... them find solutions to critical challenges.” The experts on hand will make formal presentations on leading food safety issues, including foreign material detection, sanitation, traceability, hygiene, ...
- Barrier Films: SiOx Barrier Benefits
- (Coatings)
- September 30, 2010, ... mechanical impact, gas, and moisture to aromas. The food product itself also may influence its direct environment when it is spicy or contains essential oils or aggressive ingredients. Packaging materials ...
- Plastics Recycling: Reclaim & Reuse
- (Coating/Laminating)
- August 31, 2010, ... the company's “Grey is the New Green” bag, with a minimum of 30% recycled material, is an industry standard of success, and the bag itself is an emblem of environmental responsibility that can be carried ...
- Two 'Green' Companies Honore
- (Green Converting)
- August 31, 2010, ... greenhouse gases, product and environmentally preferable materials, and management practices. TLMI president Frank Sablone explains, “The central objective in developing the L.I.F.E. initiative was ...
- Motion Control: Drives
- (Controls)
- August 23, 2010, ... The substrate’s physical parameters, especially the desire to reduce material thickness, represented particular challenges to the DTS team. DTS utilized its “QC Mod Cut Series” modular web transport ...
- Static Beat: How To Take a Static Survey
- (Static Elimination)
- July 31, 2010, ... Let's focus on how to do a Static Survey. The survey for a simple rewind process is shown in Figure 1, in which the material flow through the operation has been divided into three groups: Incoming Materials, ...
- Edale reports success at IPEX 2010
- (Digital)
- June 28, 2010, ... datasheets and other marketing material. Visitors interested in Digital Printing were directed to Edale’s partners, Agfa Graphics, who were demonstrating the :Dotrix Modular System in Hall 11. The :Dotrix ...
- Flexpack: DuPont Honors Innovation
- (Flexpack)
- May 31, 2010, ... is said to be the industry’s longest-running, independently judged global awards program honoring packaging materials, technology, and service innovations. “This year we focused the DuPont Awards program ...