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Leo Luxe Enhances Portfolio with Color-Logic Certification

(News | New Products)

January 30, 2013, Now offering luxury packaging clients an extended range of metallic effects. ANTWERP, BELGIUM | Leo Luxe, a division of Leo Paper Group, has enhanced its comprehensive production capabilities and is ...

Dr. Taylor to Speak at AWA Event

(Label/Tape News)

January 25, 2013, Developments in digital printing for labels and packaging are on the agenda   AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS | Among the speakers at the AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. (AWA) Ink Jet and Digital Label/Packaging ...

Henkel Laminating Adhesives Help Package Resist Acid

(Adhesives)

January 15, 2013, ...  Company explains that spicy sauces and foods that contain vinegar or other acids can attack flexible packages, including the adhesives with which the packaging films and foils have been laminated. This ...

ExxonMobil Chemical Introduces Sustainable Stretch Hood Film

(Film)

January 10, 2013, ... solution to its packaging operations. The new stretch hood solution with Vistamaxx propylene-based elastomer (PBE) keeps not only 25kg sacks of polymer pellets secure and stable on the pallet, but also ...

Coating Matters | It’s a Turbulent World

(Coating/Laminating)

January 10, 2013, ... the same cavity and maintain a distinct layer. The advantages of this phenomenon can be seen in multilayer packaging films that have a printable polymer on one side and an oxygen barrier that can contact ...

Multi-Plastics Introduces EZTear Pouch

(Bag Pouch News)

January 07, 2013, ... packaging applications. This laminated structure addresses the mechanical aspects regarding tear initiation and control of tear across the pouch in a more economical option compared to currently used products. ...

P-S Tapes | A Converter’s Guide

(Label/Tape)

January 07, 2013, ... also encompasses packaging, masking, and consumer tapes. Specialty tapes represent only 14% of total tape demand. They are, however, at the heart of a growing and profitable converting industry with ...

Bischof + Klein Executing Full HD Flexo with Esko

(News | New Products)

January 03, 2013, Flexible packaging converter installs Esko's CDI with Inline UV2 GENT, BELGIUM | Bischof + Klein, based in Lengerich, Germany, is one of Europe's leading full service suppliers of flexible plastic and ...

CTP Flexibles Adds 3 Titan Slitter/Rewinders

(News | New Products)

January 02, 2013, Brings total number of Titan ER610 slitter/rewinders at CTP to five machines In recent years, CTP flexibles, the Cape Town, South Africa-based converter of flexible packaging materials, has achieved ...

Readers Choice: Top 11 New Products of 2012

(Coatings)

January 01, 2013, ... a wide spectrum of materials and equipment necessary to produce its primary products—flexible packaging; tapes, labels, and tags; cartons and boxes; and unprinted rolls and sheets. So it came as no surprise, ...

AWA Inkjet Conference Is Coming

(News | New Products)

December 26, 2012, ... Label/Packaging Print Seminar 2013 will be the benefits and challenges found in the growing applications for digital print in the label and packaging arena. Scheduled for January 29–30, in Scottsdale, ...

On Print | Add Extended Gamut Printing to Your Lean List

(On Print)

December 17, 2012, ... six- or seven-station printer or press, i.e., most packaging and labeling lines, and all inkjet printers with light color capability. Furthermore, the Sonoco Inst. of Packaging Design and Graphics at ...

ExxonMobil to Exhibit at Arabplast

(Flexpack)

December 11, 2012, Polyethylene and specialty elastomers resins will be on display in Dubai in January   IRVING, TX | ExxonMobil Chemical will showcase its polyethylene and specialty elastomers at Arabplast 2013, the ...

Roll Handling | Recycled Fiber Cradles Stand Up to Rigors of International Shipping

(Web Handling)

December 10, 2012, ... Specialty Group, provided the solution. “First, we went from pyramid packaging to what we call block packaging, because then the load is stackable,” said Danny Timmermans, purchasing and logistics packaging ...

PCI Says Polyester Prices in US Back to Normal

(Flexpack News)

December 09, 2012, ... and with US demand for flexible packaging only now returning to historic levels, it is the increasing volume of commodity BOPET film that is being made available that is driving current prices. New thin ...

McCullagh Coffee Launches Compostable Packs Using Natureflex Film

(Flexpack)

November 28, 2012, Innovia Films’ compostable packaging supports company’s sustainability initiatives ATLANTA, GA | McCullagh Coffee has introduced a compostable pack for its Rainforest Alliance Certified Ecoverde Coffee ...

GOEBEL Supplies 11-m-wide Slitter/Rewinder to China

(News | New Products)

November 27, 2012, The widest slitter/rewinder in the world will be shipped to China Soft Packaging Group, which ordered three monoslit giant models. China Soft Packaging Group, which produces 350,000 tons of plastic ...

Jindal Buys ExxonMobil’s BOPP Business

(Flexpack)

October 29, 2012, ... flexible packaging films producer, has entered into an agreement with ExxonMobil Chemical, Houston, TX, to purchase ExxonMobil’s Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) Global Films business. The agreement ...

On Print | Digital Print at Labelexpo

(Label/Tape)

October 24, 2012, The halls were alive with a flush of color, says columnist Dene Taylor, who adds that digital printing for packaging is getting more and more interesting and, indeed, is actually becoming entertaining. ...

Appleton Facestock Suited for Weigh-Scale Labels

(Label/Tape)

October 16, 2012, ... helps labels remain legible and scannable when in contact with PVC wrap, packaging films, and bags containing plasticizers or where labeled items are stacked in cold cabinets or store shelves. Like company’s ...