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- 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 ...
- Experience Speaks: Cynthia White
- (Trends/Management)
- February 28, 2011, ... mistake you made and how did you fix it? In my old selling days, I sold material to a customer who went bankrupt. It was a huge hit to the company and was a naive mistake. I ended up selling the company ...
- 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%, ...
- Green Trends Prevail
- (Flexpack)
- February 28, 2011, ... or green packaging materials. New technologies are being developed for both paper and plastic cups. There are several directions leading to a sustainable disposable cup: making it biodegradable or compostable; ...
- Place Parts Precisely
- (Label/Tape)
- February 28, 2011, Mod-Tech converting system is custom-designed and engineered to meet specific application requirements, including medical, pharmaceutical, label, security, Mod-Tech converting system is custom-designed ...
- Hot Foil Unit Has Automatic Features
- (Print)
- February 28, 2011, ... reduce the time needed to prepare jobs and cut to a minimum wasted material at startup. Tension control system is integrated in the printing head, reportedly helping avoid foil wrinkles. Matik North ...
- Inks Earn Green Certification
- (Inks/Coatings/Primers)
- January 31, 2011, ... the EcoTech TC process color inks are rich in bio-based, renewable raw materials (above 61%) and low in VOCs (less than 3%). They conform to ISO 2846-1 standards and are suitable for GRACoL G7 certification. ...
- Static Beat: Charge Control Antistatic Layers
- (Static Elimination)
- January 31, 2011, ... products with good static performance to avoid sheet sticking, jams, and contamination issues. High levels of static can be the root cause of production downtime and material waste. Many product formulations ...
- Nonwoven Laminations: Absorb Profit
- (Controls)
- January 31, 2011, Tranquility adult disposable incontinence products are the flagship brand of Principle Business Enterprises, Dunbridge, OH. A roll of the nonwoven material Tranquility adult disposable incontinence products ...
- Show Preview - Forecast for Orlando: ICE
- (Trends/Management)
- January 31, 2011, ... machinery and services from all the key areas of flexible material converting, says show organizer Mack Brooks Exhibitions, Burlington MA. You can register online to order a three-day show pass for ...
- Web Cleaning: To Contact or Not?
- (Web Cleaning)
- January 31, 2011, ... in fields in which it is desirable to have as few objects as possible touching the material, e.g., pharmaceutical packaging and LCD and plasma screen industries, etc. During the past six months, there ...
- Core Savings
- (Winding Unwinding Rewinding)
- December 31, 2010, ... roll-fed processes start: the unwinding roll. Nonstop Roll Change Each time a roll-fed press or process press stops, it creates waste. Automatic splicing will eliminate material waste, but one factor ...
- Gallus ECS 340 Road Show Opens in Atlanta
- (Flexography)
- December 26, 2010, ... cut labor and material waste. In addition, the technical granite core, along with an integral water cooling system, is said to give the press a long service life and make it quieter and more stable than ...
- 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 ...
- Call for Entries for DuPont Packaging Innovation Awards
- (Print News)
- November 01, 2010, ... from around the world are encouraged to enter their new product packaging developments. There is no fee for entry and DuPont materials do not need to be in the packaging structure. In evaluating entries, ...
- 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 ...
- Process Troubleshooting
- (Coating/Laminating)
- October 31, 2010, ... tapped to identify where the weaknesses and strengths of the process are as applied to the product. For a new product on an existing line, the borders of the process and materials need to be the constraints ...