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- Coating on Trial
- (News | New Products)
- May 05, 2020, ... resolved or controlled through experience some, such as airborne contamination or particulate contamination on the base film can be a major source of product waste, machine downtime and a finished product ...
- The Back Page: Taking it back 54 years
- (News | New Products)
- April 23, 2020, ... assure better roll formation, larger rolls and lower waste. In the converting plant, large cores at the rewind end of presses, laminators and coaters make good sense. Laminated structures, some of which ...
- Plastics, Packaging and the Environment
- (Flexography)
- April 22, 2020, ... society. It protects and keeps food safe throughout every stage of the distribution line and extends the shelf life of food products, which leads to less food waste and lower food cost. Flexible packaging ...
- How Flexo Printers Can Help Brands With Green Initiatives
- (Flexography)
- April 22, 2020, ... Some presses can even save 50-75% of waste throughout the printing process, reducing heat and air and ink loss. By utilizing technologies like these, printers offer brands a way to decrease the overall ...
- AIMCAL Announces Winners During Virtual Award Ceremony
- (News | New Products)
- April 16, 2020, ... easy access and reclosability to minimize food waste. High opacity white inks and surface matte coating and lamination processes work together to mask the haziness and inconsistencies inherent with PCR ...
- Three Ink Market Trends Helping to Achieve Sustainability Goals
- (Inks/Coatings/Primers)
- April 16, 2020, ... ink migration, glass can also play a key role in extending shelf life and reducing food waste. Other brand owners turn to converters for flexible packaging to optimize shelf life. Oxygen barrier coatings, ...
- PFFC’s Companies to Watch
- (Flexpack)
- April 09, 2020, ... national scale and works with the communities in which it resides to reduce waste. Given the company’s growth in just four years, the ePac is proving to be rapidly evolving. Biofilms and Recycling: ...
- BOBST Joins CEFLEX
- (News | New Products)
- March 25, 2020, ... better system solutions identified through the collaboration of companies representing the entire value chain. A circular economy is based on the principles of designing out waste and pollution from ...
- European Recycling Markets Reel From Coronavirus
- (News | New Products)
- March 22, 2020, ... will have less material getting in to our plants in the next weeks,” a major French waste collector and reprocessor said. Reduced collection rates typically take several weeks to be felt in the market ...
- A New Generation of Hybrid Drive Technology
- (Digital)
- March 05, 2020, ... time, minimum waste & cost-effective cutting technology with maximum lifetime – due to a micrometric die wear compensation adjustment – are additional significant benefits of this converting technology. ...
- The FPA Launches New Website
- (News | New Products)
- February 24, 2020, ... packaging industry and advocacy priorities include ensuring that the flexible packaging industry is represented in legislative and NGO discussions on solid waste management, material composition transparency, ...
- Pregis Joins CEFLEX to Further European Flexible Packaging Sustainability Efforts
- (News | New Products)
- February 24, 2020, ... Pregis also recently announced that it had joined the Alliance to End Plastic Waste which has a $1.5 billion investment goal over the next five years to help end plastic waste in the environment. Pregis ...
- Multi-Solution Approach Key to Achieving Sustainability Goals
- (Extrusion Coating)
- February 24, 2020, ... step towards a more sustainable bio-based plastics is already a reality. Dow has worked in partnership with UPM to turn a waste residue from paper production into bio-naphtha, creating an alternative and ...
- Roundtable Q&A: Slitting, Winding & Unwinding
- (Slit)
- February 16, 2020, ... more consistently. Are improved control systems helping with waste reduction? Please explain. Pappas: Control systems have improved waste reduction in two ways. First, when you drive an unwind ...
- NOW Plastics Packaging Solutions Put Environmental Protection First
- (Flexpack)
- February 04, 2020, ... the packaging value chain. NOW Plastics’ has adopted a strategic focus on eco-friendly and sustainable packaging solutions that do not compromise the shelf life of packaged food, since food waste is also ...
- SÜDPACK Announces its Multi SV Skin is Cyclos-Certified
- (News | New Products)
- February 02, 2020, ... food waste: in comparison to MAP-based packaging solutions, Multi SV Skin offers longer product shelf life and an attendant, substantial reduction in food waste throughout the supply chain. During the ...
- Narrow Web Twists and Turns
- (Web Handling)
- January 29, 2020, ... built more or less for a set purpose and are restrictive with regard to allowing the operative to experiment. On product trials high levels of waste, downtime, make ready and adjustments in general simply ...
- AMI’S Multilayer Flexible Packaging 2020 Conference
- (Upcoming Conference News)
- January 22, 2020, ... energy. Media focus on “single use plastics” includes flexible packaging, despite its valuable contribution to food waste prevention. Governments are responding with accelerated regulations. Companies ...
- Zolemba Improves Production Efficiency
- (News | New Products)
- January 08, 2020, ... different sizes that can now be utilised, and the low residual waste on each that can be achieved with automatic splicing. Capable of handling rolls up to 1016 mm (40“), the MBS also offers the opportunity ...
- Digital Printing Driving Innovation in Textile Printing
- (Digital)
- December 05, 2019, ... textile manufacturers have been considered a large polluter, with 20% of waste water produced by textile mills globally. Optimizing the supply chain Now that we have broadly outlined the textile transformation ...