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COVER: Testing, Inspection & Quality Control

(Flexpack)

May 23, 2021, ... for years, mechanical coding has many disadvantages. Used in batch processes, hot stamping applies codes with a metal stamp held in a heated block. It is inflexible as the stamps are static and must ...

Michelman Hires Two New Associates to Better Serve its Printing & Packaging Business Segment

(News | New Products)

April 29, 2021, ... industry," said Rick Michelman, chief technology officer & EVP, Americas & printing & packaging, Michelman. Ms. Heather Ecke has joined Michelman as account manager for flexible packaging. Ecke brings ...

Roundtable Q&A: ROLL CLEANING & MAINTENANCE

(Web Handling)

February 28, 2021, ... by greatly reducing bacteria and residual proteins and therefore, vastly reducing the risk of theatre born infection.  All with the very same technological framework as we use in the print industry.   ...

Digital Print for Corrugated – The Future Condition of Things

(News | New Products)

November 05, 2020, ... the manufacturing principles have ostensibly remained the same for over 100 years. Steam, heat, pressure and waste are all enemies of digital, so I relate it to putting a Ferrari engine in a Model T Ford ...

AIMCAL Hall of Honor Inducts First Five Members

(News | New Products)

October 19, 2020, ... he researched vacuum processing and was part of a team researching heat mirror windows onto polymer, which won national and international BP Energy Conservation Awards in 1992. After university Bishop ...

Solenis to Expand Production for Next-Generation Color Developer for Thermal Paper

(News | New Products)

June 08, 2020, ... papers. They play a key role in developing the image on the paper when exposed to heat in the thermal printing process. Thermal paper is used in various applications, such as supermarket receipts and packaging ...

AIMCAL Announces Winners During Virtual Award Ceremony

(News | New Products)

April 16, 2020, ... and can apply two or more target materials. Benefits include a higher deposition rate, lower substrate heating, and reduced plasma arcing and resulting particle generation. Lower substrate heating is especially ...

Flexible Packaging, a Converting Dynamo

(Converting Perspectives)

December 01, 2019, ... and PS. Functionality for their end uses lends high value to flexible packages. Polyester offers strength, heat tolerance (often microwavable), clarity and more. The latest polyester developed by Filmquest ...

Westpak Chooses Comexi Laminator with Vetaphone Corona

(News | New Products)

September 29, 2019, ... offering cold seal, heat seal, ink, matt and gloss varnish, as well as all kinds of in register applications.  Its trolley design permits gravure, solvent-less, flexo, semi-flexo and enclosed doctor blade ...

Coating and Laminating Offer Related and Unique Benefits

(Coating/Laminating)

September 11, 2019, ... as “pinhole free.” And the converting process used must optimize results. Choices of barrier materials may also represent other needs such as ability to heat seal or assuring temperatures the final product ...

ICE USA – It’s All About Converting

(News | New Products)

March 06, 2019, ... AIMCAL’s full-day Fundamentals, the ICE Technical Conference and the Future of Converting Theater on the show floor, where experts will discuss the latest challenges facing the industry. Keynote sessions ...

Xeikon Café Europe 2019 Presents Academy Program

(News | New Products)

February 13, 2019, ... on digital heat transfer labels that stick Whether for promotional items or plastic containers, digital heat transfer decoration can open new business doors. This session details how to leverage digital ...

ICE USA – It’s All About Converting

(News | New Products)

February 12, 2019, ... function are available, including AIMCAL’s full-day Fundamentals, the ICE Technical Conference, and the Future of Converting Theater on the show floor, where experts will discuss the latest challenges ...

Registration Now Open for InPrint USA 2019

(News | New Products)

December 11, 2018, ... concurrently with the show in the InPrint Theater. With a range of education sessions, attendees will explore how to position their business for what’s next in industrial printing. In technical conferences, ...

Some Thoughts on the Pressure-Sensitive Industry

(Sticking With It)

November 25, 2018, ... of applications better than those alternatives. When you need excellent long-term aging, heat and solvent resistance, and balanced performance they offer a cost-effective solution. Suppliers continue ...

Show Preview | Labelexpo Americas 2018

(News | New Products)

September 02, 2018, ... will bring a number of its brands to the show including Webex and Menges Roller which will debut of a Low-Inertia Carbon Fiber Idler Roll, as well as Heat Transfer Rolls, Vacuum and Idler Rolls; Valley ...

Knowledge is Power: Tracking Machine Performance

(Bag Pouch)

August 29, 2018, ... a data collection system. Basic data collection systems do this by storing straightforward production data like running speed, shots, total shots, film consumption, repeat length, mark pitch, heater ...

Coating Matters | Advances in Slot Die Technology for Hot Melt Adhesives, Part 2

(Coating Matters)

May 07, 2018, ... appearance. Because heat causes the metal to move, die bending adjusters may be required to flatten out the front face of the slot die to match the flatness of the substrate or backing roll. As hot melt ...

Good-bye and Hello

(Yo's Yarns)

April 26, 2018, ... Packaging Digest. It was an ugly, snowy, messy, windy day as I attempted to cross the Michigan Ave. bridge when a taxi drove past and sprayed my one nice wheat-colored "dress coat" with dirty muck from ...

Coating Matters | Advances in Slot Die Technology for Hot Melt Adhesives, Part 1

(Coating/Laminating)

April 24, 2018, ... to set gaps and tolerances. So for an ambient temperature application a fixed design for the slot die bodies and utilizing a shim creates the best operating condition. What happens if you add heat to ...