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A Letter from Frank Sablone

(Magazine)

August 27, 2003, Since it was established by just a handful of tag converters in 1933, TLMI has grown to represent more than 300 of North America's leading tag and label converters and suppliers. But its growth can be measure ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, Labelexpo Europe 2003 news, and MACtac supplies p-s materials for USPS's American filmmaking stamps. Narrow Web Converting Industry News Expanding European Community a Highlight At Labelexpo Europe '0 ...

Materials

(Materials)

July 31, 2003, ...  provide excellent resistance to heat, humidity, and chemicals and to be suited for a wide range of flexible packaging applications, including bottle labeling, snack food packaging, produce, aqueous packaging ...

Active Packaging Product Update

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... on flexo presses, coating is called well suited for pharmaceutical labels and check printing. Proprietary manufacturing process allows full potential of fluorescent whitening agent to be realized, creat ...

Active Packaging

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2003, ... s — available to end-users and their converters in packaging and labeling. The world of packaging has never been so “active.” Today's packaging buyers have an ever-increasing array of choices. Glass bottl ...

What's Ahead for Industrial Ink Jet?

(Office Products)

July 31, 2003, ... es that will allow DOD to be used for packaging applications as well, such as blister packaging for pharmaceuticals, private label for high-end packaging, and peel lids for special product promotions. Howev ...

Testing Equipment: Does Your Lab Measure Up?

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... s involved in a single label product — facestock with top coat or overlaminate, adhesive, release coating, and liner — testing can be a difficult task, says Gary Avalon, group marketing director at Chemsultan ...

A Snapshot of Today's European Converting Industry

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... chain, the self-adhesive label converters also took the optimistic pre-9/11, pre-Iraq, pre-SARS economic climate as a good omen for investment in new capacity. Europe today is home to a large installed ...

Size Doesn't Always Matter

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, ... nsible films, film laminates, p-s label stock, and paper. Co. says time- and effort-saving features include pneumatic knives, a rewind roll pusher, a rewind unloading system, and unwind roll lifts. Step-in p ...

FTA Raises the Bar

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, ... of Shows Narrow-web Best of Show designation went to Spectrum Label for Innovation Beverage—Green Tea Honeydew. Praise from judges on this entry spoke to degree of difficulty. "The job displayed incr ...

Avery Dennison Adds SynCarta BOPP to Fasson Rapid-Roll Line

(News | New Products)

June 04, 2003, ...  label materials and consumer products, these BOPP films are highly engineered synthetic media available in C1S matte and ultra-high-gloss finishes. PAINESVILLE, OH, USA—Avery Dennison Corp. reports it ...

Converting Activity Strong in Middle East and Turkey

(Magazine)

May 31, 2003, ... large-scale producer of decorated labels with a branch in Istanbul and a wide range of multi-national customers. Korozo Packaging (Istanbul) manufactures both rotogravure and flexo-printed laminates. It ...

What's New in Narrow Web

(Magazine)

May 31, 2003, ... upon request, provide a luminescence effect when stimulated. Digital Label Stock Designed for Indigo Presses Raflatac Inc., Fletcher, OH; 828/684-3931; 800/992-3882; raflatac.com A range of roll-to-roll ...

Brady Corp. Buys German Barcode Manufacturer

(News | New Products)

May 06, 2003, Brady Corp. reports it has acquired Etimark GmbH, a provider of bar code solutions, including labels, printers, applicators, and software for the German market. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ...

FTA Awards Exemplify High-End Flexo

(News | New Products)

May 04, 2003, ... le in graphics houses and art reproduction houses. We're pushing our presses, we're pushing our men." Best of Shows Narrow-web Best of Show designation went to Spectrum Label for Innovation Beverage—Gr ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

April 30, 2003, ... ty documents, labels, cards, packaging, materials, and technology operate under an agreed-upon set of operational standards and security protocols. The new consensus standards committee will develo ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

April 30, 2003, With Camelback Mountain decorating the background and a bright blue sky overhead, converter members of the Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) gathered at the Camelback Inn Resort in Scottsdale, ...

Complete Solutions

(Magazine)

April 30, 2003, DI-NA-CAL adds capacity for its heat-transfer label production with a new Rotomec gravure press. DI-NA-CAL adds capacity for its heat-transfer label production with a new Rotomec gravure press. From ...

Measure Pressure with Thin Film

(Magazine)

April 30, 2003, ... film would be the only step necessary to return the operation to normal tolerances. Another common application might involve the bonding of heat seal adhesive paper labels to a bottle. Heat seal adhesives ...

Gravure Rolls Up Its Sleeves to Do Battle with Flexo

(Magazine)

April 30, 2003, ... nd setup technology, says Dick Chesnut, president of Chesnut Engineering (chesnuteng.com). “Of recent interest, particularly in narrow web, is adding gravure stations to existing flexo label presses, giv ...