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Slitter/Rewinder Cuts Production Time

Published: December 14, 2006, By Edited by Claudia Hine, Managing Editor

To streamline production, J.R. Labels recently took delivery of an Omega SR 410 slitter/rewinder with rotary die-cutting supplied by A B Graphic Intl. Ltd.

Global Wine & Wine Label Market & Technology Review

Published: December 11, 2006, By pffc-online.com
AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. has published the AWAreness report "Global Wine & Wine Label Market & Technology Review 2006," which provides an understanding of the wine label market.

Global Glue Applied Label Market & Technlogy Review

Published: December 07, 2006, By pffc-online.com
AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. has published the AWArness Report "Global Glue-Applied Lable Market & Technology Review."

P-S Label Report

Published: November 16, 2006, By pffc-online.com
AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. has published a new edition of its market report on the North American pressure-sensitive graphic arts market.

Challengers Press On

Published: November 01, 2006, By Yolanda Simonsis, Associate Publisher/Editor
The annual label competition hosted by the Tag & Label Mfrs. Institute proves there’s more than one way to produce a winning label.

Medical Adhesive Tape for Direct Skin Applications

Published: August 08, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Scapa Medical has introduced Bioflex Rx1207P, a tan polyester tricot fabric, single coated with a medical grade acrylic adhesive, ideal for roll form bandages, specialized medical components, and other medical skin applications.

Temperature-Monitoring Label

Published: August 03, 2006, By pffc-online.com
KSW Mictrotec has released KSW-VarioSens Basic, a semi-active RFID label with temperature-monitoring functionality.

Stora Enso Joins Parelec's Certified Partner Program

Published: July 31, 2006, By pffc-online.com
The Global Speciality Papers Business Area of Stora Enso has signed an exclusive agreement with Parelec to join Parelec’s Certified RFID Partner Program as a strategic partner for RFID antennae paper substrates.

DataLase Launches Print-and-Apply Labels

Published: July 19, 2006, By pffc-online.com
DataLase has launched a cost-effective label replacement solution for outer case secondary packaging.

Better Labels Through Chemistry

Published: July 10, 2006, By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
A few years ago, Inprint (now CCL Label) and DataLase worked together to solve a problem that long has plagued its pharmaceutical and agro-chemical customers, another others: economically and efficiently printing additional variable text, such as lot numbers and expiration, directly on the base polypropylene-laminated label.

Brand Security & Product Authentication Special Report, Part 1

Published: June 30, 2006, By Corey Reardon, AWA Alexander Watson Assoc.
Pressure-sensitive labels offer a growing platform of opportunities to foil pirates of the Caribbean—and everywhere else.

Brand Security & Product Authentication Special Report, Part 2

Published: June 30, 2006, By Dave Wicker, Document Security Systems
At a time when sophisticated digital scanning and photography allow for exact replication of any printed label, package, or document, the need for protection from counterfeiters is greater than ever.

Brand Security & Product Authentication Special Report, Part 3

Published: June 30, 2006, By Ann Hirst-Smith, AWA Alexander Watson Assoc.
A specialty imaging process enables narrow web flexographic converters to offer customers a cost-effective, overt security solution.

Brand Security & Product Authentication Special Report, Part 4

Published: June 30, 2006, By Lynn G. Crutchfield, The Brand Protection Alliance
Help protect your customer's brand integrity with this targeted approach to product security.

AWA Publishes Glue Report

Published: June 26, 2006, By pffc-online.com
AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. will publish a new report on the global glue applied label market.

Product Authentication and Brand Security Conference

Published: June 14, 2006, By pffc-online.com
PABS 06 North America, the Product Authentication & Brand Security Conference & RFID Forum, will take place September 14-15 in Chicago and is jointly organized by AWA Conferences & Events and the Brand Protection Alliance.

AWA Publishes Global Beer Label Markets Study

Published: June 06, 2006, By pffc-online.com
AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. has published the first of its kind Global Beer Label Markets: Product Decoration Market & Technology Study 2005. This report presents a market overview and opportunities for product decoration technologies in the global beer sector.

Eastman Offers Solution for Isoprene Shortage

Published: May 21, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Eastman Chemical Co. offers a new formulation strategy that can reduce the use of isoprene by more than 50% in hot-melt pressure-sensitive adhesive formulations.

Study Focuses on European Specialty Tape Market

Published: April 30, 2006, By pffc-online.com
AWA Alexander Watson Associates has published a new study, title "European Specialty Tape Market: Supply Side Analysis and Demand Side Assessment."

Narrow Web Reporter Clips and New Products

Published: April 30, 2006, By Edited by Deborah Donberg, Associate Managing Editor
Narrow web news and new products from: FLEXcon, RFID World, AirTrim, and Nilpeter USA.

RFID Pioneers

Published: April 27, 2006, By Nsenga Byrd Thompson, Associate Editor
Three converters candidly discuss the challenges—and rewards—of early RFID adoption.

Speakers Announced for TAPPI RFID Symposium

Published: April 19, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Joseph V. LeBlanc, VP of research and development for Smurfit-Stone Container Enterprises, will deliver the keynote address at the 2006 TAPPI Boot Camp and RFID Symposium on June 7, 2006.

Time-Temp Indicator Monitors Package Freshness

Published: March 02, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Ciba Specialty Chemicals and FreshPoint present a new time-temperature indicator system that will show accumulated chill-chain history of perishables. The indicators are available as labels or as inks for printing on packaging.

Blue-Chip Printing

Published: February 28, 2006, By Edited by Claudia Hine, Managing Editor

Rapid growth for Aztec Labels has prompted the company to install a second Nilpeter FB-3300 narrow web press to increase capacity.

Lutter to Address FDA's Efforts to Accelerate RFID Adoption

Published: February 23, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Randall Lutter will be the featured keynote speaker during day two of the 4th Annual RFID World.

Reporter Clips

Published: January 31, 2006, By Edited by Deborah Donberg, Associate Managing Editor
Narrow web industry news from: Lightning Labels, Raflatac, and IDTechEx.

A Perfect Match

Published: November 30, 2005, By Nsenga Byrd Thompson, Associate Editor
Macaran proofs color labels directly on flexo substrates with Latran's Prediction.

Spellbound

Published: October 31, 2005, By Nsenga Byrd Thompson, Associate Editor
TLMI honors spellbinding labels that captivate consumers.

Linerless: The Compromise for VDP Labels?

Published: October 31, 2005, By Elizabeth Park, AWA Alexander Watson Assoc.
The difficult-to-match esthetics of self-adhesive labels, coupled with their clean and accurate application characteristics, nevertheless are balanced by slower application speeds, the high cost of the laminate, and finally, by the apparent process/packaging waste—the used release liner. Take away the release liner, it is argued, and you can get up to 50% more labels on each roll, which not only saves money but saves downtime for roll changes on the packaging line.

Avery Dennison Acquires Impressions

Published: October 09, 2005, By pffc-online.com
Avery Dennison Retail Information Services has acquired Impressions (Pte) Ltd., the Sri Lanka-based producer of of apparel tags and labels.

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