Hole Punching

Narrow Web Press Manufacturer Mark Andy Takes Customer Support to

(News | New Products)

March 23, 2004, ... US-based manufacturer says, with this certification and its supplier entities Comco and UVTechnology, "[We] have taken support to a whole new level." Says Mark Andy, "Using ISO-Certified Processes and ...

Scitex Vision's CORjet at Drupa: Taking Inkjet to the Top of the Short-Run Corrugated and Rigid Display Market

(News | New Products)

March 09, 2004, ...  whole new mind-set is opening that allows us to capitalize on regional and retail account-specific promotional opportunities." The creation of value-added, digitally produced corrugated and board product ...

Competitive Investment Strategies for Packaging Converters

(News | New Products)

March 08, 2004, ... rapid profitability. George B. Cusdin, flexographic printing specialist, has worked in the flexographic printing industry for more than 30 years, serving the whole spectrum of flexo applications. ...

Discount Labels Gains Proofing-Process Efficiencies with Latran's Digital Halftone Technolog

(News | New Products)

February 29, 2004, ... Now a division of Mail-Well Inc., Discount Labels prints approximately 3,000 orders per day for close to 50,000 wholesale dealers. Most simple short-run labels leave Discount in 24 hours, while full-color ...

Discount Labels Gains Proofing-Process Efficiencies with Latran's Digital Halftone Technolog

(News | New Products)

February 29, 2004, ... Now a division of Mail-Well Inc., Discount Labels prints approximately 3,000 orders per day for close to 50,000 wholesale dealers. Most simple short-run labels leave Discount in 24 hours, while full-color ...

The Family Breadwinner

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2004, ... bread aisle, it opened a whole new market to metallization, thus bagging the Peter Rigney of the Year Award (named for PFFC's former publisher) from the Association of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters, and ...

Data Sharing Made Simple

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2004, ...  use the company ERP system as a customer management tool. This created loop holes in the sales cycle.” Solution-Driven Software Since 1998 Wisconsin Film & Bag has employed The Manufacturing Manage ...

Materials

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... 574/259-3787; 800/348-7191; decochem.com Super opaque white UV flexo inks, designated 7969, are said to be pinhole-free, have low viscosity, and adhere to many films. Solvent-resistant inks cure to 600 ...

Migration of Fluorescent Whitening Agents from Food Packaging Made from Recycled Paper

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, Application: A polyethylene coating can prevent migration of fluorescent whitening agents from food packaging made from recycled fibers. Email the author(s) at: bsithole@paprican.ca Effort to increase ...

Schober to Showcase In-Line and Off-Line Converting Systems at Drupa

(News | New Products)

February 23, 2004, Schober GmbH will exhibit at Drupa in hall 11, booth A44. (schober-gmbh.de). EBERDINGEN, GERMANY—Schober says at this year's Drupa it will be showing both in-line and off-line finishing technology for ...

Futec to Show Latest Advances in Automated Web Inspection at Drupa

(News | New Products)

February 22, 2004, ... from Futec inspection. The MaxEye detects spots, voids, wrinkles, pinholes, die lines, scratches, and a host of other optically detectable defects. Futec also says an agreement with Windmöller & ...

FDA Report Calls for the Adoption of RFID

(News | New Products)

February 19, 2004, ... "The report cites Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging 'of products by manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers appears to be the most promising approach to reliable product tracking and tracing,' ...

FDA Report Calls for the Adoption of RFID

(News | New Products)

February 19, 2004, ... "The report cites Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging 'of products by manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers appears to be the most promising approach to reliable product tracking and tracing,' ...

Technology: The Great Equalizer

(Magazine)

January 31, 2004, ... that while employment and shipments in their industry took a nosedive the last two years — paralleling the decline of US manufacturing as a whole — “the number of establishments manufacturing plastics ...

Coating and Laminating: At the Heart of the Packaging Industry

(Magazine)

January 31, 2004, ... the pressures being brought to bear on the packaging supply chain as a whole by the strong purchasing power of the major multinationals, who today are driving the market. He says, “The industry will emerge ...

RFID and Conductive Inks: What You Need to Know

(News | New Products)

January 14, 2004, ... has to deal with. A typical printing environment, with the right amount of commitment…its probably the least risk. We think its dead on into how they can enter this whole RFID race without spending a lot ...

Products and Materials

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... fan works with finned rotor to cool the brake, while open-designed guard allows heat to dissipate away from machine quickly. Cross-drilled holes in the rotor increase air flow, adding a critical element ...

Products

(Magazine)

November 29, 2003, ... Test-A-Pack, Orchard Park, NY; 716/662-0006 The 2800 Series Tester integrates mass flow, pressure decay, burst, creep, and creep-to-burst tests into a single system to detect channel or pinhole defects ...

The Power of Three

(Tapes)

November 29, 2003, ...  position as one of Western Canada's largest label converting operations. “I think the whole package we put together this year — with the Mark Andy LP3000 and the Creo and the DuPont systems — ha ...

AWA Reports on European Self-Adhesive Industrial Tape Market in 'Groundbreaking' New Stud

(Tapes)

November 13, 2003, ... promoting the interest of self-adhesive tapes. "It represents a valuable tool with which industry players can view their current business platform in the context of the market as a whole; assess trends; ...

Doctor Blade Systems: A Cure for What Ails Your Printing Process

(Magazine)

October 31, 2003, ... Allison. “Some use air bladders; others use engineered uniform pressure spring clamping with a simple means of opening and cleaning. Blade holder screws and the tapped holes they engage are an enormous ...

Labelexpo Europe 2003 Was 'Best-Attended Yet

(News | New Products)

October 01, 2003, ... two days we generated as many leads as we obtained at the whole show two years ago. Labelexpo Europe also proved that digital-color printing is no longer a niche technology, which allows us to focus more ...

Meeting the Need

(Materials)

September 30, 2003, ... in all heat sealable foil high-barrier laminations and to inhibit moisture ingress from pinholes or foil fractures often seen in the filling and final conversion process. Reportedly offers reduced packaging ...

Spotlight on the North American Market

(Disposables)

September 30, 2003, ...  In the North American release liner market as a whole, industry consolidation, acquisitions, and liquidations indicate that fewer coaters will account for a larger share of the release liner business ...

Products

(Magazine)

September 29, 2003, ... plasma treaters are said to offer uniform treatment; high-dyne, long-lasting treatment; no backside treatment in polymer film applications; and no pinholes when treating porous materials. Treating is available ...

100 Recycled Paperboard Makes 'Great' Stride

(Folding Cartons)

September 21, 2003, ... trends are due to the many excellent performance qualities of today's 100% recycled paperboard product as well as because of the fact that the industry as a whole has been more aggressive in marketing itself ...

BBA Group to Acquire Italian Nonwoven Manufacturer Tecnofibra Spa

(Disposables)

September 18, 2003, BBA Group plc recently announced an agreement under which it will acquire the privately owned Italian nonwoven manufacturer Tecnofibra Spa. According to BBA Group, it will buy Tecnofibra for Euro 31.8 ...

Products

(Magazine)

August 31, 2003, New from: Amacoil, Amplas, Appleton, Bosch Rexroth, Bunting, CMC Cevenini, Contech, ControlAir, Conversource, Convertech, Daetwyler, Davis-Standard, Dusenbery, Dynaspede, EDI, EGS, Enercon, Exair, Flexo ...

What Would PI Do?

(Corrugated)

August 31, 2003, ... “When someone asks, ‘What's your niche?,’ well, our niche is we, pretty much, can handle the whole deal,” explains Mazzocco. The “whole deal” includes short- and long-run corrugated packaging; one- to ...

A Letter from Frank Sablone

(Magazine)

August 27, 2003, ... upon in the coming years to the benefit of our members and the industry as a whole. There is no better example of this than our upcoming Technical Conference, which for the first time will be developed ...