Foil

Globe Trekking Adventures in Web Handling, Winding & Slitting

(Web Handling)

June 02, 2014, ... for transporting and winding films, foils, papers, nonwovens, textiles, or any thin, continuous material. Thin polymer films used in flexible electronics and packaging prove especially challenging for ...

FSEA Hands Out Gold Leaf Awards

(News | New Products)

May 27, 2014, Entries from around the world are honored for design, execution, and level of difficulty by the Foil & Specialty Effects Association   TOPEKA, KS | The Foil & Specialty Effects Assn. (FSEA) announces ...

AmeriLam Supply Group Material Feels Like Leather

(Materials)

May 25, 2014, ... excellent protection and additional strength in every application, company reports. The surface also has a matte look and can be foil-stamped, varnished, spot-UV’ed, glued, or embossed. The film is backed ...

Spear's Reverse Printed Labels Revitalize Cabreiroa Wate

(Label/Tape)

May 21, 2014, ... with requirements for a premium look pack, Spear chose a hi-reflectance silver, printed sub-surface, to create a foil effect on which to display the beverage description. The result is an aquatic scene ...

Faustel Exceeds Pre-Recession Business

(Coating/Laminating)

May 21, 2014, ... The company is a manufacturer of high-tech web converting equipment for the paper, film, and foil converting industry including modular systems, complete lines, and components for a wide range of coated ...

Fibrafil S.A. Invests in Mark Andy Press

(News | New Products)

May 19, 2014, ... include a web turnbar, cold foil, and CT lamination capabilities. Intended to primarily support pressure-sensitive label production, the machine is also capable of running PET materials at speeds up to ...

NASPO Security Audit Has New Features

(News | New Products)

May 18, 2014, ... seeking security assurance certification on a national and/or international level.  Producers of security documents, cards, and foils can now achieve both the NASPO Security Assurance standard (NASPO ...

Digicon Machines Shipping with TruPoint Orange Doctor Blades

(News | New Products)

April 21, 2014, ... converting applications. Capabilities include hot foil, cold foil, flexo coating, screen printing, and lamination. The Digicon Lite, an entry-level model, provides varnishing, coating, and converting of ...

Mohawk Introduces Saybrook Envelope Line

(Flexpack)

April 21, 2014, ... print performance for offset and flexographic printing, as well as foil stamping and thermography. Every Mohawk envelope features a discreet die-cut “M” on the inside seam, which is revealed by holding ...

Faustel Adds Yokogawa Gauge to Battery Electrode Coating Lines

(Coating/Laminating)

April 20, 2014, ... to meet growing demand.” Modern lithium-ion batteries contain metal foil bases for the anode and cathode, which are thinly and uniformly coated with an electrode coating. Company says the WEBFREX3ES ...

FSEA/IADD Conference to Offer Plant Tours

(Die-Cutting)

April 14, 2014, Attendees will be able to choose one of two interactive plant tours to share best practices with peers   TOPEKA, KS | Coming up soon is the joint conference of the Foil and Special Effects Assn. ...

Clear Barrier Overwrap Earns FPA's Highest Awar

(Flexpack)

April 14, 2014, ... for its Model Magic Clear Barrier Overwrap converted for Crayola LLC. The package is called a breakthrough crystal-clear structure that provides the barrier of an aluminum foil composite. Manufactured ...

Ajanta Packaging Adds Weigang Converting Machine

(Label/Tape)

April 08, 2014, ... ZM Series Converting Machines are driven by Bosch-Rexroth servo systems with repass function, so one can do UV flexographic printing, cold foil stamping, UV varnish, intermittent die-cutting and sheeting ...

Nuceria Installs Second Nilpeter Combo Press

(News | New Products)

April 02, 2014, ... and offset units, screen, hot and cold foil, embossing, and reverse-side printing. Guido Iannone, general manager of Nuceria, explains the decision behind their investment, “The results obtained with ...

Litco Adds New Sizes to Core Plug Line

(News | New Products)

March 31, 2014, ... to manufacturers and converters of paper, plastic film, and metallic foils. Core plugs are commonly used to prevent damage caused when paper rolls shift during transit.  New 3-, 5-, and 6-in. sizes are ...

Gallus Demonstrates Wine Label Finishing

(Label/Tape)

March 15, 2014, ... TCS 250 label press in combination with in-line, flatbed hot foil embossing on a Pantec RHINO.  Reportedly, the wine label being printed in the live demonstration impressed with its special haptic properties ...

Carlsberg Sweden Unveils Radical Redesign

(Label/Tape)

March 10, 2014, ... and foil processes to enrich each individual design. For example, Raspberry Blossom was created using a simple, four-color process, but by substituting the black flexo for a screen black, the label gains ...

Z-Flute Boxes for Kitty Litter are Purr-fect

(Coating/Laminating)

March 08, 2014, ... GA, once again takes home the Product of the Year award, named in honor of Peter Rigney, (former publisher of Paper, Film & Foil Converter and competition supporter) in the Assn. of Intl. Metallizers, ...

AmeriLam Supply Group Offers Embossed Film

(Carton Box)

March 02, 2014, Luxe FineLinen tactile thermal finishing PP film, said to be suited for folding cartons and more, can be foil-stamped, vanished, glued, or embossed   KNOXVILLE, TN | AmeriLam Supply Group announces ...

Web Lines | War on Bagginess

(Web Handling)

February 26, 2014, A program to reducing bagginess begins with quantifying it, reducing thickness variations, and minimizing winding stresses and strains. Bagginess is an area that many paper, film, and foil converters ...

Cartotecnica Veneta Adds QuadTech Color Quality

(News | New Products)

February 18, 2014, ... board to aluminum foil and thin PP and PE films—requires different ink sets, discrete color targets, and precisely imaged gravure cylinders. Before the installation of the automated system, achieving the ...

Holography | Industry Developments Give Packagers an Edge

(Trends/Management)

February 12, 2014, ... Envirofoil transfer metallized lamination, designed to catch the eye of customers browsing retail and supermarket shelves. Unlike full-spectrum holography, this next-generation "white-motion" holography ...

SixB Labels Installs Epson SurePress

(News | New Products)

February 12, 2014, ... president, SixB Labels Corp. “For 35 years we have provided flexo, foil stamping (cold foil and hot foil), and blind embossing, and now by adding digital printing with the Epson SurePress, we will be one ...

Toray Plastics (America) Announces New Metallized BOPP

(Flexpack)

February 09, 2014, Called a cost-effective replacement for foil, film also has use as inner barrier web of a tri-lamination in gas-flushed stand-up or flat pouches   NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI | Toray Plastics (America) has ...

CPP Advisory Board Meets to Exchange Ideass

(News | New Products)

February 03, 2014, ... director, global marketing, Mark Andy Inc. Yolanda Simonsis, president/editorial director, PFFC | Paper, Film & Foil Converter Erin Wolford, editor-in-chief, Flexible Packaging Magazine The conclusion ...

Show Preview | Graphics of the Americas 2014

(Trade Shows)

January 30, 2014, ... Digital Inkjet Printer with iJet Color Workflow Nilpeter FB-3300 Flexo Press MGI Digital Graphic Technology JETvarnish 3D and JETvarnish 3D Twin w/iFoil Ricoh Critical Communications Solutions Suite ...

Masterpiece Graphix Announces New Line

(Flexpack)

January 22, 2014, The Masterpiece Metallix line includes a variety of metallic and holographic substrates for digital presses   ST. LOUIS, MO | Masterpiece Graphix announces its newest product line, Masterpiece Metallix. ...

Williams Printing Adds Kluge Press

(Die-Cutting)

January 14, 2014, Versatile printing company chooses EHD foil stamping, embossing, and die-cutting press for its quality   RURAL HALL, NC | Williams Printing has recently installed a Kluge EHD foil stamping, embossing, ...

Schober Installs Robotic Stacker on Rotary Die-Cutter

(Die-Cutting)

January 14, 2014, Adds Single Spider Automated Robotic stacking system onto installed RSM Rotary Die-Cutter FAIRFIELD, OH | Schober has announced the successful installation of its Single Spider Automated Robotic stacking ...

Label Printing | High-Volume Digital Production

(Label/Tape)

January 13, 2014, ... labels and tags and greatly enhances its finishing capabilities, which include foil, ultraviolet varnish, laminating, and die-cutting. Dunlap reports that previous concerns with moving to digital, such ...