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Multipack Juices It Up

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2010, ... shippers and thereby reduce materials requirements because of the lamination of 18-pt uncoated recycled board reinforcement strips to load-bearing areas of the CCSUS. The thinner Z-Flute carton doubles ...

Bill Yoder

(Experience Speaks)

March 31, 2010, ... feel good about their work, themselves, and their company. What sustainability efforts has your company made? We look for things that will have multiple benefits and that will, for example, increase ...

AIMCAL Awards

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2010, ... reduce materials requirements because of the lamination of 18-pt uncoated recycled board reinforcement strips to load-bearing areas of the CCSUS. The thinner Z-Flute carton doubles the number of multipacks ...

Flexible Packaging: Narrow Web's Leverag

(Flexpack)

March 21, 2010, ... extensions are opportunities for meeting the needs of today's fast-paced lifestyles. Everything from suitcases and lunch boxes to cars and hotel rooms are filled with portable packages. It's all about products ...

Free Shrink Sleeve Seminar at Clemson Univ.

(News | New Products)

March 01, 2010, The Sonoco Packaging Inst. at Clemson Univ. will host a free shrink sleeve seminar, titled "Think Before You Shrink." Joint sponsors OMET (featuring the Varyflex Gearless-Shaftless-Sleeve press) CLEMSON, ...

Flexible Packaging: Capital Commitments

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2010, ... to register, it reads the plate and compares the plate that we plan to print with the image approved by the customer. It will tell us if it doesn't match and something's wrong,” says Imburgia. Packaging ...

Static Beat: When To Use Static Blowers

(Static Elimination)

January 31, 2010, ... For this reason, the target must have a long residence time within the ion cloud to become neutralized. First, focus on neutralizing the target. We want ions with higher mobility so that the electric field ...

Flex-Pack = Opportunity

(Extrusion Coating)

January 31, 2010, ... manufacturing base and in terms of increased costs. Industry Consolidation Consolidation — especially within the flexible packaging segment — continues to change the face of the extrusion coating industry; ...

Yerecic Label Installs 12-Color Mark Andy Performance Series Press

(News | New Products)

January 24, 2010, ... quick changeovers and print capabilities, the company reports. The P7 is also equipped to allow Yerecic to expand its product lines into thin unsupported films and is fully upgradeable to accommodate future ...

Fieldmeter or Voltmeter?

(Static-Beat)

December 23, 2009, ... are complementary and can be added to the work stream if needed to help sort things out. Electrostatic fieldmeters are good, workhorse instruments for detecting static charge. Readings should be taken ...

Paper or Plastic?

(Archive)

November 30, 2009, ... the industry's future. He highlighted waste management as a critical item. But, he said, this is particularly a challenge because “everything we do in relation to the sustainability issue comes back to ...

Do It Yourself

(Adhesives)

November 30, 2009, ... with regulatory affairs as they continue to change rapidly, both domestically and abroad, as well as doing things that improve one's image from a sustainability standpoint,” notes Ragin, citing such issues ...

Experience Speaks: David Premo

(Experience Speaks)

October 31, 2009, ... have to do it better, faster, and cheaper, and provide something cost can't compete with. That's where the custom solutions come in. What is the biggest mistake you made, and how did you fix it? We ...

Cores | The Foundation of Winding

(Web Lines)

October 31, 2009, ... and “Cinching: Belt Tightening Gone Bad, Part 2”). However, some core compression isn't necessarily a bad thing. If the core doesn't give a little, core pressures will be many times the pressure elsewhere ...

Static, Be Gone!

(Static-Beat)

October 31, 2009, ... resistivity, we need the roller charge to dissipate within one revolution. Taking the dissipation time to be 3τ so that 95% of the charge will have dissipated results in Equation 2. And solving for ...

Engineer's Playgroun

(Coating/Laminating Main)

October 31, 2009, ... praise from a company executive. But Walker (PFFC's “Web Lines” columnist) is CEO of TJWalker+Assoc. As a nationally recognized leader in web handling, consulting, and training, he knows a good thing when ...

Get a Grip on Your Web

(Tension)

October 31, 2009, ... a typical vacuum roll (see Figure 1), the rotating shell is driven around a stationary center tube that evacuates air. Figure 2 shows the stationary vacuum zone established within the shell. The vacuum ...

Bobst Schiavi Press Brings 'New Wave" of Capabilitie

(News | New Products)

October 04, 2009, ... in exceptionally fast turnaround on new jobs (often within 10 days), particularly those with challenging graphics. New Wave typically develops highly customized solutions for each specific customer specification, ...

New Roles for Converters

(Archive)

September 30, 2009, ... thin, discreet shapes, such as the letters of the alphabet and bar codes, while coating typically applies a continuous layer. The coating process can apply a wide range of coating organic or inorganic ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT

(New Products)

September 30, 2009, ... the adhesive lamination process. The adhesive cures up to 5x times faster than normal, company says, resulting in improved productivity, quality determination within hours after lamination, and fewer interactions ...