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Hot Topics: Adhesive Coating | Extrusion Coating | Metallizing | Curing | Drying | Green Converting | Primers | Coatings

Odorless UV Inks and Coatings

Published: December 09, 2007
Rhino Performance Products introduces odorless UV inks and coatings.

PFFC Pilot/Lab/Technical Facilities Directory

Published: December 01, 2007
Is there a problem with your process? Fix it! These technical facilities stand ready to help.

Radiant Energy Inaugurates Pilot Coating Line

Published: November 26, 2007
Radiant Energy Systems has commissioned a pilot coating line that allows customers to run trials on new processes and materials before scaling up to production equipment.

Two-Roll Heated Laminator with Unwind/Rewind

Published: November 26, 2007
Independent Machine Co.'s laminating system with adjustable gap meter will laminate up to six layers of melt blown nonwoven, edge trim, and rewind the laminated filter material to maximum 700 mm diameter roll.

InteliCoat Sells Electronic and Engineered Films Business Unit

Published: August 29, 2007
InteliCoat Technologies has sold its Electronic and Engineered Films (EEF) business unit to Exopack Holding.

4th Ed. AIMCAL Metallizing Technical Reference Goes to Print

Published: August 02, 2007
The 4th edition of the AIMCAL Metallizing Technical Reference will go to print shortly. In addition to updates in the seven existing chapters from the 3rd edition, the latest edition has been expanded with new chapters with information on the vacuum web coating processes.

AIMCAL Announces Speakers at Summer School 2007

Published: July 25, 2007
AIMCAL is offering two tracks for this year's Summer School, being held August 6-9, 2007, in Minneapolis, MN: Web Handling and Web Coating and Laminating. Speakers for these tracks include: Dr. David Roisum, PFFC columnist Timothy J. Walker, Dr. Ed Cohen, Dr. Al Pocius, and Dr. Ted Lightfoot.

AIMCAL Holds Summer School

Published: June 18, 2007
Now in its 9th year, AIMCAL's Summer School assembles consultants and educators for four days of focused technical sessions. This year's schools will be held in Minneapolis, MN, August 6-9 and New Delhi, India, August 20-21.

Critical TRENDS

Published: June 01, 2007
Last year's April issue featured, for the first time, PFFC's special report on the critical trends affecting the converting industry. This year, we again

Knowledge = Power = Success

Published: June 01, 2007
Training. It's as essential to the growth and vitality of a converting operation as air and water are to all living things. Many companies have in-depth,

Updating Critical Trends

Published: June 01, 2007
This month, PFFC brings you the results of its annual Critical Trends survey that we published for the first time in April 2006. As with most they tend

Sweets Success

Published: May 01, 2007
Located in the industrial left bank of Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine's bustling capital city, Ukrplastic is the nation's largest flexible packaging converter.

Light Show

Published: May 01, 2007
There's significance behind the phrase critical edge at Smith & McLaurin. The company's specialty is labels for retailers in Europe, Australia, and New

Cause & Defect

Published: May 01, 2007
Coating defects are defined as the lack of something necessary for completeness or adequacy or as an imperfection that impairs worth or utility. Unfortunately,

Leader of the Six-Pack

Published: April 01, 2007
Members of the Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators hitched their horses to a Texas hoedown-style venue at the annual winter meeting

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