Hole Punching

Static Elimination Revisited

(Magazine)

July 09, 2006, ... a discharge path. Solutions we’ve used in the past included drilling holes in a pattern on the surface of the rubber lagging, thereby reducing the distance from any point on the surface to the nearest ...

Brand Security & Product Authentication Special Report, Part 1

(Magazine)

June 29, 2006, ... the label “sandwich” or imposed on the label face OVDs—optically variable devices based on holograms, both generic and customized security threads. Then there is the whole raft of anti-pilferage devices, ...

Brand Security & Product Authentication Special Report, Part 2

(Magazine)

June 29, 2006, ... packaging. Through covert and overt forensic verification technology, consumers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, manufacturers, and law enforcement have the chance to verify whether a document, ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

June 14, 2006, ... is expected to reach $1.9 billion by 2010, rising to $8.9 billion in 2013. The next few years will be a key period for PE as a whole, says the report, but crucial development work has to take place ...

New Products, Part 2

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, New products from: Menzel Machine Co., Erhardt + Leimer, Pearl Technologies, Nova Chemicals, Matan Digital Printers, Omet, Omron Electronics, GretagMacbeth, Goldenrod Corp., Bell-Mark, BGE, NDC Infrared ...

The Top 10

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, ... double guide-rail said to keep the whole block rigid and ensure maximum precision during high-speed printing. VirtualMaster and Direct direct drive systems allow central drum to be synchronized with plate ...

Camera-Based Web Monitoring

(Archive)

May 28, 2006, ... pinhole, and high-speed cameras. The addition of color cameras will enable manufacturers to trace machine runnability problems when used in correct locations at the machine. For more information, visit ...

A Bunch of Hot Air

(Magazine)

April 29, 2006, ... humidity, high air speed, etc., limits the drying rate in that zone. For example, if the wet coating is disturbed easily by high impinged or parallel air flow, the whole zone is limited to conditions the ...

RFID Pioneers

(Magazine)

April 26, 2006, ... beginning, everybody was in their ‘micro’ world trying to do their part without understanding how the whole [RFID] world worked. I think that has changed dramatically,” Bielas says. “One of the long-running ...

Metallized Papers and Films: A New Focus for Global Growth

(Archive)

April 17, 2006, ... in a number of fields: clear oxide and other opaque barrier coatings for flexible packaging; patterned metallizing (e.g. holographic "wallpaper"); and the whole platform of overt security and brand authentication ...

Puttin' On the Ritz

(Magazine)

March 30, 2006, Marketing glitz and glamour equally share the limelight with technical merit in this year's annual metallized and coated products competition, staged by AIMCAL, the Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters ...

First Glance

(Magazine)

March 30, 2006, ... to offer cost savings for supermarket meat departments on warehouse space, freight, shrinkage, and more. Tray features tiny surface holes where liquid passes to an “open cell” area, is trapped away from ...

A Family of Possibilities

(Magazine)

February 27, 2006, ... to make this whole thing work is not the equipment, it’s really the people,” Salazar maintains. “The printing press will print, but you are only as good as your prepress department and your printers.” ...

First Glance

(Magazine)

February 27, 2006, ... premium bakeries, and catering companies in the region. The eggs are available in three formats: whole eggs, egg yolks, or egg whites. Yummy! A DKNY fragrance called “Be Delicious” incorporates ...

2004 RFID What's New

(Archive)

February 26, 2006, ... and the meeting chairperson writes: You better learn how to compete on a whole new playing field, or you'll, ultimately, be left watching from the sides." However, converter skepticism was evident after ...

Narrow Web New Products

(Magazine)

January 30, 2006, ... initiated tear strength and unsupported hole strength. Coex Label Stocks Offer Clarity Avery Dennison, Leiden, The Netherlands; +31 (0) 164 317 015; europe.fasson.com Fasson Global Co-Ex self-adhesive ...

Protecting Brands

(Magazine)

January 30, 2006, ... BPA offers an open door to end-users and converters that are seeking security labeling and marking systems and want to evaluate the whole spectrum of professional options available for their particular ...

Materials for Printable Electronics to Reach $1.9 Billion

(Archive)

January 09, 2006, ... The next few years represent a key period for the PE business of a whole. PRESS RELEASE GLEN ALLEN, VA—The market for inks, substrates, and other materials used in printable electronics (PE) is expected ...

First Glance

(Magazine)

November 29, 2005, Innovative packaging from: Caraustar Industries, Graphic Packaging Intl., and Chesapeake Corp. Products Bread's Boards Joe Corbi’s Wholesale Pizza products are used by many groups in their fundraisers. ...

Modern & Massive

(Magazine)

November 29, 2005, ... system and a downstream F&K unit for lacquering. “The capacity of the machine and factory are enormous,” says Christiansen. “We actually are increasing capacity on the whole European preprint market ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

November 29, 2005, ... classification as packaging waste, the self-adhesive label value chain as a whole will have a problem on its hands. There is still little evidence that the industry is developing environmentally responsible ...

EFTA and ADCCAT Support ICE

(Archive)

November 14, 2005, ... believes that ICE will allow the larger tape converting and manufacturing industry as a whole to benefit from a centrally based, well balanced show. A concentrated exhibition with technical seminars and ...

Profit Squeeze

(Flexpack)

September 29, 2005, ... supplying across the whole of Europe. In addition, brand owners in Western Europe are beginning to source some of their high-specification flexible packaging needs from converters based in Central and ...

RFID: The Next Generation

(Magazine)

September 29, 2005, ... investment in expensive equipment. It can handle difficult protocol and different standards and therefore streamline the whole process.” Ream adds, “Class 0 and Class 1, while they may operate on the ...

Static is Gone, Price is Right

(Archive)

September 29, 2005, ... bar that we had on there, the bars that you don’t get a whole lot of control from. You maybe get a half inch or an inch of static elimination.” Looking for a new solution, Streicher walked the CMM 2005 ...

More of the 411 on RFID

(Archive)

August 30, 2005, ... and end-users; and industries as a whole can drive EPC implementation with standards-based equipment. November 2004 Intermec Technologies Corp. and EPCglobal Inc. announce that Intermec has offered ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

August 30, 2005, ... label in-line (silicone and adhesive coating) after the printing operation, thus allowing the printing under the adhesive. The companies are targeting both pharmaceuticals and wholesaling. RFID ...

Without Boundaries

(Magazine)

August 30, 2005, ... been modified in-house). Next, the company had to apply the coating in a way that would ensure the coat weight could be controlled accurately and would be free of pinholes. Transporting the coated web ...

Fighting Flaws

(Magazine)

August 30, 2005, ... and use easy-to-understand training procedures. Static electricity buildup in the coater can generate a variety of defects, i.e., dirt, pinholes, tracking, and “photo effects,” and it can cause fires ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

July 30, 2005, ... oxygen can permeate into the package via micro-pores, holes, inconsistent sealing, etc. This leakage of oxygen into the packaging causes reduction of shelf life and may result in product spoilage. A need ...