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Paper Preferred?
Research shows that around three out of four people think you can benefit from choosing to use paper when in educational and office settings.
Is Gravure Coating Right for You?
Most people who read articles on coating have products they want to coat or coating machinery they want to utilize.
4 Steps to Resolving Coating Defects
Every coating process engineer and equipment operator wants to know where to start when a coating problem surfaces with their product, so let’s start with the surface of the problem.
Narrow Web Twists and Turns
The ultimate aim of the narrow web converter is essentially the same as it is for their counterparts operating in wide web converting
The Back Page: The American Paper Converter April 1946
PLASTIGLAZE is the name of an impregnating solution for paper and other fibrous or porous materials.
Looking Forward and Back
Launched just a year ago in January 2019, the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) began bringing together organizations that make, use, process, sell, collect and recycle plastics in order to tackle the challenges of plastics waste from all angles.
Flexible Packaging: Buying Into Sustainability
Consumers are conscious about packaging sustainability and showing their appreciation of sustainable packaging at the checkout counter
What’s Next in Inkjet and the Many Reasons to Adopt it
What’s next in inkjet and the many reasons to adopt it.
Flexible Packages Standing Out in 2019
Currently flexible packaging represents approximately 19 percent of the total $170 billion U.S. packaging industry and is the second largest packaging segment behind corrugated paper.
Printing Industry's Trends, Best Practices and Performance Improvement in 2019
Printing can be a tedious and hectic job. But with great printers and well-managed printing services, the job can be run smoothly.
Flexible Packaging, a Converting Dynamo
Flexible packaging makes the most of converters' capabilities, from printing, to form/fill/seal, pouches and many aspects that are the growth stars of the industry.
AIMCAL Activities
The Association of International Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) has issued a Call for Papers for the 2020 AIMCAL R2R
Are We on the Road to Achieving Truly Sustainable Packaging?
While the sustainability of packaging has been an important topic for brand owners for several years, the need to implement meaningful solutions has significantly gathered pace in the last year or two.