Foil

Flexonomics | Anilox Roll/Ink Selection

(Print)

July 01, 2012, ... sales. His experience covers the spectrum of flexographic markets including: wide web film, foil, folding carton, corrugated, newspaper, towel, and coating applications, as well as narrow web tag and ...

PACK EXPO Intl. 2012 Provides a Resource for Package Printing Innovation

(Yo's Yarns)

June 25, 2012, Pack Expo Intl. becomes the sole sponsor of the PRINTING content category featured on PFFC-online.com to bridge its connection with printers and converters. It gives me immense pleasure to welcome—and ...

Splicing/Rewinding | Samsung Gumbak Invests in Third Martin RMAP

(Carton Box)

June 11, 2012, ... and web-fed hot foil stamping machines. An important element in Samsung’s success in tobacco packaging is the decision to equip several of its gravure press lines with nonstop roll splicing and rewinding ...

Coating Matters | Discrete Coating Techniques & Equipment

(Coating/Laminating)

May 28, 2012, ... curtain coater. This equipment provides an option that is difficult to find in the open market. Plates and foils that need to be processed in a batch versus continuous process may want to consider this ...

Extrusion Coating the Subject of Upcoming Course

(Coating/Laminating)

May 15, 2012, ... description and potential uses and limitations of extrusion coating including foam extrusion, film lamination, anti-oxidants, flame retardants, foil laminations, and more. Bezigian explains that his ...

KTI to Show Off Modular Line

(Die-Cutting)

May 15, 2012, ... include full rotary and semi-rotary die-cutting, flexographic print/coating stations, laminating stations, hot foil/cold foil, inkjet print, folding carton die-cutting, pharmaceutical inspection, and error ...

Lasx Offers Noncontact Laser Ablation Services

(Laser)

May 12, 2012, ... foils, reportedly without causing damage to the carrier substrate, while eliminating the masks and hazardous byproducts said to be associated with chemical etching. The Precision Converting Services ...

Brazilian Label Printer Buys Mark Andy P7 Press

(Label/Tape)

April 24, 2012, ... Andy P7 presses are 250 mm (10 in.), 8-color dual servo platform machines capable of high quality combination printing effects such as cold foil, rotary screen, chilled UV curing as well as converting ...

Ron Harper, CEO of Harper Corp. of America, Passes

(News | New Products)

April 14, 2012, ... Paper, Film & Foil Converter extends its sincerest condolences and sympathy to his family, especially Katherine, and recognizes Ron's philanthropic loss as a severe blow to all those who knew and worked ...

Dion Label Printing Installs High Decoration Finishing Press

(Label/Tape)

April 05, 2012, ... for clients interested in hot stamp, cold foil, emboss, deboss, silk screen, and specialty prismatic effects. Hot stamping uses a heated die to apply foil to a precise area on a substrate. Cold foil ...

Copac Prints High Quality Cartons with HP Indigo

(Carton Box)

April 03, 2012, ... Copac delivered a few hundred cartons on both SBS board and premium silver foil board. From concept to delivery, the job took about a week. With full color printing speeds of 130 fpm (39.6 mpm), the ...

Trautwein GmbH Invests in Domino's K600

(News | New Products)

April 02, 2012, ... print, excellent adhesion properties onto a range of security foils as well as its ability to handle variable data, text, graphics, and bar and QR codes. The native 600 dpi print resolution of the K600i, ...

Flexco Installation Tool Aids Material Handling

(News | New Products)

April 02, 2012, ... plate sizes and make installation and virtually error proof. Tool can be used by any converter of paper, film, foil, paperboard, or nonwovens who use belt conveyors in their material handling process. ...

Judges Announced for IMDA Awards

(Label/Tape)

March 26, 2012, ... & editorial director, PFFC | Paper, Film & Foil Converter The 2012 competition will recognize the industry’s best in-mold labeled packaging and in-mold decorated durable products. The winning entries ...

Carton/Box | Heavyweight SBS Is Ready to Print

(Carton Box)

March 26, 2012, Eliminate the extra mounting step by printing or foil stamping directly on thick SBS board from vertically integrated Lamitech.   With razor thin margins and fierce competition in the industry, converters ...

Coating Matters | Battery Coating Technology

(Coating/Laminating)

March 25, 2012, ... a coating production run is very important. So what can a battery manufacturer do to improve efficiency? Because the final structure of the battery allows for a single foil to have slurry coated and ...

Smokin' Hot Cigarette Cartons Are Top Product of the Year

(Coating/Laminating)

March 08, 2012, ... SC, bequeathed its Peter Rigney* Product of the Year Award on March 11th to Unifoil Corp., Fairfield, NJ, for a series of smokin’ hot cartons for Camel Menthol, Camel Bold and Camel Crush cigarettes from ...

drupa Preview | Exhibitors Launch New Products

(Carton Box)

March 08, 2012, ... for digital printing. On the sheetfed side, the company will feature Luxor/Alufin KPS-OP, a new cold foil for sheet-fed UV offset printing. Kurz will show holographic continuous foils produced without ...

ETITEC Adds 10-Color Press from OMET

(News | New Products)

March 05, 2012, ... X6 combines in-line a few additional capabilities—cold foil, delam/relam, print on reverse, and booklet—that make it competitive in the printing of short and medium runs of difficult jobs on different ...

Gralex Unwind Stands Allow One-Person Changes

(News | New Products)

March 04, 2012, ... of paper, paperboard, plastic film, foil, and other roll materials from 18–to 39 in. wide to 72 in. in dia and roll weights from 3,500 lbs (for 18-in.-wide rolls) and 7,600 lbs (for 39-in.-wide rolls). ...

Open House to Showcase Omet’s Carton Press

(Carton Box)

February 28, 2012, ...  The main features of the Varyflex installed at Pragati are a flexographic platform machine with the facility for rotogravure, cold foil, and a silk screen cassette in every position of the press. It ...

Flexo Printing | Colbert Packaging Installs Nine-Color Primographic Press

(Flexography)

February 28, 2012, ... format options for customers, and it can print both water-based and ultraviolet inks. It also features cold foil and HoloCure technologies for producing metallic and holographic effects on package surfaces. ...

PPC Welcomes Tap Packaging as New Member

(Carton Box)

February 27, 2012, ... specializes in foil stamping and provides product line management services. “We’re thrilled that Tap Packaging has joined the PPC family,” says Ben Markens, president of PPC. “With their broad range ...

WHQuiz Answer #4 - Load Cell Roller Advantages

(Web Handling)

February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 4: Tension Control – Name one advantage of using a tension load cell roller has over a dancer roller in a closed-loop tension control system? Answer... WebHandlersQuiz 4: Tension Control ...

WHQuiz Answer #5 - Draw Control Pros/Cons

(Web Handling)

February 22, 2012, ...  Many people believe successive draw zones require stepped increases in speed to maintain tension. This is true for viscoelastic materials, such as cookie dough, but not for most paper, film, and foil ...

WHQuiz Answer #6 - Roller Alignment

(Web Handling)

February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 6: Rollers - What is a reasonable specification for roller alignment in mm/m, milli-radians, or mils/in? Answer... WebHandlersQuiz 6: Rollers - What is a reasonable specification for ...

WHQuiz Answer #7 - Large Diameter Rollers

(Web Handling)

February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 7: Rollers – Which rollers in a process will likely have the largest diameters? Answer... WebHandlersQuiz 7: Rollers – Which rollers in a process will likely have the largest diameters? ...

WHQuiz Answer #8 - Nipped Driven Rollers

(Web Handling)

February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 8: Traction – When is a nipped roller needed on a driven roller separating two tension zones?  Answer... WebHandlersQuiz 8: Traction – When is a nipped roller needed on a driven roller ...

WHQuiz Answer #9 - Nip Uniformity

(Web Handling)

February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 9: Nipped Rollers - What is a simple measurement to determine if two nip rollers are pressing together uniformly?  Answer... WebHandlersQuiz 9: Nipped Rollers - What is a simple measurement ...

WHQuiz Answer #10 - Laminate Curl

(Web Handling)

February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 10: Laminating – If a two-layer laminate product curls to the top layer in the machine direction, which would reduce the curl: increase or decrease the top layer pre-laminate tension?  ...