Shrink Sleeves

Gallus ECS 340 Road Show Opens in Atlanta

(Flexography)

December 26, 2010, Gallus Inc. opened its US Road Show to introduce the Gallus ECS 340 label printing press to the North American marketplace, with its first stop in Atlanta, GA PHILADELPHIA, PA | Gallus Inc. opened its ...

Sanden Reports Alliances

(Label/Tape)

November 30, 2010, CAMBRIDGE, ON, CANADA | Sanden Machine and RDP Marathon, Laval (Montreal), QC, have formed a strategic alliance to serve the forms, direct mail, labels, CAMBRIDGE, ON, CANADA | Sanden Machine and RDP Marathon, ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Magazine)

November 30, 2010, ... sustainability issues associated with single-serve food packaging. Overnight Labels, Deer Park, NY, now offers cold foil printing on shrink sleeves. UK-based Edale launches a website compatible ...

Short Path to Versatility

(Flexography)

November 30, 2010, While some converters have been reluctant to make major capital expenditures during what some have called the Great Recession, one Ohio-based label converter While some converters have been reluctant to ...

Calendar of Events: Converter Datebook

(Magazine)

November 30, 2010, FEBRUARY 9 | FPA Safety Conference, Flexible Packaging Assn., TradeWinds Island Grand Resort, St. Petersburg Beach, FL (410-694-0800; www.flexpack.org). FEBRUARY 9 | FPA Safety Conference, Flexible Packaging ...

Idlers in Heat

(Web Handling)

November 30, 2010, ... the roll is bored to a dimension just smaller than the bearing housing. Then heat is applied to the roll body, expanding the opening enough to accept the bearing. When the body cools and shrinks in diameter, ...

AWA Conferences Cover Hot Topics

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... panel addressed in-mold and alternative labeling, accepting questions from the audience that included among other subjects the pros and cons of IML versus shrink or roll-fed shrink labeling versus standard ...

Alpha Packaging Acquired by PPS

(Trends/Management)

October 31, 2010, LOUISVILLE, KY | Protective Packaging Solutions (PPS) announces the acquisition of assets of Alpha Packaging of Cincinnati, OH, during a recent auction. LOUISVILLE, KY | Protective Packaging Solutions ...

In-Mold Breaks the Mold

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, MIAMI, FL | Winners of the 2010 In-Mold Decorating Assn. Competition had no trouble breaking the mold with innovative, decorative submissions. Judges MIAMI, FL | Winners of the 2010 In-Mold Decorating ...

Dow Industries Buys HP Indigo WS600 Digital Press

(Digital)

October 24, 2010, ... a broad range of media–from thinner flexible packaging substrates, to label and shrink sleeve media, to folding carton material. HP Indigo presses, the company says, are the only digital label and packaging ...

Sanden Machine, RDP Marathon Announce Strategic Alliance

(Label/Tape News)

October 11, 2010, Sanden Machine Ltd. and RDP Marathon Inc. of Laval (Montreal), QC, Canada, have announced the formation of a strategic alliance to serve the commercial, forms, direct mail, labels, and packaging markets ...

Interactive Tools Aid Packaging Design

(Label/Tape)

September 30, 2010, The Studio 10 range of interactive 3D packaging design tools now includes the new Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves, a Studio Toolkit for Labels, and The Studio 10 range of interactive 3D packaging design ...

Flexographic Printing: Super Setup

(Inspection/Defect Detection)

September 30, 2010, Fifteen years ago, Envases Del Pisuea, located in the suburbs of Mexico City, started making shopping bags. Thanks to a dedicated print staff, the company Fifteen years ago, Envases Del Pisueña, located ...

Free PFFC Webinar Updates Labeling & Product Decoration Markets & Technologies

(News | New Products)

September 21, 2010, Today at 2 P.M. ET a FREE webinar, hosted by Paper, Film & Foil Converter (PFFC) in association with AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. and sponsored by Avery Dennison CHICAGO, IL | Today at 2 P.M. ET a FREE ...

Digital Label Printing: What's the Sweet Spot

(Digital)

September 07, 2010, Commercialization Assessment Reports are a new approach to evaluating digital printing's value for the label printer Much of the information readily available today regarding digital printing for packaging ...

Bobst Folder/Gluer Brings New Business

(Folding/Gluing)

August 31, 2010, Bobst Folder/Gluer Brings New Business CARROLLTON, GA | Printed Specialties Corp. has installed a Bobst Expertfold 110-A2 high-speed folder/gluer for CARROLLTON, GA | Printed Specialties Corp. has installed ...

Green Converting: Leading the Pack

(Flexography)

August 31, 2010, ... 35.5-in., nine-color variable sleeve offset presses (VSOP) from Muller Martini. With shrink sleeve and roll-fed label production being a hot market for the company, the two VSOP presses generate 20% of ...

Investing in Short Runs

(Label/Tape)

August 31, 2010, Label Leaders Installs New EDM200 Semi-Rotary, Servo-Driven UV Flexo Press from ROTOCONTROL GEORGE, SOUTH AFRICA | Label Leaders, a printer of self-adhesive labels, has installed a new EDM200 semi-rotary, ...

Two 'Green' Companies Honore

(Green Converting)

August 31, 2010, ... up to a 203-mm layflat for shrink sleeves, cold foil, and additional laminated structures and flexible packaging capabilities. Mark Andy, Chesterfield, MO, reports the installation of a Rotoflex ...

C-P Flexible Packaging Boosts Lamination with Davis-Standard Line

(Flexpack)

August 22, 2010, ... as extrusion, adhesive and solventless laminations, shrink-sleeve production, and slitting/rewinding capabilities. “Over half of our business is in extrusion lamination, so the addition of this line ...

Luminite Relocates After Fire

(Trends/Management)

August 10, 2010, Luminite Products Corp., a manufacturer of digital direct laser engraved cylinders, sleeves and plates for the flexographic print industry, has moved its corporate offices and computer graphics operations ...

Label Leaders Purchases ROTOCONTROL Flexo Machine

(Flexography)

August 05, 2010, ROTOCONTROL has announced another order for the EDM200 semi-rotary, servo-driven UV-flexo machine placed by Label Leaders in South Africa. Founder and chairman of Label Leaders AHRENSBURG, GERMANY | ROTOCONTROL ...

High Grade, Low Energy

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2010, High Grade, Low Energy Cascades Tissue Group, Eau Claire, WI, has launched a line of ultra-grade paper towels and premium-caliber bath tissue. Both lines Cascades Tissue Group, Eau Claire, WI, has launched ...

Press Has Open Architecture

(Print)

July 31, 2010, The STAR-Print press from Edelmann Graphics offers open-platform architecture with towers that accept inserts for offset, flexo, gravure, and silkscreen. The STAR-Print press from Edelmann Graphics offers ...

Protect Rolls In Tough Applications

(Web Handling)

July 31, 2010, Roll Handler system protects single and multiple rolls in demanding shipping applications. Uses custom endboards and plastic sleeve plugs along with interlocking Roll Handler system protects single and ...

Seeking Distributors

(Trends/Management)

July 31, 2010, AHEMADABAD, INDIA | Arvind Rub-Web Controls, a manufacturer of a wide range of products, including rubber rollers, sleeve systems, wrinkle removers, core AHEMADABAD, INDIA | Arvind Rub-Web Controls, a ...

IML/IMD Competition Is Announced

(Label/Tape)

July 31, 2010, IML/IMD Competition Is Announced SCOTTSDALE, AZ | The In-Mold Decorating Assn. announces its first annual Student IML/IMD Design Competition to recognize SCOTTSDALE, AZ | The In-Mold Decorating Assn. announces ...

Laminating Corona Treating: Bond Boosting

(Corona, Flame, Plasma)

July 31, 2010, ... flexible packaging to food, beverage, food container, and industrial companies. In addition to lidding films, Golden Eagle produces fresh-cut produce bags and film, vacuum pouches, shrink bags, bakery ...

Ready for Take Off

(Label/Tape)

July 31, 2010, Printpack, Atlanta, GA, is producing five-color, flexo-printed shrink sleeves for Fuzzee Bee Beverage's ZUN (rhymes with moon) energy drink, which is packaged in a patent-pending rocket-shaped bottle Printpack, ...

ROTOCONTROL Releases Flexo Press Video

(Flexography)

July 21, 2010, ROTOCONTROL has announced the availability of a video featuring the EDM200 Series Over-printing Press in production with informative instruction. The DVD educates converters AHRENSBURG, GERMANY – ROTOCONTROL ...