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- Optimum Release
- (Magazine)
- April 29, 2004, ... will develop good anchorage at lower temperatures if the dwell time is longer. Higher temperatures can increase line speeds, but this can cause stress marks and wrinkles as the lines stop or start. Currently, ...
- Film Wettability Not So Simple
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2004, When it comes to the subject of everyone has some degree of experience. However, the wetting of a film by a printing ink is a complicated physical/chemical When it comes to the subject of “wetting,” everyone ...
- What Is Cationic UV Technology?
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2004, Cationic UV (ultraviolet)-curable inks and coatings have been offered commercially for more than 30 years, but to many printers and converters, it still is a “new technology.” Cationic UV (ultraviolet)-curable ...
- Materials
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2004, New materials from: ADM Tronics Unlimited, BBA Fiberweb Filtration, Deco-Chem, Flint Ink Corp., Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Monadnock Paper Mills, National Adhesives, Newchem Corp., Ticona, and Water ...
- Coating and Laminating: At the Heart of the Packaging Industry
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2004, ... stretch, and shrink sleeve) and in-mold labels — as well as direct-printed flexible packaging (e.g., pouches and sachets), where the label is integral to the package. Different technologies may ...
- Darwin Would Approve
- (Unprinted Rolls)
- January 30, 2004, ... manufacturing or new product design,” says Tom Mecca, technical director for the Metallized Paper and Specialty Coating divisions. “We think the Polytype coater will be a very competitive asset in this ...
- Materials
- (Magazine)
- January 30, 2004, ... Yupo Corp. America. Substrates, Inks, Adhesives, Polymers... Film Forms Protective Pockets Pechiney Plastic Packaging, Chicago, IL; 866/704-2379; pechineyplasticpackaging.com Multilayer thermoformable ...
- A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI
- (Magazine)
- December 30, 2003, ... I want to see these areas of expertise have a place where manufacturers and innovators can come to share ideas and collaborate on projects and product improvements. Primarily for this reason, I think the ...
- 6 Sigma Success
- (Tapes)
- December 30, 2003, ... thinking of both the Caribbean and corporate upper management teams; the technical skills and teamwork of the engineers, supervisors, managers, and machine operators; and the introduction of new and innovative ...
- Products and Materials
- (Magazine)
- December 30, 2003, ... to install easily in-line with AB Dick and other small-format, sheet-fed presses. Transports sheets through UV unit for the immediate, total cure of inks and high-gloss coatings. With this, company says, ...
- Reporter Clips
- (Magazine)
- November 30, 2003, ... in three to five colors on heat-shrink PVC; the neckbands are sold in rolls for application on high-speed automatic equipment. Avery Dennison Honored as “Partners for Change” TAMPA, FL, USA—The Association ...
- Furthering Substrate Functionality
- (Magazine)
- September 30, 2003, Like to fool around with the functionality of your films? Want to print that hard-to-adhere-to substrate with water-based inks to reduce VOCs? If you Like to fool around with the functionality of your ...
- Coating Success
- (Unprinted Rolls)
- September 30, 2003, ... is no one technology that can be focused on to the exclusion of the others — they all are important. A process can be limited by its weakest link, and if not corrected, it will limit the process, even ...
- Meeting the Need
- (Materials)
- September 30, 2003, ... The print-receptive and thermally stabilized PET film reportedly provides a high degree of adhesion to both UV and solvent-based hardcoats and graphic inks and is said to have a superior scratch- and chemical-resistant ...
- Let's Talk Trend
- (Tapes)
- August 28, 2003, ... Improvements in web tension and corona treating systems have facilitated film production on narrow to mid-web in-line press systems, improving register control and ink adhesion with thinner-gauged films. ...
- Materials
- (Materials)
- July 31, 2003, New materials from: ADM Tronics Unlimited, Eastman Chemical, Environmental Inks and Coatings, Flint Ink, G7 Productivity Systems, H.B. Fuller Co., Milliken Chemical, National Adhesives, Powder Coating ...
- European Meeting Presents Large Technical Program
- (Magazine)
- July 31, 2003, ... twin screw extruder with tailored processing steps to achieve optimum coating properties. In “Producing Co-Extruded High Barrier Heat Shrinkable Packaging Films,” James D. Stobie of Macro Engineering and ...
- FTA Raises the Bar
- (Magazine)
- June 30, 2003, ... non-typical four-color-process heat-resistant inks. The smoothness of the multiple vignettes without hard edges and the transitions that take place are really outstanding," observes FTA Excellence in Flexography ...
- Materials
- (Materials)
- June 29, 2003, ... Inks, Adhesives, Polymers Adhesive Useful for PVC Films Advanced Polymers International, Syracuse, NY; 315/451-1755; 877/msphere; msphere.com Gel-Tac 314M transfer-coatable microsphere adhesive is ...
- Avery Dennison Adds SynCarta BOPP to Fasson Rapid-Roll Line
- (News | New Products)
- June 04, 2003, ... applications. Converters [can] achieve maximum production levels with anti-stat, traction control, and great ink adhesion characteristics engineered into the product." The mfr. also says both glossy and ...
