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A Deeper Look at UV Inks in Label Production

(Surface Prep)

August 16, 2024, ... European Printing Ink Association (EUPIA) safety standards. Coupled with digital advancements, inkjet technology has made significant strides, boasting features such as thin, precise flat ink laydown, ...

TIPA and Fresh-Lock Collaborate to Enhance Home Compostable Packaging Market

(News | New Products)

July 23, 2024, ... a compost bin with other organic material, they disintegrate and biodegrade into nutrient-rich soil, within months. TIPA's packaging is also seamlessly compatible with existing machinery throughout the ...

Driving Flexibility and Cost Savings With Modular Cutting Assemblies Exploring Alternatives to Inflexible Purpose-built Production Equipment

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

July 21, 2024, ... uses a modular machine to cut an elastomer material with 0-tension unwind. The machine slits the material to width, then rotary die-cuts it within three thousandths of an inch of accuracy. Unlock the ...

Channeled Resources Group Appoints Al Berry to Release Liner Ambassador

(News | New Products)

July 15, 2024, Channeled Resources Group (CRG), an industry-leading manufacturer of release liners, blank shipping labels, and pressure-sensitive roll label stock Channeled Resources Group (CRG), an industry-leading ...

Innovating Safety Child-Resistant Stand-Up Pouches that Meet Sustainability Goals

(Bag Pouch)

July 07, 2024, ... Child-resistant technology was implemented within a sustainability framework, ensuring that the packaging materials are engineered to be recyclable wherever possible*, which contributes to a smaller environmental ...

Flexible Packaging — In a Constant Cycle of Evolution

(Flexpack)

June 16, 2024, Just when we think flexible packaging films have reached a milestone of innovation, technology kicks things up another notch. By Rob Tiller, Managing Director, PennPac Just when we think flexible ...

Obtaining Barriers When Coating and Printing Flexible Materials

(Bag Pouch)

June 09, 2024, Thin flexible substrates of paper, film and foil are often modified, manipulated, coated or combined with other substrates, adhesives or chemical blends By Tom Kerchiss, Chairman, RK PrintCoat Instruments ...

Web Guide 101

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

April 24, 2024, ... are fixed to the machine or floor — think of these as guiding to a fixed point in space. Proper web geometry is critical for these to work properly (see Diagram A), and they always include a shifting exiting ...

SEI integrates Vetaphone on new Labelmaster KyoJet

(News | New Products)

April 14, 2024, ... is his use of the Vetaphone corona units under reduced power to clean paper webs for better gloss effects.  It’s this type of lateral thinking that sets Labelit apart from its competitors and lays firm ...

Principles of Narrow Web Slitting

(Web Handling)

April 10, 2024, ... tissue to dual-sided rolls; films ranging from stiffer polyester to thin-stretchy polyethylene; and stability presented by machine-direction (MD) and cross-direction (CD) strength issues. When I worked ...

Principles of Narrow Web Slitting

(Converting Perspectives)

April 08, 2024, ... dual-sided rolls; films ranging from stiffer polyester to thin-stretchy polyethylene; and stability presented by machine-direction (MD) and cross-direction(CD) strength issues. When I worked at a nonwovens ...

Building a Circular Economy for Stretch Film

(News | New Products)

April 05, 2024, ... companies to downgauge their stretch film by using high performing films at thinner gauges. This reduces the amount of plastic used which ultimately gets sent to landfills. To help determine the right ...

A New Era in Sustainable Packaging

(News | New Products)

March 26, 2024, ... a certain threshold, equivalent to only a trace amount in the entire film. The film also undergoes testing in an in-house laboratory and its composting chamber to see if the film will break down within ...

Pressure on Paper Packaging Converters

(Flexpack)

March 24, 2024, ... lie. The World Bank predicts that without drastic actions, global waste will increase to 3.4 billion metric tons by 20501 — an increase of 70 percent from today. And while we think about paper packaging ...

Addressing Bio-film/Compostables and Plastic Film Processing Challenges

(Bag Pouch)

March 17, 2024, ... — the product, print and conversion of ultra-thin films for non-woven applications, the construction sector, scientific and technical, electronics and countless other areas of perhaps, low volume but high ...

FPA: The State of the U.S. Flexible Packaging Industry

(Print)

March 10, 2024, ... and resins accounted for the largest spend for converters with the two categories making up over two-thirds of material purchases — films are 47 percent; resins are 23 percent. Within films, polyethylene ...

ISRA VISION Honored for Outstanding Supplier Performance in Battery Component Manufacturing

(News | New Products)

February 18, 2024, ... with immediate feedback on the production process and material quality. At Zijiang, the system is used to inspect aluminum-coated plastic films. These are needed, among other things, in the production ...

A leader in printing equipment

(Print)

February 12, 2024, ... of unwinds and rewinds are available for all applications from short run to continuous run. The ELS-MAX can run a wide range of material types and thicknesses ranging from thin films to board stock.  ...

LAEM IMS – Slitting and rewinding solutions always keeping pace with the evolving needs of the converting industry

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

February 12, 2024, ...  Highlighted Series in the Portfolio Within our portfolio, two series stand out: the RIBOSLIT series and the RB series. RIBOSLIT SERIES: a unique design, synthesis of quality, performance and safety ...

The World Leader in Pouch Making Machinery

(Bag Pouch)

February 07, 2024, ... recycling manufacturing waste and a “green” parking lot are just a few of the many considerations that been made.  Totani has truly embraced these goals and has a newly adopted slogan; “Think Sustainable, ...