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Desmedt Scores Another First!

Belgium-based independent narrow web converter Desmedt Labels is the first in the world to install a Mark Andy digital hybrid press fitted with Martin Automatic non-stop unwind/splice technology.

Nobelus Installs Catbridge Film Slitter in Elgin, Illinois, Facility

The finishing solutions supplier rounds out their equipment fleet with a high-capacity slitter. 

November 2025 US Cutting Tool Orders Total $206.1M, Up 9.9% From November 2024

Shipments of cutting tools, measured by the Cutting Tool Market Report, a collaboration between AMT – The Association for Manufacturing Technology and the U.S. Cutting Tool Institute (USCTI), totaled $206.1 million in November 2025.

Best Practice: Static Control for Unwinding Rolls

Production processes have several operations, often beginning with web casting and finishing with slitting.

Your Creation. Our Know How

DIENES Group was founded by Karl Rudolf Dienes of Remscheid, Germany in 1913.

Leaders in Building and Designing Custom Converting Equipment

Chase Machine and Engineering Designs and builds custom converting equipment specifically for your application.

Delivering Innovative Solutions to Converters and Packagers

Pearl’s punches and in-line attachments improve uptime and hole-cut quality for all your punching, perforating, and slitting needs.

October 2025 US Cutting Tool Orders Up 14.7% From October 2024

According to the Cutting Tool Market Report, shipments of cutting tools totaled $250.1 million in October 2025.

Pouch Packaging: The Flexible Film Converter’s Opportunity

Few packaging innovations have reshaped the industry as dramatically as pouches.

Martin Showcases Collaborative Automation

Leading US manufacturer, Martin Automatic, celebrated a successful Labelexpo Europe with a groundbreaking live demonstration showcasing the power of intelligent automation.

Reclaiming Core Focus

Why Outsourcing Secondary Slitting Adds Value to Primary Flexible Film Manufacturing

QC Electronics unveils new adhesion science platform

QC Electronics, a U.S. manufacturer of corona treatment systems, has unveiled a new lab line designed to bring scientific precision and data transparency to corona treatment.

EDGE Industrial Technologies Acquires Carbonomics to Expand Global Footprint and Product Portfolio

Combination strengthens global presence and enhances cutting solutions for industrial knife and cutting customers.

Static Control for Slitting into Narrow Webs

Slitting is a complicated process.

Sun Chemical has released its Autumn 2025 Regulatory Newsletter, which provides customers with updates on the latest regulatory issues impacting the packaging, inks and pigments industries.

SOMA, producer of flexographic printing presses, plate mounters, slitter rewinders and laminators, successfully demonstrated a first of its kind remote

The Catbridge Difference

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