Label & Narrow Web articles from April 2006

Label & Narrow Web archives from April 2006

LNWsymposium.com.(Label and Narrow Web Symposium plans)
April 1, 2006... We have been to a lot of conferences. So have you. For a long time we have been aware that most of the conferences offered to narrow web converters tend to focus on a handful of themes. They are all good presentations that provide take-home...

TimeMed acquires Rx products firms.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
April 1, 2006... TimeMed Labeling Systems, a label converter that focuses on products for the healthcare industry, has acquired Automatic Business Products Company Inc. (ABP), a provider of business forms and labels. Included in the purchase is Pharmex, ABP's...

Pamarco Technologies acquired by equity firm.(Pamarco Technologies Inc acquired by J.P. Kotts & Company)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Pamarco Technologies Inc., of Roselle, NJ, USA, a manufacturer of anilox rolls, has been sold by Bradford Investments to the private equity firm J.P. Kotts & Company. Pamarco Technologies, which has several divisions serving the printing...

Avery highlights growth at investor meeting.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
April 1, 2006... Avery Dennison Corporation says that it has doubled its share of sales in emerging markets over the past five years, and that revenue from Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe currently represent more than 20 percent of Avery's total sales....

PCMC to accelerate Lean Manufacturing.(Paper Converting Machine Company invited Lean consultant Dick Ryan to begin lean manufacturing across its organization)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Barry-Wehmiller, the parent of Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC), which manufactures Webtron presses out of its Green Bay, WI, USA, plant, is taking steps to implement Lean Manufacturing across its organization. The company has...

Nilpeter USA to hold open house in Ohio.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Nilpeter USA, based in Cincinnati, OH, USA, will open its doors to the industry in May to introduce the new FB3300A in-line flexographic press to the North and South American converting markets. In addition to flexo capabilities, the...

Xerox, EFI donate equipment to Cal Poly.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
April 1, 2006... Xerox Corporation and Electronic For Imaging, of Foster City, CA, USA, have donated equipment to California Polytechnic Institute's Graphic Communication Department to support education in design reproduction technology. Xerox donated a...

Plastic Suppliers wins FTA environmental award.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
April 1, 2006... Plastic Suppliers Inc., of Columbus, OH, USA, is the 2006 recipient of the Environmental Excellence Award from the Flexographic Technical Association (FTA). The award is given for the category of innovative technology for Plastic Suppliers'...

Matan puts some wheels on its SpringPro thermal printer.(Marketing of Matan Digital Printers (2001) Ltd)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Matan Digital Printers, of Rosh-Ha'ayin, Israel, is taking its SpringPro digital thermal transfer printer on a trip this year with the launch of the Spring Mobile Demo Center Road Show. The company will tour the United States offering live...

Interns available for work through Clemson's graphics program.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
April 1, 2006... Clemson University Graphic Communications interns prepare to once again go out into the industry. The program sends students out three times a year to coincide with the university calendar. There are currently 51 Clemson Graphic Communications...

Tailored Label wins top award from state of Wisconsin.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
April 1, 2006... Tailored Label Products Inc. (TLP), of Menomonee Falls, WI, USA, has won the 2005 Wisconsin Manufacturer of the Year Grand Award for manufacturers who employ between one and 49 employees. TLP is a custom manufacturer of labels and diecut...

Desktop units ramp up digital color competition.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
April 1, 2006... TrendWatch Graphic Arts has released a report on digital color copiers, black-and-white printers, and even desktop printers as competitors to toner-based digital presses for key digital printing applications, including short run digital and...

Omet to hold two open houses.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
April 1, 2006... Press manufacturer Omet, based in Lecco, Italy, will conduct two open house sessions for the converting public this month. Scheduled for April 10 and 11, the events will take place in New Jersey, USA, and in Shanghai, China. The company's...

Aetek UV Systems.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2006... AETEK UV SYSTEMS, Romeoville, IL, USA -- The company has named John Emmons as the Midwest regional sales manager representing the Aetek product line in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, Colorado, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota,...

Anderson & Vreeland.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2006... ANDERSON & VREELAND, Bryan, OH, USA -- The company has appointed Mark Kyle technical sales representative. He will provide technical sales and service support for A & V customers throughout Michigan and areas in adjoining states.

Coates Screen.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2006... COATES SCREEN, St. Charles, IL, USA -- Barry Marshall, president of Coates Screen, has announced plans to retire. He first began working with the company in 1968. Coates Screen is a member of the Sun Chemical North American Commercial Group.

Corporate Express Document & Print Management.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2006... CORPORATE EXPRESS DOCUMENT & PRINT MANAGEMENT (CEDPM), Omaha, NE, USA -- The company has named Daniel C. Brown as its new vice president of strategic accounts. He previously worked at Cenveo as regional vice president of sales and general...

Degussa Goldschmidt Chemical Corporation.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2006... DEGUSSA GOLDSCHMIDT CHEMICAL CORPORATION, Hopewell, VA, USA -- Jeffrey Birkes has been appointed as market manager for the Americas for silicone release coatings. He is responsible for managing the sales of TEGO RC silicone release coatings for...

Flint Group Printing Plates.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2006... FLINT GROUP PRINTING PLATES, Luxembourg, Germany -- Thomas Linkenheil has assumed the position of head of the key account management at Flint Group Printing Plates. He succeeds Holger Neumann, who took over the position of head of the printing...

Gerhardt USA.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2006... GERHARDT USA, Dallastown, PA, USA -- The company announces two additions to its sales team. Dan Shaffer has been chosen as sales manager. Jim Breig has joined the team as regional sales manager. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION...

Harper Corporation of America.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2006... HARPER CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Charlotte, NC, USA -- The company has made some changes to its laser operations staff. Ray Fulk, formerly a laser technician, has been promoted to laser maintenance specialist. Shawn Rego has been promoted to...

Innovia Films Inc.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2006... INNOVIA FILMS INC., Atlanta, GA, USA -- The company has appointed Joe Piccione as president. He has worked in the packaging and plastics sectors for 20 years. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Maxcess International.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2006... MAXCESS INTERNATIONAL, Oklahoma City, OK, USA -- The company has added Scott Haney as MAGPOWR product manager. He will lead product development for MAGPOWR brakes, clutches and tension control products. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Prisym Inc.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2006... PRISYM INC., Charlotte, NC -- Michael Guthauser has been appointed as the company's new strategic accounts manager. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Rotec Huelsensysteme.(ROTEC HUELSENSYSTEME)(Birgit Verwold took the position if marketing and sales coordination of Rotec Huelsensysteme)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... ROTEC HUELSENSYSTEME, Ottenstein, Germany -- Birgit Verwold took over the newly created position of marketing and sales coordination at the company. She is responsible for coordination of sales activities, adjustment with agencies, exhibition...

TLMI converters meet in California: industry veterans win 'Best Managed' awards.(ASSOCIATION NEWS)
April 1, 2006... Four US converters, all with trophies in their display cases, stepped on the red carpet once again at the annual Converter Meeting of the Tag & Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI). The four were the recipients of the 2005 Singer Awards for...

Packaging & Label Gravure Association: ninth PLGA conference attracts 250 attendees.(ASSOCIATION NEWS)
April 1, 2006... The Packaging and Label Gravure Association (PLGA) Global held its ninth annual operational conference in March. The event took place at the Radisson Hotel in Miami, FL, USA, and attracted 250 attendees, an increase of 25 percent over 2005....

Norprint takeover strengthens Magnadata's security label business.(Magnadata USA Inc)
April 1, 2006... Norprint Labelling Systems of Boston in Lincolnshire, was among those featured in L & NW's Companies to Watch feature in the October 2005 issue. Things have moved along since then. The UK company is still worth watching, but it is now owned by...

Why a metallic inks company is sponsoring a very fast boat.(NARROW WEB EUROPE)
April 1, 2006... Company sponsorships among print-related suppliers were all the rage in the 1980s when brand building stepped up a gear. Inflationary pressures then kicked in and so the bean counters were forced to curb the wilder excesses of many a marketing...

Clever labels that push pressure sensitive boundaries.(Timestrip Plc)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Labels that accurately measure elapsed time or temperatures just keep getting smarter. As an example, Timestrip Plc now offers time-lapse labels for use with ethylene absorption filters that are found on certain domestic refrigerators to help...

Meeting standards for secure coded labeling system.(NARROW WEB EUROPE)
April 1, 2006... Another clever labeling application relates to the arcane world of tracking and tracing pharmaceutical, veterinary and biological products. Prisym Medica, a UK developer of marking and coding software and hardware for labeling and packaging,...

Smart labels that say 'don't eat me'.(Traceo was developed by Cryolog)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... There's just room for yet another smart label contender. This one is a patented microbiological freshness indicator named Traceo, developed by Cryolog in France. The transparent label includes a time/temperature integrator that allows retailers...

Listening between the lines.(MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS; management)
April 1, 2006... Remember those television commercials? Two friends are chatting in a public area--a restaurant, stadium, commuter train--and one laments the performance of his investments. The second quietly responds: "My broker is EF Hutton, and EF Hutton...

What an impact! Direct imaging & thermal processing.(ART DIRECTION)
April 1, 2006... Over the past year, we have seen a tremendous increase in the adoption of digital imaging and thermal processing of printing plates for flexography. The major driver for this trend is imaging accuracy and rapid turnaround. [ILLUSTRATION...

Ladders and labels.(FIELD REPORT)
April 1, 2006... Kelseyville, California, is the home of the Stokes Ladder Company, manufacturer of a wide variety of aluminum and fiberglass stepladders since 1966. Located a few hours northwest of San Francisco and west of Sacramento, Kelseyville is very...

Rako Etiketten: one of Europe's narrow web success stories, this German entrepreneur oversees more than 20 companies specializing in converted products in high demand.(NARROW WEB PROFILE)(Company overview)
April 1, 2006... Presidential elections in Peru, scheduled for April 9, 2006, may not be grabbing the world's headlines, but for German label printer Rako they mean big business. And why? Because a daughter company of the Rako Group, the Hologram Company, is...

Pago Group: a Switzerland based industry leader with global focus on systems.(NARROW WEB PROFILE)(Industry overview)
April 1, 2006... The name Pago might conjure up images of Pacific palm trees--Pago Pago is after all the capital of American Samoa--but in the label world the name belongs to the less exotic but more prosperous Swiss company making labels and labeling systems....

Flexible packaging: while narrow web has made inroads into this lucrative print market, it still has some distance to go to catch up to the wide web converters.
April 1, 2006... Walk down the aisles of any store today and it becomes clear that flexible packaging is a popular packaging technique. Traditionally, wide web has been used to produce flexible packaging. One reason is the large volumes involved, because wide...

A softer squeeze? Pricing trends for label converters, and the outlook for 2006-2007.(Label Pricing Trends)
April 1, 2006... In the fall of 2003 I attended the Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) Technical Seminar in Chicago. Joining in discussions with label converters during the coffee breaks between presentations, it was clear which subject was at the...

UV flexo: a powerful printing process continues to gain favor among narrow web printers as it penetrates new markets and packaging types.
April 1, 2006... A dozen years ago, the narrow web industry in North America was in the early stages of experimentation with inks that were neither solvent nor water based, but curable instead using ultraviolet light. The process was not new to printing in...

Flexo ink: measured evolution of these popular products gives rise to increased label quality.
April 1, 2006... Water based flexographic inks continue to be the largest portion of the narrow web market," says Peter Mulheran, "with a 75 percent market share. And the trend is stable." Mulheran, who has been in the ink business for his entire working life,...

PLA film: all corn. No fossil fuel.
April 1, 2006... The use of fossil fuels has become a hot topic lately with the rising costs of gas prices, which has, in turn, increased the costs of numerous other products and services. Of course, the impact of fossil fuel use is not only financial....

RFID starter kit.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2006... AVERY DENNISON PRINTER SYSTEMS Philadelphia PA USA Avery Dennison Printer Systems offers the Avery Dennison Basic Gen 2 Starter Kit, which the company says supplies companies facing current or approaching RFID compliance labeling...

Packaging software.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2006... ESKO Gent Belgium Esko has introduced Scope 3, a new release of the company's integrated software suite. The company says Scope 3 is part of its efforts to turn the packaging supply chain into a straightforward collaborative process....

Curing chamber.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2006... NORDSON CORPORATION Amherst OH USA Nordson Corporation has introduced a new curing chamber that the company says provides high reliability and solid performance in demanding UV curing operations. The Nordson UV curing chamber is...

Cold foils.(AMAGIC Foils)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... AMAGIC FOILS Irvine CA USA AMAGIC Foils has introduced its new KOLDfoil line of cold foils in 12 different shades of silver, gold, blue, red, green, and violet. AMAGIC's KOLDfoil formulations are available for the cure-tru or...

Brewery label papers.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2006... STORA ENSO Stevens Point WI USA The Global Specialty Papers Group of Stora Enso has initiated development of a new label paper grade for self-adhesive labeling applications used by breweries. The product is being designed for optimal...

Management system.(Microsoft Dynamics GP)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... COMPUTER PRODUCTIVITY SERVICES Oakville ON Canada CPS has enhanced the capabilites of Microsoft Dynamics GP. The company says Webstore provides customers with real-time feedback regarding order status, and ensures that critical...

Roll storage system.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2006... MAX DAETWYLER CORPORATION Huntersville NC USA Max Daetwyler Corporation has added a roll storage system for anilox rolls and gravure cylinders to its new product line. The company says the new storage system reduces the possibility of...

Module for software.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2006... TAILORED SOLUTIONS Milwaukee WI USA Tailored Solutions has released a new module in its Label Traxx software suite. The new Traxx Link module enables customers of printers selling stock items to link directly to printers' warehouses...

Digital printer.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2006... MATAN DIGITAL PRINTERS Rosh Ha'ayin Israel Matan Digital Printers is expanding its thermal transfer product line with the Matan Spot36. The new digital printer was designed to meet the specialized requirements of wayfinding and traffic...

Dancer roll.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2006... MAXSON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY Westerly RI USA Maxson Automatic has incorporated a dancer roll design into the web conditioning system of its high speed precision sheeters. The company says the enhancement allows the rotary cutter to...

Junction box.(junction box product information)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... SIMCO INDUSTRIAL STATIC CONTROL Hatfield PA USA SIMCO introduces a new junction box for use with the Blue Bar HL and PerforMAX 3 HL. The company says it provides an intermediate connection point for hazardous location...

UV system.(ultra compact, lightweight and stackable)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... GEW North Royalton OH USA GEW introduces the e-System mini electronic UV curing lamp head, which is designed for press widths up to 14" (350 mm). The company says the product features single phase, energy saving 4kW power supply that...

Labelstocks.(UPM Raflatac product introduction)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... UPM RAFLATAC Fletcher NC USA UPM Raflatac has released two high performance synthetic paper labelstocks designed for outdoor and industrial applications that require tensile strength, environmental resistance and print integrity. The...

Coatings.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2006... UVITEC PRINTING INK Lodi NJ USA UVitec Printing Ink introduces two coatings. The UV flexo gloss benzophenone free coating, 21163-87, was designed to provide high performance on press and match the stringent criteria for pharmaceutical...

2006 industry events.(Calendar)
April 1, 2006... APRIL 2006 11-14 Etiketka/LabelShow 2006 Sokolniki Culture and Exhibition Centre, Moscow, Russia. Organized by MVK International Exhibition Company & Sokolniki Centre. Ekaterina Vasileva: 7-(095)-995-05-95-488, 7-(095)-105-3417;...