Label & Narrow Web articles from April 2009

Label & Narrow Web archives from April 2009

Waste.(Editorial)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... If ever there was a time to think about waste and its impact on your business, it's now. In fact, I'm willing to bet that it's impossible to avoid thinking about waste. Every time you see makeready material coming off the press, every time you...

Hooven-Dayton adds capacity and employees.(INDUSTRY NEW)(Hooven Dayton Corp.)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... The Hooven-Dayton Corporation (HDC), a narrow web printer with both flexographic and digital printing capabilities based in Dayton, OH, USA, has purchased a new Nilpeter FB 4200 servo 16" press to expand its production capacity. The company...

TLMI says it's opposed to union free choice act.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute)(Law overview)
April 1, 2009... The Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) has publicly announced its opposition to the pending US Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), better known as "Card Check." The TLMI board of directors has published a formal position statement...

Gallus' sales declined 18 percent in 2008.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Financial report)
April 1, 2009... Gallus Group, a Swiss manufacturer of narrow web label presses and other products for the printing and converting industry, reports a drop in sales of 18 percent, from CHF289 million (US$243 million) in 2007 to CHF237 million (US$200 million)...

CCL to acquire S. African label company.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
April 1, 2009... CCL Industries Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada, has signed a binding agreement to acquire the shares of Ferroprint Western Cape (Pty) Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ferroprint (Pty) Ltd., based in Durban, South Africa. Ferroprint Western Cape...

ChemInstruments buys Tantec meter line.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... ChemInstruments has acquired the manufacturing and distribution rights to the CAM-Plus contact angle meters formerly produced by the Tantec Group. The patented CAM-Plus "Half Angle" measurement method combines reliable surface energy...

Mark Andy to distribute Harper anilox rolls.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Company overview)
April 1, 2009... Anilox supplier Harper Corporation of America has announced that Mark Andy Inc. will carry Harper's Platinum XLT anilox rolls as its anilox product for MAX, the company's aftermarket service and support program. Through this partnership, Mark...

TLMI announces 2009 technical conference.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute )(Conference news)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... The Tag & Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) will hold its ninth technical conference at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago September 8-10, 2009. The theme of this year's technical conference is "Get Smart," a forum focusing on the day-to-day...

RotoMetrics opens unit in Bangkok.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... RotoMetrics, the narrow web industry's leading rotary die manufacturer, has established a sales and service facility in Bangkok, Thailand, to serve the markets in Southeast Asia, China and India. Karen Moreland, RotoMetrics' vice president of...

Security groups plan tougher battle vs. fraud.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
April 1, 2009... The International Organization of Standardization (ISO) has approved the creation of a new Technical Committee (TC) on fraud countermeasures and controls to help address development of standards related to combating fraud. The TC, proposed by...

Avery opens distribution sites in Japan and Romania.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
April 1, 2009... Pressure sensitive labelstock supplier Avery Dennison has opened its first distribution center in Japan. The company also has established a distribution site in Timisoara, Romania. "In opening this sophisticated new distribution facility,...

Flint Group realigns its organizational structure.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Brief article)
April 1, 2009... Flint Group, headquartered in Luxembourg, has announced a new organizational structure aimed at enabling customers to have full access to Flint Group's broad product portfolio through a single sales contact, supported by technical support. ...

Fullerton College acquires Mark Andy 2200L press.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
April 1, 2009... The printing department at Fullerton College, located in Fullerton, CA, USA, has added a new Mark Andy 2200L, a 10" six-color press with a UV coater and drying system. Anderson & Vreeland has offered a new 12" x 18" Orbiter 10 platemaker, which...

Dscoop4 sets record for conference attendance.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Conference notes)
April 1, 2009... Dscoop4, held in Orlando, FL, USA, in late February, broke records for total attendance as well as international attendance and participation from industry vendors. The event, whose name is a contraction of Digital Solutions Cooperative, is...

APR introduces G7 program for flexographic certification.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
April 1, 2009... All Printing Resources (APR), Glendale Heights, IL, USA, a supplier of flexographic equipment and services, has established a G7 Master Printer certification program for flexographic operations. Developed by IDEAlliance and the GRACoL...

RotoControl now serving the label industry.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
April 1, 2009... RotoControl, a provider of high speed inspection, cutting and rewinding finishing machines for the label industry has officially launched operations at its manufacturing facility in Ahrensburg, Germany. The new company integrates servo drive...

Southeastern Printing adds latest technologies.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
April 1, 2009... Southeastern Printing's new facility in Palm City, FL, USA, provides labels for Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola and Dr Pepper Snapple Group. With its Comco C2 press, an eight station 22" machine, the company prints flexible packaging and beverage labels...

Lauterbach doubles size with new green plant.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Lauterbach Group )
April 1, 2009... A couple of years ago, when the Lauterbach Group was looking to expand into a larger building, the company ran into a series of obstacles. Prices in their Waukesha, WI, USA, neighborhood were at a premium, and the cost of retrofitting an...

David Batt.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2009... ANDERSON & VREELAND, Bryan, OH, USA--The company has appointed David Batt to be its 3M certified specialist. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Franco Nascimbeni.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2009... EDALE, Romsey, Hampshire, UK--Edale has appointed SO.MA.CA. to be its distributor and agent in Italy. SO.MA.CA is managed and run by its owner, Franco Nascimbeni. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Ryan Sharkey.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2009... FLXON, Charlotte, NC, USA--Flxon has announced the addition of Ryan Sharkey to its staff. He will assume responsibility for customer services in the newly created position of supply chain manager. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Paul Willems.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2009... GMG, Tuebingen, Germany--GMG has announced that Paul Willems has been appointed managing director of GMG GmbH & Co. KG. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Kevin Cooper.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2009... GPA, McCook, IL, USA--Kevin Cooper has rejoined GPA as territory sales manager. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Shaun Pullen.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2009... ROTOMETRICS, St. Louis, MO, USA--RotoMetrics has appointed Shaun Pullen as the regional sales director for Asia. He will head the company's newly opened sales and support facility in Bangkok, Thailand. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Vincent Allelo.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2009... TAPECON, Buffalo, NY, USA--Tapecon has announced the promotion of Vincent Allelo to the position of director of manufacturing. Jay Ziegler has been promoted to the position of director of sales and marketing.

Frank Connelly.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
April 1, 2009... WESTERN SHIELD LABEL COMPANY, Rancho Dominguez. CA, USA--The company has announced the promotions of Frank Connelly to CEO and Thomas Moyer to president.

Press on regardless.(NARROW WEB EUROPE)(Eltex-Elektrostatik-GmbH)(CCL Label Inc. (Schaumburg, Illinois))(Topfer Kulmbach)(Stratus Martin Etiquettes)
April 1, 2009... Take a trip round the websites of the principal manufacturers of conventional label presses in continental Europe and you will experience a deafening silence on the subject of new presses sold since the start of 2009. This may be a sign of...

Signs and covenants.(LETTERS FROM THE EARTH)
April 1, 2009... Signs. Signs and covenants. Messages that we hear and read. Promises that we make. Do we listen? Do we respond? Do we fulfill the commitment? I listened to a sermon recently about signs and covenants. Don't tell the rector but my mind...

Clean Manufacturing.(PRINTING LEAN)
April 1, 2009... If there's a bustle in your hedgerow don't be alarmed now, it's just a spring clean for the May Queen. Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run there's still time to change the road you're on. --James...

The label is the messenger.(FIELD REPORT)
April 1, 2009... Nature's Gate of Chatsworth, CA, USA, began making its line of organic products some 30 years ago when the owners of a Venice Beach herb shop collected rainwater, added fresh herbs and made a shampoo that they gave to friends and customers. The...

Get the most from empowered employees.(EXECUTIVE WORKSHOP)
April 1, 2009... In my almost 30 years of working in the printing and packaging industry, I've been both an employee having to be managed and a manager charged with having to manage employees. As I made the transition to management, I found that the most...

Syracuse Label & Surround Printing.(NARROW WEB PROFILE)
April 1, 2009... Until last year, the name was Syracuse Label Company Inc. Something had to be done about that. "A lot of our customers just didn't know that we did more than labels," says Paul Roux, vice president of development, sales and marketing. "We would...

North American label markets: the industry in North America showed relative strength right up to the start of the recession, and converters expect to weather the storm.(Industry overview)(Company overview)(Television program review)
April 1, 2009... The label converters of North America just do not quit. They might suffer, they might complain, but they are tough and savvy and are fighting back against the tide of recession with reserves of energy and business acumen. Yes, business is off...

Flexo trends: flexo, say the experts, no longer has to compare itself to offset. It now sets its own standards.(Company overview)
April 1, 2009... Flexo. Where would the label industry be without it? Flexography has come such a long way since its earliest days. The first patented press that used the basis for the technology came in the late 1800s. It was known as "Bibby's Folly," so...

Flexo and UV flexo inks: ink manufacturers conduct extensive R&D in order to improve upon the wide range of products available to flexo printers.(Color Resolutions International L.L.C.)(Flexographic inks)(UVitec Printing Ink)
April 1, 2009... Ink has been around for thousands of years. Historians point out that ink even pre-dates paper, its primitive formulas designed to darken the surfaces of raised stone hieroglyphics. The first inks were often mixtures of natural items like soot,...

Needle-trap system.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2009... SCHREINER MEDIPHARM Blauvelt NY USA Schreiner Medipharm's Needle-Trap system features a safety mechanism that is part of the self-adhesive syringe label. The design allows the needle to be safely and easily secured after it has been...

Coating polymer.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2009... OMNOVA Solutions Fairlawn OH USA OMNOVA Solutions has introduced its new SUNCRYL 4338 primer coating polymer, an environmentally friendly product for the tape and label market. This ready-to-use modified styrene-butadiene copolymer can...

Coupon stock.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2009... 3 SIGMA Troy OH USA 3 Sigma Corporation has introduced 54" master roll widths of its Standard Circle Coupon labelstock. The product features 3 Sigma AT2000 adhesive and 40 pound liner. Other configurations, such as the 3 Sigma PE3...

Splice detector.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2009... R.K.B. OPTO-ELECTRONICS Syracuse NY USA R.K.B. Opto-Electronics has introduced the Sentinel splice detection system. It is a self-calibrating system that is powered by 24VDC and provides an opto-isolated, digital electronic output with...

BWG liner.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2009... SPINNAKER COATING Troy OH USA Spinnaker Coating now stocks 42# BWG (Bleached White Glassine) liner. This low opacity, non-filled, heavily calendered liner features consistent caliper for press control and enhanced diecutting...

Software tool.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2009... BST PRO MARK Elmhurst IL USA Lector Work Flow Management is a new product that is used in conjunction with BST's Shark 100 percent inspection systems or Premius Print Process Management systems, installed on presses or rewinders with...

Contact cleaning system.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2009... TEKNEK Renfrewshire Scotland Teknek has launched the Nanocleen contact cleaning system. At the core of the system is a specially formulated roller and adhesive roll which Teknek says offers a number of benefits over conventional...

Two sided cleaner.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2009... POLYMAG TEK Rochester NY USA Polymag Tek, a manufacturer of web cleaners, sheet cleaners, and process roll cleaners for the coating, laminating, printing and converting industries, has taken its Four Roll Narrow Web Cleaner and made a...

Permanent adhesive.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2009... FRANKLIN ADHESIVES & POLYMERS Columbus OH USA Franklin Adhesives & Polymers, a division of Franklin International, has launched Covinax 462, a clear, styrene acrylic copolymer for permanent pressure sensitive applications that require...

RFID tag inserter.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2009... SCHOBER USA Cincinnati OH USA Schober USA has introduced the RFID-TI COMBI, machine designed to insert and apply wet and dry RIFD inlays in registration at high speed onto a continuously driven release liner. A dual reader verifies the...

Register control.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2009... ELTROMAT Leopoldshohe Germany Eltromat has introduced its new register control system, the regi_star 20. With the regi_star 20, register is achieved quickly, resulting in a considerable reduction in waste and setup time, the company...

Unwind/rewind unit.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2009... CAC Wind Gap PA USA Converter Accessory Corporation (CAC) has introduced Simplok, its new line of unwind/rewind modules. SimpLock is designed for converters that want to increase capacity, improve web control, ease roll changes for...

Tension controller.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2009... DFE Rochester NH USA Dover Flexo Electronics (DFE) has released a new panel mount version of its WebHandler 3 automatic tension controller. The WebHandler 3, which had been available only in a full enclosure version, works with input...

Infrared sensors.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
April 1, 2009... NDC Irwindale CA USA NDC has updated its 710 series of Infrared sensors for continuous web processes. The new family of gauges, designated as 71 OS, retains all of the features of the current 710 line while achieving complete...

2009 industry events.(Table)(Calendar)
April 1, 2009... APRIL 2009 28-29 Label Summit Latin America Sao Paulo, Brazil. Presented by the Labelexpo Global Series. Tarsus Group: 44-0-208-846-2700; email sales@labelexpo.com. ...

Branding blogs.(THE BLOGSMITH)
April 1, 2009... Branding is something that we are all exposed to hundreds of times every day. But few of us think about it, unaware of how much branding impacts our buying behavior. As label converters, we are direct contributors to the power of branding,...