Label & Narrow Web articles from November 2005

Label & Narrow Web archives from November 2005

Management by fish.(EDITORIAL)
November 1, 2005... When I was a kid I learned an expression that fascinated me: "A fish stinks from the head." I always wondered where it came from, and how. I searched the internet the other day and learned that the maxim comes from the Greeks, the Romans, the...

Electron beam now on the market for narrow web.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
November 1, 2005... Jetrion, a supplier of inkjet printers and inks based in Ann Arbor, MI, USA, has formed a partnership with Advanced Electron Beams Inc. (AEB), of Wilmington, MA, USA, to introduce an electron beam (EB or e-beam) curing unit specifically for the...

XSYS Print Solutions hosts UV flexo seminar.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
November 1, 2005... XSYS Print Solutions played host to a comprehensive seminar addressing the growing market of UV Flexo for shrink applications. This one-day seminar, Market Expansion Through Shrink Conversion, held in Plymouth, MN, USA, on August 16, covered...

HP sponsors first Indigo Ribbon Awards.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
November 1, 2005... HP announced the winners of its inaugural HP Indigo Ribbon Awards competition, which recognizes HP Indigo press users who are producing high value, offset-quality digital printing in the marketplace. Coinciding with PRINT 05 in Chicago, the...

Tailored Solutions partners with Raflatac.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
November 1, 2005... Tailored Solutions, Milwaukee, WI, USA, has announced that it now offers Label Traxx--the print business management software for flexographic narrow web label printers and converters--with Raflatac. With this new feature, Label Traxx customers...

Tilt Lock updates its internet site.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Tilt Lock, St. Michael, MN, USA, has recently updated its web site. The new site offers an extensive source of information on Tilt Lock roll handling products. The site includes detailed product information and specifications of Tip Lifts, core...

VIPColor establishes a presence in Asia.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(GRE Digital Solutions Ltd.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... VIPColor Technologies of Newark, CA, USA, has announced that it has appointed GRE Digital Solutions Ltd. of Hong Kong as a Master Distributor for the VP2020 Digital Color Label Printer for the Asia-Pacific region. The VP2020, powered by...

SATO America offers 14.9-cent RFID labels.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
November 1, 2005... SATO America now offers 4" X 2" Gen 2 RFID labels for 14.9 cents each in single roll quantities. The company says this new, low-priced smart label opens the door for immediate adoption of Gen 2 RFID by end users. The thermal-transfer printable...

Fusion UV names new Europe distributor.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
November 1, 2005... Fusion UV Systems Inc., of Gaithersburg, MD, USA, has appointed QurTech SA as its exclusive distributor for systems and components in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, and...

Multi-Color pushes shrink market with expanded product range.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
November 1, 2005... Miller Brewing Company has brought its "Taste Referees" advertising campaign to limited-edition bottles of Miller Lite using full body shrink sleeve labels produced by Multi-Color Corporation, Cincinnati, OH, USA. The bottles' shrink sleeve...

Nilpeter, Gallus, MPS & Skanem named industry winners.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
November 1, 2005... More than 750 converters, suppliers and other industry professionals came together in September in Brussels to honor the winners of the 2005 Label Industry Awards. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The R. Stanton Avery...

Tools & Production: a half century.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
November 1, 2005... Tools & Production Inc. (T & P) celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The company was established in October 1955. It grew rapidly during the 1950s and 1960s, producing punch and die rings for the expanding business forms industry. ...

Flexo Trade School holds grand re-opening.(INDUSTRY NEWS)
November 1, 2005... The Flexographic Trade School (FTS), located in Fort Mill, SC, USA, opened its doors to the narrow web converting community in October for a grand re-opening. The event combined the recent move of the school to a much larger space, and the...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
November 1, 2005... In the "Companies to Watch" feature in the October 2005 issue, the web site address for Leading Edge Labels & Packaging was incorrectly listed on page 42. The correct web site address is www.leadingedgelabels.co.uk.

Cleaning anilox rolls using laser technology.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)
November 1, 2005... To the Editor: In your recent feature article on "Anilox Roll Cleaners" [September 2005] you mention a variety of methods but omitted the newest technique, laser cleaning. This technique is covered by a US patent issued in 2002 to Jerome...

Adhesives Research Inc.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
November 1, 2005... ADHESIVES RESEARCH INC., Glen Rock, PA, USA -- William M. Stratton III was chosen to lead the company's new division, ARclad, as its vice president and general manager. Stratton was previously general manager of the company's electronics...

Domino Amjet Inc.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
November 1, 2005... DOMINO AMJET INC., Gurnee, IL, USA -- The company has appointed Gary Page to its newly created position of business development manager. His main responsibility will be to enhance Domino's presence in RFID solutions through its adoption and...

GEW (EC) Ltd.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
November 1, 2005... GEW (EC) LTD., Surrey, UK -- The company has named Craig Brawley to the position of overseas sales manager. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Harper Corporation of America.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
November 1, 2005... HARPER CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Charlotte, NC, USA -- HarperScientific, the printing and coating supplies division of the company, has hired Bob Cizmar as a technical product specialist. He will be responsible for technical support of...

Nilpeter A/S.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
November 1, 2005... NILPETER A/S, Slagelse, Denmark -- Claus V. Larsen has been relocated to Melbourne, Australia where he will be business unit manager, labels. He will work with Nilpeter's business partner, Intergrafica Print & Pack Pty. Ltd. (IPP) based in...

Precision Airconvey Corp.(INDUSTRY PEOPLE)
November 1, 2005... PRECISION AIRCONVEY CORP., Newark, DE, USA -- The company promoted Erik Adams from regional sales manager to global sales manager. He will supervise a team of regional sales engineers and manage a worldwide network of representative firms and...

Sun Chemical.(appointments )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... SUN CHEMICAL, Northlake, IL, USA -- The company announced the alignment of its North American Inks businesses in an effort to better serve its customers in different market segments and to increase the value to the customer. This has resulted...

TLMI's Annual Meeting in Nevada: Dow Industries wins Best of Show award.(ASSOCIATION NEWS)
November 1, 2005... Nearly 450 members and guests of the Tag & Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) convened in October for the organization's annual meeting in Henderson, NV, USA. Members enjoyed four days of educational sessions, social gatherings, golf, and...

Gallus acquires a stake in folding carton technology.(BHS Druck- und Veredelungstechnik GmbH)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... It's easy to see how producing small folding cartons on reelfed presses, rather than on sheetfed offset presses, can offer real economic advantages. Also, the best of UV flexo will readily match offset quality. Yet, despite the best efforts of...

Boost for Scandinavian label stock manufacturing.(NARROW WEB EUROPE)
November 1, 2005... Economic pessimism does not seem to be inhibiting certain self-adhesive label stock manufacturers. Raflatac announced that it would double its current filmic label production at the Tampere mill in southern Finland by adding an extra coater. It...

Season for price hikes well under way.(NARROW WEB EUROPE)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... Take a generous pinch of weak economic conditions, throw in the global aftermath of natural disasters, and mix together with some serious supply problems with oil based raw materials. The result is a predictable hike in prices. European...

Booklet labels with smart approach.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... The RFID bandwagon rolls on with several ingenious approaches to integrated production now becoming available. Among the latest is the so called Intelligent Converter, introduced at Labelexpo by the Switzerland based GRE Engineering Products....

GEW's India hub serves Asia expansion.(NARROW WEB EUROPE)
November 1, 2005... India's global influence on manufacturing and service industries will soon include UV curing systems for label presses. GEW (EC) Ltd. has started work on establishing a sales, service and manufacturing operation in Mumbai. Besides serving the...

Flint-Schmidt divests metal decorating business.(NARROW WEB EUROPE)
November 1, 2005... Flint-Schmidt, part of the recently combined group of Flint Ink and XSYS Print Solutions, is selling its metal decorating business to the division's senior management for an undisclosed sum. It is headed by Jan Koivula, who has held a similar...

A little perspective.(MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS)(Column)
November 1, 2005... Let's face it: Some people have really different perspectives on life, the kind that make you scratch your head. In college, I had a history professor who was a bit odd, to put it mildly. A mild mannered, middle-aged eccentric with his own...

Happy holidays.(LETTERS FROM THE EARTH)
November 1, 2005... I thought it appropriate to end the year with a holiday message, one that demonstrates the complexities of eco-economy. It begins with a conversation between God and St. Francis of Assisi. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] God: "You know all...

Reynders Etiketten: the latest technology and the highest quality are propelling this Belgian converter to global expansion.(NARROW WEB PROFILE)(Company Profile)
November 1, 2005... Marc, Jacques and Paul are the sons of the late Emile Reynders, who founded the family's printing company in 1956. From a small business in northern Belgium making labels on paper, the brothers have moved forward aggressively, striding into...

Digital printing: the growth of plateless printing is steady, and is attracting attention from some non-traditional printers.(Company Profile)
November 1, 2005... Digital printing, according to a recent study, commands a 3 percent share of the overall prime label market worldwide. That percentage, says IT Strategies, of Hanover, MA, USA, translates to $900 million dollars in retail value. The researcher...

Static control: small as they are, positive and negative ions can have a significant impact on the outcome of a print job as well as on the safety of workers.
November 1, 2005... Most people have a vague idea of what static electricity is. They have probably gotten a shock at some point or had hair stand on end. Although these are minor inconveniences in everyday life, static can be a major problem for the narrow web...

Pressroom organization: a profitable and smoothly running production area is the result of planning, teamwork, structure and intelligence.
November 1, 2005... Being organized can help with almost any task. Printing is no exception. Having an organized pressroom not only helps a plant's employees know where essential items are located, but also decreases downtime and increases productivity. Why, then,...

The press helper: challenging management philosophy in flexo print shops.
November 1, 2005... Most printing industry articles, speeches and books deal with technical aspects of flexographic printing and focus on specific components in the ink train. There is no question that these are important issues for printers. They affect process...

In-mold labeling: a creative process results in high quality, durable labels, yet its growth and acceptance are slow.
November 1, 2005... The world market for in-mold labels today is about 2.1 percent, according to Corey Reardon, president of AWA Alexander Watson Associates. Despite that small share, he says, the in-mold label market "is growing faster than self-adhesive and...

TLMI 2005 Awards.(Cover Story)
November 1, 2005... Dow Industries, of Wilmington, MA, USA, is the Best of Show winner in the 2005 Awards Competition sponsored by the Tag & Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI). The label, for Victoria's Secret Love Spell Hairspray, also won a First Place award...

Record crowd in Brussels: the big label and narrow web show of the year was packed with serious packaging and converting people this year, a testimony to the strength and forward motion of the industry.(Labelexpo Europe 2005)(Labelexpo Europe 2005 )
November 1, 2005... The biggest Labelexpo ever drew record crowds to Brussels in September of this year. Show officials say that Labelexpo Europe 2005 drew nearly 500 exhibitors and more than 23,000 visitors--a figure estimated at 15 percent higher than the...

November/December 2005 literature showcase.
November 1, 2005... The following pages offer new brochures and product information from companies advertising in this section. To receive a particular brochure or more information on a product, please circle the appropriate number on the Reader Service card. ...

Effect printing inks.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... ECKART Furth Germany ECKART introduces PRISMASTAR, a new effect ink series featuring rainbow effects and spectral color shifts. The ink is for inline printing. ECKART also has PEARLSTAR pearlescent inks for gravure and flexo printing....

Film label stocks.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... FASSON EUROPE Leiden The Netherlands Fasson Europe, part of Avery Dennison, has unveiled Fasson Global Co-Ex, self-adhesive film labelstocks. Films are available in gloss white, gloss transparent, top-coated, and non-topcoated. Fasson...

Butt splicer.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... MARTIN AUTOMATIC Rockford IL USA Martin Automatic has released its Model MBNT automatic butt splicer. The device has inertia compensated tension control, automatic splice initiation and a rolling shear splice unit. The machine can hold...

Foil labels.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... POLYONICS Westmoreland NH USA Polyonics introduces the XF 800 series label materials based on aluminum foil rather than synthetic plastic films. Originally developed for the metallurgical industry, these labels can withstand...

PS Laminate Construction.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... ETI CONVERTING EQUIPMENT Quebec Canada ETI offers two converting machines: Cohesio and Labeline. ETI says both machines enable label printers to produce pressure sensitive material in-house. The Cohesio is the coating laminating...

Cold stamping foils.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... KURZ Charlotte NC USA KURZ has introduced transparent, holographic cold stamping foils for web printing. The transparent foils can be used as an overlay on customer designs, corporate colors, logos, or any type of product labeling....

Shaftless press.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... CODIMAG Bondoufle Cedex France Codimag now offers the VIVA 420, a fully shaftless press using servo technology. Preregistering the units is accomplished by pressing a button instead of using a hand wheel. All register corrections can...

Flexo brushes.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... MAX DAETWYLER Huntersville NC USA Max Daetwyler has added cleaning brushes to its line of flexo consumable items. The cleaning brushes are available for both rollers and plates and are meant to clean cylinders. There are two types of...

Electrostatic charging generator.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... ION INDUSTRIAL Windsor Locks CT USA Ion Industrial has introduced a new line of single-polarity charge generators featuring the choice of "constant current" or "constant voltage" operation suitable for a broad range of static charge...

Antenna solution.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... PRECISIA Ann Arbor MI USA Precisia LLC has launched FleX Wing, a low-cost RFID printed antenna that uses conductive ink technology designed to deliver performance comparable to similarly sized, traditional copper and aluminum...

24-hour shipping.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... 3M PERFORMANCE LABEL Medina OH USA 3M now offers the Mini Master Program, which provides pre-slit 6" and 4.5" rolls of label materials that are stocked, boxed and ready to ship within 24 hours. Custom-slit half master rolls can be...

Outdoor UV coating.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... WATER INK TECHNOLOGIES LincoInton NC USA Water Ink Technologies introduces GlossCoat Outdoor, a new UV curable coating, as part of its PharmaFlex line. GlossCoat Outdoor is a low odor UV coating suitable for applications requiring...

UV paper strip indicators.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... UV PROCESS SUPPLY Chicago IL USA UV FastCheck Strips are paper strip indicators that can be used to determine levels of UV dose visually, due to five individual identifiable color-changing zones. Color change enables comparison to a...

Preflighting software.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... MARKZWARE Santa Ana CA USA Markzware has released FlightCheck Professional v5.7, an upgrade available for FlightCheck Professional and FlightCheck Designer on Macintosh and Windows platforms. The software is for quality control of...

Returnable beverage labels.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... SPEAR, ILLOSPEAR Mason OH USA, Brussels Belgium Spear and IlloSpear have created ThermoWash, a pressure sensitive label construction that allows beverages packaged in returnable bottles to employ the same labeling techniques of one-way...

Selection guide.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... DOW CORNING Midland MI USA Dow Corning has released Syl-Off, an updated silicone release coatings selection guide. It includes information about recent additions to the company's product line and is available in English and Chinese....

UV curing system.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... GEW (EC) Surrey UK GEW has introduced the new hCP N2 inert atmosphere UV lamp head. The product is for inert atmosphere curing of silicon release coatings for food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical packaging applications as well as...

Opaque UV ink.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... UVITEC PRINTING INK Lodi NJ USA UVitec Printing Ink has a new opaque white UV ink, 22024-17. It is designed for letterpress applications and is strong, opaque in color and resistant to scuff and rub. 22024-17 is manufactured to run...

Converting solution.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... EDALE Hampshire UK Edale introduces the Lambda, a flexible converting and printing solution. It can be configured to any single or multiple web path because all modules are servo driven and can be repositioned virtually anywhere on...

High gloss coating.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... FERGESEN DESIGN COMPANY INC. Hillsborough NJ USA Fergesen Design has released FDX 984, a new high gloss water-based coating receptive to overprinting with toner-based digital printing processes. The company conducted a number of trials...

Differential shaft.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... TIDLAND CORPORATION Camas WA USA Tidland Corporation has introduced the D4 differential shaft as an enhancement to the D2 and D3 models the company offers. The D4 model is designed for converting dust-free rolls and provides precise...

Coated papers.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... INTERNATIONAL PAPER Memphis TN USA International Paper's coated one side label and envelope papers now have a new standard of whiteness and brightness. They are available in 120 whiteness and 90 brightness. The company says they are...

Cleaning system.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... MAXSON AUTOMATIC MACHINERY COMPANY Westerly RI USA The company offers cleaning devices that enhance slit and cross cut quality when sheeting pressure sensitive materials or other laminates where adhesive buildup on blades is likely....

Slitting system.(NARROW WEB PRODUCTS)
November 1, 2005... DIENES WERKE Overath Germany Dienes Werke unveils Twin-Cut, its fully automatic slitting system designed to process products such as paper, film and foil by using a set of identical knives on top and bottom, which employ...

2005-2006 industry events.(Calendar)
November 1, 2005... NOVEMBER 2005 22-24 Diecutting Symposium & Exhibition Shanghai Exposition Center, Shanghai, China. Sponsored by Larson WorldWide Inc. and Nippo I.B. Co. Ltd. Robert Larson: 781-659-2115; larson@dieco.com www.dieco.com MARCH...