Converting Magazine - March 1, 2009
Cover Story
Optimum flexographic printing: How to access endless resources
In today's competitive flexographic-printing environment, there are multiple choices to consider when pursuing new technologies or even upgrading or enhancing your current operation. Using your suppliers' expertise and know-how is a valuable tool that's often overlooked. Most of these services are free and can yield huge dividends.
- Columns
- Eye on Sustainability
- Extended-producer responsibility: Will it become law across the US?
- Viewpoint
- “I'm mad as hell...and I'm not going to take this anymore!”
- Web Works
- Master-speed reference: What is it?
- Departments
- Innovations
- Microwaveable, self-venting package top FPA choice for 2009
- New Technology
- Slitter-blade protectors available for OEM knifeholders
- High-speed, variable print system ideal for large- or small-volume runs
- Filter-plenum dust collector
- Laminator fits automotive-gasket market
- Hot-melt dispensing guns
- Web defect-inspection sensor adds web-gauging platform
- Clutch/brake modules packaged for performance
- Digital ink meets Nordic Swan environmental standard
- Multi-port junction blocks require less panel space
- Small-diameter differential shafts hold more weight with less deflection
- UV-flexo inks designed to run with all flexo presses
- Digital-printing primer boosts ink adhesion
- Surface-winding system accomplishes fully automatic roll changes
- Adapters allow shafts to handle large cores
- Single module controls up to nine static neutralizers
- Web-fed rotary diecutter
- Packaging color donors expand color gamut
- Foil imprinter is 100-percent digital
- Workflow software for corrugated display, complex-packaging manufacturers
- Sealant film offers improved sustainability
- News
- "Touchscreen" flexible display debuts via joint efforts by ASU, converting suppliers
- People on the Move
- Pharma flex-pack foil coater installed at Austria's Constantia Patz
- UV-EB print-market sales rising 7% a year
- Automation keeps labelmaker running
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