Converting Magazine - April 1, 2009

Flexible-packaging converters face a laundry list of challenges in the next 12 months. Chief among them: Lower finished-material volumes, declining profit margins and a drop in overall sales, based on data from the 2008 Flexible Packaging Assn. (www.flexpack.org) survey...

• Columns
• Eye on Sustainability
• Sustainability: Why is communicating the recycling message so difficult?
• Web Works
• Helper drives: What are they and how do they work?

• Departments
• New Technology
• Oriented film-line tenter clips
• High-force load cells
• Integrated cardmaking
• Automated sheetfed corona treater
• Brand-security infrared ink technology
• Open gearing, stock altering
• Bright, white board stocks
• Total extrusion control
• High-performance recycled paperboard
• Standup pouchmaker
• Efficient sealant film
• Multiple-web splice detector
• Traverse-spooling system
• Source-reduction sealant films
• Synchronous drives
• News
• People on the Move
• Flex-pack conference centers on Nordmeccanica HQ
• WI flex-pack converter ups productivity with W&H CI-flexo press
• “Greenfield” flex-pack plant showcases Bobst Rotomec press, Titan slitter/rewinder
• Dedicated facility features second Omet napkin folder
• Vendor Moves
• Viewpoint
• No need to fall on your swords

• Features
• A Material World: Energy spikes create "demand destruction"
• “American Scientists” stamp delivers top performance
• Market Watch: World demand for PSA tape comes unglued
• Susceptor package glows as AIMCAL Best Metallized Product