Converting Magazine - May 1, 2009

Scrap reduced 20 percent. Web breaks and jam-ups almost eliminated. Operator safety greatly increased. Conservative ROI of just two years. How's that for a bunch of 35-year-old printing presses? (Photos, Video)

• Columns
• Common Sense Flexo
• Tips from Joe Flexo: How to roll with the flexo-ink flow
• Viewpoint
• Greenhouse-gas emisisons: Are you ready to report them?
• Web Works
• Roller traction: How can I improve it?

• Departments
• Innovations
• First Impression, Olive oil in BIB, EcoHanger
• Market Trends
• Does sustainability hold the key to future European flex-pack sales?
• New Technology
• Absolute encoders
• Compact, flexographic platemaker
• High-speed, variable-print system
• Flat extrusion-die system
• Blown-film extrusion support
• Automatic bagmaking machine
• Unwind/rewind modules
• Photopolymer printing plates
• Portable rheometer
• Splicing tape
• News
• Tomorrow's flexographers: Today's young Canadians
• MI converter Anchor Printing adds two Aquaflex ELS servo presses
• Brand Security News
• Large-format sheetfed press builds productivity for package printer Malnove
• Second Kmec twin-knife folio sheeter online at Roosevelt Paper Co.
• Digital package-printing forum showcases HP Indigo WS6000 press at OH converter

• Features
• CMM Intl. 2009 Exhibitors
• Electrostatic charging applications
• Green light for CMM conferences
• CMM Intl. 2009: Technology & Education Hub

• Slitter/Rewinder Tech Report
• Tips for a profitable slitter/rewinder retrofit
• Greenfield plant keys in new slitter, press