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Arkay Packaging breaks ground on VA plant expansion
Roanoke, VA-based printer and converter of folding cartons Arkay Packaging Corp. broke ground Feb. 7 on a 62,000-sq-ft, $4.5-million expansion, essentially doubling the size of its Botetourt County facility... More
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Toray to begin BOPP-film production in Europe
Japan’s Toray Industries, Inc., will embark on European production of its high-barrier Torayfan® BOPP metallized film with the establishment of Toray Films Europe... More |
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Aldabra 2 stockholders okay buy of Boise paper/pack assets
Stockholders of Aldabra 2 Acquisition Corp. (New York) approve Feb. 5 the acquisition of Boise Cascade’s packaging and paper manufacturing businesses. The deal is expected to close the last week of this month... More |
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Registermarks installs second Bobst Fuego folder/gluer
Dallas/Ft. Worth finisher Registermarks Letter Press Services recently added a new Bobst Fuego 110 A-2 CS folder/gluer—the second such unit in the past 18 months... More |
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New Screen VLF platesetter online at Lithotone
Litho-laminate and label printer Lithotone, Inc., upgrades its prepress department with a new Screen PlateRite Ultima 32000 VLF platesetter and Screen Trueflow 3 PDF/JDF-based workflow... More |
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Cascades gets “green light” on Reno De Medici merger
Canadian substrate provider Cascades says its acquisition of the recycled-boxboard operations of Cascades SA and Reno De Medici S.p.A. has been approved by the competition authorities in Germany and Italy... More |
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Substrate Secrets: Manufacturing of film substrates
Films used as substrates are produced many different ways, and the properties will vary greatly for the same polymer depending on how it is made, explains Eldridge Mount. More |
Curmudgeon: Are recent price hikes for consumables justified?
It started in earnest about a year ago with a string of price increases for coated, recycled paperboard; then resins; then inks. What's next? asks chief editor Mark Spaulding. More |
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Zipper tech: 6 steps to a better flex pack
Don't treat the zipper as an afterthought in resealable package design, advises contributing editor Linda Casey.
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Subsystems Applications Watch
Check out the latest upgrades in offset-press inking controls, label-core cutting and web guiding for CD-sleeve converting.
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Tension control on sheeters
If your sheeter makes great stacks running at constant speed but produces excessive waste during speed-up or slow-down, or cut-sheet accuracy is poor, the sheeter can be improved with upgraded tension control.
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