At the heart of every web converting process lie precision rollers. Designed to carry the web, laminate or coat it, cool it, heat it, or treat it, these cylindrical objects must be engineered and constructed with an exact eye for detail to meet the unique demands of any given application and system.
TC Transcontinental is creating a Recycling Group within TC Transcontinental Packaging. This group will purchase equipment for converting flexible plastics recovered from sorting facilities and other sources into recycled plastic granules.
Anellotech has announced that a laboratory demonstration of its Plas-TCat technology – which transforms mixed flexible packaging plastic waste directly into chemicals used to make virgin PET for beverage bottles.
AMETEK MOCON has launched a new oxygen permeation analyzer called the OX-TRAN 2/28 H. The analyzer was designed for labs that perform a high volume of verification film permeation testing.
UPM Specialty Papers partners with Cycle4green to boost label industry circular economy by collecting and recycling release liner base papers. Cycle4green works with labelstock producers and converters, collecting used material to remove silicon.
We discussed social responsibility with flexible packaging professionals Andrew Wheeler from Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp., and Giancarlo Caimmi from Nordmeccanica Group.
Vellamo, Finland’s natural mineral water aims to make a big splash with its USA launch by partnering with global label stock producer, UPM Raflatac for an innovative sustainability initiative . Vellamo’s bottles will feature UPM Raflatac Forest Film, the first and only wood-based polypropylene plastic label material.
The ultimate aim of the narrow web converter is essentially the same as it is for their counterparts operating in wide web converting – that is to turn out a product to the highest quality in the minimum of time while realizing a healthy profit. Easier said than done.
ProAmpac to build Collaboration & Innovation Center at its manufacturing facility near Rochester, New York. Facility is slated to open mid-2021 and will be used to accelerate ProAmpac's product development, application testing and analytical capabilities.
Charter NEX Films, North America’s leading independent producer of specialty films, announces they have joined the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) and their participation in the APR’s Demand Champions program.
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