Flexible Packaging Equipment

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When it comes to sustainability and being green, there always seems to be some sort of ‘new’ thing, and the next big thing is already here.

Much is made these days about the impact man has on the environment, especially regarding the effects our packaging choices have on the state of our air, water and land/landfills; concern about the environment is on the rise.

A new approach has been introduced into the flexible packaging and multi-layer film industry.

Schober has developed a new machine technology for the in-line die cutting, creasing or punching of a wide variety of paper, board or films.

Bi-oriented polypropylene film producer Taghleef Industries (Ti) announces a major investment in its Hungarian manufacturing plant that the company says will boost up its 5-layer capacity in Europe.

As you may have read in World Bioplastics, a November 2013 industry study conducted by The Freedonia Group, the global demand for biobased or biodegradable plastics will rise 19 percent to 950,000 metric tons in 2017.

The Festo exhibit at Converters Expo 2014 in Green Bay, WI offers a wide range of pneumatic actuators and control solutions designed for systematically quicker paper and pulp production, reduction of overall costs, and ultimately more intelligent process and factory automation from a single source.

Multiple industries utilize and rely on internationally accepted test standards to provide repeatable methods for comparison and quality assurance purposes.

Everyone knows that efficiency and automation have become critical to survival in US manufacturing.

Winding and unwinding must be handled with consideration given to the speed of the winder, the control processing times and the implementation of that control scheme into the overall machine design, to achieve greater efficiency.