Erin J. Wolford, Contributing writer

The flexible packaging industry has four main printing methods to choose from: offset, rotogravure, flexographic and digital.

Q: What is included in a typical tension control installation?
A: Assuming that management will choose a tension control technology that employs direct tension sensing to achieve the most consistent and accurate running tensions, the typical tension control application that we encounter is at the starting end of the press (or whatever machinery we’re retrofitting).

Q: What kinds of trends are you seeing among narrow web printers?
A: Technology innovations for the narrow web flexographic printing industry are more prevalent than ever.

Flexible Packaging Magazine has just put to bed its January/February issue, which contains some very positive industry surveys and research.

Q: Reaching a 100 year anniversary is quite a feat for an organization. What qualities do you believe an organization must have in order to reach such a milestone?

Q: What would you like raw materials vendors to know? What do you like or not like about dealing with them?

While attending Pack Expo this past November, I had the opportunity to meet the man whose company purchased a new machine, of which sat in the HP booth.

Q: What do you hope attendees will be able to extract from the show?

Flexible Packaging: How was business for your company in 2014? Did it meet/exceed/fall short of expectations/projections/forecasts?