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WHAT'S NEW
Flint Announces New Opaque White Ink
PLYMOUTH, MN | Flint Group Narrow Web is offering a new range of opaque white inks in the EkoCure series; the latest development in UV LED free radical technology for use on shrink sleeves and said to have no limitation in shrink. EkoCure Shrink Whites reportedly provide excellent flexibility, adhesion, and printability and are designed to provide more than 70% shrink.
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KNOXVILLE, TN | AmeriLam Supply Group announces LuxeFilms FineLeather laminate film, a 28-micron polypropylene material said to be suited for high-end folding cartons, POS materials, rigid set-up boxes, or any other print project that will be frequently touched or handled.
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LOVELAND, OH | HAECO reports the TRS-2 trim removal system effectively removes corrugated trim to ensure proper gluing, and it virtually eliminates production stops or post-production searches for "bad boxes" due to trim caught in the glue station.
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 Heat, humidity and a lack of cleaning are a lethal combination that can shut down your operation. Learn the techniques used by the pros to prepare their corona treaters for the increased challenges presented when temperatures and humidity rise. Get full Details
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Coating expert Mark Miller says a premetered slot die coating system should be optimally designed based off the liquid properties and operating conditions. Too much fluid or process condition change and the slot die will be ineffective. Design the coating method based off known limits of production.
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Looking for news, new products, and advice on surface treating, static control, and web cleaning? Visit the SURFACE PREP content category on our website.
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Improve your profits with Martin Automatic. Run your press faster, create less waste, reduce your costs and be more competitive. Continuous running improves quality, ink lay-down and consistency. Customers tell us their Martin equipment has increased throughput by 30-40% which directly improved their bottom line. From web-handling to roll change automation, Martin Automatic helps you hit your target. So why are you waiting? Give Martin Automatic a call or visit www.martinautomatic today.
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 ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL | Clear Lam Packaging has received a Silver Award for packaging excellence from the DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation program for its Fisher Roasted Party Peanuts PrimaPak package. The patented technology produces a flexible, stackable, and reclosable "pop-up box" produced on a proprietary vertical form/fill/seal machine.
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 In Part 1 of this series, polymer processing expert Tom Bezigian discussed ways to eliminate gauge bands in the extrusion coating process by suggesting start-up procedures that will reduce polymer degradation to the point where gauge bands will not be seen or detected. In this post, Tom reviews operating procedures that will assist the operator in maintaining a "streak-free" melt curtain.
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PFFC CONFERENCES AT CPP EXPO
 PFFC's Web Lines columnist, Tim Walker, is presenting "What tensioning plan makes sense for your product/process" on Sunday, September 28, as part of CPP Expo's Conference Program. Good tensioning reduces waste from breaks, distortion, scratching, wrinkling, mis-registration, and poor roll formation. To get tension under control you have to understand how your system works. Learn to map out your system and understand best practices of tension zone strategy, speed vs. torque control, open vs. closed loop control, and dancer vs. load cell roll feedback.
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FREMONT, CA | EFI has acquired Group Rhapso, a printing and packaging software solutions developer based in Les Ulis, France. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but it is not expected to be material to EFI's Q2 or full-year 2014 results. Rhapso's employees have joined EFI and will be integrated into EFI's European operations..
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Faustel Exceeds Pre-Recession Business
GERMANTOWN, WI | Faustel reports it reached a ten-year high for the fiscal year ending March 31. A privately held company, Faustel says it emerged from the deep recession that hit the capital equipment industry even stronger than the prior years.
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HAUPPAUGE, NY | On May 16 Nordmeccanica celebrated the grand opening of the new location for Nordmeccanica Vacuum, the group operation producing metallizing machinery for the plastic films and paper industry. Nordmeccanica purchased the rights and technology of the Galileo business at the beginning of 2013, and in just over one year Nordmeccanica Vacuum completely redesigned and re-engineered the Galileo metallizers product line.
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Talk To Me
 Just returned from a long weekend visit to Cedarburg and Manitowoc, WI, where we had the opportunity to tour the USS Cobia WWII submarine at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum. (I'll never complain about my closet space again.) An added bonus: watching the S.S. Badger carferry arriving from Ludington, MI, a 4-hr trip across Lake Michigan. Have you ever taken that ferry? It looks like fun. Write to me at chine@pffc-online.com. - Claudia
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