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FEATURED STORY
FoldedColor Packaging, Corona, CA, through its web-to-carton interface, provides custom folding cartons to small businesses and startups, including Erik Knear's "The Santa Signal." Knear priced, designed, and ordered his cartons using the streamlined online workflow at FoldedColor's website. FULL ARTICLE
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Keep your corona treaters in top running condition by implementing the industry's best maintenance practices. Join Enercon's Service Manager Matt Rajala as he shares insights on common maintenance mistakes. Learn how to optimize the performance of your corona treater. Get full Details
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WHAT'S NEW
CINCINNATI, OH | Vortec offers ionizing air knives that neutralize static that can attract dust and contaminants. Knives also stop static discharges that can damage electronic equipment and shock personnel. Air amplifiers use a small amount of filtered compressed air to deliver a powerful, high-velocity sheet of laminar air over wide areas. Company says design produces increased thrust and velocity, reduced noise, and excellent uniformity, making knives ideal for moving webs, film, sheets, strips, and more. FULL ARTICLE
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MILLS RIVER, NC | UPM Raflatac announces the launch of a renewed product range for home and personal care labeling in the Americas. Raflex Plus TC and PE 85 materials are said to provide the excellent conformability, squeezability, and printability needed for showcasing graphics on wall-to-wall squeezable containers.
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ATLANTA, GA | Vertiv Corp. offers Earth Pact Sugar Cane Paperboard, said to be a sustainable packaging option for applications including food, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and more.
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March 6-9 | Fort Worth, TX
Return to the office with more info than Google! Join thousands from the package printing/converting industry for 4 days of learning and networking you simply can't find anywhere else. At Forum, learn about game changing technology poised to make huge impacts. Plus, discover how digital and flexo can equal a winning combination. Then, see the most revolutionary technologies on the INFO*FLEX show floor. Register by Jan. 29 to save up to $350! Visit www.flexography.org.
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COOL CONVERTED PRODUCT
BENNINGTON, NH | Monadnock Paper Mills Inc. reports its popular Envi Card is now available in a broader range of thickness. The sustainable gift card will be available in 28, 24, 21, 18, 14, and 12-point calipers that are optimized for many print engines and card configurations including CR80 and M6. Envi Card offers many print and post-print embellishments not available on plastic cards, and accepts magnetic stripes, RFID, scratch and signature panels, holograms, and embossing. FULL ARTICLE
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FEATURED WHITE PAPER
The goal of every brand owner is to sell products in packaging that stands out on the grocery aisle and captures the attention of consumers. One way to help packaging truly pop off the shelf is to print the graphics with high-definition plate technology. DOWNLOAD WHITE PAPER
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Unilux LED strobes allow you to see repetitive and non-repetitive defects in printing, registration, even coating quality, anywhere on the line, at full production speed for areas from 1 inch to 8 feet wide. In this video, see how a printing training center reduces waste by checking registration at each print station without slowing the press, and how a PET film supplier protects their reputation for quality. http://try.unilux.com
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FEATURED INSTALLATION
Grafpol B.M. Meszkes in Poland specializes in the production of self-adhesive and in-mold labels for a variety of consumer products. The company has invested in a TrojanTwo digital label press from Trojanlabel to complement its flexo and offset printing presses. The compact TrojanTwo runs at 18 mpm and up to 1600 x 1600 dpi, providing vivid and accurate color on a wide assortment of media. CEO Boguslaw Meszkes says, "The market is changing--digital printing is on the rise, customers are demanding high print quality and very short runs. I see the next 3-5 years being very important and successful for digital technology, as previous issues like high material costs, clogged nozzles, etc., have been solved, and that is exactly why we have chosen to invest now."
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FEATURED COMPANY
Jemmco is a leading supplier to the extrusion and web converting industries. Our products, JemmTron Corona Treater Roll Coverings, JemmTac Web Cleaning Roller Coverings, JemmTrac Traction Roller Coverings and JemmSil Release Roller Coverings have put us in the forefront of Roller Covering technology. Our line of Dyne Test Products contain the largest variety, including Accu-Flo Felt Tip Dyne Pens, Accu-Flo Jumbo Dyne Markers and EZ-READ PolyTest Dyne Pens, which enables us to be capable of meeting the wide range of applications of our customers. Our JemmStat Line of Static Elimination Devices, Tapes and Roller Wraps, Cleaning Products, Bag Machine Parts and Supplies, Laboratory Equipment, etc, makes Jemmco the leading supplier for film extruders and material converters. Learn More Here. Is your company featured in PFFC's Buyers Guide? Our Buyers Guide lists more than 1,000 suppliers of equipment, accessories, materials, and services in hundreds of categories. To list your company, click here.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
APPLETON, WI | Appvion, producers of thermal, carbonless, security, inkjet, digital specialty, and colored papers, has made a three-year financial commitment to support the Navy SEAL Foundation.
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HUNTLEY, IL | Rohrer Corp. announces the launch of a Cold Foil Blister Card Combo Program, saying users can have the brilliant effects of cold foil, and the visual impact of being able to see the product, with Heat Sealable Cold Foil.
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AMHERST, NY | IIMAK has acquired Talon Industries, Odessa, FL, a specialist in the development, manufacturing, and supply of continuous inkjet fluids, equipment, and maintenance for coding and marking applications.
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As the year winds down, it's time for the PFFC staff to compile our list of the Top 10 new products of 2015. We tally your "votes" -- the items that you clicked on -- in E-Clips throughout the year. We will announce the winners next week, so stay tuned. You can write to me at chine@pffc-online.com. -- Claudia Want to share your news with our subscribers? Send your company's announcements and new product releases to us for inclusion in E-Clips. Editorial Inquiries/Press Releases: Yolanda Simonsis | President/Editorial Director | 773-916-PFFC Claudia Hine | Managing Editor | 312-286-1374 Advertising Opportunities: Tim Janes | VP Online Sales | 303-674- 0577 Copyright 2015, YTC Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This newsletter is protected by United States copyright and other intellectual property laws and may not be reproduced, rewritten, distributed, re-disseminated, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast, directly or indirectly, in any medium without the prior written permission of YTC Media, Inc.
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