April 1, 2008
Columns
In a Celebratory Mood
As promised in last month's column, here are some official comments from Wayne Pferdehirt, co-director and chair of the judging committee of the Printers'...
Your Guide to the Right Web Guide
Webs are blind they don't know where they are going. With a well-aligned roller, sufficient tension, and good traction, the web has a tendency to track...
Drying Part 3: Paste Inks
This column will review the two primary drying methods of paste inks. Oil-Based Inks The main application of oil-based inks is in litho printing, primarily...
Experience Speaks: Ryan Madigan
Chief Operating Officer of Master Packaging Management style | Flexible Hobbies | An active lifestyle running, exercise, weights, golf, etc. How did you...
Departments
News Clips
International Paper, Memphis, TN, will invest about $10 million to convert its mill in Bastrop, LA, to 100% market and fluff pulp production. Equipment...
First Glance
Form Fitting Form-Tite packaging films from Curwood, Oshkosh, WI, are engineered for optimum performance on high-speed Multivac FormShrink machines. Films,...
Narrow Web & Label Reporter
RFID Read Heads Get FCC OK TWINSBURG, OH Pepperl+Fuchs has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on ten new RFID read heads....
Carton & Box Reporter
Educating the Buyer ELK GROVE VILLAGE, IL A new brochure is designed to help packaging buyers understand how they can work with their corrugated suppliers...
What's New Products
Enhance Water-Based Systems Michem Guard 349 and Michem Guard 350 wax dispersions are said to be ideal for imparting a matting effect to most aqueous...
Features
Conference Makes Green the Goal
INDIANAPOLIS, IN Sustainability is on the agenda at almost every industry meeting these days, but it was the agenda at the recent National Environmental...
Certifiably Clean
Whatever you do, don't send a fruit basket. That's exactly what one ill-fated bag converter did 25 years ago to apologize when it failed to deliver the...
Drupa '08
It's been four years since the last edition, so Drupa 2008 will need all of its 19 halls to showcase the many advancements in printing and converting...
Clever Converters
Achievements in packaging can be defined in many ways: functionality, convenience, safety, and sustainability to name a few. To acknowledge outstanding...
Quality Time
The Packaging and Label Gravure Assn. Global (PLGA) held its 2008 Annual Operational Conference in Miami, FL, February 27-29, with 200 in attendance....
News
It's 40 Years for IMC
FAIRFIELD, NJ Why does one company survive and thrive for 40 years while many others seem to come and go? PFFC put that question to Bruce Butler, VP of...
AIMCAL Energizes Business Leaders
PALM SPRINGS, CA It's no secret that winter meetings for most associations are anything but grueling, particularly when they're held at such posh resorts...
People | PFFC | April 2008
At Quickdraft, Canton, OH, Bryan Williams is named sales manager and Ken Erskine is named southeast regional sales manager. Senior VP Gerd Koehler assumes...
Growing the Label Business
LOS CABOS, MEXICO As in the challenging, extreme dry climate of the Baja Peninsula where the Tag & Label Mfrs. Inst. held its annual converter meeting,...
Trail Blazing
Curtis Packaging, a converter of premium folding cartons, proves that going green and making green don't have to be mutually exclusive. Not only is the...
