Packaging origination and graphics management company Contact Originators has invested in Esko XPS Crystal technology for the corrugate business. The firm is claimed to be the first in the UK in corrugated for its investment in Esko XPS ...
Tags: corrugate business, CDI imaging
Belgium-based Esko said it will exhibit a range of new and powerful flexo platemaking solutions for brand owners and label converters at this month’s Labelexpo 2017 in Brussels. The company says that its technologies come with clear ...
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Inci-Flex, a flexo and gravure prepress business based in Fisciano (Salerno province), Italy, has presented an automated flexo platemaking process, which the company says will assure quality, standardization and productivity. The Italian ...
Tags: Flexo Platemaking Process, LED UV
Esko's XPS Crystal flexo plate exposure unit has received the respected Printing Industries of America (PIA) InterTech Technology Award. Since 1978, the InterTech Technology Awards have honored the development of technologies predicted to ...
Tags: flexo plate, Printing Industries
Biesterfeld Plastic has agreed to distribute BASF’s polystyrene in Europe, North Africa and the CIS region. Biesterfeld Plastic will distribute BASF’s polystyrene 158K and the recently commercialised polystyrene 148HQ from ...
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Ireland's Reprographic Systems installed the first Crystal 5080 XPS exposure units in the UK. XPS Crystal is claimed to produce LED UV Exposure that is digitally controlled to result in high quality and highly consistent flexo plate ...
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Esko is set to showcase a range of solutions for the packaging industry at this year’s Interpack event in Germany. The event will take place from 4 to 10 May in Düsseldorf. Esko, along with its sister companies VideoJet, ...
Tags: Esko, Packaging Industry
Last year, I attended Computex for the first time, and for all its flaws I’m super-excited about returning with a year’s worth of knowledge under my belt. Taking place between May 29 and June 3, the show is spread all over ...
Tags: Asus ZenFones, Acer, AMD
Remember the black MacBook that was on sale from 2006-2008? It was the first Mac I'd ever considered buying. It made the company look like a rebel at a time when Apple was anything but. (It was during the height of the "Apple white" design ...
Kaby Lake is Intel's generation of processors, and it's starting to appear in all sorts of laptops. Here's everything you need to know. Contributions from David Ludlow The below information is only about laptop hardware: desktop chips ...
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Apple new 2016 MacBook Pro and MacBook Air launch event preview: Apple’s gearing up to launch three new MacBook devices, overhauling its product line-up for the first time in years, and may also unveil a 4K Apple TV. Computing editor ...
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Researchers in Korea have been developing improved non-alloyed contacts for gallium arsenide (GaAs) complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) and high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) [Seung-Hwan Kim et al, IEEE Electron Device ...
Korea University has been working to improve metal contacts on aluminium gallium indium phosphide (AlGaInP) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [Dae-Hyun Kim et al, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol55, p032102, 2016]. In particular, the research team added ...
Tags: AlGalnP, Tantalum barrier, LED
As notebook brand vendors including Asustek Computer, Lenovo, Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Micro-Star International (MSI) have been using Ultra HD panels for their high-end models, the increasing adoption is likely to drive down related ...
Tags: HD Panels, Touchscreen
Osaka University in Japan has developed a plasma pre-treatment for chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) on gallium nitride (GaN) that avoids creating enlarged etch pits [Hui Deng et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol107, p051602, 2015]. Surface ...