India-based flexible packaging firm Uflex has introduced new low opacity, good gloss white and anti-static twist wrap polyester film. The new Flexpet F-WTG-AS has been developed to be used for candy and confectionery brands, helping to ...
Tags: Polyester, flexible packaging
Packaging materials developer Tekni-Plex has started production at its new manufacturing facility in Suzhou, China. The new advanced facility, which features 140,000ft² of space, has already began producing products for the ...
X-Rite, along with its subsidiary Pantone, and Rutherford Graphic Products will exhibit color management solutions at the Print17 event in the US. The event will take place from 10 to 14 September 2017 in Chicago. At the event, X-Rite ...
Tags: Graphic Products, Print17
Taghleef Industries will be showcasing a wide range of specialized films at Labelexpo Europe 2017, which will be held between 25-28 September in Brussels, Belgium. Taghleef’s films are used for packaging several food and non-food ...
Tags: Taghleef, Labelexpo Europe 2017
Mouvent said its Cluster technology can now be adapted for all substrates, of all widths, for all markets. Mouvent, a joint venture formed by BOBST and Radex in June 2017, serves as energy provider for BOBST. The Mouvent Cluster ...
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Mark Andy Digital One, a CMYK dry-toner device with inline decorating and converting, has received the BS5609 certification on Avery Dennison substrate. BS5609 is a certification that guarantees label durability in harsh marine and ...
UK-based press manufacturer Dantex will be showcasing its new PicoJet Digital UV inkjet press at the upcoming Labelexpo Europe to be held this September at Brussels, Belgium. The new inkjet press has a width of 350mm and a 75m/min (250 ...
Packaging materials developer Tekni-Plex is expanding its Tekni-Films operations in Italy via an acquisition. The company acquired the self-adhesive tape substrate operations of Alfatherm SpA of Venegono Superiore (VA), Italy. The ...
Tags: Tekni-Plex, Adhesive Tape
Arizona State University (ASU) in the USA claims the first demonstration of 1kV-class aluminium nitride (AlN) Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs) [Houqiang Fu et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 5 July 2017]. AlN has a wide bandgap of 6.2eV. ...
Tags: semiconductor, MOCVD
LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA has unveilled its highest-flux-density LED. Packaged in a compact 4.0mm x 4.0mm footprint, LUXEON V can be driven harder than other LEDs in its class, it is reckoned, due to new die and packaging ...
Researchers in Russia claim “the first demonstration of an injection quantum well microdisk laser fabricated of III-V materials monolithically grown on silicon (001) substrate” [N. V. Kryzhanovskaya et al, Optics Express, vol. ...
Tags: silicon photonics, Lasers
MPS Systems North America and Green Bay Packaging have inaugurated a new demo and applications technology center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, US. Located on Green Bay Packaging campus, the new center provides local press manufacturing, ...
Tags: Packaging, MPS Systems
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that, for first-half 2017, it expects revenue of about £70m, reflecting increased sales in each of its three primary markets. “All business units have ...
The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has demonstrated the ability to grow thin films of the transition-metal nitride Nb2N (niobium nitride). The thin crystalline material has a similar structure to gallium nitride (GaN), but its ...
Tags: Thin-Film Niobium Nitride, LED
Screen has launched two new game-changing digital label presses for high-end labels and food packaging. The company said it will debut new inkjet presses Labelexpo Europe 2017. The two new digital label presses Truepress Jet L350UV+ and ...