Ashland has partnered with HP on the development of laminating adhesives and coatings for labels and flexible packaging. The adhesives and coatings will be compatible with HP Indigo ElectroInk to produce digitally printed labels and ...
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MGP is equipped to help food manufacturers meet demand for products that can be marketed as “Clean Label.” Such products provide options that give consumers a greater sense of enjoying foods that are perceived as being more ...
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Flint Group has introduced EkoCure Ancora, a UV LED low migration ink developed for food compliant labels and packaging applications. The EkoCure Ancora is the latest addition to the Narrow Web industry’s premier UV LED curable low ...
Tags: UV LED, Food Compliant Labels
Excelitas Technologies Corp of Waltham, MA, USA, which provides customized photonic solutions to OEMs, has expanded its OmniCure product line with a higher-power UV LED curing system for fiber optic coatings. The new OmniCure AC8225-F+ ...
Flint Group has acquired Printec Industries, a manufacturer of water-based inks for flexo and gravure applications in the North American region, for undisclosed amount. Printec is a supplier of inks for high-end paper cups, plates, ...
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Sheetfed offset printing presses manufacturer KBA-Sheetfed has partnered with specialty chemicals group Altana’s subsidiary Actega Coatings & Sealants in the field of inline finishing. The partnership will ensure the availability of ...
Projects to focus on solar and battery technologies, plasma physics and Arctic sea-ice modeling ExxonMobil has committed $5 million toward Princeton partnership for new energy research ExxonMobil engaged in similar energy ...
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GoodMills Innovation will exhibit its portfolio of specialty flours and grain-based functional ingredients at the Gulfood Manufacturing Show in Dubai. GoodMills’ Snackmaxx range comprises several masa flours, which are ideally ...
Sun Chemical has introduced new black pearlescent pigment, which can be used in multiple plastics applications. The pigment can be integrated into different plastics applications, including rigid or flexible packaging with little ...
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Austria based extrusion equipment supplier SML Maschinengesellschaft has developed bigger, faster and smarter stretch film line for hand, machine and jumbo roll production. The new 4m-wide stretch film line, PowerCast, features a 13-layer ...
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Packaging company Grafobal has installed the group’s sixth KBA Rapida’s Rapida 106 press at its headquarters in Skalica, Slovakia. Grafobal specializes in printing packaging for food, pharmaceutical products, cosmetics, ...
South Korea's Seoul National University has integrated two Advanced Vacuum plasma processing systems from equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA into its nanotechnology fabrication lab, which supports multiple users ...
The start-up of Kotkamills' rebuilt board machine 2 (BM2) in Finland took place on July 22, 2016. Valmet supplied key technology and automation package for the extensive paper machine grade conversion project. The printing paper (MFC) ...
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Yale University and University of Illinois Urbana in the USA have improved the efficiency of gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP) solar cells on silicon (Si) by reducing threading dislocation densities (TDDs) [Kevin Nay Yaung et al, Appl. ...
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Sun Chemical has collaborated with Acpo to sell SunBar oxygen barrier coatings, providing brand owners and flexible packaging converters with high barrier transparent packaging. Sun Chemical will provide its SunBar oxygen barrier coatings ...