Alpha Plastics: PET bottles

Alpha Plastics (St. Louis, MO) entered the PET packer market with a line of 10 bottles. Sizes range from 60 cc to 500 cc with stock colors of amber and opaque white.

Sep 30th, 1997

Pw 22941 Alp Pla St Lou 15

Two neck finishes are available to accommodate either continuous-thread or hinge-guard closures, and an extended neck bead helps secure shrink bands. The bottles offer uniform wall thickness for easy labeling.

Alpha Plastics

Kurt Flathmann Retires from Allstein

Allstein announced the retirement of Kurt Flathmann as head of sales in North America.

K-1 President Mike Tsai in front of the Landa S10 Nanographic Printing&circledR; Press

Nanographic Press Arrives in California

It appears that Landa Digital Printing is making good on its promise that this will be a year for multiple installations of its innovative S10 Nanographic press.

Herma 400 Label Applicator

OEM Incorporates New Labeler for Compact Cleanroom Environment

The HERMA 400 can apply any type of adhesive label to virtually any type of product or package and is used across a wide variety of industries.

Dedicated Inspection Suite to Optimize ECL Production

Luminer has inaugurated 7,000 sq ft of inspection space at its primary manufacturing facility will include a new back-number system and a third 100% inspection platform that will address the particular needs of extended content labels.

Compact Print and Apply Labeler

FOX IV Technologies introduces the Model 5411 compact print and apply labeler designed for low-to-medium volume automated labeling applications such as labeling pallets and order fulfillment with an auto-bagger.

NiceLabel Introduces Cloud-based Business Model

NiceLabel introduces a cloud-based business model for its channel partner program that will enable its partners to deliver labeling solutions-as-a-service securely and remotely.

9550 Lpa Direct Front 2

Videojet Upgrades the 9550 Print & Apply Labeling System with a New 6” Printhead Option

Videojet 9550 increases reliability, efficiency and productivity for outer case and bundle packaging.

9550 Lpa Direct Front 2

Print and Apply Labeling System

Videojet Technologies upgrades its 9550 print-and-apply labeling system featuring a 6-in. printhead option and a design that eliminates the mechanical adjustments, wear parts, and failure points that can cause everyday operational problems.

C-P Flexible Packaging Invests in Photopolymer Plate Technology

C-P Flexible Packaging invested in DuPont Cyrel Easy photopolymer plate technology to enhance its high-definition and expanded gamut flexographic printing capabilities.

Production Interface

The 2200 Production Interface from Markem-Imaje is designed to minimizes case and pallet labeling downtime and rework.

Like almost all of Spacestation’s beverage output as a copacker, the company’s own Flybeverage brands—Nectr and Uncle Arnie’s—use a shrink sleeve labeling system that is flexible enough for a variety of different combinations of bottle dimensions/heights, substrates, container transparency levels, and closure styles.

Shrink Sleeve Fits Fine for Cannabis Seltzer & Soda Line

With varied SKUs for CP/CM business, plus a quickly growing in-house brand of its own, this cannabis-infused beverage producer found that shrink sleeve labeling is the right solution for just about any and all form factors, whether glass, PET, or cans.

This robot picks freshly printed cans six at a time from the vacuum conveyor discharge and places them on the infeed conveyor of the curing oven.

Breakthrough in Direct Digital Can Printing

Tonejet’s electrostatic drop-on-demand can printing technology has taken some time to mature since it first burst onto the scene. That makes this SoluCan installation awfully interesting.

Huhtamäki Decreases Plate Production Time with Flint Group Equipment

When Huhtamäki’s existing plate making equipment was reaching the end of its life cycle, it invested in a Flint Group plate making solution.

Colordyne Launches New Corporate Division and Website

Colordyne celebrated its 10th anniversary by launching a new division and website focused on print engine development and innovation.

An impressive example of what THIMM has been able to produce thanks to its digital capabilities is this package for a Danone Activia campaign executed in the Czech Republic.

Packaging Converters are Digging Digital

From a new approach to metallization to nanographic printing to digital laser scoring and cutting of printed corrugated sheet, converters agree that digital is the future.

Single-pass Inkjet Print Engine

The 2800 Series AP–Retrofit from Colordyne is a compact, single-pass print engine that can be retrofitted onto existing analog equipment.

Sales and Marketing Head Andy Staib, President Tom Staib, and TJ Staib, VP of Packaging and a fifth-generation Staib at DWS, are excited about the opportunities presented by the MPS EF SYMJET powered by Domino hybrid press.

Hybrid Digital for Craft Brewers and More

This fourth-generation supplier of custom labels helped push the makers of digital ink-jet systems until the right machines and the right inks became marketplace realities.

Amac Asl 300 Shrink Labeler

Shrink Labeler Offers Sturdy, Intelligent Operation

Streamlined design with as few moving parts as possible simplifies changeover and maintenance

A white-labeled replica of the original nameplate.

The Role of an Equipment Label Manufacturer: Label Spec Review

A medical device manufacturer worked with an equipment label converter to manufacture and deliver labels to spec.

Worry-Free Coding is currently offered with the Videojet 1860 continuous inkjet (CIJ) printer (shown).

Videojet Introduces its Worry-Free Coding Service

Videojet Technologies introduces Worry-Free Coding, a new monthly service designed to enhance coding performance while reducing operational stress for manufacturers.

More in Coding, printing & labeling

Leibinger Cij Jet2

IIMAK Announces Partnership with Leibinger

IIMAK announces its partnership with Leibinger Coding and Marking Systems. IIMAK is now a distributor of the full line of Leibinger's JET continuous inkjet printers.

All four folding cartons shown here were printed on the Landa S10 and then creased and cut on the Highcon Beam, and the run lengths ranged from 2,000 to 10,000 units.

A First in All-Digital Package Converting

This Texas converter is the first in North America to commercially operate a nanographic press for packaging. Just as impressive, carton creasing and cutting are digital, too.

Flexible Packaging for Infinite CBD Gummies

Popularity of Cannabis Formats Evolving, Packaging Follows Suit

Dried flower is giving way to creams, gels, dried teas/powders and inhalers, products that doubled in growth in two years’ time. Packaging for cannabis is expanding to meet this growth.

Lx600 Angle Black Toast Coffee[1]

Color Label Printer

Primera Technology launches the LX600 desktop color label printer that can print a 4 in. x 3 in. (101.6 mm x 76.2 mm) label with 50% coverage in less than 6 sec.

Cl4 Nx Plus Std Label Large

Thermal Industrial Printer

Sato’s CL4NX Plus printer is equipped with a micro label print mode for greater print precision and prints 16% faster than other industrial printers.

Herma 500 Presse Edit

IoT-enabled Label Applicator

Herma US Inc. launches its HERMA 500 Label Applicator capable of labeling speeds up to 200 m/min.

Mini Label Printer

Sato launches the CT4-LX smart mini label printer equipped with a color touch panel LCD for intuitive operation. Unit is easy-to-use for operators of all range of expertise.

Sq 50 F Laser Metal 5e46bfaf54e2c

Fiber Laser Marking System

Squid Ink introduces the SQ-50F fiber laser marking system designed for high-speed food and beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and other primary coding applications.

The durable PV3

New Mobile 3-inch Thermal Printer

SATO America added to its mobile thermal printer line up the durable PV3, a mobile 3-inch thermal printer, featuring innovative solutions for mobile printing.

Butterfly Effect cannabis flower is packaged in an aluminum can with a child-resistant reclosable cap.

Integrated Labeling Strategy Helps Cannabis Company Grow

Medical marijuana startup Grow Ohio employs a combination of label software, printing systems, and label materials to meet compliance regulations and branding for six different packaging formats.

Print and Apply Labeling Systems

Matthews Marking Systems launches the MPERIA A-Series of print and apply labeling systems.

2019 Oct14 3730 Web[1]

Color Label Printer/Cutter

Primera Technology launches the LX610 Color Label Printer/Cutter that combines high-resolution color label printing with digital die cutting.