The Converting Curmudgeon

You’ve got only 10 days to get yourself over to Düsseldorf, Germany, for what’s left of drupa 2012. Yes, in one sense, that’s saying quite a lot because any other trade show that started on May 3 would have long since been over with by now. But drupa’s not just another s...

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With featured speakers on film technology, sustainability, packaging and nonwovens, the next meeting of Converting Influence will offer something for everyone. The spring program, set for May 17 at the Bordini Center of Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, WI, will start off with networking and...

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Pretty much halfway between last year’s successful premiere of ICE USA (Intl. Converting Exhibition) and the next edition, I took part in a Steering Committee meeting on Tuesday for the 2013 show, along with nine other industry-advisory members. (Check out our team photo below). Set for April ...

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Dual AIMCAL technical programs will feature 60 presentations, two keynote speakers, tabletop exhibitions and more. The AIMCAL Web Coating Conference and the AIMCAL Web Handling Conference (formerly AWEB) have a long, joint history of advancing the technologies of web processing and finishing. By ...

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Among the nearly 100 presentations at last week’s 2012 FLEX Flexible Electronics & Displays Conference & Exhibition in Phoenix, AZ, sponsored by FlexTech Alliance, were three market forecasts that cut deeply into this breakthrough field, slicing and dicing the details of where money wi...

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While the snow begins to fly across parts of North America, the Converting Quarterly staff is putting the finishing touches on our 2012 Quarter 1 issue, which features a Market and Technical Focus on Thin-Film Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Batteries. We appreciate your enthusiastic response to our fir...

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After nearly a decade of “blue sky” thinking and demonstrations of only laboratory prototypes, last week’s Printed Electronics USA & Photovoltaics USA 2011 conference and tradeshow in Santa Clara, CA, brought out plenty of real-world examples of working technology, some of whic...

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Editor’s Note: Mark Fihn, publisher of Veritas et Visus, a group of newsletters dedicated to the flat-panel display industry, gave a keynote presentation at the recent 2011 AIMCAL Web Coating Conference in Reno, NV. In his talk, he predicted what might lie ahead for touch panel displays and ou...

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By Dr. Peter Harrop, chairman, IDTechEx Most of the well-known objectives of printed electronics remain elusive because they are glamorous, Olympian dreams based on some very exciting demonstrations in laboratories. For example, we plan stretchable, invisible solar cells to go over the whole of a c...

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“Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.” –Steve Jobs And if anyone should know, it certainly was Steve Jobs. To help converters and their end-user customers get a better handle on reducing risk when introducing innovative products, Don McClure, president of Acuity ...

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