The Converting Curmudgeon

Click HERE to read the Digital Edition. In the 2012 Quarter 2 Issue 2012 AIMCAL Awards 2012 FPA Achievement Awards Impact of web-product development on web handling How to upgrade your web-handling drives Guidelines for selecting idler rolls Barrier Packaging Materia...

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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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CPP EXPO 2012, held last week at Cleveland’s I-X Center, brought together about 125 exhibitors — many featuring new products for the package printing and converting field. Here are just a few: Beta LaserMike’s LaserSpeed® non-contact encoder helps converters accurately...

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Any trade show the size of something like last week’s NPE2012 in Orlando, FL, clearly needs at least a few days to see with any real measure of thoroughness. I had a whole six hours. While I was in town the day before to attend the ICE USA 2013 Steering Committee meeting, I had to leave by a ...

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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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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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The 7th Intl. Converting Exhibition (aka ICE Europe 2011) has come and gone, and I think it’s left a strong, positive mark on the regional industry for the future. With nearly 400 exhibitors from two dozen countries, and 5,700 visitors from more than five dozen nations, the event is now firmly...

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The 7th Intl. Converting Exhibition (ICE Europe 2011) closed last Thursday at the New Munich (Germany) Trade Fair Centre after breaking all records for visitors, exhibitors and display floor space. Based on survey results, the top interests of attendees were coating, laminating, slitting/rewinding, ...

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The 7th edition of the Intl. Converting Exhibition (ICE Europe 2011) closed last Thursday with record numbers of visitors, exhibitors and display space. With 5,700 visitors from 65 countries, 384 exhibitors from 23 countries and a net exhibition space of some 10,000 sq meters (108,000 sq ft), ICE Eu...

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