Looking back over the last twenty years of the label industry, a whole host of major developments took place and a number of future trends were being introduced. A comment by NarrowWebTech editor Herbert Knott how the die-cutting sector has changed.

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USA • Continental Datalabel has installed three Mark Andy Performance Series P5 narrow web printing presses. The 17’’ (431.8 mm) P5 label presses, each equipped with eight flexo stations, are the first eight-colour machines for the printer.

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INDIA • An Omet IFlex label press has been installed at Orianaa Decorpack Pvt. Ltd., Vadodara, India. The installed line is a ten-colour UV printing press, 370 mm (14.56″) wide, with a screen printing station, two cold foil stations, delam/relam, web turn bar and a die-cutting station.

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Earlier this year, Siegwerk, a provider of printing inks for labels and packaging applications, added a new UV waterless offset series to its ink portfolio for narrow web and label printing. Sicura Waterless was especially developed for standard presses as well as Aniflo, Codimag’s technology for short to medium run label printing. The new components…

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UK • Sussex based Mission Labels has switched to using Rotometrics’ award-winning RotoRepel non-stick coated dies.  Designed to improve die-cutting efficiency on substrates that use difficult adhesives and hot melt, RotoRepel has none of the chipping or flaking often associated with non-stick coatings and creates an improved workflow with fewer stoppages.

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GERMANY • The company launches a digital, toner-based colour QL-300 label printer with five colours, including QuickLabel’s white.  Possible application are also high-UV-resistant “no-label-look” labels. According to the company it is the first five-colour CMYKW tabletop printer for printing roll-to-roll processing.

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Linerless technology is gaining importance in the label market – Evonik is driving this development with an innovative release coating. For producing linerless thermal labels with more economical paper, Evonik has designed TEGO RC 1717 which provides the required barrier properties.

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For 20 years NarrowWebTech has accompanied the label printing and narrow web converting industries through a whole range of technical developments and drastic market changes. On the occasion of our anniversay a special timeline is showing the most relevant news tiems of the last twenty years.

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USA/DENMARK • Six months after being appointed to head up technical support for Vetaphone products in the USA and Canada, the Wisconsin-based Works Corporation has a made a significant impact according to Vetaphone’s area sales manager, Ted Wolski.

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Self-adhesive material, inks, curing and ecological issues have greatly changed the self-adhesive label industry during the past twenty years. Many of the suppliers of this time are still in business and are well established in the market, others have completely disappeared.

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