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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UK • Family-owned trade printer Craig & Parsons has installed a Mark Andy Digital One press at its plant in Folkestone, Kent, to handle short run work. The toner-based entry level digital press joins six narrow web flexo presses that includes a four-colour Mark Andy 2200 UV flexo label printing.

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GSE Dispensing, the Dutch provider of ink logistics solutions, unveiled a new management software for the elimination of ink-related waste in autumn 2017 that can also assure colour quality within the label and package printing workflow. With its data handling capability and connectivity, the ink manager enhances value adding in a service-oriented, integrated production chain….

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USA • Label Products of Burnsville, Minnesota, purchased two LED systems from AMS Spectral UV, a Baldwin Technology company, in August. One was installed on an existing 7” (177 mm) ten-colour Mark Andy 2200 flexo press; the second was integrated into a new, custom-designed DeltaModTech converting machine, equipped with a flexo printhead and a digital printhead…

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With REACH the producer or importer of chemical substances is made responsible for the communication of safe use, handling, storage, transport and disposal of substances. The influence of REACH (Registration Evaluation, Authorization of Chemicals) throughout the production chain is tremendous. The Dutch company IGT Testing Systems reports from its experience in handling this directive and…

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