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Inside/outside printing is becoming a niche market for Wasatch Container. The North Salt Lake, Utah, sheet plant began printing on both sides of the sheet about three years ago, running jobs in two passes. The company’s new 6.18 MiniPro from BW Papersystems allows it to run the same jobs in one pass. The four-color flexo folder-gluer is configured for three color outside and one-color inside.

BOARD CONVERTERS ARE ‘WOWING’ THEIR CUSTOMERS WITH FLEXO PRINTED GRAPHICS ON THE INSIDE AS WELL AS THE OUTSIDE OF THE PACKAGING.

This year, Manufacturing Day is October 4th, and while many events take place that day many declare October as Manufacturing Month. Manufacturing Day is all about addressing common misconceptions about manufacturing and allowing companies to address those concerns and showcase the diverse career opportunities available in the manufacturing industry and connect with America’s future workforce.

Manufacturers and converters, wishing to cut delicate materials, typically struggle with achieving mark-free results on security documents, solar panels, and materials used in the automotive and aviation industries. To prevent ultra-thin, delicate and electrostatically charged single web films or light papers from crinkling and soiling, the mechanical handling is the key solution.

The Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin contest is back for a fourth straight year. The annual competition, presented by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) and Johnson Financial Group, aims to highlight the state’s manufacturing industry – which employs nearly 1 in 5 Wisconsinites – and ultimately determine the Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin. We need your help, vote for the corrugator as the coolest thing made in Wisconsin.

In an effort to handle baggage while traveling properly, at this year’s Annual General Meeting in June, IATA decided to support the global deployment of UHF RFID technology to ensure seamless baggage tracking by 2023. This decision is based on the 2018 IATA Resolution 754 defining the tracking of bags during the journey as well as the sharing of information between airlines and interline journey partners.

Following the installation of the first seven color Göpfert Ovation in 2016, Dubai, UAE-based Arabian Packaging has taken another significant step forward, installing a second corrugator and more state-of-the-art converting equipment.

Thomas Rizzi has joined the sales team as a sales executive for folio and cut-size sheeters, and packaging equipment. He will provide solutions for paper mills in his territory of Italy, Spain, India, and Bangladesh; and for convertors in his home base- Italy.

In the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove, Ill., is a family-owned independent sheet plant that combines old-fashioned values with new cutting-edge technology to provide customers with innovative corrugated packaging and displays. Forest Packaging was founded 53 years ago in Forest Park, Ill., thus the name “Forest” Packaging, and is owned and operated by two generations of the Kula family.

How a manufacturer of paper-based office material, operating its converting line mainly with blind or visually impaired employees, is able to combine the highest operational safety requirements with an impressive increase in output, reliability, and product quality.