by Brittany Willes, Plastics Decorating Innovative Digital Systems, a worldwide provider of custom digital printing integration systems with headquarters in Indian Trail, North Carolina, is providing customers with the ability to customize their printing experience by introducing the Mach1 digital printing system. A high-speed LED or UV modular printing system, the … [Read more...] about Tech Watch: Innovative Digital Systems’ Mach1 Digital System
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Technology Innovation in Plastics Decorating
by Edward B. Crutchley, Crutchley Consulting Limited The plastics industry is the third largest in the US, and aesthetics play an important part in most plastic products. As part of that, plastics decorating is a wide-ranging and yet fragmented subject. Most people involved with it find themselves specialized in less than a handful of the dozens of often competing process … [Read more...] about Technology Innovation in Plastics Decorating
Basic Test Methods for In-Mold Labels and Label Materials
AWA has drafted a basic list of test methods for in-mold labels. It is not intended that the tests be strict and definitive, but they may be used as a basis for further adaptation and customization to build a full understanding of the critical parameters that companies are required to address when converting, supplying or using in-mold labels. In this excerpt, testing for … [Read more...] about Basic Test Methods for In-Mold Labels and Label Materials
Expanding the Market for In-Mold Decorating at Eimo Technologies
by Dianna Brodine, Plastics Decorating In Michigan, the automotive industry downturn in 2009 hit nearly every business, requiring a reality check and a revised plan for continued survival. For Eimo Technologies, Inc., that reality check was intensified by the knowledge that the injection molder recently had shifted its market focus to the very industry that now was in the … [Read more...] about Expanding the Market for In-Mold Decorating at Eimo Technologies
IMDA Award Winners Announced
The In-Mold Decorating Association (IMDA), Scottsdale, AZ, has announced the winners of its eighth annual competition. Awards were presented during the 2014 IMDA Symposium, Oct. 22-23 in Skokie, IL, and honor the industry's best in-mold labeled packaging and in-mold decorated durable products. The award-winners were chosen based on design creativity, engineering and innovation. … [Read more...] about IMDA Award Winners Announced