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Personalized packaging, including personalized labels can enhance the communication between the brand and their customers.   Retailers Kmart Australian use digital printing technology to print personalized labels to attract customers to increase online shopping.   In an effort to attract customers while shopping online, Kmart Australian purchased 200 printers to provide personalized in-store labels for holiday gifts. Christmas shoppers are currently able to experience the in-store personalized labels in over 200 stores around the country   Source from labels&labeling .

Siegwerk will increase prices for all packaging inks and varnishes, effective February 1, 2018.   Increasing prices for chemical commodities have raised the cost of Siegwerk, in order to ensure that customers benefit from continued high levels of quality, Siegwerk said it now needs to pass on these higher costs.   Tight supply and force majeure in Europe lead to white pigments(TiO2) price rising. In addition, stricter environmental regulations in China have significantly raised the price of colored pigments and photo initiators. Increasing prices for chemical commodities have also developed rapidly by higher oil and solvent prices. The outlook for chemical feedstocks into 2018 remains tight at elevated levels.   Source from LABELS&LABELING

Waterless offset printing by silicone oil coating to repel ink, do not need fountain solution, do not use water, alcohol or alcohol-based liquid, is a kind of green printing technology, and high-quality printing.   The advantages of waterless offset printing as bellow: Environmentally friendly waterless offset printing do no use water so no waste water treatment. Waterless offset printing plate processing process to reduce or eliminate the use of solvents and chemicals, VOCs emissions are small. Relative to a water-based offset, waterless offset printing machine noise is relatively low. high-quality printing high resolution of waterless offset, suitable for small dot random FM screen printing; Because there is no role of fountain solution, network expansion to reduce the increase in color density, overprint more easily. Waterless offset printing also increases the color gamut space, making the color more rich and eye-catching. Continuous consistent ink density, printing speed can not be affected, the printing color concentration remains unchanged. Improved production efficiency Waterless offset printing without dampening solution and fountain, water roller system, reducing printing costs. Do not need to adjust the ink balance, you can also save time and increase production efficiency. Overprint and color difference easy to control, reducing the waste in the production process; Continuous and stable quality, a very short time after boot up to meet the design requirements, reducing paper consumption. Equipment structure is simple, easy to operate, operators do not need training, quick and easy operation.

In addition to announcements made in March 2017, Flint Group stated that raw material markets for many components within its packaging inks products have experienced price escalation. It added that many raw material markets remain highly volatile as 2017 comes to a close.   The third quater of 2017 saw significant increases and supplementary rises have been announced for the fourth quarter. Current forecasts indicate that the price pressure will not lessen as the industry moves into 2018. Flint Group identified these cost burdens as necessitating packaging ink prices rising globally as of January 1, 2018。   Source from labels&labeling.

The PET manufacturer M&G's bankruptcy filing and hurricane Harvey have afected the supply of PET materials on the U.S. gulf coast. North American PET prices rose three cents a pound in October and November, PET prices in the United States have been rising for six months.   In the short term, imports may help to deal with North America. But on November 8, U.S. trade officials voted to continue to review the four major north American manufacturers of PET, in Brazil, Indonesia, South Korea, Pakistan and Taiwan imports of PET products anti-dumping duty request, is expected to make a decision in early march.   Source from pack.com

The film has a smooth surface that does not allow the ink to penetrate. When choosing ink we should consider the following factors. Heat distortion point and heat resistance. If you choose drying ink, you need to consider whether the maximum drying temperature of the ink is appropriate to the temperature of the plastic. Solvent resistance, solubility solvent for the plastic film can help the adhesion of ink and plastic film, but if the effect is strong, it is possible to reduce the mechanical properties of the film. Plasticizer and other additives. Some plastic film containing a certain amount of plasticizer and other additives, these materials often can migrate to the surface of the plastic film and eventually to soften ink, failure bonding. Other factors such as rigidity, brittleness, dimension stability and expansion coefficient of plastic film affect the durability of ink bond.

Labelexpo Asia 2017 will take place from Dec 5-8 at Shanghai New International Expo Centre. This time it will focuses on digital and smart technologies.   Ancillary equipment, print materials and the most up-to -date presses will be show in here.the event hosts over 300 leading manufacturers.   Source from LABELS&LABELING

If you want more people to know about your product, you need to design a bright label for him. Cold stamping foil are important on label packaging design, today i will show you some advantages of cold satmping foil. Low cost, cold stamping foil does no need to make the expensive metal printing plate. It promised to be cheaper and more environmentally friendly. The printing image is larger. Hot stamping foil usually use in LOGO and some small picture, but cold stamping foil can be printed in a larger image. Wide application. Cold stamping foil no only suitable for paper and other basic materials but can also be use in films. Low opration difficulty, higt efficiency and low rejection rate. Cold stamping foil make you product more outstanding and competitive.  

Wide range Uses of Hot Knife Automatic Vertical Laminator Hot knife laminating machine used in addition to the general OPP film on the film, mainly for PET film, after the film not only can be directly into the next process and brightness, stiffness of the effect is better, especially for all types of paper products Exquisite packaging.   With aluminized film in the hot knife laminating machine can be directly laminating a variety of gold and silver cardboard, not only the effect is very good and greatly reduce costsWide range Uses of Hot Knife Automatic Vertical Laminator.  

  Four Tips to Ensure High Quality Lamination Work   1. The thickness of the plastic film (BOPP) used for the coating should be about 0.1mm -0.22mm, transparency reaching more than 90% and small heat shrinkage rate. So it is necessary to check lamination film roll shelf life before running on the laminating machine: symmetrical coating layer, excellent surface that shall not be scratched, crushed, or without impurities, stains and so on.   2. According to the need to cover the size of the product, choose a different width of the plastic film. At the same time should be adjusted according to the requirements of the product side of the regulation, according to the thickness of the paper to adjust the gap of the feed roller, adjust the guide film roll, and plastic film on both sides of the same tension, plastic film in the process of smooth surface without wrinkles. 3. The film is not allowed to transfer the process of conveying paper, the adhesive glue will never be covered with plastic film parts transferred to the rubber roller roller, with the growth of time, stay in the rubber roller roller The amount of glue gradually increased, the viscosity also increased, the accumulation of rubber rubber roller on the adhesive glue on the printed material will produce a certain strength of the tensile strength, resulting in the film of the local tensile deformation of the film wrinkles. 4. The film operation of the pressure roller and the heating roller to keep the roller, the heating roller mirror surface to be clean, both sides of the pressure balance roller rotation to be flexible. The application of the coating roller is correct and the adhesive is applied evenly. Pressure roller installation should be smooth, to ensure that the printed surface of the same force. In the course of mechanical operation will be subject to change at any time, failure, the operator must pay attention to observe, so early detection of early detection.  

What is Thermal Lamination?   Thermal lamination is a laminating process that we make paper or paperboard substrates naturally laminated together with plastic film due to effect of heat. Sometimes it is called hot, dry or heat laminating.   We use adhesion glue of EVA to laminate, which is melted when being heated by a laminator roll. The key factors affecting adhesion bonding strength are laminating temperature, pressure and speed.   Compared with wet or cold lamination, thermal lamination is more convenient at operation, while costing overwhelmingly less. Thermal lamination can be done at home or in office for small applications, like license card, menu cover, maps and so on.