The 2011 inaugural Harper Road Show held at the Mark Andy Inc. campus in Chesterfield, Missouri, was a great success. With 70 attendees representing converters and suppliers from across the midwest, it was a packed house. The focus of the day was short-run flexo and presentations and demonstrations focused on increasing converter profits for short-run work using flexo technology.
Following recent stops in Florida in January, 2011, the Gallus ECS 340 will be on the road once again, stopping first in Dallas, Texas for a demonstration with Pitman for two days, on March 29 and 30. Then, on April 5, Harper Corp. will hold its Northeast U.S. road show at Gallus’ facilities in Philadelphia.
Anderson & Vreeland (A&V), a leading supplier of flexo prepress equipment and materials, marks a milestone in January, 2011—a half-century of supplying platemaking equipment and materials to the flexographic industry.
HARTSVILLE, S.C.—Sonoco, one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, has been named a North America Top Company for Leaders by Hewitt Associates, The RBL Group, and Fortune, announced Cindy Hartley, senior vice president, Human Resources.
GLOUCESTER, Mass.—At the association’s recent Annual Meeting held in Scottsdale, Ariz., Tag & Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) honored Gary Smith, vice president, sales for RotoMetrics, as its Supplier of the Year and Dave McDowell, chairman of McDowell Label and Screen Printing, as its Converter of the Year. TLMI also presented Environmental Leadership Awards to 3M and Spear.
CHARLOTTE, NC.—With its annual high school event approaching, the Phoenix Challenge Foundation recognized the sponsors that will make this year’s Annual International High School Flexographic Skills Competition possible. This year’s 11 new sponsors include: Applied Laser Engineering Ltd. Bryce Corporation Design Label Systems Inc. Eastman Kodak Co. ECP, Engineered Coated Products Huggins & Company North State Flexibles LLC Nu Tech Coatings The Provident Group Van Hoy, Reutlinger, Adams & Dunn The Phoenix Challenge Foundation also recognizes the returning sponsors whose loyalty makes the high school competition bigger and better each year: 3M All Printing Resources, Inc. Anderson & Vreeland Inc. Appalachian State University BB&T
CHARLOTTE, NC.—With its annual high school event approaching, the Phoenix Challenge Foundation recognized the sponsors that will make this year’s Annual International High School Flexographic Skills Competition possible. This year’s 11 new sponsors include: Applied Laser Engineering Ltd. Bryce Corporation Design Label Systems Inc. Eastman Kodak Co. ECP, Engineered Coated Products Huggins & Company North State Flexibles LLC Nu Tech Coatings The Provident Group Van Hoy, Reutlinger, Adams & Dunn The Phoenix Challenge Foundation also recognizes the returning sponsors whose loyalty makes the high school competition bigger and better each year: 3M All Printing Resources, Inc. Anderson & Vreeland Inc. Appalachian State University BB&T
The Second Coming of TFTs NanoMarkets There is nothing especially new about the thin-film transistor (TFT). It was invented by O. Heil in 1935, although commercialization work didn’t begin until the 1960s at RCA Labs. Back then, TFTs competed for a brief period of time with what was to become the silicon semiconductor industry, but the invention of the MOSFET put pay to any grandiose ambitions that TFT manufacturers might have had in this regard. Instead, these manufacturers turned to a less ambitious goal; applications in LCD and electroluminescent displays. By the late 1980s silicon TFTs had become widely used in LCD displays. In
By Dr Peter Harrop IDTechEx Nowadays, the term printed electronics is taken to include thin film electronics that will become printable. Most of the potential for printed electronics lies in what Toppan Forms calls Smart Media Products (SMP) which will be intelligent and mass producible yet often customisable as well. They will usually be used at the human interface or connected to networks and embedded ubiquitously into the environment. All this means that printed electronics will largely create new markets, such as tape around pipelines to detect leaks and impending leaks and signal that there is a problem. After all, leaks still occur in
Plate mounting demands accuracy, and today’s plate mounting equipment and tapes help operators achieve just that. With available state-of-the-art equipment, what was once a painstaking manual process can now be done with computers and machines. According to Paul Zeinert, product manager, Anderson & Vreeland, the biggest change in plate mounting procedures has been “doing things automatically and using computers to make it repeatable.” These advances lend themselves to the pinnacle of plate mounting—a precisely, consistently, and easily mounted plate. In view of today’s plate mounting tapes, operators are now better equipped than ever to mount, demount, and reposition plates for accurate positioning. Some tapes
