packagePRINTING's 2001 HOT LIST
What products and companies were most sought-after in 2001 by packagePRINTING readers? Here's the scoop on the year's most-wanted technologies, ranked below based on responses to both editorial features and display advertising.***
TOP 10: Prepress Equipment
1. Anderson & Vreeland—Photopolymer plate processing systems, rubber plate molding presses, flexo platemaking materials, digital imaging systems and software
2. DuPont Cyrel—Photopolymer plate and prepress systems, including Cyrel FAST thermal technology
3. BASF—Nyloflex® and nyloprint® equipment combinations for processing flexo and letterpress plates and sleeves
4. MacDermid—Sheet, liquid, digital, and water-wash photopolymer plates, platemaking equipment, sleeves, and plate mounting systems for flexo printing
5. CreoScitex—PDF-based packaging workflow Prinergy Powerpack, copydot scanning systems, film imagers, and CTP devices
6. Kodak Polychrome Graphics— Kodak Approval XP digital proofing system, and conventional and thermal plate products
7. Barco Graphics—Imagesetters, CDI computer-to-plate flexo imagers, PackEdge prepress software
8. Agfa—Workflow and color management software, Sherpa ink jet proofers, Advantra imagesetters, Galileo/Xcalibur VLF platesetters
9. RBCOR—Water-wash photopolymer letterpress, dry offset plates, and solvent, aqueous flexo plates
10. Engview Systems—EV SYNERGY design software for packaging CAD systems
TOP 10: Presses
1. Mark Andy/Comco—Printing and converting systems for the narrow-web packaging market
2. Gallus—Label printing and converting equipment for flexo, UV flexo, letterpress, screen, and offset applications
3. Windmoeller & Hoelscher—Flexo and gravure flexible packaging and folding carton presses
4. Propheteer—Narrow-web presses for flexo, rotary screen, UV flexo, hot stamping, rotary letterpress
5. Allied Gear & Machine—Narrow-web flexo presses, including GiDue's Combat
6. Kidder—6-, 8-, and 10-color flexo central impression presses
7. Ko-Pack—All-In-One-Pass letterpresses and specialty presses for tube, carton, and film applications
8. Chromas Technologies—Narrow-web presses for tags/labels, flexible packaging, folding cartons
9. Bobst Group—Dynaflex flexo press for folding cartons
10. PCMC—8-, 10-, and 11-color mid- and wide-web presses; eXtreme dryer technology
TOP 10: Converting/Finishing Equipment
1. CTC Int'l—Butt splicers, waste matrix winders, and turret rewinders for the label printing industry
2. Rotoflex—Inspection, slitting, and finishing systems
3. American Int'l Machinery—Folding carton converting systems
4. Brandtjen & Kluge—Automatic foil stamping/embossing press
5. Elsner Engineering—High-speed overwrapping, rewinding
6. Powell Engineering—Shaftless backstand unwinds
7. AapexX—Coaters/laminators, unwinds and rewinds
8. Dri-Tec—Coaters/laminators, unwinds and rewinds, drying systems
9. Retroflex—Custom unwinds and rewinds
10. Greystone Manufacturing—Unwinds, rewinds, slitter/rewinders
TOP 20: Press Accessories/Components
1. Simco—Static neutralization products, including bars and monitors
2. AAA Press Int'l— LIGHTouch™ narrow-web UV curing systems
3. Absolutely Micro*Clean—plastic media cleaning systems for anilox rolls
4. Coast Controls—All-Air Web Guiding System
5. Enercon—Bare roll, covered roll, universal roll corona treaters
6. Prime UV Systems—UV curing for wide-web CI presses
7. Corotec—Corona treatment equipment and accessories
8. Max Daetwyler—Doctor blades for flexo, gravure, and specialty printing
9. Corona Designs—Aluminum, steel, composite rolls (treater, nip, idler)
10. Tapeswitch—Safety equipment, including diamond plate safety mats
11. Relief Products—Blanket cutters
12. Graphicart America—Computer-controlled, color concentration control systems
13. Julie Associates—Static control products, including neutralizing bars, blowers, nozzles, air knives
14. CR Products—MultiRoll anilox cleaning system and CR-1 cleaning concentrate
15. Solo Systems—Corona treatment systems for one or two sides of the web
16. Tantec—Bipolar static elimination system, plasma surface treatment system
17. Dynaweb—Dancer and ultrasonic tension controls
18. All Printing Resources—FlexoSource.com online ordering system
19. Maxcess (Fife/Magpowr/Tidland)—Winding, guiding, slitting, inspection, and tension control
20. CC1—Three-CCD camera, Windows-NT-based web inspection system
TOP 10: Substrates
1. Granwell Products—Polylith® synthetic paper in a range of basis weights, finishes, and grades
2. Contract Converting—Film products, non-pressure-sensitive stock, and uncoated tag
3. Crown Roll Leaf—Hot stamping foils, diffraction patterns, holograms, and heat transfer films
4. DuPont Tyvek—Fine polyethylene fibers bonded by heat and pressure for a durable printing surface
5. API Foils—Hot stamping foils and supplies
6. Arjobex—Polyart™ high-density polyethylene offering the printability of paper
7. Avery Dennison, Fasson Roll North America—Papers, films, and specialty materials, including Rapid Roll® program for narrow-web converters
8. Valeron—Valéron® Strength Film for high strength, superior printability
9. Plastic Suppliers—Films include heat sealable OPP and polyester, polystyrene, synthetic papers
10. Raflatac—Paper-based and synthetic pressure-sensitive label stock
TOP 10: Inks/Adhesives/Coatings
1. Sun Chemical—Inks and coatings for all the major printing processes sold under Sun Chemical, Kohl & Madden, US Ink, and Coates
2. Akzo Nobel Inks—Water-based and UV inks for narrow-web, label, and packaging industries
3. Rad-Cure—UV-curable coatings, adhesives, and specialty inks
4. Beacon Adhesives—Flexo adhesives for cold foil transfer, film lamination, removable, and pressure-sensitive applications
5. Craig Adhesives & Coatings—UV, water, and specialty adhesives and coatings
6. EM Industries—AFFLAIR® Lustre pearlescent pigments
7. Flint Ink—Inks/coatings for paper, paperboard, film, foil, corrugated, preprint and household products applications
8. Sericol—Screen inks, UV inks for narrow-web, and screen-making products
9. Braden Sutphin Inks—Water-based and UV-curing inks/coatings for wide- and narrow-web
10. Northwest Coatings—Water-based and UV-curable adhesives and coatings
Top 5: Diecutting Equipment
1. American Die Technology—Complete line of CNC and EDM dies
2. RotoMetrics—Precision rotary tooling for narrow-web needs
3. Action Rotary Die—Engraved rotary dies and print cylinders for the narrow-web industry
4. Bernal Technologies—Rotary dies for folding carton and packaging applications
5. Wilson Manufacturing—Rotary engraved cutting dies for the flexo industry
Top 5: Diemaking Equipment
1. Gerber Innovations—Gerber Profile™ makes dieboards, strippers, balnkers, and counter plates
2. Monroe Rubber & Plastic—Cellular die ejection materials
3. Data Technology—2,200 watt and 1,000 watt laser diecutting systems
4. Lasercut—1,500 watt to 2,200 watt laser dieboard cutting systems
5. Adams Technologies—Automated steel rule bending systems, laser dieboard systems, routers, water-jet cutters, CAD/MIS software
***Editor's Note: These rankings do not constitute an endorsement by the magazine.
- Companies:
- AAA Press Int'l
- Agfa Corp.
- American Die Technology
- API Foils
- Arjobex
- Avery Dennison
- CC1, Inc.
- Coast Controls, Inc.
- Comco
- Contract Converting
- Corona Designs
- Corotec
- Crown Roll Leaf Inc.
- CTC Int'l
- Dynaweb
- Eastman Kodak, Graphic Communications Group
- Flint Group
- Gallus Inc.
- Gerber Innovations
- Granwell Products
- Lasercut
- Mark Andy
- Max Daetwyler Corp.
- Plastic Suppliers, Inc.
- Powell Engineering
- Retroflex Inc.
- RotoMetrics
- Screen
- SIMCO Industrial Static Control
- Solo Systems
- Sun Chemical Corp.
- Tidland Corp.
- Wilson Manufacturing
