API Foils

API Foils has announced the North American release of an enhanced hot-stamping metallic foil product line. The MV-Plus series brings outstanding luster and high-speed performance to the marketplace.

Mark Andy was among the suppliers to win the ‘Technical Innovation Award’ at the recent EFIA event in the U.K.

When API Foils decided to upgrade the metallizing operations at its Rahway, New Jersey location, it turned to General Vacuum Equipment (GVE) as a leader in technically advanced, high productivity metallizers following the successful experience of sister company API Foils Lawrence (Kansas,) with its own General metallizer. API Foils is part of API Group, an international holding company with its head office located in Poynton, near Manchester, UK and businesses throughout Europe, the U.S., and the Asia-Pacific region. It also has a distribution network covering more than 70 countries. The Group manufactures high quality decorative and security packaging materials for use in the tobacco,

Acpo Offers clear, matte, thermal transfer printable, UL registered, easy release and UV resistant polyesters. Write 993, Visit www.acpo.com Acucote A founding member of The Brand Protection Alliance and member of NASPO and the CACP. Write 994, www.acucote.com AET Films Provider of flexible packaging, product labeling, consumer packaging, and graphic media films. Write 995, aetfilms.com Alufoil Products Co. Offers laminated foils, available in text weights from 15 lb. through 80 lb., and in cover weights. Write 996, www.alufoil.com API Foils Hot stamping foils and supplies: metallic, pigment, pearl, specialty, and holographic foils. Write 997, www.

For sprucing up a product's image, foil decorating has lots to offer. HERE'S ONE WAY to make a product stand out on a store shelf: don't make it bright and shiny. It will stand out—just like the Model T once did when Henry Ford said that cars come in one color, black. Today's products that are vying for the consumers' purchasing dollars must be bright and shiny. It's a fact of life on the store shelf. Although there is no question that high-end products must provide this high-quality look, it is also necessary for just about any product category, at any pricing

Acucote Pressure-sensitive labelstocks with environmentally safe, water-based, permanent, removable, and specialty adhesive formulations. Write 977, Visit www.acucote.com API Foils Hot stamping foils and supplies: metallic, pigment, pearl, specialty, and holographic foils. Write 978, Visit www.api-worldwide.com Avery Dennison, Fasson Roll N.A. Innovative Fasson-brand pressure-sensitive and non-adhesive paper, film, and specialty roll products used by label converters and consumer products packaging designers and manufacturers. Productivity, profitability, and growth achieved with innovative Fasson Advantage™ offering best-in-class service solutions such as next-day delivery, Fasson EXACT™ and RollXchange, an online marketplace for trading surplus roll products. Write 979, Visit www.fasson.com Arjobex Polyart™

Acucote Pressure-sensitive labelstocks with environmentally safe, water-based, permanent, removable, and specialty adhesive formulations. Specialists in thermal transfer media. Visit www.acucote.com API Foils Hot stamping foils and supplies: metallic, pigment, pearl, specialty, and holographic foils. Visit www.api-worldwide.com Avery Dennison, Fasson Roll N.A. Innovative self-adhesive solutions for consumer products and label products. Fasson-brand pressure-sensitive and non-adhesive coated papers, films, and foils in roll form are widely used in brand identity, bar code labeling systems, product identification, and other applications by label converters and consumer products package designers and manufacturers. Visit www.fasson.com Contract Converting Contract Converting's Roll Express™ program

These products and companies were the most sought-after in 2002 by packagePRINTING readers. Top 10: Prepress Equipment 1. Creo—PDF-based packaging workflow Prinergy Powerpack, copydot scanning systems, film imagers, and CtP devices 2. Agfa—Workflow and color management systems including the AgfaScan XY-15 Plus, Sherpa 43 Inkjet system, and Lithostar plates 3. Kodak Polychrome Graphics—Offers Digital and conventional plates, film, and proofing and color technologies including the Kodak Approval XP unit 4. BASF—Offers Nyloflex® and Nyloprint® equipment combinations for processing photopolymer flexo and letterpress plates and sleeves 5. MacDermid—Broad range of sheet, liquid, digital, and water-wash photopolymer plates, platemaking equipment, sleeves,

WITH WINTER WEATHER firmly in place, warmth is something that is on everyone's mind. Here's something that is sure to add some heat to 2004. packagePrinting has put together a collection of the hot products of 2004. In categories including prepress, presses, press accessories, substrates, and inks/adhesives, converters can get a glimpse of the latest package-printing products. Prepress Creo Creo's HyperFlex™ screening is new technology aiding in the formation of smaller dots on a photopolymer flexo plate. It provides a thicker foundation of photopolymer material that allows a smaller minimum dot size to be formed and held throughout the print process. DuPont

If a consumer product doesn't leap off the shelf with its graphic appeal, it might just be there awhile. by Tom Polischuk THE BATTLE FOR the consumers' buck is fought on many fronts, but usually a consumer product company's (CPC) last shot is taken at the store shelf. All those advertising dollars might not mean much if a competitor is able to get a potential buyer to pick up its product just because of its attention-getting graphics and packaging. CPCs are well aware of this and that's why you see such attractive packaging just about everywhere on the store shelves. At the forefront