AWA

Label Release Liner: Looking to the Future
November 1, 2011

More than 80 participants from the full breadth of the label release liner supply chain attended the annual AWA Label Release Liner Industry Seminar held in Brussels, Belgium. Sustainability, raw material costs, and the relative use of paper- and film-based liners were among the key topics highlighted at the seminar.

Waste Not... –Polischuk
November 1, 2011

Pressure-sensitive labeling technology has many advantages and has a huge installed base of label application equipment, but its waste profile could be viewed as a longer term Achilles Heel.

Speakers for 2011 Brand Security Conference Program
July 1, 2011

AWA Alexander Watson Associates has announced the line up of speakers for its 2011 PABS™ Conference Program. The PABS - Product Authentication Brand Security Conference is being held in Chicago on September 14 - 15, 2011.

ICE USA 2011 Conference schedule
March 1, 2011

The conference schedule for ICE USA includes workshops on web coating, handling and winding; keynotes by Thomas Blaige, Blaige & Company and Tony Carignano, Cytec Industries Inc.

Track-And-Trace
February 1, 2011

Track-and-trace technology has developed enormously in the last few years. Even though bar codes have been around for nearly half a century, they play a key role today in supply chain management in many different ways—securing and documenting a variety of information from unique product identifier to production location, batch number, and expiration date. Bar codes are also the natural partners for today's product authentication technologies.