Dienes Corp.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items from Mondi Americas, HP and Labelexpo, Eskom Xeikon, OEC Graphics, Goss and Schawk.

Over the past six months, Flexographic Technical Association (FTA) has welcomed 156 new members to its membership roster, 85 of which joined in the first quarter of 2013 alone. New members have cited networking, education and visibility as primary reasons for joining.

Dienes Werke has received this year’s ICE Innovations Award for the development of its Depth Control knife holder with safety depth adjustment system. This award for new products in the range of slitting and winding technology was handed out to Dienes on the occasion of the International Converting Exhibition from March 27-29 in Munich. Dienes’ new development of a knife holder with manual depth adjustment is a cost-effective and easy solution for overlap depth adjustment. The depth adjusting wheel simply has to be turned by hand. When the pre-adjusted overlap depth is reached, a visual signal is released indicating the optimum knife adjustment.

Focusing on your customers' application parameters—while keeping cost, safety, and simplicity in mind—are important factors in choosing the right slitter for the job. ACCORDING TO "Slitting Techniques, Choosing the Best Method," produced by Tidland Corporation, it may be safe to say there are not many manufacturing industries that handle such a wide array of processed materials as package printing. Most of these materials need to be slit—cleanly, easily, and safely—in most converters' operations. There are three main slitting methods in use and Tidland has come up with a formula to best match the correct slitting method to the application. Easy as 1, 2, 3