Hazen Paper

Featured Products for the flexographic, narrow-web and package printing industries including Acucote, Comexi, FLEXcon, Heidelberg, Davis-Standard, Retroflex, Scodix, Hazen Paper and Thelamco.

HOLYOKE, Mass.—Hazen Paper Company has achieved Chain of Custody tri-certification and is now able to supply converted paper and paperboards that are Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Certified, Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Certified, and/or Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC) Certified.

Paperboard has been an effective packaging option for many years and continues to provide eye-catching, functional appeal on the store shelf. IT CAN BE folded into many forms. It can stand-up, be flat, or it can be folded into a six-point star figure. It can enhance your customers' marketing plans, as it has potential to make merchandise just fly off the shelves with new and innovative customizations. No, it's not some magical potion from the new Harry Potter book, it's paperboard. Paperboard options Only a converter, in concert with its customers, can make such a cost/benefit decision on new substrates. However, paperboard can offer

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™

Metallized papers and films add pizzazz and value to products. PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED to shiny objects. It's innate. And whether they know it or not, people carry their fascination of luster into the grocery store where they tend to opt for products in sparkling packages. It's that gloss and glimmer catching the consumer's eye that makes metallized papers and films ever increasingly popular materials with brand owners and package printers. "Metallized substrates are proven substrates in helping to gain market share," said Robert Hazen, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Hazen Paper Co. (Holyoke, Mass.). "The emerging trend

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

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

The following suppliers offer printing materials, from label stocks, paperboard, and films, to thermal transfer ribbons and hot stamping foils: 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

For many printers, the question is not whether to incorporate a specialty substrate, but which one? by Kate Tomlinson, Assistant Editor AS THE POPULARITY of packages incorporating metallized film, foil, and holography continues to rise, the "shiny look" is becoming almost commonplace on store shelves. So how are each of these substrates carving out individual uniquenesses? Metallized film has recently figured prominently in new flexible packaging constructions, including StarKist Tuna's recently released alternative to the alumimun can, the Flavor Fresh Pouch™ retort pouch. Foil is finding a new niche as a softer, subtler attention-getter on packages for products such as cosmetics, which may require

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 Contract Converting Film product offerings include Plastiprint, a synthetic paper with the durability of plastic. Roll Express (TM) program offers various non-pressure-sensitive stock options, as well as the whitest, brightest, C1S on the market, and a 62# metallized paper for specialty applications. The program also includes 100#, 125#, 175#, and 200# uncoated tag. Arjobex Polyart (TM)—a unique clay coating on both sides