Martin Automatic Inc.

Labelexpo Americas 2010 provided an active platform for companies to introduce new products and product enhancements. The following is a snapshot of just some of the products on display at the show.

Packaging equipment, software and service purchases by U.S. packaging printers, featuring Flower City Printing.

ROCKFORD, Ill.—Martin Automatic Inc. announced the installation of a new splicer and rewinder combo on a narrow-web label press at Flexographic Trade Services (FTS) in Fort Mill, S.C. The Martin Automatic MBSC butt splicer will be combined with an STR turret rewinder to provide non-stop roll changing for FTS’s new Mark Andy P5 Performance series press.

ROCKFORD, Ill.—Martin Automatic will be debuting its new MBSC splicer in combination with the STR rewinder at Labelexpo America, Chicago Ill., September 14-16 in booth 811.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including ROTOCONTROL, MLP USA, Fujifilm, Smufit-Stone, EskoArtwork and more.

Burlington, N.C.-based Labels Tags & Inserts Inc. (LTI) produces a wide range of products that one would expect to find coming out of shops several times its size.

ROCKFORD, Ill.—Martin Automatic recently received its third order from Tralin Pak, China, a producer of aseptic packaging materials. Tralin Pak had previously chosen a Martin Automatic splicer (MTB) and a rewinder (RMAP) to go on its F&K press to form the company’s first production line. When it added a second production line at the same site, Tralin Pak again chose Martin Automatic equipment to automate the process.

Slitters and splicers play key roles during the printing or finishing of printed packaging, and it is imperative to keep them in good working order. To do so, many printers turn to preventive maintenance (PM) programs—structured maintenance schedules for specific parts of a piece of equipment.

NASHUA, N.H.—CMM show management has announced that bielomatik, J&H Printing Solutions, Propheteer, BST Pro Mark, Martin Automatic, DMS, and Alden & Ott Printing Ink will be some of the leading companies showcasing their latest equipment at the Show’s new Narrow-To-Mid-Web Converting Tech Center at the Rosemont Convention Center, June 4-7 in Rosemont, Illinois. Designed to help converters better understand how they can combine both narrow- and mid-web converting technologies, the new Technology Center will feature operating equipment from leading manufacturers producing various jobs during the entire four days of the Show. Produced in conjunction with DiTrolio Flexographic Institute, select conference and training sessions combining

The Web Handling Research Center studies the science and technology that drive web handling. WEB HANDLING IS a science every packaging printer or converter should understand. It's applied physics that carries a continuous-roll substrate through printing and/or converting machines with the goal being a defect-free end product. The Web Handling Research Center (WHRC), based at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Okla., has spent the last 20 years studying this science. The WHRC was initiated in 1986 as a National Science Foundation center with a mission "to advance the knowledge base in technologies applicable to the transport and control of continuous-strip materials through processes and