Sonoco

HARTSVILLE, S.C.--Sonoco has opened a new Innovation Center in downtown Cincinnati, a facility dedicated to providing innovative packaging supply chain products and services for many of Procter & Gamble’s major brands. The Sonoco Innovation Center is located at 201 E. Fifth Street, Suite 1300, in the PNC Building. “This facility is a first of its kind in the packaging industry--where a packaging supplier has placed dedicated resources directly next to a key customer to provide technology, design, brand management, supply chain, marketing and sales services,” said Charles Sullivan, Sonoco’s executive vice president for the company’s consumer group of packaging and services businesses. “We understand that

An update on cores, shafts, and chucks technology. CORES, SHAFTS, AND chucks can easily be compared to "all the little people" of the film industry. From light technicians to make-up artists to set designers, the work of the people behind the scenes makes a big impact on a movie's turnout. Likewise, despite the seemingly harmlessness of cores, shafts, and chucks, their performance is very important to the outcome of every print job. Core knowledge Cores provide the backbones for many substrates and tapes. While there may appear not to be much difference between company offerings, there are. Double E. Co. (West Bridgewater, Mass.) offers

By combining flexo and gravure, Sonoco is able to maintain its competitive edge. By Kate Tomlinson, Associate Editor IN 1993, SONOCO'S Flexible Packaging division realized that it could offer customers the value-added products many were looking for, by expanding its strictly gravure process base. Today, with nine plants worldwide, Sonoco achieves its range of graphics by running flexo and gravure both separately and in combination. Sonoco's extensive equipment roster includes: wide- and narrow-web rotogravure presses, up to 11 stations with in-line lamination and cold/heat seal coatings; wide- and narrow-web flexographic presses, up to 10 stations with in-line lamination and cold/heat seal coatings; gravure/flexo

Developments in presses and ancillary equipment have made gravure's consistency and vibrancy viable for short runs. by Jessica Millward, Associate Editor Call it the "me" generation of packaging. Individualized, shorter runs are on the it-list of customers across the gamut of package printing processes. Fifteen years ago, this wasn't particularly good news for gravure, the king of long-runs. The larger set-up costs and longer pre-production time involved in printing with cylinders rendered "short-run gravure" a near-oxymoron. The evolution of quicker-change presses and innovative ways of engraving, however, has introduced gravure into the shorter-run arena. And with set-up costs on a steady decline,

Process Key: F=Flexo, G=Gravure, L=Letterpress, O=Offset, S=Screen, D=Digital/Plateless 1. Sealed Air, Saddle Brook, NJ Industries Served: Meats, Pet Foods, Cheese, Produce, Bakery Principal Officer: T.J. Dermot Dunphy 1999 Rank: 33 # of Employees: N/A # of Presses: N/A # of Facilities: N/A Processes: F 2. Bemis Co., Minneapolis, MN Industries Served: Meat, Pet Food, Medical, Candy, Consumer Products Principal Officer: John Roe 1999 Rank: 1 # of Employees: N/A # of Presses: N/A # of Facilities: 35 Processes: F,G 3. Printpack, Inc., Atlanta, GA Industries Served: Food/Beverage, Confections, Snacks Principal Officer: Dennis Love 1999 Rank: 2 # of Employees: 4,200 # of Presses:

packagePRINTING presents the tag and label industry's exclusive first look at the winners of the 1997 TLMI Awards competition. By taking Best of Show honors in the Tag & Label Manufacturers Institute's Awards competition, a combination offset-printed/foil-stamped front and back label solidified multi-process printing's reputation for adding value and elegance to printed packaging. Converted by Impressive Labels, Safford, AZ, the "Frescolina" wine label was tagged by the panel of judges as being superior to all 290 entries in this 20th annual competition. Overall, 49 TLMI and 18 FINAT member companies participated. Cited for its extremely exacting registration of two foils put down one