Across industries and across the world there exist applications that require deployment of durable labels to maintain compliance with regulations and specifications. These labels typically convey pertinent information about the products to which they adhere, offering warnings of danger, instructions for safe handling or usage, and other crucial messaging. As a result, it is crucial that these labels go on and stay on a substrate, while also standing up to whatever conditions an environment may throw at them.

The laminate will be compatible with HP Indigo ElectroInk for digitally printed labels and flexible packaging.

This post kicks off a five-part blog series on permanent labeling applications by guest contributor Kim Hensley, who serves as Manager, Films in the Mactac® Performance Adhesives Group. The Permanent Record will discuss the latest trends in permanent labeling, as well as best practices for creating labels that will last in various long-term applications.

As any parent understands, you come to rely on certain adages or pronouncements when you want your children to understand your exasperation with their behavior. A favorite around the Collatz household over the years has been, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” It has gotten to the point that I can begin that sentence and get an eye roll and completion of my mantra before the words are actually out of my mouth. If I said the same thing to our friends at the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), I wonder if I would get a similar response?

Growth in global wine consumption is challenged by the increasing popularity of other alcoholic beverages.

Ashland will be the exclusive supplier of UV-curable coatings for Ravenwood linerless label applications in the Americas.

The combination of materials and machinery reportedly will save converters time, labor costs, and adhesive scrap.

The partnership helps attain British Standard (BS) 5609:1986 Section 3 Laboratory Performance of Printed Labels certification.

The Pressure Sensitive Tape Council recently announced it has opened calls for abstracts to its TECH 40 technical seminar.