As the needs of the packaging industry evolve, adhesive converters face new challenges. The recent growth in e-commerce and food delivery services, for example, has converters looking for efficient ways to quickly slit and rewind large rolls of labels and tapes. Demand is also increasing for user-friendly products such as easy-to-remove split liners. A variety of machinery solutions help converters meet these new requirements.

Excelitas Technologies^® Corp. is highlighting its OmniCure^® LED UV curing systems for medical device applications at MD&M West, being held April 12-14, 2022, in Anaheim, Calif. 

AkzoNobel has announced an initiative designed to collectively accelerate carbon reduction in the paints and coatings industry. 

Effective May 1, 2022, or as customer contracts allow, the Wacker Group will raise its prices for dispersions, resins, and dispersible polymer powders globally. 

Shin-Etsu Silicones of America, Inc. (SESA), a U.S. subsidiary of Japan-based Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd., has launched its MR-COAT-01F and 02F conformal coating series. 

H.B. Fuller Co. recently announced financial results for its first quarter ended February 26, 2022, reporting net revenue increased 18% compared with the first quarter of 2021.

It is with great pleasure, excitement, and anticipation that we officially host our first Tape Week event this May 2-5 in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., with 500+ attendees from 100 companies and 10 countries expected. Representing both a reinvigoration of our historically successful Tape Summit and a refocus and expansion of PSTC’s reach, Tape Week is the only knowledge-building and networking event for pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) tape professionals.

RPM International Inc. recently reported financial results for its fiscal 2022 third quarter, ended February 28, 2022. 

Teckrez, Inc. announced that Olivia Jobes has joined the company as director of commercial development. 

The LANXESS Urethane Systems (URE) business unit will present its new sustainable Adiprene^® Green prepolymer line at the Polyurethane Manufacturers Association (PMA) annual meeting, which will take place April 23-26 in Austin, Texas.