As you may have read in World Bioplastics, a November 2013 industry study conducted by The Freedonia Group, the global demand for biobased or biodegradable plastics will rise 19 percent to 950,000 metric tons in 2017.

The Festo exhibit at Converters Expo 2014 in Green Bay, WI offers a wide range of pneumatic actuators and control solutions designed for systematically quicker paper and pulp production, reduction of overall costs, and ultimately more intelligent process and factory automation from a single source.

Multiple industries utilize and rely on internationally accepted test standards to provide repeatable methods for comparison and quality assurance purposes.

Everyone knows that efficiency and automation have become critical to survival in US manufacturing.

Winding and unwinding must be handled with consideration given to the speed of the winder, the control processing times and the implementation of that control scheme into the overall machine design, to achieve greater efficiency.

What consumers see on a store shelf are the graphics, colors and designs a brand owner has chosen to make their product stand out from the crowd.

QuadTech provides in-line solutions that give consistent inspection and color measurement for virtually all types of packaging substrates.

HCI Converting Equipment Co. Ltd., a manufacturer of high-performance pouch and bag making machinery and other auxiliary equipment for the flexible packaging industry, and PPC Technologies & Solutions LLC have concluded a distributor agreement for the HCI range of equipment for the USA and Canada markets.

Precision alignment of converting equipment can significantly reduce or even eliminate many of the issues the converting industry faces on a daily basis.

Voorwood will be displaying a PowerPoint presentation on a variety of converting machines