On Display--Labels
Full Service for Shrink Sleeves
A manufacturer and converter of PVC, PETG, and OPS heat-shrinkable films offers tamper-evident seals, full-body printed sleeves, and clear and colored films. The firm specializes in clear and printed shrink sleeves, shrink bands, shrink seals, extruded tubing, seamed tubing, preforms, and multipack sleeves. The company’s graphics department can help marketers design shrink sleeves, while its contract sleeving division can shrink sleeves onto packaging. Ameri-Seal Inc., Chatsworth, CA.
Printing Shrink Sleeves
A variety of printing options are offered for shrink sleeves, including flexographic and UV flexographic printing for small to medium production runs, rotogravure printing for high-volume runs, and digital printing for prototyping and sales samples. Options include up to 10-color printing, hot-stamp-quality metallic inks, fluorescent and thermochromatic inks, and a variety of coatings. Fort Dearborn Co., Elk Grove Village, IL.
Extended-Text Labels
Extended-text labels allow marketers to fit more copy onto a package while minimizing a label’s footprint. MultiVision labels unfold to reveal multiple panels that can be neatly refolded and resealed. These labels solve the problem of fitting regulatory text, text in multiple languages, instructional copy, health and safety warnings, and other types of copy onto packaging. WS Packaging Group Inc., Algoma, WI.
Creating Brand Identity
A company specializes in creating branding products such as labels and seals. It can print on paper, foil, metal, plastic, and synthetic products. Styles include pressure- sensitive labels, string tags, bottleneck tags, inserts, and header cards. For finishing, the company can perform die-cutting, drilling, embossing, hot stamping, stringing, folding, taping, gluing, laminating, and eyeletting. Metal stamping and injection molding can also be done. Stoffel Seals Corp., Nyack, NY.
Digital Printing
Digital four-color process printing lets brands customize labels without the high cost of printing plates. It is especially useful for labeling numerous different packages of the same size. For the Brickhouse Soap brand, the supplier digitally printed white polypropylene labels. A matte lamination was applied to protect the label from the products’ essential oils and to add a soft-touch, silky finish. Prestige Label, Burgaw, NC.
Smile-Free PETG
The Smile-Free 360º wraparound shrink sleeve is designed to prevent smiles and frowns—the wrinkles that occur at the edge of a sleeve when a sleeve is shrunk onto a container. Made from Eastman Chemical’s Embrace LV PETG resin, the sleeve is designed to adapt to complex container curves with few distortions. Gilbreth Packaging, Croydon, PA.