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Positive Placement Technology: Unrivaled Reliability

In the world of shrink labeling and tamper evident banding, precision and efficiency are paramount. At the heart of achieving these goals lies a remarkable technology: Positive Placement. Developed by PDC, this unique and proprietary technology...

Troubleshooting Labeling Issues While Running Shrink Sleeve Machinery

Today’sshrink sleeve labeling machinery is designed to run efficiently and exhibit a long life cycle. Over time, however, you may encounter some issues with your machine, and in some cases, this may relate to the materials you are using. To help you...

Shrink Sleeve Labeling Aerosol Cans: Ensuring Safety & Brand Visibility

In recent years, there has been a marked increase in the use of shrink sleeving for aerosol cans. PDC International’s technology not only offers versatile sleeving options, such as tamper-evident bands, full-body labels, and multipacks, but also...

Heat Tunnels for Shrink Labeling 101

Shrink tunnels play a critical role in a successful shrink sleeve labeling application. Shrink tunnels use heat to shrink the film/sleeve around a container or product. There are many variables to consider when it comes to selecting the right shrink...

The PDC Process – Your Pathway to Shrink Sleeve Labeling Project Success

Embarking on a new shrink sleeve labeling project can often feel like navigating through a labyrinth of decisions and complexities. Whether you're a seasoned manufacturer or a newcomer seeking efficient solutions, finding the right partner can make...

Tamper Evident Terminology 101

Tamper evident features and technology, as they relate to shrink sleeves may seem complex at first glance. But it is crucial to grasp these concepts for successful project implementation. To aid you in your endeavors, we have compiled a list of...

Maximize Production Uptime with the PDC Inspection/Rejection Unit

When you are processing thousands of products through your packaging line, the last thing you need is for your productivity to be jeopardized by improperly neck banded or labeled containers, or for those packages to make their way through...

The HPV Perforator: PDC's Solution for Tamper Evident Features

The words “horizontal and partial vertical perforator” may sound unusual and not bring to mind any familiar images, but we’ve all encountered the results of such technology. Think about some of your favorite beverages, pharmaceutical products, or...

Shrink Sleeve Technologies for Personal Care Products

In the Personal Care Industry, products need to stand out from the competition at the point of purchase, and they might also include a tamper-evident feature to ensure product integrity for consumer safety. At PDC International, we have developed...

PDC and PMMI Support Local Robotics High School Team

PDC has been a supporter of robotics programs in our local community for many years. Encouraging young people to enter engineering and other technical fields has played an important role in the recent critical rebuilding of domestic manufacturing....

PDC Proprietary Technology: AccuSplice Articulating Splicing Table

What is one of the causes of downtime in shrink sleeve labeling operations? The time-consuming splicing of one roll of sleeves into another during roll changes. And depending on the sleeve height and application speed, roll changes can be as...

Unique Packaging Opportunities for Wine and Spirits Containers

If you work in the wine and spirits industry, you know the challenges that can arise when you are packaging and labeling your product. If you are using shrink sleeve labels, the labels need to contour perfectly to the container, have eye-catching...

Questions to Ask Before Purchasing a Shrink Sleeve Packaging System

If you’re in search of a shrink sleeve packaging system, whether for a new packaging project or to replace an old system, there are a few key questions you should ask potential suppliers. Knowing the answers to these questions ahead of time will...

Packaging Solutions for Non-Round or Containers with Multiple Curves

Over the years, we’ve worked with companies on hundreds of shrink sleeve packaging solutions, each with its own unique characteristics and challenges. From full-body shrink sleeving, to tamper-evident banding, and multi-packing—we’ve covered the...

PDC Launches New Ad Campaign

Long a leader in shrink sleeve packaging machinery and tamper evident banding, PDC International Corp. has just created a new campaign that emphasizes its hands-on work with customers to design and find the best packaging solutions.

Las múltiples funciones de las bandas de seguridad

Para las empresas que venden productos embotellados, los beneficios de las bandas de seguridad son difíciles de ignorar. Estos sellos de uso común cumplen una amplia gama de funciones, desde aumentar la confianza del consumidor hasta impulsar sus...

Selecting the Right Shrink Sleeving Film

In shrink labeling, there are several types of film substrates to choose from and various grades of film within each type. Knowing which to leverage and when will help save time and money.

PDC Employee Embraces Future as a U.S. Citizen

PDC employee Giorgi Labartkava’s main goal since coming to the United States has been to provide a better life for his wife and son. Now, he’s one step closer. Labartkava, who emigrated to the U.S. from Georgia in Eastern Europe, recently became a...

Top 5 Questions About Shrink Sleeving Machinery

As a leader in the packaging industry for over 50 years providing shrink sleeving and tamper evident banding machinery and shrink tunnels, there are some questions that PDC gets asked all the time. What are the most frequently asked questions posed...

Shrink Sleeving Tips For Package Designers

Graphic package designers are turning to shrink sleeves to produce eye catching, contour forming, tip-to-toe coverage for their consumer product packages. While beautiful design on packaging is critical to brand awareness and shelf appeal, producing...

El etiquetado de mangas termoencogibles para latas de cerveza

Hemos visto una explosión de cerveza artesanal y micro cervecerías en la última década. A mediados de 2018, había 6.655 cervecerías artesanales independientes operando en los EE. UU., Más del doble del total desde 2013 y un aumento del 16% desde...

How Perforations Are Created for Tamper Evident Banding and Shrink Sleeve Labeling

Perforations on products using shrink sleeves and neck bands are important to allow easy opening by the consumer, while maintaining the integrity of the shrink sleeve and tamper evidence that it provides. There are three main types of perforations...

Túneles de calor para manga termoencogibles

Los túneles retráctiles juegan un papel fundamental en una aplicación exitosa de etiquetado de mangas retráctiles. Los túneles retráctiles utilizan calor para encoger la película / funda alrededor de un recipiente o producto. Hay muchas variables a...

Perforations in Tamper Evident Neck Bands and Shrink Sleeve Labels

There are few things more frustrating for a consumer than being unable to easily open a package as intended, and they must pick up a knife or scissors to get at the product inside. That is of no service to a brand or to a company’s hard-gained...

Solución de problemas de etiquetado durante el funcionamiento de maquinaria

Las máquinas de etiquetado de mangas termo encogible están diseñadas para funcionar de manera eficiente y exhibir un ciclo de vida prolongado. Sin embargo, con el tiempo, puede encontrar algunos problemas con su máquina y, en algunos casos, esto...

Shrink Sleeve Packaging Solutions for Unusual or Highly Shaped Containers

The versatility and flexibility of shrink sleeve packaging makes it a great tool for labeling complex or unusually-shaped products. Shrink sleeves are designed specifically to conform to the shape of a product, allowing for attractive graphics and...

Shrink Curves and Their Importance to Shrink Sleeve Labeling

Understanding the shrink curves of printable films is essential to ensuring successful shrink sleeve labeling on your products. Shrink curves affect how well a shrink sleeve conforms to the container, whether it fits snugly without distortion of the...

Shrink Sleeve Labeling Versus Pressure Sensitive Labels

Sleeve labels continue to take market share around the world from the “traditional” labeling technologies such as pressure sensitive and traditional glue-applied labels. A pressure sensitive label, or self-adhesive label, can be printed on,...

Etiquetado de manga termoencogible 101

El etiquetado de manga termoencogible se ha convertido en una de las tendencias de más rápido crecimiento en empaques en las últimas décadas. Las mangas retráctiles decoran una multitud de productos en muchas industrias, incluidos alimentos, bebidas...

Shrink Sleeving Aerosol Cans Effectively and Safely

There has been a recent surge of interest in applying shrink sleeves to aerosol cans. Shrink sleeve applications with cans are numerous and varied, including tamper evident bands, full-body shrink labeling or multipacking. One constant is the need...

Exchanging Shrink Sleeving Solutions and Best Practices at France Conference

Every few years, PDC International and PDC Europe meet to exchange ideas and best practices. This February, and what now seems like ages ago, we gathered at PDC Europe in Montdidier, France. Topics in the past have included sales and marketing...

PDC Shrink Sleeving Machines Provide a Supple Skin for Softsoap Body Wash

Clean, soft skin doesn’t always come easily. It takes diligence and attention. Similarly, affixing the “skin,” or shrink sleeve label onto Colgate’s heart-shaped Softsoap bottle also presented multiple and complex challenges. These included...

PDC Highlights Total Sleeving Solutions In New Corporate Video

PDC has 50 years experience of providing shrink sleeving and tamper evident banding solutions for products of all kinds, from food and beverages, to household and pharmaceutical items. While film is a big part of our everyday lives, it’s usually in...

Shrink Sleeve Labeling 101

Shrink sleeve labeling has become one of the fastest growing trends in packaging over the last few decades. Shrink sleeves decorate a multitude of products across many industries, including food, beverages, and pharmaceuticals, as well as personal...

7 Good Reasons to Prototype Your Shrink Sleeve Labeling Project

If you and your team need to choose a labeling method on your company’s new product or are rebranding current packaging, you should consider shrink sleeve labeling. For those who have never used shrink sleeve labeling before, shrink sleeves offer...

PDC’s Shrink Sleeve Packaging Gives Frutarom’s Latte Foam Brand A Boost

Who doesn’t enjoy a good cup of latte or cappuccino, topped with a delicious flavor? PDC’s latest innovation pack video features a latte foam product from Frutarom, a global flavor company. The product comes in a number of flavors and produces a...

Why Tamper Evident Neck Banding Continues to be a Top Trend in Pharma Packaging

One of the most popular trends in pharmaceutical packaging is the use of tamper evident neck banding. Common for pharma, food and beverage products, heat shrinkable tamper evident seals offer a number of significant benefits. Below, we'll take a...

PDC Receives Special Recognition at Pack Expo ’18 Exposition and Conference

PDC was recently given special recognition distinct among the thousands of packaging machinery companies at the PackExpo ‘18 convention in Chicago. Packaging World honored PDC for 50 years of innovation in the packaging machinery field. Packaging...

Shrink Sleeve Labeling for Beer Cans Helps Your Brand and Reduces Costs for Craft and Microbreweries

We’ve seen an explosion of craft beer and microbreweries in the past decade. As of mid-2018, there were 6,655 independent craft breweries operating in the U.S., more than double the total from 2013 and a 16% increase from 2016.[1] Along with the...

Going Green: 10 Eco-Friendly Practices for Packaging Plants

Since the 1960’s, PDC International has supplied manufacturers in every industry with shrink-sleeve labeling and tamper evident banding technology for their products - from expertly shrink-sleeved food and beverage labels to child-proof tamper...

POM Wonderful: Beautiful Shape, Uncommon Sleeving, Unique Technology

At PDC, we supply shrink sleeve labeling and tamper evident banding machinery for a wide range of products within the food and beverage industry. Often, unique packages come our way that pose particularly exciting challenges. And we’re always ready...

Stack Wine: A Great Example of Shrink Sleeve Technology

Wine lovers around the world can relate to any of the following struggles when it comes to popping open a bottle of vino: the cork breaks apart during the opening process, someone forgot to bring the wine glasses, or worse – you can’t find the...

PDC's R-100 Shrink Labeler: An Economical Option With Maximum Flexibility

We recently introduced our latest shrink labeler, the R-100. Part of the Evolution Series, the R-100 is an economical, compact system ideal for moderate speed applications and flexible enough for many kinds of products.

Shrink Sleeving for Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals

From IV solutions to syringes, to ampules, shrink sleeves are an integral tool in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Of course, as tamper-evident seals they play a crucial role in maintaining product safety, but they also serve a...

Creating Stunning Shrink Labels for the Spirits Industry

As an industry leader in full body shrink sleeve labeling and tamper evident banding machinery, we are often tapped by the wine, beer, and spirits industry to help make their packages exceptional and unique at the point of purchase. One of our...

How Shrink Sleeve Labels are Transforming the Wine, Beer and Spirits Industries

In recent years, advancing technology in shrink sleeve labeling has transformed the way companies in the spirits and beverage industries are able to package and market their products. Shrink sleeve labels allow for better graphics, convenient...

Sleeving Innovation and Customization: Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices

At PDC, we supply machinery for shrink sleeve labeling and tamper evident banding for a wide range of products and industries. PDC’s shrink sleeve systems are used in numerous pharmaceutical and personal care products. One of our specialties is...

The Multiple Functions of Tamper Evident Neck Bands

For companies selling bottled products, the benefits of tamper evident neck bands are difficult to ignore. These commonly-used seals serve a wide range of functions, from increasing consumer confidence to boosting your marketing efforts. If you have...

New PDC Export Sales Manager Strengthens Prominence in the Americas

Julien Lenglet, formerly Sales Manager with PDC Europe, is PDC International’s new Northeastern and Latin America Sales Manager. The post covers several northeast regions in the US, including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.

Visit Our New Training and Conference Center

We’re just a few weeks away from the opening of PDC’s new Training & Conference Center. With comfortable seating for 20, this important addition to the PDC campus will feature advanced “big screen” video conferencing to optimize communications with...

High Speed and High Productivity Shrink Sealer For Pharma, Food & Beverage

If you’re looking for the continuous application of tamper evident seals and shrink sleeve neck labels at up to 500 cpm, PDC’s new 90CX-ER shrink sealer is the shrinksealing machine for you.

R-300-TSCB Shrink Labeling Machine: High Speed + Servo-Cammed Handling

PDC 's new, robust, multi-use shrink labeler processes up to 400 difficult-to-label containers per minute.

Sanitary KSA-70 Steam Tunnel Introduced

PDC has debuted a new version of its popular KSA-70 Three-Zone Steam Tunnel. This all stainless-steel unit is ideally suited for food, beverage, dairy and other facilities with high sanitation requirements.

Monobloc Integrates Neck Bander, Conveyor, Shrink Tunnel, Inspection

PDC has introduced the “Monobloc” Shrinksealer, an ultra-compact tamper evident banding system, and the newest addition to its highly successful 75 Series Shrinksealers.

Shrink Sleeve Storage Tips for Maximum Uptime

There are a lot of benefits to using shrink sleeve labels, from allowing you to creatively brand your products and display them on the shelf, to offering practical advantages such as creating a tamper-evident seal. With that said, you will want to...

Advantages of Full Body Shrink Sleeve Labeling

For consumer products, full body shrink sleeve labeling has become the industry golden standard, offering a wide range of advantages that for most companies are too good to pass up. If you are trying to decide how to label your bottled products...

Managing Shrink Packaging System Projects To Meet Your Installation Deadlines

Shrink sleeve labeling is one of the most popular methods of decorating your products today, making them super attractive at the point of purchase, and likely increasing your market share. Installing shrink sleeve labeling machinery requires...

Growing Good 2 Grow with PDC Shrink Sleeve Labeling and Packaging Technology

At PDC, we supply machinery for shrink sleeve labeling and tamper evident banding for a wide range of products and industries. Often, unique packaging comes our way that pose particularly exciting challenges. And we always love a good challenge! In...

4 Innovative Ways Shrink Sleeves Can Give the Wow Factor to Your Product Labeling

Packaging is the most important part of your product's presentation. Though there are a variety of options available, one of the most exciting ways to package your product is with shrink sleeves that come equipped with a variety of intriguing...

Using High Quality Sleeves on Shrink Sleeve Machines Maintains Performance – Selecting New Vendors

High efficiency of production lines in Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industries are now required and expected. Your company and clients are often demanding, with high expectations to make output and productivity goals. Your sleeving process should...

How To Choose The Right Packaging Equipment For Maximum Value

The designers have just created new packaging for one of your company’s products that they believe will give it more shelf pop. Or maybe they’ve come up with a new multi-packing idea that will help promote one of the brands. So now it’s time for you...

Shrink Labeling Is Only As Good As The Shrink Tunnel You Select

Shrink labeling is fast becoming the go-to choice in the world of consumer product decoration. Employing automated shrink labeling using the correct shrink tunnels makes the packaging process fast, easy to manage and allows for a wide range of...

PDC Recognized with Prestigious Grants

In late 2016, PDC was recognized with two prestigious grants.

PDC Hosts Legislators at Norwalk Headquarters

PDC was delighted to host Connecticut State Representative Chris Perone and Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff at separate meetings late in 2016.

PDC's "Pom Wonderful" Solution

PDC turned a “difficult” shrink into a (POM) wonderful solution. An irregular shape, deep recessed mid-section and small crown all pose hurdles to achieving a tight, wrinkle-free shrink. Read how we did it, including how we kept the label anchored...

New Year, New Ad!

The New Year means new advertising campaigns at PDC. We enlisted Fred Candiotti of CGT Marketing in Amityville, NY to help us focus our message. What is the essence of PDC’s exceptional value and unique customer experience?

Introducing: FC Shrink Banders

Dairy and food product packaging is about to get a makeover! Introducing our new shrink bander system, the FC-200 Sanitary Design. This precision machinery is used for the application of tamper evident shrink bands to tapered and straight-wall...

4 Favorite Tips For Extending The Life Of Your Factory’s Labeling Machines

Labeling machines are designed to require the minimum amount of maintenance and repair, but taking necessary precautions during their use and performing regular maintenance checks can ensure that your machine serves your needs for many years. Here...

How the Packaging Design of Your Beer Can Labels Will Decrease Costs and Boost Sales

For years, glass bottles were thought to be the bastion of quality and superiority when it came to beer packaging. For breweries, the idea of using aluminum cans for the distribution of beer was seen as the cheaper, lower quality alternative....

PDC To Attend Pack Expo International & Pharma EXPO 2016

PDC will be attending the upcoming 2016 Pack Expo and Pharma EXPO in Chicago November 6-8. We'll be located on the North Upper Hall, booth - N-5136 and will be showcasing several of our shrink labeling machines, including our newest model, the R-100...

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