Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call
Ray Glenn, VP of Apollo Plastics, Jersey City, NJ, never went to medical school, but his company's approach to customer service sometimes makes him wish...
FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less
The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke...
Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group
Uruguay's leading flexible packaging converter, ISMA S.A., is located in Montevideo, the nation's capital city and the center of Uruguay's industrial...
Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority
In an aggressive effort to increase sales, the management team at Autotype Americas Inc. decided to make some bold moves that have paid off handsomely...
High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Food retailers bank on the fact that consumers notice the "image" of a product-basically, its packaging. But what about the product's overall performance:...
Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader
Dixie Toga's flexible division—Itap Bemis—settles into a new home with top-flight equipment producing both gravure and flexo products....
Oxide-coated films are still finding their market niche
With all the hype in recent years about transparent barrier films, one would think that applications could be found almost anywhere in the supermarket....
Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.
Himac helps Phoenix by downgauging its susceptor film, giving greater coverage for the material.Phoenix Packaging has parlayed its expertise in microwave...
The role of barrier materials in packaging low-fat goods.
It is entirely possible that a low- or no-fat product that is packaged and distributed in the same way as its full-fat counterpart will experience consumer...
Perforating tear-resistant materials takes a big step.
How do you perforate tough materials that are constructed not to tear? New perforating technology reportedly has the answer.When we attempt to perforate...
Taking the "magic" and the mystery out of treating
Treating is an important operation in the converting industry. Flexible packaging as practiced today would not exist without this significant factor,...
Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process
If you surface-treat your materials (and it's very likely you do), you should be up to date on methods for measuring the level of treatment.As a growing...
Foil and potatoes - Aluminum Assn. presents a response.
Note: My February column on the safety of baked potatoes wrapped in aluminum foil elicited a response from the Aluminum Assn., Washington, DC. In the...
Web-inspection system supports label operation
A TruColor Video web-inspection system is bringing multiple benefits, including higher quality, to Label America.According to one of the cornerstones...
Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need
Suppliers of coextrusion equipment keep moving forward to meet the needs of converters who are facing their own tough customers.As with their counterparts...
In-mold labels: film is today's hot development.
As recently as 15 years ago, in-mold labeling was not a common technology. A desire to reduce costs was the motive for its development. A successful combination...
Green Bay gears up for specialty labels
Green Bay Packaging's Coated Products Operations unit commissions custom equipment from Faustel to take advantage of the growing market for specialty...
PET supplies increasing as markets expand
"There's nothing in the world as powerful as an idea whose time has come." Dr. Samuel Johnson.Suppliers of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which was...
Laser positioning system creates clean, productive environment
Nashua Graphic Products eliminates dust problems on a slitting line and improves slit width tolerance with a Dienes Laser Positioning System.In order...
Paper characteristics: starting the job right
Of all the components that can affect the quality and ultimate impact of a finished printed product, the base stock often plays the most critical role....
Foil and potatoes can be a dangerous combination
I recently came across an interesting article in Food Chemical News (Oct. 9, 1995) with implications for converters of foil intended for foodservice applications....
Paper manufacturer's report shows marked sales increase
During the first half of 1995, AssiDoman, Forestry and Paper Group, had a turnover of SKr 11.3 billion, an increase of 39% over the SKr 8.1 billion during...
Fresh produce offers converters opportunities for healthy sales
With flexible packaging forecast to hit almost $15.5 billion in 1995, many converters are frantically looking toward the emerging fresh produce market...
Improved paper chemistry provides multiple benefits
Don't assume that the chemistry of paper is of interest only to your paper supplier. If you convert paper, what you don't know can hurt you.If you effortlessly...
Measurement technique improves metallized PP
Metallized polypropylene films continue to improve, thanks in part to advancements in noncontact, quantitative surface measurement techniques.In the snack...
