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Printer Helps Customers Manage Printing Needs

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, Wallace Computer Services prints business forms, labels, and promotional materials for its customers and offers them a way to save money through print management. When personal computers first became ...

Election 2000: An Outcome in Doubt Raises More Questions

(Magazine)

November 30, 2000, ... of which candidate ultimately assumes the Presidency next January, the election results will affect not just the White House but the whole dynamics of our government, and they will have a long-term impact ...

Products

(Magazine)

November 30, 2000, New Products from: ADI , Ashe, Burling Instruments, Cleveland Motion Controls, Custom Design and Development, Davies Industrial Supplies, Dienes, Flxon, Goldenrod, GN Packaging Equipment, ICE/Horauf, Karlville ...

Coating Operation Starts a Tradition of Growth

(Magazine)

November 30, 2000, ... 1999. We went through winter construction, the whole thing." But, gradually, the "huge mud hole," as Hammann refers to his original plant site, was transformed into a 20,000-sq-ft coating facility and ...

Pouchmaking Equipment Adapts as Materials Advance

(Magazine)

November 30, 2000, ... change, handling those materials becomes the challenge." Rego says devices such as clamp stackers are available that maintain control of the product throughout the whole process to hold the film, cut ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

November 29, 2000, ... the actual coating being applied. The equipment is said to be so sensitive that adhesive pinholes or imperfections can be detected accurately down to a size that is difficult to see with the naked eye. ...

Temperature Switchable Membranes for Packaging Fresh Produce

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... is over a hole in the wall of the product and essentially controls the flow of gases into and from the package. Making the membrane involves coating a porous substrate with a proprietary side chain ...

International Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, News from: Akzo Nobel Inks, AVT, Collano, Elopak, NPES, Plastics and Rubber Machinery Assn. of VDMA, Polytech, Sappi Novobord, Shanghai Printing Group, and TrendWatch. Covering the Full Spectrum of International ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery magazine. Included in this figure are potato chips, tortilla chips, pretzels, popcorn, cheese snacks, and meat snacks. When sales of cookies, crackers, and snack bars (a category ...

Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... of a visit from a district or corporate visitor with the whole staff; allowing the workplace to be disorganized, cluttered, or dirty; throwing people into jobs they're not trained for or qualified ...

Eastern European Converter Continues Pioneering Ways

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... "the Russian crisis that affected the whole region of Central and Eastern Europe, the devaluation of the Slovak crown, and fluctuating oil prices." On the positive side, he notes, "The firm's production ...

Label Converter's Business Is Prime Labels & Prid

(Magazine)

August 30, 2000, ... three-color rotary screen stack unit was designed to interface directly with the Mark Andy frames, with the unit bolted into existing holes as though it was an original part of the press. The unwind driveshaft ...

Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch

(Magazine)

July 31, 2000, ... Have Roles Despite plastic film's dominance, paper and aluminum foil still play a key role. The paper packaging segment reflects the maturity characteristic of the paper industry as a whole, although ...

Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... less waste. Hawkins says the industry also will see more automation in finished roll handling. "Automatic packaging, labeling, weighing, coding, the whole bit. It's established, but there needs to be ...

Coating Operation Cleans Up Its (Trim Removal) Act

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... the building to a compactor. "The glitch is that it's difficult to maintain an adequate vacuum throughout the entire length of tubing," says Sangl. "Any hole that develops in this piping arrangement can ...

More Laminating Diversity Equals More Success

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, What do the apparel, automotive, marine, shoe, juvenile car seat, and medical industries have in common? Not a lot, really, except for one small textile-to-foam What do the apparel, automotive, marine, ...

On-Line Purchasing Saves Time, Money, and Space

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... me when I get back. By the time I'm done responding to them, there'll be 12 more. Being able to order supplies on-line without talking to another person makes my life a whole lot easier." Companies like ...

Converter Can't Seem to Stay Out of Busines

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... us be more profitable, and consequently allows us to pay those higher wages. It's a win-win situation for everyone." The Stratus Group as a whole expected annual sales in 1999 of nearly $10 million, ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... the shaped pouches can be designed to accommodate a broad spectrum of closing/dispensing devices, such as pour spouts, zippers, peelable closures, valves, pumps, and special straw entry holes, and additional ...

Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... decreases as roll size decreases. However, heat dissipation is constant over the whole range of slip speeds, from full roll to unwound core. Electromagnetic Clutch-Brakes An electromagnetic friction ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... before the onset of 2000. Barrett explains: "Some of our other sites had generations of software that were not Y2K compatible. The ERP system is an opportunity to get the whole organization to use software ...

Managing Your Way Through a ''Green'' Futur

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... arguably, have they gotten any easier to overcome. In fact, this new millennium brings with it a whole host of environmental issues that demand new approaches and solutions. Increasingly, the challenges ...

Electrically Heated Rollers Are Top Technology Choice

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... constant and symmetric power supply. As a result, power is used more efficiently, wetting of the boats is more uniform, pinholes are reduced 60%, and boat life is extended at least 20%, all of which reduce ...

Cartonmarker Adds Flexo to Give Customers a Choice

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, ...  need a whole bunch of hands-on training, but Mark Andy provided what we did need: one week of training in St. Louis and one week on-site." "It's been a good company to work with," says Johnson of Mar ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, ... they cannot place larger orders of printed material for the whole range of products. No matter what the application is--promotions, strategics, or whatever--the point is that some products in the lines ...

Converters See Hurdles Ahead in Digital Printing

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ... what you're going to see absolutely is digital stations in a flexo press or digital combinations with other print technologies, because you don't need the whole job to be digitally produced. That will be ...

Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ... agrees wholeheartedly that rewinding is the way to go. "Less trouble, less equipment cost, less space, less dirt, less noise," he sums up. Outside the clean room are two rewinders. One is used to convert ...

The Good Times Keep Rolling -- At Least for Now

(Magazine)

December 31, 1999, ...  from 1997 until mid '99," Fry explains, "the US consumer kept the world economy out of recession. Not in every country, of course, but we kept the whole world from going under. Now, we're starting to ge ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

(Archive)

December 31, 1999, ... equipment, and that way we'd only need two maintenance people for our whole facility. We have 95 percent uptime on our equipment." Coating Excellence serves the food and industrial packaging markets with ...

Need and innovation are driving digital printing.

(Magazine)

November 30, 1996, ... metallic gold and silver. "The system is designed to produce completely waterproof, ultraviolet-stable, and weatherable products for anyone selling short-run labels on a wholesale basis," says Kathleen ...