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Decorative Films Served by Multilayer Structure

Published: June 01, 2000
Allied Converters Inc., reportedly the largest sheeter of cellophane and polypropylene in the US, has just gotten bigger. The driving force behind this

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

Published: May 01, 2000
Imagine you're a paratrooper. Your mission: to launch yourself out of a plane, drop to the earth, hit the ground running, and go into battle. Sounds risky,

Golden Cylinders Go to Gravure's Very Best

Published: May 01, 2000
The Gravure Association of America (GAA) started a new tradition when it presented the 2000 Golden Cylinder Awards at its annual convention April 6th

Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call

Published: May 01, 2000
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

Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary

Published: April 01, 2000
With improving technologies in materials and processing, flexible packaging plays an increasingly important role in many markets. Multilayer stand-up

Seventy-Five Years and Counting for Bancroft Bag

Published: March 01, 2000
With people living longer these days, a few of you actually may remember 1924. But if you don't (or if you weren't even alive yet), there are a few things

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

Published: March 01, 2000
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

Published: March 01, 2000
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

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Published: February 01, 2000
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

Published: January 01, 2000
Dixie Toga's flexible division—Itap Bemis—settles into a new home with top-flight equipment producing both gravure and flexo products.

Vision-Based System Wins the Battle Against Defects

Published: January 01, 2000
The technology currently being developed and utilized by the Israeli military is among the most sophisticated in the world. The transfer of this technology

Oxide-coated films are still finding their market niche

Published: December 01, 1996
With all the hype in recent years about transparent barrier films, one would think that applications could be found almost anywhere in the supermarket.

Pointing finger places blame but won't solve the problem

Published: December 01, 1996
The more parties that are involved in any project, the more opportunities there are for post-mortems that involve finger pointing if something goes wrong.

Czech retail developments could affect converters.

Published: November 01, 1996
If the Czech converting industry feels that Czech environmental legislation is being disregarded by retailers, the pressure on internal industry to conform

The role of barrier materials in packaging low-fat goods.

Published: November 01, 1996
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

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