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Published: July 01, 2001
New from: ADMTronics, Avery Dennison, BBA Nonwovens, Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., International Paper, Metallized Products, Polymer Valley Chemicals, Sensor Products, and Sun Chemical.

The Show Is Over, But the Leads Linger On

Published: July 01, 2001, By PFFC Edit Staff
CMM International 2001 is in the books. From April 23–26, McCormick Place in Chicago, IL, welcomed more than 28,000 converting professionals.

Products

Published: July 01, 2001, By Nsenga Byrd Thompson

New from: Advanced Vision Technology, Advetech, ALS Ltd., Axcyl Inc., Barco Graphics, Chromas Technologies, Davis-Standard, Dover Flexo Electronics, Dri-Tec, Fife Corp., Honeywell-Measurex Corp., Independent Machine Co., Martin Automatic, Nireco America Corp., North American Mfg. Co., Pack' Industrie, Pemco Inc., Rimtec Corp., Tidland Corp., Valmet Rotomec, and Windmoeller and Hoelscher.

Russian Label Show Exhibits Lively Growth

Published: July 01, 2001, By Ann Hirst-Smith
Where in the world can the packaging industry enjoy annual volume growth of 30% and more?

Reporter Clips

Published: July 01, 2001, By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
News from: Fine Cut Intl., Labelexpo Europe, Propheteer, RadTech Intl., Seal-It Inc., TLMI, Universal Engraving, plus narrow web People & Places.

Shared Focus Makes for One Successful Company

Published: July 01, 2001, By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
Two label converters come together, and the result is award-winning synergy.

What's New in Narrow Web

Published: July 01, 2001, By PFFC Editorial Staff
New products from: Arrowhive Equipment Ltd., CTC Intl., IST Metz, OMET (Matik NA), Scapa Tapes, Sony Chemicals Corp. of America, and Wausau Coated Products.

When It Comes to Flexo Quality the Sky's the Limit

Published: July 01, 2001, By Deborah Donberg, Managing Editor
The FFTA Forum, featuring an emphasis on technology and a host of awards, proudly shows off just how far flexography has come.

GAA AWARDS: Gravure Is Golden for GAA Award Winners

Published: July 01, 2001, By Claudia Hine, Senior Editor
The Gravure Assn. of America (GAA) presented the 2001 Golden Cylinder Awards at its annual convention held May 22 in Milwaukee, WI. The association presents

SUBSTRATES REPORT: From Resins to Finished Product - Oil, Gas, Resin, Film

Published: July 01, 2001, By Howard Rappaport, Director of Polyolefins, CMAI
The recent round of price hikes in energy coupled with a weak US economy has many people in the film and packaging industry scratching their heads looking

SUBSTRATES REPORT: From Resins to Finished Product - Conformability, Durability, Affordability

Published: July 01, 2001, By Dave Constantine, Senior Product Chemist, FLEXcon
In an industry faced with ever-increasing production costs and corporate consolidation, the demand for competitively priced substrates has never been

Polymers/Laminations/Adhesives/Coatings/Extrusions

Published: July 01, 2001, By David J. Bentley Jr., Editor
Providing practical information to the converting and packaging industries

PEOPLE & PLACES

Published: July 01, 2001
Maxson Automatic Machinery Co., Westerly, RI, appointed Jan P. Lisowski sales manager. Craig Lichty will hold the newly formed position of mfg. manager

Digital Printing at Your Service: Keeping Customers Happy

Published: July 01, 2001, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
The other day PFFC's editors were discussing how pleased and surprised we were about the responsive service some of us recently received from our health

All Zipped Up: Hard-to-Beat Valley Packaging Tackles New Zipper Technology

Published: June 30, 2001, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
Valley Packaging's investment in Hudson-Sharp's patented Inno-Lok technology is helping the contract converting operation win big in the zippered-packaging game.

Cut-to-Register Sheeting Trims Time and Labor Costs

Published: June 01, 2001, By Claudia Hine, Senior Editor
Anticipating additional business, Unifoil Corp. made an upfront investment in a new Maxson sheeter. It paid off handsomely.

Partnering: It All Starts with Trust

Published: June 01, 2001, By Yolanda Simonsis, Associate Publisher/Editor
Over and over, I am reminded of a strange dichotomy as I decide what types of case history articles will appear within the pages of Paper, Film & Foil

Converting Industry News

Published: June 01, 2001
News from: AIMCAL, AppliedSensor, BST Pro Mark, DuPont, Eastman Chemical, GASC, Graphics of the Americas, ICPF, Innovative Specialty Films, Kapak Corp., NeoVac, Paper Machinery Corp., Teknek, UCB Films, and Weyerhaeuser.

Some Words of Caution on Dealing with the E-World

Published: June 01, 2001, By Sheila A. Millar, Attorney-at-Law, Keller & Heckman, Washington, DC
The spectacular failure of so many businesses in recent months has garnered headlines and pushed stock market indexes precipitously lower. But e-business

Trends in Flexible Packaging Markets: Two Different Views

Published: June 01, 2001, By Stanley Sacharow, Packaging Group Inc.
The Flexible Packaging Assn. (FPA) has put out its projection of the top five flex-pack markets in the next five years (2000-2005). I must differ with

What Is Converting? It Helps to Ask That Simple Question

Published: June 01, 2001, By David J. Bentley Jr., RBS Technologies
Converting is unwinding a roll of relatively thin material, processing it in some fashion, and then rewinding it into a roll (unless it has been sheeted).

Antimicrobial Additives and Coatings for Food Packaging

Published: June 01, 2001, By Richard M. Podhajny, Ph.D., Contributing Editor
It seems as if every day we hear of some incident associated with food contamination. Recent outbreaks of contamination associated with meat products

Over-Tensioned Webs and What to Do about Them

Published: June 01, 2001, By William E. Hawkins, Film Handling Solutions Ltd.
Webs are often tensioned beyond their elastic limit in specialty-type processes such as metallizing. Usually, the high tension is in a zone where web

Reporter Clips

Published: June 01, 2001, By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
News from: Cal Poly, Comco International, Indigo N.V., Precision Dynamics Corp., and Texas Instruments.

What's New Narrow Web

Published: June 01, 2001, By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
New products from: Acucote Inc., Astro-Med Inc., Harper Corp. of America, Print Vision Systems Inc., and Sony Chemicals Corp. of America.

Materials

Published: June 01, 2001, By PFFC Editorial Staff
New materials from: Adchem Corp., ADM Tronics Unlimited Inc., AT Plastics, Max Daetwyler Corp., Deco-Chem Inc., Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Metallized Products Inc., and National Starch & Chemical Co.

Products

Published: June 01, 2001
New products from: Adwest Technologies, Air Preheater Co., Anguil, Anver Corp., Apex, Ashe Converting Equipment, Ausquip, C.A. Litzler Co., Cloeren, Converter Accessory Corp., Daetwyler, Dec-E-Tech, DFE, Dienes Corp., DRI, Dücker, GN Packaging Equipment, Huntington, Interflex LLC, Johnson Matthey, Nim-Cor, Ogura Industrial Corp., W&H, and Woodward Machine.

When You Say ''Converted Products,'' You've Said It All

Published: June 01, 2001, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor

Converted Products Inc. does just that: It converts a great many products, from paper to film to foil to nonwovens to pressure-sensitive materials. And Shanks Converting Equipment has made it all possible.

A Winning Bet: Profile Industrial Packaging

Published: June 01, 2001, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor

With the help of a few bold equipment manufacturers, Profile Industrial Packaging finds itself winning in the industrial packaging arena.

Bush the Environment: The First 100 Days

Published: June 01, 2001, By John W. Watson & Steven J. Murawski, Attorneys-at-Law, Gardner, Carton & Douglas
Now backing off a little, the new Administration marched into office with a tough anti-environmental stance that seems likely to light a fire under the other side.

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