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Is a Packaging Makeover Ahead?

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... wildlife entangled or killed by plastic material; and concerns that plastic bags are difficult to recycle and compost, and they disrupt recycling machines. Half of the proceeds from the proposed tax would ...

Waste Trimmed Away!

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... it allows converters to use finer, narrower, less wasteful materials, eliminate cores, and even interface directly with an on-line recycling system. Waste matrix material can be transported up to 60 ...

New Products

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... quality as higher priced model. Recycle Large Portions Erema North America, Ipswich, MA; 978/356-03771; erema.net T-DD (double disk) technology is a new configuration of company’s recycling system ...

Platics Machinery Named EREMA Agent

(Archive)

February 10, 2005, ... and manufacturer of plastic recycling systems and recycling components, including pelletizers and screenchangers—has named Plastics Machinery, LLC, as the exclusive sales agency for EREMA in Tennessee, ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, ...  EPIC has produced a Stretch-Wrap Recycling Guide and created a separate area on its Web site specifically for plastic bags and film. The site also features Plastics and the 5Rs, with information relating ...

PFFC Worldwide Special Report on Release Liners, part 1

(Archive)

October 30, 2004, ... at some 20% of total laminate cost, and also reviewed possible improvements in supply chain management — including, of course, the waste management/recycling issues. Central to all discussions were the ...

Raymond Report Sheds Light on Packaging 'Trash Wars' between Michigan and Ontari

(Flexpack)

October 17, 2004, Raymond Communications' new report, "Canadian Recycling Policy: The Complete Guide for Product Makers," says the author, "sheds some light on how many major US-based manufacturers and retailers have come ...

Printing: Italian Style

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ...  With eight extruders, three CI flexo presses, two laminators, seven bag machines, and one recycling extruder, Simplast produces 250 tons of film a month. Sabatino Di Serafino, purchasing manager, ...

Release Liners: Challenges Ahead

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ...  facility in Germany has been offering, on a small scale, a patented solution for recycling silicone-coated papers. Research has shown that in Japan, where the environmental legislation is more restrictiv ...

CSR Must Be a Balancing Act

(Magazine)

July 31, 2004, ... sectors. This will result in potentially using less or alternative materials, a possible advantage for the converting industry. At the same time, growing pressure to promote recycling and reuse poses ...

The Great Debate

(Magazine)

July 30, 2004, ... a circular graphic image with two chasing arrows — one of a US greenback following a stylized image of Old Glory in red and blue. Manufacturers can download and add the recycling dollar's symbol, says the ...

People & Places

(Magazine)

April 29, 2004, ... of legislative affairs and a 35-yr veteran in the paperboard and paper recycling industry. Mitsubishi Lithographic Presses, Lincolnshire, IL, names Randy Siver director of marketing and technical sales ...

Several Issues Foretell A Tough 2004

(Magazine)

March 31, 2004, ... recycling targets now proposed in the EU — have never been more prevalent. Overall, our seminar delegates did not expect 2004 to be an easy year — and with alternative technologies to self-adhesive ...

Waste & That Blue Box

(Flexpack)

March 31, 2004, ... factors: the recovery rate of a particular waste in a particular year; the net cost of recycling each material through municipal Blue Box programs in a given year; the “disproportionate contribution” ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

January 30, 2004, ... Vacuum Sealed Fresh Chicken package, developed in partnership with Sealed Air using Cryovac T-Series rollstock material. Environmental News Ontario Law to Charge Industry for Recycling COLLEGE ...

DuPont Imaging Technologies Gets TLMI and FTA Kudos for Cyrel FAST Technology

(News | New Products)

December 22, 2003, ... expense of environmental risks of storing, recycling, and safely disposing of chemicals and solvents used in conventional plate production. The prepress technology manufacturer also says Frost noted that ...

Exercising Environmental Responsibility: Part 3

(Unprinted Rolls)

November 30, 2003, ... excessively large to prevent someone from stealing it. With this exception, packages generally should follow the rule stated earlier. Recycling is another way to practice conservation and is important ...

Bottleneck Breakthrough

(Magazine)

November 30, 2003, ... and packaging, as well as aluminum recycling, with 2002 revenues of US$12.3 billion. With world-class operations in primary aluminum and fabricated aluminum, as well as flexible and speciality packaging, ...

The Power of Three

(Tapes)

November 29, 2003, ... system,” Ashworth adds, “DuPont services the equipment and disposes of all the spent developer rolls. This has reduced our chemical disposal rate to zero and will allow us to dispose of our recycling unit. ...

Flexible Packaging & European Disposal Laws

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2003, ... impacts of packaging waste on manufacturers. This is done by imposing a surcharge or fee on specified products, requiring manufacturers to participate in product recycling or material recovery programs, ...