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Raflatac Soups Up Global Web Portal

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February 11, 2003, ... easy navigation, enabling users to find information more easily," says the UPM-Kymmene-owned self-adhesive manufacturer. According to Raflatac, its "Service Line" is no longer available on the site. ...

Brckner at BrasilPlast 2003 Brazil's Plastic Sector's Biggest Showca

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February 02, 2003, ... properties, such as films for lamination to paper, PE (polyethylene), and other films, self-adhesive, wraparound or pressure-sensitive (ps) labels." "Sophisticated line concepts for the flexible production ...

Products

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January 31, 2003, ...  OMW 600/2 water-based flexo printer/coater for self-adhesive tapes allows small/medium runs of printed rolls with fast changeovers, co. says. Has low energy consumption and prints one to four colors. ...

Russian Revolution

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January 31, 2003, ... packaging and converting industry as a whole. Our research for the new edition of the AWAreness Report on the Russian self-adhesive roll label market indicates that in 2001 growth exceeded 30% — a phenomenal ...

Converting Industry News

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January 31, 2003, ...  P-S Tapes to Expand Annually CLEVELAND, OH, USA—The world market for pressure-sensitive (p-s or self-adhesive) tapes is projected to expand at an annual pace of 5.5% through 2006 to 25.4 billion sq m, ...

Good News Hunting Is Easier Than It Sounds

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January 31, 2003, ... & Meier AG, based in Bülach, Switzerland, from Jagenberg AG in Neuss, Germany. Yet other M&A news involves materials suppliers that convert self-adhesive laminates, including UPM's proposed acquisition ...

Today's Portfolio of Product Decoration Technologie

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January 31, 2003, With major brand owners continuously seeking unique features for labels and packaging that will aid product differentiation, the self-adhesive label industry With major brand owners continuously seeking ...

Opportunities in Medical Packaging

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January 31, 2003, ... by branded products primarily based on traditional healing methods. Virtually all employ some form of protective liner for the healing pad as well as for the self-adhesive layer. However, liners can vary ...

Automotive Industry Opportunities

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January 31, 2003, ... automotive market is the world's largest for self-adhesive products. The market for coated and laminated materials in the automotive industry is large and complex, despite continuing consolidation. For ...

Reporter Clips

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December 31, 2002, ... of 20 self-adhesive stamps. MACtac, a worldwide supplier of p-s label materials, supplied the self-adhesive construction for the 111 million stamps printed. As a qualified supplier for USPS commemorative ...

Release Liners: A Worldwide Special ReportMedical/Healthcare Use

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October 31, 2002, ... have developed a specialized market “know how” that extends well beyond the boundaries of self-adhesive technology into the realms of medical science. Some of these supplier companies also extend their ...

Release Liners: A Worldwide Special ReportReducing Silicone Mist

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October 31, 2002, ... and cost reduction will continue to drive new products and new technology in the self-adhesive industry, and the use of a high-speed cross-linker is a cost-effective solution to reduce mist during the ...

Release Liners: A Worldwide Special Report: Release LinersPackaging Waste?

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October 31, 2002, ... for self-adhesive labels—but afterward they are thrown away. Whether release liners are classified as “packaging’” waste or simply as “process” waste, there is undoubtedly an ethical issue in relation ...

Release Liners: A Worldwide Special Report

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October 31, 2002, ... a series of interviews with her own production staff and managers and with about 30 TLMI converter members, in which she asked for input on the challenges they have faced both in converting self-adhesive ...

Reporter Clips

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September 30, 2002, ... self-adhesive stamps April 4, 2002, in New York City. MACtac participated in the contract award for the p-s material used on the USPS's first issue of a panel of 50 stamps in ten years. As a qualified ...

1990 - April 1993

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September 19, 2002, ... a clear self-adhesive film is placed on top, which actives the migrating ink dots, and they enlarge. September 1990 Two pressure-sensitive tapes designed for medical applications involving the human ...

Raflatac Gains P-S Material Market Share with MACtac Buy

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September 05, 2002, Finland-based UPM-Kymmene and US-based Bemis Co. swap converting industry businesses: Bemis Company's MACtac, pressure-sensitive materials producer, now will be part of Raflatac (UPM-Kymmene subsidiary) ...

Standing the Test of Time: A Look at PFFC's 75-Year Histor

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August 31, 2002, ... entrepreneur R. Stanton Avery manufactures the world’s first self-adhesive label. Influential Senator Huey Long is assassinated in the Louisiana State House in Baton Rouge. The shooter, Dr. Carl Weiss ...

1970 - 1973

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August 26, 2002, ...  and most modern line of its kind in the world' is the way [Fasson describes] its newest Egan self-adhesive coating and laminating line. The 240-ft-long line, able to handle an 80-in. web at speeds to 50 ...

FINAT Congress Addresses Customer Demand

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July 31, 2002, Madrid, Spain, was the setting this past June for the annual World Congress of FINAT, the worldwide association for the self-adhesive labeling industry. Madrid, Spain, was the setting this past June for ...