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One Stop Shop

(Flexpack)

May 30, 2005, ... seal, gusset pouches, and bags. There are reclosable zipper pouches for powders and granules and reclosable cap and pouring-spout pouches for liquids. Carrier bags and a fairly extensive tattoo (pressure-sensitive ...

Truth or Myth?

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May 30, 2005, ... very insensitive to solids at low solids levels but rises very quickly as solids increase in the higher solids range. Suppose we use an anilox that supplies a constant wet coating weight, and we adjust ...

Reporter Clips

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April 29, 2005, News from: MACtac, label converters at TLMI, and Mesirow Financial. Narrow Web Converting Industry News PSA materials supplier MACtac, Stow, OH, supplied the self-adhesive construction for the 170 ...

Ashland Increases Prices on P-S Adhesives

(Archive)

April 02, 2005, Ashland Specialty Polymers and Adhesives will increase prices by 5%-10% on all p-s adhesives on April 15, 2005. PRESS RELEASE DUBLIN, OH— Ashland Specialty Polymers and Adhesives will increase prices ...

Detecting the Edge

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March 30, 2005, ... grew for greater accuracy and reliability, and tolerance for leaky hydraulics diminished. The earliest electronic systems were far from perfect—in particular the edge detectors were sensitive to dust and ...

Communication from the PLACE div. of TAPPI

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March 30, 2005, ... non-caseins, and other types of water borne adhesives. Despite some in-roads made by hot melts and pressure sensitive adhesives, the "wet glues" still dominate in many industries. For many years, packaging ...

A King of Shrink Contender

(Flexpack)

March 30, 2005, ... a big difference. For just a little bit more than it costs to produce standard pressure-sensitive labels on a press," Seuss says, "you can produce [on the Comco press] a label for the whole container—and ...

UV/EB a Bright Spot in Economy

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February 27, 2005, ... to turn to cationic UV inks and coatings in odor-sensitive flexible packaging applications. The use of cationic UV products still is small in comparison to conventional free-radical UV products. The ...

Hot Melt Adhesive Use

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February 27, 2005, ... users must consider when choosing these materials. The hot melt products arrive for use at room temperature when they are solids or extremely viscous fluids, as in the case of some hot melt pressure-sensitive ...

Waste Trimmed Away!

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February 27, 2005, ... 10,000–15,000-sq-ft building.) Politics and P-S Labels & Systems specializes in pressure-sensitive labels and non-p-s tags in sheets and rolls. Products include packaging labels for jars, cans, and ...

Film Opens New Markets

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February 27, 2005, Since pressure-sensitive labels and tapes—and other materials such as stamps—have become more sophisticated, the market for these materials has been expanding rapidly. In such product constructions, it ...

A Communication from the PLACE div. of TAPPI

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January 30, 2005, ... here would be ideally suited for dry, oxygen-sensitive packaging applications. For information about the PLACE Division of TAPPI, access the TAPPI web page at tappi.org. To obtain the complete papers ...

E-Clips Top 10

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January 30, 2005, Read on to see the materials and products that most captured our readers’ attention last year, based on the click-through response they generated in our E-Clips e-mail newsletter. Readers’ Choice Narrow ...

Reporter Clips

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January 30, 2005, ... trends are presented in "World Pressure Sensitive Tapes," a new study from The Freedonia Group. For more information contact Freedonia at 440/684-9600 or visit fredoniagroup.com. New TLMI Officers, ...

Bemis Acquires Majority Ownership of Dixie Toga

(Flexpack)

January 18, 2005, ... preferred stock of Dixie Toga for approximately $250 million, financed with commercial paper. PRESS RELEASE MINNEAPOLIS, MN—Bemis Co., a supplier of flexible packaging and pressure-sensitive materials ...

Profit for Printers

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December 30, 2004, ... For sleeves, you also need stretch and shrink characteristics and flexibility." Low Odor Inks One of the major issues with UV flexo-printed packaging has been odor, particularly in the odor-sensitive ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

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November 29, 2004, ... 560 million lbs in 2008, valued at $1.5 billion, the study says. Advances will result from the proliferation of sensitive electronic devices and the need to protect them from electrostatic discharge and ...

Mechanics of Tension Control, Part II

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November 29, 2004, ... which could harm some sensitive materials. Diameter Measurement Control—Ultrasound: Many advantages over the follower arm type tension control make the ultrasound tension control a more popular choice ...

Esko-Graphics Highly Commended at Label Industry Global Awards

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November 04, 2004, ... Dennison (averydennison.com). "Without Avery Dennison, the pressure-sensitive industry as we know it today would not exist," the juding panel said of Avery. "Avery Dennison was the original creator of the ...

Good News Hunting

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October 30, 2004, ... in flexible packaging, are tighter than ever before. By the same token and at the same AIMCAL meeting, I learned converters involved in flexible circuit laminates and pressure-sensitive adhesive coating ...