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Converting Industry News

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February 28, 2001, ... while our Fasson customers will benefit from the convenience of purchasing roll materials, both pressure-sensitive and non-pressure-sensitive, from a single source.” Jefferson Smurfit Acquires Corrugated ...

US and EU Health Activities Are Focusing on Chemicals

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January 31, 2001, ... of all possible risks to humans and the environment. Risks to children and "sensitive" populations pose special concerns requiring adoption of the precautionary principle. While groups like Greenpeace ...

Formulators Look Beyond the Peel, Tack, and Shear Profile

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January 31, 2001, ... ago, the microsphere technology behind 3M's Post-It Notes—sticky when you need them, removable when you don't—continues to drive trends in the pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) market. "In the past we ...

Forging Ahead into the Digital Printing Frontier

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January 31, 2001, ... he started his post in 1985. The company now specializes in a number of narrow web applications, including pressure-sensitive labels and hangtags used by pharmaceutical and cosmetics companies. His experience ...

Converting Industry News

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December 31, 2000, ... to draw 18,000 visitors. Featured advances include the latest flexible packaging materials, p-s labels (pressure sensitive labels), folding cartons, corrugated containers, and inks. Solutions in prepress, ...

Products

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December 31, 2000, ... printing operations. RC-type bars are resistively coupled, which reportedly eliminates potential interference with sensitive electronic components. System Monitors Register, Reduces Setup and Waste ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ... film and inner layers of PE/foil/PE/LLDPE. Solutia's Andres Soto says, "We needed something to prevent the migration of moisture onto the roll of film, which is very moisture-sensitive, so we encapsulated ...

What's New in Narrow We

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October 31, 2000, ... speeds and the use of a broader-based range of heat-sensitive substrates. Finishing System Offers Automatic Features Rotoflex InternationalInc., Mississauga, Ont., Canada; 905/670-8700; 800/387-3825; ...

Products

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October 31, 2000, ... media any size up to 27.1 in. x 30 in., has imaging and resolution capabilities of 1,524-3,556 variable dpi, and images IR-sensitive digital flexo plates and IR-sensitive ablative film. Epicyclic Drive ...

Conference Features New Networking Opportunity

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October 31, 2000, ... marketing studies for hot melts. Papers on new, emerging hot melt product technology are especially welcome as are papers on hot melt pressure sensitive adhesives. Potential authors should submit the ...

UV Protection of Hot Melt Adhesives for Packaging Applications

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October 31, 2000, ... Protection Strategies Pressure sensitive labels and tapes have use in many packaging applications. Many materials are available for both the backing and adhesive depending on the final requirements. The ...

Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

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September 30, 2000, ... Troy, OH, provides a bit of an anomaly in today's manufacturing employment environment. According to company president Eric Magel, the label converter and supplier of pressure-sensitive labels has press ...

Hot Melt Symposium Covers Many Topics

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September 30, 2000, ... for non-pressure sensitive hot melt adhesives in Western Europe should experience an annual growth rate of approximately 2.5% for 1998-2003. For pressure sensitive hot melt adhesives, the number is 6.3%. ...

Polyester Film Supplier Helps Converter Grow

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September 30, 2000, ... down to size more than three years ago when it turned to Filmquest Inc. for polyester filmstock. Supplier Service Key to Growth Custom Tapes was founded more than 50 years ago as a distributor of pressure-sensitive ...

Reporter Clips

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August 31, 2000, News from: Crane & Co., Dow Corning, Flexographic Trade School, Indigo, MACtac, Polyweave, Proma Technologies, Raflatac, Scapa Tapes, and Tokyo Lithmatic Corp. Narrow Web Converting Industry News Dow ...

What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2000, ... materials and products that transform with temperature, UV light, or pressure. New materials include ChromaZone, a thermochromic (heat-sensitive) pigment; SolarZone, a photochromic pigment, and Vinyl Flex, ...

Label Converter's Business Is Prime Labels & Prid

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August 30, 2000, ... to spotlight its "debut," or "premiere," as an upscale supplier of prime labels. Since that time, the Troy, OH-based converter has grown to become one of the country's "premier" suppliers of pressure-sensitive ...

Specialists in Interior Packaging Branch Out

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June 30, 2000, ... 1,500 fpm and was made to handle lightweight substrates including paper, film, foil, tissue, and pressure-sensitive materials, Stroud reports. "We can slit down to one and a half inches wide, and the duplex ...

Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary

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March 31, 2000, ... oxygen-sensitive ingredients, these products need more packaging protection. In order to protect the flavors and aromas, which provide superior palatability, foil laminates and other high-barrier films ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

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February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...