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VOC-Compliant Inks: What State Are They In?

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September 30, 2001, ... and rotogravure was made convincingly. (For more on Project FOG, see PFFC, July 2001, p. 50.) Solvents Still Entrenched in Film Sector Water-based inks have a solid hold on the flexographic printing ...

Westvaco Launches Forte for Folding Cartons, "A Mini-Flute Alternative

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September 18, 2001, ... medium-sized packaging. According to Westvaco, Forte is a 36-pt solid fiber board that provides compression strength equal to, or greater than, F, G, and N mini-flute board. It's said to combine an extremely ...

What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2001, ... liners, and coated cartons. Also said to retain all the traditional benefits of outstanding thermal stability to prevent char, reduce maintenance costs, and extend equipment service life. The 100% solids ...

Products

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July 31, 2001, ... Higher Print Quality BHS Printing Machinery Corp., Baltimore, MD; 410/666-2700 UV flexo printing press is said to offer higher print quality and more brilliant colors using 100% solid inks with no emissions. ...

Party Defection Brings a Sea Change in the Senate

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June 30, 2001, ... been confirmed. Assistant Administrators for EPA's offices of Solid Waste and Emergency Response; Enforcement and Compliance Assurance; Environmental Information; and Research and Development have not ...

Division Conference Offers Varied Program

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May 31, 2001, ... polymer resins covalently bonded with stable solid-state additives. The session on “UV/EB Materials For Flexible Packaging” will have a paper on “EB Curing In Flexible Packaging” by Anthony J. Bean ...

A Proposal for Spreading Base Web During Melt Extrusion

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March 31, 2001, ... of web #2)2 × (stress/strain modulus of web #2). This relationship must be true for melt extruded laminates also. When a resin is extruded onto the base web, the melt shrinks as it cools to a solid. ...

Tension Control

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March 31, 2001, ... and other consumer and industrial products. The commonality for just about everything produced here is foil, which is laminated to solid bleached sulfate or recycled board for folding cartons, or to ...

Web Handling...Making a Slitter/Winder Upgrade Work for You

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March 31, 2001, ... solid surface rolls in a vacuum chamber. Nip rolls should never be used for tension isolation unless there is no other alternative, because they can damage the web, especially clear webs. Properly designed ...

International Converting Industry News

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February 28, 2001, ... by an earthquake in Turkey. As an indicator of continuing momentum in industry consolidation, congress delegates heard that the top ten folding carton companies are said to represent nearly 45% of total ...

Small Inspection Light Proves to Be a Shining Star

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February 28, 2001, ...  throughout the converting process. Amgraph was an early user of 100% water-based inks and 100% solid-cured inks and adhesives. The company likes the environmental benefits these products offer, as wel ...

Products

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February 28, 2001, ... for tape manufacturing are 100% solid. Said to offer a high-performance alternative to solvent-based systems, free-flowing, nonblocking pellets are available in a convenient form for vacuum feeding.  ...

Extrusion Coating Line Audit Can Bring Big Benefits

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January 31, 2001, ... have a solid working knowledge of the extrusion process and the variables involved. They also must know how the variables affect the process and determine their window of flexibility in changing those ...

Converting Industry News

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December 31, 2000, ... from a combination of competitive market pressures and high raw material and energy costs. President and CEO Gary Hayden says profitability at the facility has been weak due to overcapacity and consolidation ...

Products

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December 31, 2000, ... solid state, high-voltage power supply with built-in monitoring circuit, and a controller. Power supply is designed for use inside the hazardous area; control and interface components are installed outside ...

Printer Helps Customers Manage Printing Needs

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December 31, 2000, ...  of good quality commercial plants, and at the same time we consolidated in the forms, labels, and office products side of the business," says Keim. The company also does a substantial amount of direc ...

Products

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November 30, 2000, ... customers with solid value-for-money. Standard features include automatic sheet length and squaring. Also said to offer the highest single-web knife load available, as well as wider web widths. Temperature ...

What's New in Narrow We

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October 31, 2000, ... Co., Bridgewater, NJ; 800/797-4992; nationalstarch.com Duro-Tak 424A 100% solids, hot melt PSAs are said to bond securely to foods with irregular surfaces, such as the uneven surfaces of fruits and vegetables. ...

Converting Industry News

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October 31, 2000, ...  current PET manufacturing capacity of 1.5 million metric tons, these alliances bring the total sales capacity to 1.6 million metric tons. Consolidations Mead to Close Containerboard Plant DAYTON ...

Digital Products for the Converting Industry

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October 31, 2000, ... drum imager features a long-life, low-maintenance, diode-pumped solid state laser and the same Twinbeam optical system as other CDI and CDI Compact models. Supported imaging resolutions are 2,000 and 2,540 ...