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Solving the Problem of Press Part Replacements

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September 30, 2000, ... is delivered in rolls and filled/sealed by the customer. Clear Lam uses seven central impression flexographic presses (one eight-color model and the rest six-color models) as well as dry bond laminators ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

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June 30, 2000, ... tremendous advances in printing; sophisticated, in-line mechanical operations; controlled-atmosphere applications for food products; and much more. Food packaging is an area in which food-product developers ...

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, ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, ... end packages be vertical form-filled, or cold-sealed, or is the converter going to put a zipper onto it?" Machine Considerations The machines that produce these high-tech films have been modified and ...

The role of barrier materials in packaging low-fat goods.

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October 31, 1996, ... packages that extend shelf life by providing improved moisture and oxygen protection, that extended shelf life coupled with the reduction in fat has created a need for increased flavor and aroma barrier ...

Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need

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June 30, 1996, ... & Hoelscher Corp., says that one of the biggest developments in the extrusion process involves not equipment but raw material called "metallocenes" that he says are "probably the biggest development since ...

Paperbox winners honored for industry excellence

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April 30, 1996, ... wheel and the axle hole and to feel the composition of the wheel compound. The package replaces a clam shell blister pack, and, according to Kryptonics, sales have quadrupled since die new design was introduced. ...

Die-cutting developments continue unabated.

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September 30, 1995, ... which the steel rule is inserted. The slot cutting accuracy of a skilled jigsaw artisan, says Bob Lackey, VP of marketing for Southeastern Die Co., Decatur, GA, may occasionally reach [+ or -] 0.015; ...

Plastics society urges repeal of Clean Air Act provisions

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September 30, 1995, ... should be repealed. Speaking on behalf of SPI, Michael Seymour of Lasco Products Group told members of the Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations that sections 112(g) and 112(j) ...

Future of video inspection systems seems bright.

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June 30, 1995, ... takes a look ahead to what kinds of systems users can expect to see as the technology evolves. In previous installments, we explained the various benefits of video inspection and presented detailed ...

Buyer beware when comparing video systems

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May 31, 1995, ... of this translation process and produces the most accurate color reproduction. All charge-coupled-device cameras use at least one integrated circuit chip with thousands of light-sensing elements. A ...

Building quality into the web printing process

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April 30, 1995, ... alert operators. It's estimated that such systems are installed on 15% to 20% of all flexo and 50% of all gravure presses in the US. Current projections, based upon how rapidly the technology is being adapted, ...

Unusual fiber packaging finding worldwide success

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December 31, 1994, A Dutch converter of fiber drums has found a successful way to use recycled newprint in the production of fiber-based containers for a variety of packaging A Dutch converter of fiber drums has found a ...

German company develops recovery concept for plastics

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December 31, 1994, ... 250 micron. Taco has installed a specially-built Dusenbery model 735 slitter with the new cast polypropylene line at Winsford, Cheshire, UK. The slitter is customized to take 1,800 mm-wide mill rolls ...