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International Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... flexographic printing machines for films) amounted to euro 5.5 billion for 1999, a fall of 3.6%. For more information contact VDMA, Lyoner Str. 18, D-60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; +49-69-66-03-1832; ...

Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... will be installed in Rigesa's consumer packaging plant in Valinhos, Brazil. According to Mark R. McMahon, president of Rigesa, "By combining Agaprint's offset printing capabilities with a flexographic press ...

Materials

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September 30, 2000, ... package stiffness, mfr. notes. Polyamide Resins Suited for Flexo Inks Cognis Coatings & Inks, Ambler, PA; 800/445-2207 Thermoplastic polyamide resins GAX 13-128 and 13-617 are designed for flexographic ...

Reporter Clips

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September 30, 2000, ... America, Seal-It, and Web Label Ltd. Narrow Web Converting Industry News Comco Seminar Will Address ''Total Concept Packaging'' MILFORD, OH, USA—Comco International, a manufacturer of flexographic printing ...

Presses and People Make a Powerful Combination

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September 30, 2000, ... "Best of Show" prize in the annual awards competition of the Flexographic Technical Association (FTA). In the first few months of this year alone, L.A. Label was recognized by the Tag & Label Manufacturers ...

Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

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September 30, 2000, ... responded to our editorials; he and his partner recently formed The Flexographic Trade School in Charlotte, NC. According to his correspondence (an excerpt of which appears in the May editorial), the ...

Bringing Together the Many Benefits of Film and Paper

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September 30, 2000, ... out any thicker areas of the bubble, says Wilson-North. He also talks about the eight-color, Italian-built Schiavi Sirio 228 central impression, flexographic press chosen by Harrier Packaging, noting ...

A Q&A on Remanufactured Equipment: Is It for You?

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September 30, 2000, ... minimal. Q: What are some types of equipment that can be remanufactured? A: Flexographic presses, gravure presses, coaters, laminators, slitters, and bag machines, to name just some. Q: What about ...

Canadian Banknote Installs Brookfield Viscometers

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August 31, 2000, ... narrow web flexographic press. CBN currently runs the nine-color press in 12-hr shifts to produce millions of lottery tickets annually for international companies. It also prints "scratch & win" tickets ...

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 ...

Flexography Comes of Age and Keeps on Growing

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August 31, 2000, ... And, the trend continues toward greater numbers of printing decks on central impression presses. UV Growth Adds New Dimension The use of ultraviolet inks in flexographic printing continues to grow ...

Eastern European Converter Continues Pioneering Ways

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August 31, 2000, ... is recorded on an optical plate so the rotogravure cylinder can be prepared. (Printing is about 60% rotogravure and 40% flexographic.) Anton says that this process enables 100% consistency between the ...

What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2000, ... bell-mark.com The "S" wrap design flexographic system is for printing in- or off-line with spiral tube winding machinery. The unit is designed to accept material widths to 7 in. and is capable of operational ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... work-related back injuries, co. reports. Platen Printer Outputs Top Quality Graphics Adolph Gottscho Inc., Union, NJ; 908/688-2400 Flexographic platen printer 800 Series is said to be ideal for lines ...

Label Converter's Business Is Prime Labels & Prid

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August 30, 2000, ... are lined with awards from the Flexographic Technical Association (FTA), the Tag & Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI), and other industry trade associations. In fact, in the most recent FTA competition ...

Barrier Layer Protects CDs from Skips and Scratches

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July 31, 2000, ... and then laminated to the PC film on a 62-in. wide flexographic coater. The film is then slit into three rolls, 20 1/2 in. wide, on equipment manufactured by Parkinson. The second laminating step takes ...

Press Adds Flexibility of Film to Paper Operation

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June 30, 2000, ... central impression, flexographic press marks its first foray into converting film, and it offers the Saugerties, NY-based company its greatest potential for growth since it was founded in 1979 as a converter ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

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June 30, 2000, ... comes into use (gravure printing). Food packaging begins to feature more layers of color due, in part, to advances in flexographic printing. 1963 Natta and Ziegler win Nobel Prize for the development ...

On-Line Purchasing Saves Time, Money, and Space

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May 31, 2000, ... range of supplies for the flexographic converter--"just about everything but film and inks," says one customer-began selling through its web site (teamflexo.com) less than two years ago. Now, on-line sales ...

Tape Converter Stands Up to Goliath with New Press

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March 30, 2000, ... its production and reduced delivery times with the installation of a custom-engineered Bell-Mark flexographic printer that Abendroth says runs four times faster than its other equipment. The stand-alone ...