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Meeting the Need

(Materials)

September 30, 2003, ... properties; and require no plant investment for lacquering, drying, and air purification. Easily processable sealant resins reportedly provide cost savings over conventional aluminum/lacquer lid systems. ...

BOPP Film: How Real Is the China Threat?

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2003, ... Market 2003 includes a review of regional plastic film, aluminum foil, and paper supplies; statistics on the size of production, trade, and demand by European market by value and by major country; a detailed ...

Foil Converter Changes Course

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... aluminum foil for the confectionery industry. Located in Northampton, about one hour from London's Euston rail station, its original name was Foilwraps Flexible Packaging. The company's first flexo press ...

Products

(Magazine)

September 29, 2003, New from: Ashe Converting Equipment, Cleveland Motion Controls, Convertech Inc., Max Daetwyler Corp., Danfoss Drives, Dillon, Enercon Industries, Extech Instruments, Hoffman, Macro Sensors, Nireco America ...

CCL Strategic Repositioning Results in Asset Divestment

(News | New Products)

September 03, 2003, ... units in its container division. The businesses that have been sold include CCL's aluminum tube plant, Harrisburg, VA; the laminate tube facility, Swedesboro, NJ; the plastic jar plant, Plattsburgh, NY; ...

What Can Conductive Organic Polymers Do?

(Materials)

August 31, 2003, ... organic materials are considered nonconductors compared to metals, such as aluminum, copper, and silver. One difference between metals and organic materials is that metals conduct electricity. We know ...

The Long & the Short of Web Bending

(Magazine)

August 31, 2003, ... the beam dimensions (thickness, width, and length) and the modulus of elasticity. The deflection for a given load will be directly proportional to modulus. The modulus of aluminum is 20x higher than polyester ...

An American Success: Unifoil Honors 25-Year Company Vet Joseph Funicelli

(News | New Products)

August 24, 2003, ... job with the company, which was then called Anaconda Aluminum Corporation, learning about laminating. Two and a half decades later, Funicelli’s business acumen, vision, loyalty, and drive have helped transform ...

Ups & Downs of Business Make Escape an Attractive Option

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... if it is plastic bags, corrugated boxes, aluminum, rubber rollers, resin, staples, printing plates, etc., every day is RUSH, problems, bad news, major crises, etc. NOT minor, major. Prices keep going up, ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... customized printing. Using UV-curable inks, press prints on substrates ranging from ultra-thin flexible film, foil, or paper, to vinyl, paperboard, and aluminum-based materials. Prints images in at least ...

Active Packaging

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2003, ... vast majority of which are for wet glue labels — and paper laminate structures using aluminum foil and a range of plastic films. The popularity of “no-label look” transparent film labels has led to ...

A New Enhanced Polyethylene for Extrusion Coating and Laminating

(The Place)

July 31, 2003, ... of a commercially available aluminum coated OPP structure. The average thickness of the substrate was 1.45 mil. The OPP surface was corona treated at 10 kW before coating at target coating weights of 15, ...

Packaging Groups Form Coalition to Fight FDA

(News | New Products)

July 30, 2003, ... carton and rigid box manufacturers, among other plastic, glass, aluminum, and steel food packaging suppliers in the U.S. and abroad, would not only have to register their facilities with the FDA but also ...

Phthalo Green: How Can You Tell If It's Always the Same

(Materials)

June 30, 2003, ... in chemical composition. Copper phthalocyanine green is produced commercially by the direct chlorination of copper phthalocyanine blue pigment as a melt of sodium chloride and aluminum chloride. Chlorine ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, ... Container recently teamed up with Signature Brands to produce an aluminum container for Signature's newest cake decorating product line, Betty Crocker Easy Color Decorating Spray. Available in grocery chains ...

Products

(Magazine)

May 31, 2003, ... an aluminum-based ablative layer that washes out in plain tap water to simplify plate processing. Plate is said to deliver sharp halftone resolution and excellent ink transfer and to resist ozone deterioration ...

Materials

(Materials)

May 31, 2003, New products from: Akzo Nobel Inks, Contract Converting LLC, Eckart America L.P., Flex America Inc., Flint Ink, Leonhard Kurz GmbH & Co., MeadWestvaco Corp., UVitec Printing Ink, and Water Ink Technologies ...

Catty Corp.: Flex-Pack Converter

(Flexpack)

May 31, 2003, ... packaging industry. The company was established in 1907 and carved its niche first as a converter of paper, then cellophane packaging, and later aluminum. In fact, Scott says Catty produced the shredded-aluminum ...

Tetra Recart Wins EAFA Award Makes Inroads for Retort

(News | New Products)

April 01, 2003, Tetra Pak reports its Tetra Recart, "the first fully retortable carton system," recently was bestowed with an EAFA (European Aluminum Foil Association) Foil Pack of 2002 award. DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY—Tetra ...

New Products for the Converting Industry

(Magazine)

March 31, 2003, ... are constructed of lightweight extruded aluminum housing and allow operation to 400 W/in. Available in arc lengths from 4-77 in., units are air-cooled from either end or center and can be used with ceramic ...