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Russian Flex-Pack Markets Holds Potential

(News | New Products)

January 23, 2002, ... produces Cryovac barrier films and bags for the meat and dairy industries. It is estimated that sales in Russia alone are in the range of $20 million. In late 2000, the Italian firm Ital Film began ...

It's Not R2-D2, But Robotics Is Aiding Many Converting Plant

(Magazine)

December 31, 2001, ... future in which we sit back and let mechanical beings do all of our work. For converters, however, it's not all science fiction. In just about any converting process — presses, bagmaking, you name it — ...

International Converting Industry News

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November 30, 2001, News from: Clear View Bag, CreoScitex, Danapak, Enercon, Ion Industrial, Nova Chemicals, Rexam, and Unilux. Covering the Full Spectrum of International Industry News, Events & Activities Supplier News ...

Many New Players Join India's Flex-Pack Boo

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September 30, 2001, ... inputs like bagasse, rice husk, straw, jute, etc., while some of them are equipped only to use waste paper as an input. Two of the leading adhesive manufacturers are Converter Adhesive & Chemicals and ...

European Conference Draws Large Audience

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September 30, 2001, ... width of a web. A papermaker will also include basis weight and moisture with caliper as a measure of profile. Some say that a web with baggy lanes has a poor profile. Bagginess is a variation of machine ...

BIG Fish Bows Out, Turning Tide for the Little Ones

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September 30, 2001, ... the packaging areas in which Seal-Coat substrates can be used: food packaging (human and pet); specialty packaging; multi-layered bags; industrial packaging; medical packaging; and ream and roll-wrapping ...

Die-Hard Creativity Keeps Converter Growing and GROWING

(Office Products)

September 30, 2001, ... new product] would be just like a poly bag, but instead of the traditionally produced zippered-closure pouches, it would have a true [hook-and-loop fastener].” This Park Air machine actually was at ...

Vacumet Makes Metallizing Dreams Come True

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August 31, 2001, ... by the multiwall bag for Ralston Purina One dog food and cat food. Vacumet provides the facestock for that bag. The silver appearance of metallized paper is not seen by the consumer, but the metal coating ...

New Product Digest

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August 31, 2001, ... co. reports. POUCH EQUIPMENT ADDS SLIDER HCI/Karlville Development USA, Miami, FL; 305/533-1051 The HCI single-web pouch machine can produce bags using the new Minigrip/Zip-Pak® Slider as well as ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2001, ...  Mamata Celebrates Milestone with B&J Parr In January U.K.-based B&J Parr Flexible Printing Northeast Ltd. installed a bagmaking machine manufactured by Mamata Machinery. It was the 1,000th machine ...

Products

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July 31, 2001, ... printers, bagmakers, and more. They can produce holes from 0.7-100 mm dia on film thicknesses from 0.006-0.800 mm at speeds to 150 mpm. The devices are applicable to agricultural film, fruit and vegetable ...

All Zipped Up: Hard-to-Beat Valley Packaging Tackles New Zipper Technology

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June 29, 2001, ... bags and pouches has become much more than a niche at Valley. “This is an area where we've seen growth in the last five years; we've put in five or six zipper machines since then,” says Lance. Valley' ...

Converting Industry News

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May 31, 2001, ... by Paper Machinery Corp. The packages, which combine the printing qualities of paperboard with the barrier properties of a canister, are said to be ideal replacements for bag-in-the-box packages. Produced ...

A Winning Bet: Profile Industrial Packaging

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May 31, 2001, ... as possible.” In the Bag Biz Along with film production and corona treating, Profile Industrial Packaging makes bags. “Our end products are wide-ranging,” Swartz says. “Essentially, we makes industrial ...

The Missing Link: Plastics History Leads to Packaging

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April 30, 2001, ... went right to work. “After two or three years, I invented a side-welded bag for packing toilet paper rolls. Previously, manufacturers had been using side-fold bags, which could not be printed on the side. ...

The Amcor Story Continues

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March 31, 2001, ... laminator and a Kampf three-station coater. The operation includes nine slitters and five bagmaking machines. Although the facility does not have any extrusion capabilities, required extruded film is ...

Fido's Food Goes GLOSS

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March 31, 2001, With the help of a Prime UV ultraviolet curing system, Canadian-based Bonar Packaging has given glamour to the plain pet food packaging bags of the past. Pet cuisine is like everything else these days: ...

Flexo Inspection

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March 31, 2001, ... The colors are bold, and the finished product looks natural. The lower dot gain in the highlight areas and in the midtones produces a bag that truly sells. Now let us turn to the subject at hand — 100% ...

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

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March 31, 2001, ... the gauge band areas. Baggy lanes form in the web at these points when the web is unwound from the mill roll, because the web has been stretched beyond its elastic limit. Incoming webs that exhibit ...

Converting Industry News

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March 30, 2001, ... PE business to strengthen its position in the specialty packaging industry. The business, which includes such products as industrial stretch film and institutional waste bags/can liners/food bags, has ...