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Flexible Packaging Committee News

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, ... crafts, etc. Other requirements were ease of use by elderly people and use on a couch or in a car. Essentially, the inventor was looking for alternatives to zippers, twist ties, bag clips, rubber bands, ...

Converting Industry News

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November 30, 2000, ... through its web site, instapakquick.com. Purchasing the "Quick Start Kit" on-line enables customers to buy an Instapak Quick warmer with a sampling of multiple bag sizes, eliminating the need to purchase ...

Wide-Ranging European Converter Keeps on Moving

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October 31, 2000, ... features the latest equipment capable of controlling, touching up, and composing images. Bagmaking is an important part of Enplater's production. Five FMC bagmakers are in use, three producing wicketed ...

International Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... milk, the Elopouch now is being used in a clinical nutrition package from Nutrichem. The nutriBag is a double-bag system for providing clinical nutrition to patients fed liquid food by tube in the stomach ...

Technology Puts Converter "In-Line" for More Succes

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September 30, 2000, Phoenix Packaging, which made its name with in-line technology for producing popcorn bags, is taking its innovative ways into other areas. Microwave popcorn is a favorite treat of many, and consumers ...

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

(Magazine)

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 ...

The Vacumet Story Is a 30-Year History of Growth

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... It was the bag for Elkin's Coffee. Static electricity created by the packaging material Elkin had been using trapped coffee dust in the seal area and caused leakers. Oxygen penetrated the bag, and the coffee ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... Andreotti at andreotti.it. Multiwall Bag Is Resealable PURCHASE, NY, USA—The Flexible Packaging business of International Paper has developed a resealable multiwall paper bag. The Serve-N-Seal bag ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... difficult products run smoothly in dryer, including products with a strong tendency to curl, inferior quality films with slack edges, and bags that can be run only at high web tensions in a conventional-type ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

(Magazine)

June 30, 2000, ... to print napkins, paper, and wallpaper. 1930s (1933) Glassine paper waxed bag patented; especially useful for potato chip packaging. Single-color gravure press designed as part of continuous ...

Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact

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May 31, 2000, ... in film bags.] Next, you place the chicken packages in corrugated boxes, and the boxes are put on a pallet. Then you send the pallet through the irradiator. The irradiation rays go through the corrugated ...

On-Line Purchasing Saves Time, Money, and Space

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May 31, 2000, ... gives me a lot of freedom during the day," notes Joseph Irabor, prepress manager for Arrow Industries, a Fort Worth, TX, converter of plastic food bags. "I don't have to waste time on the phone to order ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ... greatest technological advancement in rotogravure printing in the past 50 years." Boil-in-Bag Beginnings Kapak began converting in 1961. "My father, Harry Bell, and Benjamin Kaplan started the company," ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... and a bag machine from Windmoeller & Hoelscher. French Fries and More Bonar's Calgary facility, which opened its doors in 1976, is one of eight packaging plants operating under the name Bonar Inc. The ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

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February 29, 2000, ... layer has elastic memory that allows the material to better resist bumps and dimples from hard, dry pet food. The plastic bag is highly resistant to moisture and grease, providing better protection than ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

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February 29, 2000, ... with printed polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) bags, ISMA soon developed the oriented PP market and began producing laminations. Spritzer's background in PE and PP marketing, combined with Uruguay' ...

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, Specialization is something that seems to be burgeoning in the converting industry. From short-run specialty bags to the season/holiday-changing colorful Specialization is something that seems to be burgeoning ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ... in use for the product. You don't want to have an overengineered film for a bag of potato chips." Dan Ward, research specialist, Equistar, agrees that economics is behind the development and innovations ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

(Magazine)

December 31, 1999, ... two Kampf slitters and one Titan slitter; and two bagmaking machines for pet food, diapers, and bread. Extrusion capabilities are found at both the Londrina facility and in Cambe, where the firm produces ...

Paper characteristics: starting the job right

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April 30, 1996, ... has tight or loose edges or baggy centers or if the edge trim weaves significantly. This can cause so much movement that even the automatic control devices prove ineffective, causing the web to vacillate ...