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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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 ...

A look at the world of German Packaging today.

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March 31, 1996, ... replacement for an inner bag/folding carton. While the above package represents a valid environmental answer, Adler brand "Edelcreme" is a different story. It is a soft, spreadable, full-fat cheese packaged ...

Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea

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March 31, 1996, Independent Packaging arose from the ashes, but it wasn't easy. Now, after only 18 months, IP is on track to produce 1 billion bakery bags this year.Perhaps Independent Packaging arose from the ashes, but ...

New hot stamper does more for short runs

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February 29, 1996, ... and with Fast Track's own Power Macintosh creating the designs, the converter developed the sticker design as well as the packaging, which includes a header card (supplied by Westkote) with a poly bag (supplied ...

Book details Japan's packaging industr

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May 31, 1995, ... 4.5% more than the data in statistics from the Japan Packaging Institute. This difference is mainly because the data of the institute doesn't include sales of such packaging products as: bag-in-box, paperboard ...

Costa Rican converter expands Latin market

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April 30, 1995, ... converted into overwraps, garbage bags and various other uses. Rene Lacayo, the company's president, hosted my visit along with his marketing and sales manager, Hugo Aymerich. The company is situated ...

Printer responds to tougher environmental standards

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April 30, 1995, ... environmental problem in early 1993 at its manufacturing facility in Melville, NY. At this facility, Poly-Pak prints corporate names, logos and graphic designs on polyethylene shopping bags. The final ...

Consortium proves quality growth of flexo printing

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April 30, 1995, ... and other recent innovations. Introduced as a printing technique around 1890 by English paper bagmakers Bibby, Baron and Sons Ltd., the first printed materials were sticky and bled badly. Developed ...

Innovative uses, creativity earn honors from AIMCAL

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March 31, 1995, ... and love a party atmosphere." Other awards went to a variety of products as diverse as candy bags, a game box and a police car decal. Converters submitting the winning entries for the 1995 AIMCAL contest, ...

Packaging films edible, water soluble

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February 28, 1995, ... on conventional packaging machines into bags or wrappers. Applications include flavors, colorants, dyes, oxidation agents, enzymes, vitamin fortifiers, yeasts and conditioners. Food products in edible ...

Dutch converter expands in worldwide flex-pack market

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January 31, 1995, ... 1988 acquisition of Sengewald, Germany, and Nordwest Packaging, Germany, 1990. In 1989 KNP BT, then only BT, built a Sengewald plant in Marengo, IL, to supply the flexible diaper bags for Procter and Gamble ...

Slower growth, continued expansion seen in 1995

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January 31, 1995, ... concentrated in traditionally vulnerable areas, including shipping sacks, grocery bags, corrugated boxes, folding cartons and bleached-milk cartons. Between 1999 and 2004, paper will post consumption ...

German company develops recovery concept for plastics

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December 31, 1994, ... and wider markets, according to the company. * A manufacturer from Molsheim, France, has introduced three bagmaking machines. Holweg offers the RS-25 that can make over 300,000 bags in an 8-hr. shift. ...