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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 ...

Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call

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April 30, 2000, ... customer demands. "Everything we sell goes to other manufacturers. If they're out of film or out of bags, they're in trouble. And we have to respond." The fairly recent addition of a 64-in. Battenfeld ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

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March 31, 2000, ... product lines, says Barrett. "One is multiwall paper bags. In this area, we produce paper bags for the flour/bakery mix industry, pet and animal feed, chemicals/minerals, sugar, and rock products. The other ...

Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary

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March 31, 2000, ... as food preparation. Bags typically incorporate high-barrier materials such as ethylene vinyl alcohol, polyvinylidene chloride, or metallized polyester or nylon. Bag-in-box is the traditional package, ...

Seventy-Five Years and Counting for Bancroft Bag

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February 29, 2000, ... bag style, and served only the carbon black market." Today, Bancroft Bag produces its bags in a 300,000-sq-ft facility; provides bags for a host of markets, including pet food, fertilizer and other ...

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 ...

Two states adopt regulations for rigid-container laws

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January 31, 1998, ... except a lid or closure. The rebuffed industry definition would have exempted sleeves, domed lids, or trays contained in bags like plastic cookie trays. The adopted version now broadly defines rigid-plastic ...

Bag machine adds value to customer-oriented operation.

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November 30, 1996, ... converter of bags and printed rollstock with state-of-the-art equipment and technology. A key part of that equipment is a recently acquired servo draw bag machine from FMC. "Our formula for success is ...

Flexible packaging converter treats its customers right.

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October 31, 1996, ... new team had a strong background in food packaging, and we naturally grew in that direction. Although we still make some poly bags, our primary products are single-web rollstock and laminations. We are ...

Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.

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October 31, 1996, ... packaging, supplying 60% of the world's microwave popcorn bags. The bags are produced primarily for Hunt-Wesson's Orville Redenbacher[TM] Div. and Act II[TM] popcorn, distributed by Golden Valley Microwave ...

Bagmaking machines adapt to conquer new markets.

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July 31, 1996, ... to stay in-line with the extruder and flawlessly make bags at that speed as well." Baier explains that, except for refinements, bagmaking machines have changed very little over the past ten years. "The ...

Gravure winners go for gold

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July 31, 1996, ... bags, printed by Graphic Packaging Canada Corp., Winnipeg, Canada. The final laminated structure promotes a three-dimensional image for a fresh-baked look. Engraver: Southern Graphic Systems (Canada); ...

A look at the world of German Packaging today.

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March 31, 1996, ... suppliers of "netted" bag package machines commonly used to contain potatoes, onions, and apples. A recent innovation is the introduction of high-speed ultrasonic siding on the bags, eliminating the need ...

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 ...

Innovation is a winner in FPA competition

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March 31, 1996, ... The bags are antifog-treated and flexo-printed in six colors on 1.18-mil oriented polypropylene. Meat Snacks on View American National Can, Chicago, IL, also won three awards, including one for the ...

Viscosity system saves ink and improves print quality

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December 31, 1995, ... with the need for a new viscosity control system. Lally Pak provides printed film and bags to a variety of industries, including packaged frozen food, medical and pharmaceuticals, confectionary, and ...

Opportunities abound in an emerging Indian market

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December 31, 1995, ... paper bags as the container of choice. Films are also becoming more popular for pouches, envelopes, and garbage liners. Yet, despite this, about 70% of the packaging producers are small; only 5% to 10% ...

Converting capabilities grow in Caribbean nations.

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September 30, 1995, ... the paper packaging industry produce multiwall bags, fibre drums, folding cartons and molded pulp trays for various domestic needs. Higher quality jobs, such as labeling, high quality corrugated boxes ...