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- Wide-Ranging European Converter Keeps on Moving
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- October 31, 2000, ... bags for bakery products and two for side-weld machines. Finishing is done with 16 slitters. Markets Open Up The Spanish flex-pack market ($550 million) is highly fragmented. About 35 converters operate, ...
- Corona Treaters Adapt to Converting Processes
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- September 30, 2000, ... system with metal electrode segments. "If you have a 60-inch-wide web and you're going to slit the web and make it into bags, you have a section that needs to be heat sealed. You don't want to treat that ...
- Bringing Together the Many Benefits of Film and Paper
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- September 30, 2000, ... bags, are among the first targets for a coextruded polyethylene film that has been developed by new British converter Harrier Packaging. The product, designated PaperFeel, reportedly looks, feels, prints, ...
- The Vacumet Story Is a 30-Year History of Growth
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- August 31, 2000, ... and coffee bags. We metallize holograms for point-of-purchase displays, cartons for liquor and golf balls, and cosmetics. Holograms are now showing up on flexible packaging as well." Adds Korowicki, ...
- Flexography Comes of Age and Keeps on Growing
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- August 31, 2000, ... and lithography. Corrugated, labels, flexible packaging, paper bags, and folding cartons are the growth market sectors, with much of this growth at the expense of letterpress, offset, and gravure. Anilox ...
- 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 ...
- Materials and Products for the Converting Industry
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- August 31, 2000, ... plastic bags utilized in the food industry. In addition, foil is said to adhere to other flexible packaging plastics, including both CPP and OPP, polyester, PE, and p-s stocks. Series is described as an ...
- Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch
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- July 31, 2000, ... longer shelf life for produce, meats, and other products; novel resins such as metallocenes that are stronger and more breathable than traditional films; and convenience features such as zippered bags ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
