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When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ...  The plant houses three extrusion/laminating lines, which extrusion coating operations manager Alan Denney says furnish 310,000 tons of coating capacity per year. Two of the extrusion lines were manufactured ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ...  And, there's no set-up time. So all of that time savings goes to the benefit of the customer, in terms of lower cost. It also adds to our capacity." According to Rick Luftman, Kapak's director of sale ...

Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call

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April 30, 2000, ... additional volume-increasing its pound capacity by 15%-20% in the past several years--but are a "big step forward for Apollo" in other ways. Besides being happy with the increased output, which Glenn ...

Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... both types is the same. The amount of running torque and thermal capacity of an electromagnetic brake depends on the number of armature discs and magnets in the unit. Running torque capacities vary ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... We decided to give it a go and installed the 72-inch Black Clawson line in early 1996." Only a year-and-a-half later, Barrett says he and his colleagues realized the operation needed even more capacity. ...

Electrically Heated Rollers Are Top Technology Choice

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... comparable to more expensive induction-heated systems, according to American Roller. Improved temperature uniformity and control, reliability, heating capacity, and responsiveness of the Thermalon RC100 ...

Seventy-Five Years and Counting for Bancroft Bag

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, ... palletizing area. It's all done in one operation with this bottomer." Rothschild calls the bottomer's speed "remarkable." "This one bottomer, in capacity, has more than replaced three of our older bottomers." ...

Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ... years Lee has been with the company, sales in that segment have grown from $1 million to $10 million per year. The US company boosted its head count to 60 employees and added a second shift to meet capacity. ...

Integrated Information System Can Boost Profits

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ... and finished goods inventories and work-in-process (WIP); increased capacity; and more efficient resource utilization. Manufacturers in the converting industry can gain similarly from enterprise resource ...

NOVA and Union Carbide to build ethylene plant

(Magazine)

October 31, 1996, ...  two existing ethylene plants on the Joffre site have a combined capacity of 3.4 billion lb/yr. After EIII comes onstream, the site is expected to be among the largest ethylene manufacturing complexes i ...

On-line gauging brings big benefits to coating operation

(Magazine)

July 31, 1996, ... upgrading its converting and coating application machines, adding slitting capacity, and integrating additional on-line gauging for increased process and quality control. It is in this last area that NDC ...

International Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

May 31, 1996, ... the petrochemical industry in the Philippines, primarily the construction of a PE plant at PPDC's petrochemical site in Limay, Bataan. The proposed plant will have a capacity of 200,000 tons/yr and will ...

Trim system in India to be first to handle sugarcane paper.

(Magazine)

March 31, 1996, ... with a 75% nesting capacity to help minimize transport and storage costs. Dioxin Emissions A recent report from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution, which reviews emissions in the U.K, shows that ...

The 1996 Metallizing Roundup: Experts Ponder and Predict

(Magazine)

February 29, 1996, ... to be enough capacity coming onstream for supply to exceed demand by a significant amount...and...there's going to be significant pressure on prices." Bob Korowicki, president of Vacumet Corp., agrees ...

In-house sheeting promotes growth and quality

(Magazine)

February 29, 1996, ... at speeds as high as 1,000 fpm, affording Hammer Lithograph the production capacity it needs to keep up with demand. "We produce about 35,000 to 40,000 lb of paper per shift, depending on size and substrate ...

Custom coating operation is a clean winner

(Magazine)

February 29, 1996, ... acceptable solvent levels. Should solvent concentration rise to "Level 1," the sensors automatically increase air flow into the room. At "Level 2" the exhaust system is raised to maximum capacity. At "Level ...

Deciphering the complexities of the core/shaft/unwind relationship.

(Magazine)

January 31, 1996, ... Chuck and shaft manufacturers have specific recommendations for gripping cores. They typically also can supply torque capacity charts for the different shafts and chucks. A different problem is posed ...

Don't forget your unwind

(Magazine)

January 31, 1996, ... that you choose," explains Rodemich. Single Versus Multiple Positions For example, single-position unwinds have the capacity for one roll at a time and require the stopping of the associated machine ...

Economic Forecast: More of the Same, Unless...

(Magazine)

December 31, 1995, ... a recession or retard growth. In fact, it's hard to believe that our government is going to cut spending fast enough to harm the economy." Looking at Inflation Earlier in 1995 capacity utilization was ...

Brake and clutches improve to meet industry demands.

(Magazine)

December 31, 1995, ... discs had ribbed surfaces on the outside, tripling the outside surface area for greatly improved cooling. This brake offered the capacity to cool down much larger applications, so much so that it started ...