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Neither Boom Nor Bust

(Magazine)

December 31, 2002, ... individual investors, the overall economy pays little attention to it. Some say the stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions.” Inventories Are Flat Part of the problem with GDP, according ...

Russian Flex-Pack Markets Holds Potential

(News | New Products)

January 23, 2002, ... an economy that was slated to expand in 2001 at a rate of 7%, consumer spending forecast to rise as much as 9%, and investment up to 20%. With many of the large multinational food/beverage processors ...

The Influence of Die Design and Extensional Rheology on the Onset of Wave Interfacial Instabilities in Coextrusion Flows

(Magazine)

December 31, 2001, ... wave instability. Coextrusion is a process to extrude two or more layers of polymers through a single die. The coextrusion process can produce multi-layer sheet, blown film, cast film, tubing, wire ...

Single-Source Ink Supplier for Package Printer

(Magazine)

July 31, 2001, ... Bay, WI; 920/491-6637; pcmc.com Windmoeller & Hoelscher, RI; 401/333-2770; 800/854-8702; whcorp.com Kidder Inc., Agawam, MA; 413/786-8692 AET Films, New Castle, DE; 302/326-5500; 800/688-2044; ...

More Causes, More Cures For Web Scratches

(Magazine)

July 31, 2001, ... continue. However, these types of fixes should be considered temporary, and a true fix should be found as soon as possible. Cast film stretchers that use nip rolls and idler rolls to heat and elongate ...

Polymers/Laminations/Adhesives/Coatings/Extrusions

(Magazine)

July 31, 2001, ... Technical Award and Sam Zweig Prize originally endowed by Morton International. Moeller is product manager of cast film systems. He has been with this organization for 22 years and was vice president of ...

The Missing Link: Plastics History Leads to Packaging

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... to the global benefit, both companies complement one another in other ways. “Clopay had no printing,” explains Böhme. “It was specializing in cast film extrusion and extrusion lamination.” (Clopay produces ...

Web Handling...Making a Slitter/Winder Upgrade Work for You

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, ... wound also is significant. Caliper differences or gauge bands from the casting or extrusion areas are the bane of web winders. Sometimes it is possible to distribute the thicker lanes over more rewind ...

Flex-Pack Operation Likes to Convert the Complex

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... and the microchip works well. The Netherlands is an easy place in which to travel, and the locals are friendly and speak excellent English, but towns are still surrounded by canals and castle walls. The ...

A Glossary of Descriptive Terms - Fifth Installment

(Magazine)

January 31, 2001, ... These include applications such as collapsing the bubble on blown film lines, some types of cast web stretchers, web laminators, squeegee applications for liquid removal, etc. - Neck-in: The amount ...

International Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... Supplies Malaysian Film Co. FULTON, NY, USA—Scientex Packaging Films, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, has purchased two cast stretch film lines from Black Clawson Converting Machinery. The lines will provide ...

Wide-Ranging European Converter Keeps on Moving

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... 160 employees work in three shifts, including 30 in research and development and quality control. Five extruders run in a separate facility for film extrusion. Two Davis-Standard machines produce cast ...

Materials

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... be formulated to offer three times the release of industrial-grade silicones. Designed for film laminating, cast film, and paper and film coating applications as well as for process ovens that require ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

(Magazine)

June 30, 2000, "Cellophane brought about the first transparent...packaging concepts." So said Dr. Richard Podhajny, one of PFFC's contributing editors, in his feature, "Cellophane brought about the first transparent...packaging ...

Adapting flexible system in trim-recovery operations.

(Magazine)

July 31, 1995, Product output improves after James Rivers' Flexible Packaging Group installs a new air handling system for trim recovery and reprocessing on a cast extrusion Product output improves after James Rivers' ...

Familiarity with change no surprise in this industry

(Magazine)

February 28, 1995, ...  would typically see 2% growth were growing at 5% or 6% or better. All segments grow at least double the growth rates we saw in 1993. We're forecasting the growth rate will drop down to 4% to 4.5% in 1995 ...

German company develops recovery concept for plastics

(Magazine)

December 31, 1994, ... 250 micron. Taco has installed a specially-built Dusenbery model 735 slitter with the new cast polypropylene line at Winsford, Cheshire, UK. The slitter is customized to take 1,800 mm-wide mill rolls ...