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On the Move...

(Magazine)

January 31, 2001, ... NY. Jan Fineman has been named CEO of Xaar plc, Cambridge, England, following the resignation of Graham Wylie. Extrusion Dies Inc. (EDI), Chippewa Falls, WI, has appointed Troy Miller to its team ...

Converting Industry News

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November 30, 2000, ... heavy metals in packaging and packing components. He provided information on the EPA's progress in reviewing chemicals for removal from the HAP list. Chip Dunne, Solutia, who chaired the Monday sessions, ...

Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... Snack Food & Wholesale Bakery magazine. Included in this figure are potato chips, tortilla chips, pretzels, popcorn, cheese snacks, and meat snacks. When sales of cookies, crackers, and snack bars (a category ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

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June 30, 2000, ... to print napkins, paper, and wallpaper. 1930s (1933) Glassine paper waxed bag patented; especially useful for potato chip packaging. Single-color gravure press designed as part of continuous ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

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February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...

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 ...

The role of barrier materials in packaging low-fat goods.

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October 31, 1996, ... chipboard specifications could be examined and upgraded (the recycled content can contain some unpleasant compounds). Even the warehouse, transport, and display environments might need to be better controlled ...

Die-cutting developments continue unabated.

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September 30, 1995, ... vacuum ports that offer 360 [degrees] control of the blank and chips. After a cut cycle is completed, a jet of air is directed through the cylinder to blow out the offal before the next cut is started. ...

Buyer beware when comparing video systems

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May 31, 1995, ... promote features, technical features. Almost every manufacturer boasts about technical specifications and claims product superiority. You hear terms like refresh rate, three-chip CCD, diopter, EPROM and ...

Building quality into the web printing process

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April 30, 1995, ...  [] A monitor to display the images. The first element of the system is the camera, a CCD electronic camera to be precise, either single or three-chip. The lens and diopter, in conjunction with the ...

Quality, waste get action from suppliers of sheeters.

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January 31, 1995, ... sheeting for the computer chip-board market. Rosenthal said unusual substrates are commonplace for the company. "People are always coming to us with new materials," he said. "That's because we have some ...

Unusual fiber packaging finding worldwide success

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December 31, 1994, ... OH, from chipboard rolls supplied by Sonoco Products Co., Hartsville, SC. When the bottoms are glued in place, the tops and bottoms of the drum wells are curled in. The net result is the walls are stronger, ...