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MSC Specialty Films reaches success down to the core

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May 31, 1996, ... sputter coated functional films for electronics and military applications. Dickerson knows that industry trends require higher product quality and greater customer satisfaction, as well as higher production ...

Green Bay gears up for specialty labels

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May 31, 1996, Green Bay Packaging's Coated Products Operations unit commissions custom equipment from Faustel to take advantage of the growing market for specialty Green Bay Packaging's Coated Products Operations unit ...

Paper characteristics: starting the job right

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April 30, 1996, ... product. For example, if you're laying down a red ink on a clay-coated stock that is inconsistent or too light or flaky, the ink won't stand up properly, resulting in poor performance. One paper property ...

AIMCAL Selects Seven for Annual Honors

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March 31, 1996, ... of paper with the graphic appeal of holographics. The process begins with a film carrier, which is coated and microembossed with a wave pattern. The film is vacuum-metallized and laminated to 16-pt ...

In-house sheeting promotes growth and quality

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February 29, 1996, ... wide, the MSL handles a broad range of materials, including coated-one-side, coated-two-sides, and offset paper grades in basis weights ranging from 30# to 100#. It runs solid bleached sulfate board up ...

Business and education join forces, and everybody wins

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February 29, 1996, ... students have used the narrow web press with top-coated materials. "We ran into problems with the printing, especially UV flexo," says Crouch. "We always wished we could turn on a treater, and now we can. ...

Buyer beware when comparing video systems

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May 31, 1995, ... systems today. Circumferential strobes should be avoided as they produce hot spots on varnished, ultraviolet-coated or reflective substrates. Monitors Like speakers in a stereo system, the video ...

Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible

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March 31, 1995, ... uses of glass-coated film in the US. The silicon-oxide-coated polyester laminate protects radioactive blocks of cesium-iodide crystal in a manner that allows them to be visually inspected while still in ...

Innovative uses, creativity earn honors from AIMCAL

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March 31, 1995, ... It's also breathable, soft and resilient. Individual metal-coated fibers are produced through a patented process. A lightweight non-woven web produced of polymer fibers is then metallized. The new process ...

Printing system offers quality performance

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February 28, 1995, ... system that provides ultralow retained solvents when adhesive or extrusion-laminating treated and on polyvinylidene-chloride coated polyester substrates is available from Zeneca Specialty Inks, Winston-Salem, ...

Familiarity with change no surprise in this industry

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February 28, 1995, ...  application a week," he said. "In metallizing, I see extreme interest in foil replacement for both metallized film and coated film in packaging. One new application a week is very specific to packaging ...

Package, vehicle sticker earn holographic honors

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February 28, 1995, ... The face of the hologram is coated with a transparent contact adhesive that doesn't allow the hologram to be removed from the windshield without disintegrating. In the Hologram in Print, Packaging and ...

French plastic bag imports continue to outpace exports.

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January 31, 1995, ... coated films used in thermal-transfer printers. Peerless Foils, East London, England, has recently installed a 635 TTR slitter produced by Dusenbery Europe Ltd., Bedford, England. According to Peerless, ...

Slower growth, continued expansion seen in 1995

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January 31, 1995, ... paper grades will increase from 45.1-million tons in 1993 to 47.3-million tons in 1997, an average of 1.2% annually. Only three new machines are scheduled for startup after 1994 - one uncoated, free-sheet ...

Controlling costs challenge label stock, liner suppliers

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December 31, 1994, ... IL, said. "Polypropylene is being looked at. It offers several benefits, like minimized machine-direction stretch. We also see an increased use of polypropylene-coated papers." A lot of developmental ...