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Box Plant Rises from the Ashes to New Heights

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May 31, 2000, ...  Bobst 102-E and 142-E cutter/creasers was in place less then six weeks after the fire, followed a month later by the second. When the first of two MAN Roland Model 600 and 900 six-color printer/ coater ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ... has been around for 40 years, it had never printed prior to last year, so it definitely hit the ground running on the printing front line. And with the installation of its new Toshiba eight-color rotogravure ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

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March 31, 2000, ... masking paper." Prior to 1996, the facility had two coating lines, a 60-in. Egan coater/laminator and a proprietary 106-in.-wide coater/laminator. Each coater includes an in-line two-color flexo press. ...

Human/Machine Interface Offers Best of Two Worlds

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March 31, 2000, HMI software brings operator and equipment together in new ways for more efficient machine control and better communication. font color=black>HMI software brings operator and equipment together in new ...

Tape Converter Stands Up to Goliath with New Press

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March 30, 2000, ... seem, registration fortunately isn't a problem since the type is in a single color, says Abendroth. "The only registration concern would be that you can't have the type half on and half off the tape."  ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... from Sao Paulo) include two Rotomec nine-color presses and two Schiavi (Bobst Group Inc.) presses, a nine- and a ten-color model. Other equipment includes a Rotomec solventless laminator, two wax coaters, ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ... again. Packaging very often is the determining factor for consumers. In the fight to grab a browser's attention, end-users today know the importance of the printing, the color, and the design of a package. ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

(Archive)

December 31, 1999, ... down to other sizes. Auxiliary equipment includes a Printco one-color flexo press that can print and/or coat either side of the substrate in-line. Davis-Standard Egan supplied the unwind. CEI inputs ...

Vision-Based System Wins the Battle Against Defects

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December 31, 1999, ... has been in business for 25 years. It runs polypropylene, polyethylene, and polyester substrates on six- and eight-color presses. A complete prepress department handles inception, design, process color ...

Narrow web adapts to multiple applications

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November 30, 1998, ...  and can run in either configuration at the flip of a switch." Video inspection systems are available today specifically for narrow web systems. Jim Doerr, national sales manager for TruColor, offer ...

Anilox roll advancements raise the quality of flexo

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November 30, 1996, ... finished products," according to Patterson. In addition, leading ink manufacturers have developed inks with enhanced pigmentation, allowing the printer to use less ink to achieve the same desired color ...

Bag machine adds value to customer-oriented operation.

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November 30, 1996, ... Gloucester Engineering, FMC, and Amscomatic (no longer making this equipment), as well as a Dri-Tec laminator. A separate printing area utilizes three six-color Uteco printing presses, two 48-in.-wide ...

Need and innovation are driving digital printing.

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November 30, 1996, ... offset system and its liquid pigment-based toner; Scitex ink jet with a liquid dye and pigment-based ink; and Heidelberg's GTO system. All of these systems offer full-color direct digital printing, all ...

Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.

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November 30, 1996, ... resins, tie-layer resins, and color concentrates, Quantum runs an extrusion coating line with a wide range of capabilities. During its operation, the line has been updated and retrofitted with the most ...

Flexible packaging converter treats its customers right.

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October 31, 1996, ... producing high quality laminated products for the snack packaging industry. Presses include a five-color Wolverine stack press; two six-color Comexi central-impression presses; and a six-color Kidder ...

Partnering launches future growth in laminations

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August 31, 1996, ... Support From the adhesive perspective, Coulter explains, "Currently, most commercial applications require a clear adhesive. In our industry, however, most of the product we sell requires a colorant in ...

Web-inspection system supports label operation

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July 31, 1996, A TruColor Video web-inspection system is bringing multiple benefits, including higher quality, to Label America.According to one of the cornerstones A TruColor Video web-inspection system is bringing ...

Gravure winners go for gold

(Magazine)

July 31, 1996, ... and line colors. A special magenta helped reproduce the design's bright colors. The gravure-printed shrink-wrap label applied to a generic aerosol can enabled the customer to reduce lead time, inventory, ...

Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea

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March 31, 1996, ... color match was achieved at 10:55 P.M. At 11:21, just 40 days after the press was delivered and a little more than a half-hour before deadline, the first roll came off the press. Within an hour the pressmen ...

Innovation is a winner in FPA competition

(Magazine)

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 ...