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Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... tobacco-related, and combination packages. The company received two excellence awards in the healthcare products/non-pharmaceutical category. For more information on the NPA awards, see the August issue ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... a flame-retardant acetate film that will burn if exposed to an external flame and self-extinguish on removal. Combination Press Adds Speed Nilpeter Inc., Davie, FL; 954/385-8835; nilpeter.com The ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... acrylic polymer specially linked with a high molecular weight-modified acrylic. According to mfr., combination provides a coating with high heat resistance that is used in applications requiring heat release ...

Anilox Rolls Are Key When Printing Corrugated Board

(Print)

July 31, 2000, ... have a higher resistance to aggressive cleaners." Managing the Anilox Rolls What is particularly important to Assi-Doman is the correct anilox screen count (the number of lines per centimeter) in combination ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

(Magazine)

June 30, 2000, ... PE extrusion coating process in 1948. 1950s Milprint (and other materials companies) develop reliable, cost-effective adhesives. Thin-layer laminations of multiple materials; combinations ...

Drupa 2000A Big Success Any Way You Count It

(Magazine)

June 30, 2000, ... waste; Teknek's web treatment center, a combination slitter/rewinder that can corona treat the web as it's being slit; Fischer & Kreckes Flexpress 16 S, an eight-color, servo-driven, gearless CI flexo press ...

EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.

(Magazine)

October 31, 1996, ... in multiple gradations. Process colors will meet with 50% trap of tones and solids. Lab Tests: Up to 21 tests will be conducted for each printed ink/substrate combination, including: * scuff and ...

Label converter controls quality from the inside out

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ...  In addition to runs for individual customers, Walle prints "combination work" and "club runs," where multiple customers' labels share a sheet that is printed in standardized colors, proportionately sharing ...

Something new under the sun

(Magazine)

June 30, 1996, ... e of enhancements, which include foil stamping, embossing, die-cutting, holograms, and unique techniques that are a layered combination of two or more of those methods," says Mark Mulvaney, owner of Letterhe ...

Flexo label printer grows by leaps and bounds

(Magazine)

April 30, 1996, ... us, we feel, is a larger-run prime label business and into the flexible packaging end of business," according to Mintz. This means another capital investment, possibly a combination press, so the game ...

Gravure gets easier

(Magazine)

April 30, 1996, ... and ancillary materials and supplies have been developing innovations and "short cuts" that have made the process less costly and more efficient. From combination presses to lightweight coating sleeves, ...

In-house sheeting promotes growth and quality

(Magazine)

February 29, 1996, ... Printing Industries of America, the company has been recognized locally for its printing capabilities. The right combination of facilities, equipment, and people has brought the company to where it ...

Pollution and politics: how green will the new year be?

(Magazine)

January 31, 1996, ... of 10 tons per year (tpy) for one HAP or 25 tpy for any combination of HAPs. The proposed MACT standards call for (1) the elimination of 95% of organic HAP emissions from the source; (2) restriction ...

Improved paper chemistry provides multiple benefits

(Magazine)

December 31, 1995, ... other, sometimes incompatible, additives and contaminants are in the sheet. The combination of ingredients can have significant impact on end performance. Seeking Harmony For this reason new chemistry ...

"Partnering" helps get press up to spee

(Magazine)

November 30, 1995, ...  In order to meet production deadlines, it was absolutely necessary for Viking to run the labels at 200 fpm, but the combination of the speed and the viscosity of the inks being run was causing the foaming ...

Printer responds to tougher environmental standards

(Magazine)

April 30, 1995, ... to eight different solvents and require a combination of four or five additives to dilute the ink. They also tend to attract water. A solvent-recovery system produces a blend of solvents. Some, or all, ...

Building quality into the web printing process

(Magazine)

April 30, 1995, ... systems on their operators, and then can't understand when the equipment isn't used. The Operator Interface Every video-inspection system has an operator interface. It's defined as the combination of ...

Reassessing market brings growth to this converter

(Magazine)

December 31, 1994, ... a new 39-in. eight-color ultraviolet press from Cobden Chadwick, this year. The combination of the in-house prepress system, Du Pont Cyrel plates and Du Pont films gives the firm a closed-loop feedback, ...