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Tape Converter Stands Up to Goliath with New Press

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March 30, 2000, ... is adjusted, the Bell-Mark holds the line, and it just goes." The company's six other presses were built in-house, largely because there were no commercially available presses that could print on tape ...

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

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January 31, 2000, ... holiday bags and foil-covered chocolate drops may not be Ferrisgate's forte, "custom converting is," says commercial director Mike Draper. "Our emphasis is coating and laminating, coupled with the additional ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ... per inch." WCG has manufactured some of its lenticularly printed products on full-size, retrofitted, commercial quality web offset presses built by Heidelberg and Hantscho. The patented process calls ...

Oxide-coated films are still finding their market niche

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November 30, 1996, ... to date has been with polyethylene terephthalate (PET), but the technologies do not get interesting until non-PET substrates are commercialized. Uncoated PET is presently coated by plasma or evaporation, ...

Video web inspection goes quickly from luxury to necessity.

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October 31, 1996, ... helped press operators produce better product. It wasn't until the early 1990s that video web inspection systems developed to the point where they became commercially feasible. Vision systems have come ...

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

(Magazine)

October 31, 1996, ... for the Films Div. of Mobil Chemical Co., Pittsford, NY. She has been with the division for more than 15 years in manufacturing, product development, commercial development, and technical service positions. ...

Label converter controls quality from the inside out

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August 31, 1996, ... of consumers. That's why label printing is far more critical than some commercial printing." The company's insourcing philosophy is key to attaining these high standards. "To get that consistency, we need ...

Something new under the sun

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June 30, 1996, ... company, Graphic Management Corp., is expert in all forms and types of commercial printing. The company consults others on how to more efficiently operate a commercial printing operation. Graphic Management ...

The 1996 Metallizing Roundup: Experts Ponder and Predict

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February 29, 1996, ... term, that's going to put pressure on markets." The market for his metallized paper looks healthy, according to Francis Shea Jr., commercial director, Van Leer Metallized Products (USA) Ltd. Shea is ...

Converting capabilities grow in Caribbean nations.

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September 30, 1995, ... packaging suppliers. Ever since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959, American commercial interest (but not foreign) in Cuba has been virtually negligible. In addition, after the collapse of communism in ...

Bagmaking operation refuses to stand still

(Magazine)

September 30, 1995, ... Co. continues to grow and evolve, 32 Battenfeld Gloucester production lines keep pace. In 1954 Gene Shields had a going commercial printing business in Yakima, WA, and an entrepreneur's insight. As a ...

Film offers food packagers green marketing opportunity

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April 30, 1995, ... Melinex ECO 813G Melinex ECO 813G is now a commercial product and availability for customer sampling. Major food marketers have already begun to evaluate Melinex ECO film in conjunction with their environmental ...

Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible

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March 31, 1995, ... FL. Descriptions of the winning packages, as provided by the FPA, follow. American National Can Co. The food-service retort pouch for the food-service industry could prove to be the first commercially ...

Innovative uses, creativity earn honors from AIMCAL

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March 31, 1995, ... Mylar Films, Wilmington, DE. Technical and marketing excellence are the focal points of the AIMCAL competition, and packaging and labels containing a metallized substrate and currently in commercial ...

AIMCAL selects 3 finalists for technology award

(Magazine)

February 28, 1995, ... threads and patterned logos or windows for standard packaging substrates. All of these applications require very high definition, complex patterns. A. D. Tech has now commercialized and sold PMP materials ...

Traditions fall as prepress moves into electronic age

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December 31, 1994, ... designed for management-level personnel as well as commercial and corporate in-plant printers. Fundamentals of Electronic Imaging on March 9-10 provides an introduction of electronic imaging, digital-imaging ...