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Short & Quick

(Magazine)

February 28, 2007, ... says, “We are not interested in getting into the commodity market, and we have many local businesses we can serve. The letterpress technology we have is cost-effective and great for handling dedicated, ...

What's Next for China

(Materials)

December 31, 2006, ... industry on the world stage has been commercial policy. While buyers of film from the Asia-Pacific region have been content to purchase standard commodity products from China on the basis of full container ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ... daily in these commodity markets are making the opportunities offered by new resins, new technologies, and on a smaller scale novel non-polar process aids all the more exciting. Case studies presented ...

Converting Industry News

(Archive)

September 17, 2006, ...  660 3.3 2.7 ©2006 by The Freedonia Group Overall price advances will be restrained by the commodity nature of most products and moderating raw material costs, which will recover from the high ...

Getting Personal With Suzanne Zaccone

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, ... into a commodity slot. It is our job to show them why that is just not true. What keeps you up at night with regard to your business? What we are doing to build our company around customer requirements, ...

Metallizing Makeover

(Magazine)

March 30, 2006, ... our products rather than commodity-based. Although we do market commodity films, our focus is now on specialty metallized films. “Our employees are among the most well trained in the converting industry. ...

Global Giants

(Flexpack)

March 30, 2006, ... Ukraine, and Poland represent major growth potential. Turkish converters such as Korozo supply Russian markets on a commodity-style basis. The huge dependence of Russian markets for Turkish flex-pack ...

Wider Expectations

(Flexpack)

February 27, 2006, ... that has not been serviced well in the past.” With label and flex-pack capabilities, PSG is able to cross-sell to both industries, a commodity Doherty believes has turned the converter into a major ...

Under Pressure

(Archive)

January 30, 2006, ... for about 29% and 25% of the total usage respectively. Monomeric calendered vinyl film is the most widely used face material in North America—a commodity product with limited margin opportunities—followed ...

Facing a Slowdown

(Magazine)

December 30, 2005, ... of steel, cars, and the gas to run them, concrete, aggregate to build roads, and other industrial commodities. So, industrial commodity prices probably are going to stay very strong. Maybe crude oil won’t ...

Linerless: The Compromise for VDP Labels?

(Magazine)

October 30, 2005, ... could hasten the demise of conventional linered self-adhesive labels in the VDP market, which mainly has reached commodity status and is no longer a major margin-earner in the release liner business.  ...

Low-Cost Paper Applications

(Magazine)

October 30, 2005, ... when used on a label face paper at the same silicone coat weight. Stable release requires excellent silicone coverage and thus a good stain. Alternative Paper for Release Liner Some commodity papers ...

Profit Squeeze

(Flexpack)

September 29, 2005, ... and price-sensitive marketplace, new high added-value technical innovations often become commodity products quickly as competitors make similar investments and packagers constantly look for cost reductions. ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Magazine)

March 30, 2005, ...  3,255 3,700 4,300 2.6 3.1 Resin Commodity Plastics 2,755 3,100 3,560 2.4 2.8 Engineered Plastics 500 600 740 3.7 4.3 Market Medical Packaging 1,673 1,907 2,145 2.6 2.4 ...

Technology - The Great Equalizer

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... are facing severe pressures from customers to reduce pricing yet maintain high quality standards. Larger volume printers and converters are more vulnerable to global pricing pressures on commodity items; ...

Wanted: US Markets

(Flexpack)

December 30, 2004, ... converters, they tend to obtain fourth-tier orders for inexpensive commodity materials. Maybe that’s OK, but often I advise these converters their orders are far below their technical capacity, and they ...

A Communication from the PLACE div. of TAPPI

(Flexpack)

December 30, 2004, ... coating. LDPE from high-pressure autoclave reactors for extrusion coating with a melt flow rate (MFR) range from 7 to 9 g/10 min with a density of 917 to 920 kg/m3 has for many years been a uniform commodity. ...

Coating & Laminating Special Report, Part 4

(Archive)

December 30, 2004, ... the bulk volume of self-adhesive graphic arts products, with 48% of the total, but these low-technology products today are a commodity. The industry’s profitability lies in the higher-priced, higher-technology ...

Extrusion Dies

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... is new business in high-barrier products, which include stand-up food pouches and medical packaging. Besides the roughly $0.50/lb cost of commodity resins such as low-density polyethylene (LDPE), the dominant ...

Price Fixing Cause for Alarm?

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, Not for the first time, the European paper industry is the focus of a European Commission (EC) investigation into alleged price fixing and cartel activity. Not for the first time, the European paper industry ...