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Converting Industry News

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February 27, 2006, ... from converters; and Professor Frank Cost, Rochester Inst. of Technology, who says integrated technology is the key to improving the effectiveness of packaging communications.' The final stop was a ...

Jumpstart RFID Operations

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February 27, 2006, PRESS RELEASE DALLAS, TX—Savi Technology has made available its SmartStart Solution for businesses seeking a simple, quick, low-cost and low-risk way to implement RFID to validate a long-term investment ...

RFID Suppliers

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February 26, 2006, ...  Contact Information: 2260, route des Crand#234;tes - BP 337 Sophia Antipolis, 06906 France +33 (0)4 97 21 48 56; ask-rfid.com Avery Dennison RFID Leading manufacturer of high volume, high quality, low-cost ...

2005 RFID What's New

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February 26, 2006, ... 2005 A low cost spoofing and cloning attack has been demonstrated by researchers from Johns Hopkins Univ. and RSA Laboratories on some Texas Instruments’ RFID tag-based tokens, used for transport road ...

Can This Coater Be Saved?

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January 30, 2006, ... level, and profitability at a relatively low cost, and efficiency can be maintained for years with ongoing upgrades. It is also an alternative to investing in a new facility. In an effort to gain insight ...

The Power of One

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January 30, 2006, ... technology personnel to understand exactly how they wanted the new software to work. The solution VantagePoint created utilizes Business VantagePoint’s costing, estimating, quotations, order processing, ...

MeadWestvaco to Idle Paper Machine

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December 14, 2005, ... 2006. This action is taken as a result of substantial increases in input costs and is consistent with MeadWestvaco’s disciplined approach to eliminating excess capacity while improving efficiency across ...

Packaging 2006: What's Ahead

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November 29, 2005, ... in cost increases in some instances and the potential disappearance of ingredients in others. Though intensive lobbying continues on the proposal, entry into force is expected to occur in 2007. This highly ...

Need a Hand?

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November 29, 2005, ... Wind Gap, PA (converteraccessory.com) Safety First The safety initiative is paramount for reducing insurance claims and costs. Worker safety requires constant monitoring of product-handling techniques. ...

Testing Machines

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October 30, 2005, ... results from multiple readings on the same graph. Company says tester enables results that are repeatable and free from operator error, saves labor and costs, and is light and compact. PFFC-ASAP 457  ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

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September 29, 2005, ... good idea. Consequences of such practice would include contaminated product, high factory maintenance costs, and health risks to workers. As an example, a laminator in one particular plant produced an ...

New Products, Part 1

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September 29, 2005, ... Oklahoma City, OK; 800/639-3433; fife.com Company is offering a program to offset the cost of retrofitting pneumohydraulic web guides to electromechanical systems. Retrofit program includes all components ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

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September 29, 2005, ... converters and raw material suppliers. The other major challenge was “increasing raw material costs.” The report is available only to FPI members, but an overview and results are available at fpi.org in ...

UV/EB Technology Helps Reduce VOCs

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September 04, 2005, ... advances, the study notes that the savings offered by UV/EB technology translated into not only big energy savings, but also as much as a 55% reduction in capital and installation costs. For a complete ...

More of the 411 on RFID

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August 30, 2005, ... cut the cost of manufacturing RFID inlays for specific applications. “With the antenna embedded on top of the chip, we can significantly reduce the size of the tag to less than 1 square millimeter,” ...

Extrusion Coating Evolves

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August 30, 2005, ... might eliminate the need for purging and its associated waste and cost.” For this and other foil stamping new products, see our September New Products section. Restrictions of time and space ...

Climate Control

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August 30, 2005, ... needed to correct the RH level. “The ML system has kept our RH levels very consistent, and it has met our expectations for easy operation, low maintenance, and low energy costs,” Allie says. Unexpected ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

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July 30, 2005, ... concentrate carrier resin is necessary to achieve the optimum balance of properties, performance, and total cost in extrusion coating applications. The use of calcium carbonate is not new to the polyolefin ...

New Products

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July 30, 2005, ... blade but cost less than new coated blades. Made of a proprietary alloy steel with life-extending properties, blade features same microstructure and accurate dimensional tolerances as other Swedev doctor ...

New Products

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June 29, 2005, ... Offers Cost Benefits THK America, Schaumburg, IL; 800/763-5459; thk.com Type VLA actuator is said to provide long-term cost savings through company’s compact Type SRS LM guide featuring patented Caged ...