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Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

July 30, 2004, ... Digital Cutter/Creaser Cuts Costs at Corrugated Plant Lewisburg Container, a business unit of Love Box, employs an Esko-Graphics Kongsberg Digital Converting Machine (DCM) for automatic cutting and creasing ...

Extreme Makeovers

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June 30, 2004, ... in 1992, its latest press is a five-color Bobst 200, a 50×80-in. flexo press with in-line varnish capacity and die-cutting capabilities. The press served the plant well over the years, but determined to ...

The Latitudes of LEAN

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June 29, 2004, ... it,” and you're asking, “Womack who?” then at least you've probably heard a lot of general things about “getting lean” — a.k.a. reducing waste, cutting inventory, and becoming more efficient — to get more ...

Keeping Score

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, ... by TLMI. Struggling through a difficult economic environment, many converters have focused on cost-cutting as a primary way of maintaining a healthy bottom line. Not Consolidated Label Co. While ...

A TEXAS-SIZED Flexo Forum

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May 31, 2004, ... original design ran at 300 fpm on an Arpeco press, with in-line rotary die-cutting. Judge Ian Hole, Esko Graphics, commented, “An example of work that has simply balanced all the factors of accurate color ...

Leading POP Producer Simpsongroup Installs First Scitex Vision CORjet in UK

(Archive)

May 16, 2004, ... to set up die cutting as well as the cost of the dies. This seamless process, from start to finish, makes it the fastest system in the UK," he adds. A complete system comprising its own RIP software ...

Editorial, Wal-Mart Friend or Foe to Packaging Industry, PFFC, May 2004

(Magazine)

April 30, 2004, ... using cutting-edge technology to cut costs.” Here’s where a converter may give pause to consider yet another point of view. My mother-in-law used to say there’s always three sides to every story: “My ...

Fast & Flawless

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April 29, 2004, ... fpm with maximum rewind and unwind diameters of 30 in. It is capable of trimming using shear, razor, or score-cutting methods. The 3038 slitter/rewinder is designed to operate with a range of substrates, ...

Bio Break Down

(Flexpack)

March 30, 2004, ... the PE will remain intact. You have the same end result as cutting the trash bag into small sections with scissors. Uses for Biodegradable Products A flexible packaging product that is considered ...

A Century Salute

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, ... incorporate the newest, most advanced technology into its machines. Much of that cutting-edge design, according to F.L. Smithe VP Larry L. Claton, is due to converters like Western States. “Their requirements ...

Northwest Converter Trojan Litho Installs Korber PaperLink's SHM 1450 Sheete

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March 08, 2004, ... materials including paper, board, and plastics," says the OEM. "The sheeter is equipped with E.C.H. Will's proven dual-rotary cross-cutting technology," reports Körber. Says Trojan Litho plant manager ...

Products

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February 29, 2004, ... handle-cutting assembly for simple oval cutouts. It is rack-mounted and easily positionable, company says, with a 1×3.5-in. standard cutout size. A perforation-style cut pattern can be specified, and a ...

On the Move...

(Magazine)

January 31, 2004, ... Place. Container Graphics Corp., Cary, NC, promotes Robert Dolby to managing director of the company's cutting form manufacturing businesses: Container Graphics Ltd., Accrington, England, and Container ...

Products

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January 30, 2004, ... fpm standard (to 2,000 fpm). Options are available. Perf, Cut with Top Performance EMT International, Green Bay, WI; 920/468-5475; emtinternational.com The Pro-Cut line of cross perforating and cutting ...

Converting Industry News

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December 30, 2003, ... technologies can be combined to produce cutting-edge flexible packaging products, reported Mike McGovern, Sun Chemical's director of energy-curable inks and coatings sales and marketing. Until this technology ...

Products and Materials

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December 30, 2003, ... Rotary Die-Cutting Heidelberg USA, Kennesaw, GA; 770/419-6500; 888/472-9655; us.heidelberg.com The 20-in. Speedmaster SM 52-D press features in-line rotary die-cutting in one pass; high automated printing ...

On the Move

(Magazine)

November 30, 2003, News from: Accuweb, Bachofen+Meier, Chicago Cutting Die, Esko-Graphics, Environmental Inks and Coatings Corp., Fischer & Krecke Inc., Great Northern Corp. (Laminations), Hazen Paper Co., ITT Industries ...

Linebackers, Leashes, & Superman: A Look at Stress

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November 29, 2003, ... pressure (and temperature). All slitting or cutting methods are designed to create these stresses in the web, whether from the sharp edge of shear or razor blade or the tips of a crosscut knife. We ...

Products

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November 29, 2003, ... axial load capacities from 6,200-20,000 lb (depending on size) and are available in 20 standard bore sizes from ¾-2½ in. I.D. Cutting Rule Is for Compressible Materials Zimmer Industries Inc., Hawthorne, ...

Livin' 'Lean' with CT

(Magazine)

October 30, 2003, ... get healthier, leaner — not an easy thing to do in our complex world that includes carb and calorie cutting, economic recession, relentless competition, and computer-to-platemaking. But about two years ...