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- Converting Industry News
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- September 30, 2000, ... in 1999, a 6.7% increase over 1998, according to year-end data released by the Plastic Industry Producers' Statistics Group of the American Plastics Council (APC). Resin production climbed to 97.5 billion ...
- Reporter Clips
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- September 30, 2000, ... their spare parts order. The company has added a database of parts with graphics to make ordering even easier. Other updates to Fusion UV's web site include information about its six worldwide customer ...
- What's New in Narrow We
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- August 31, 2000, ... quickstick, and peel tests. Uses a PC-based data acquisition system, which includes a color screen. Transducer Prevents Process Defects Dover Flexo Electronics, Rochester, NH; 603/332-6150; dfe.com Model ...
- Converting Industry News
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- August 31, 2000, ... of operation; and characterization methods and data analysis. On July 20 D. Fennell Evans presented a class on key concepts and issues involved in designing effective adhesive systems. The afternoon ...
- French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar
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- March 31, 2000, ... graphics-based single window to monitor all operations and components of each line. The system allows for more than supervision of the line, notes Carne. It includes quality tracking, historical-data trending, ...
- Integrated Information System Can Boost Profits
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- January 31, 2000, ... data with business, customer service, and order fulfillment information. Implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution can help to provide the data required to turn around situations of inefficient ...
- Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging
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- December 31, 1999, ... office data banks. Knowing the equipment as well as I do, I formulated a different way of doing it. As I was writing the first patent, I tested [the process] on my own, with my own money, to see that it ...
- Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.
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- November 30, 1996, ... by the use of heat/cool PID auto-tune function blocks. A communication port on the PC3000 provides a link for the transfer of data between the operator and the drive system. The Microcell software is ...
- Label converter controls quality from the inside out
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- August 31, 1996, ... electronic files. These are rendered by a 3M Rainbow proofer directly from the digital image data sent by Macintosh PowerMac 8100 computers. The Rainbows can be directly calibrated to the known performance ...
- On-line gauging brings big benefits to coating operation
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- July 31, 1996, ... to one-sixth the strength of conventional beta gauge radiation sources. The approach required a rethinking of old assumptions about the source size, data processing, and mechanical engineering. And ...
- A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.
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- May 31, 1996, ... tension and dryer set points, and machine speed. The Vision's computerized management information system stores all critical data on job settings, production, and operation. Instantaneous retrieval and ...
- Advances in prepress are making heads spin.
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- May 31, 1996, ... data throughout all stages of the printing process using industry-standard formats. Ken Newton, president and CEO of Screen USA, explains that TDI encompasses all aspects, from the input of images and ...
- Pay attention to flash points, and you won't get burne
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- March 31, 1996, ... A Material Safety Data Sheet always provides the flash point for a material, if it has a flash point. Flash point influences container, shipping, storage, and use. The flammability of a product may ...
- Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea
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- March 31, 1996, ... experienced sales and management team, supported by a computer network that's tied into the manufacturing plant in Bloomington and provides on-line, real-time tracking of order status and other key data. ...
- Economic Forecast: More of the Same, Unless...
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- December 31, 1995, ... to a recession." Instead of simply following GDP, Fry prefers to focus on industrial production, because the data are available on a monthly basis and are more timely. "It's not like GDP, where by the ...
- Pollution prevention makes good sense
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- November 30, 1995, ... data indicates that last year, while facilities made progress controlling the release of toxic chemicals - primarily through recycling efforts - the amount of waste generated by industrial operations actuall ...
- Measurement technique improves metallized PP
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- November 30, 1995, ... to features in the 0.1-nm range. Both normal and fine scanning are completely automated with point-and-click software control. The digital data can be visualized in a variety of formats, manipulated to ...
- As times change, OSHA still shows signs of life
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- September 30, 1995, ... additional data to OSHA and until September of this year to counter testimony submitted in contradiction to their own. The November elections should have discouraged the agency from moving too quickly ...
- Training is the key to success in '90s corporate climb.
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- August 31, 1995, ... way data is tracked, stored and made available." W. Edwards Deming said: "For any industry to survive, there has to be bottom-up empowerment." By combining innovative management with employee training ...
- Future of video inspection systems seems bright.
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- June 30, 1995, ... web width increases, so do [TABULAR DATA FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED] press speeds. Consequently the need for a systematic, well-defined approach to active inspection of the web typically increases with both ...