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Assessing Real-Life Sealant Performance in Flexible Packaging

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... and process technologies permit the commercial manufacture of polyolefin plastomer (POP) resins with narrow molecular weight distributions and short chain branching distributions. The POP materials offer ...

Reporter Clips

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August 31, 2000, ... Italy, for distribution of Dow's PSAs in Italy. The partnership, in the form of a distribution agreement, brings technical and logistical service closer to Dow Coming's customers for PSAs in the tape and ...

How to Make Anilox Roll Improvements Work for You

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August 31, 2000, ... variables must be corrected and the ink distribution system brought under control before you realize the benefits from such advances as hybrid (stochastic and conventional) plate screens or anilox rolls ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... and distribute Spinnaker products. Among the benefits the alliance is expected to offer are a more cost-effective and integrated distribution network, improvements in order cycle time, and real-time inventory ...

Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch

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July 31, 2000, ... is projected to increase more than 2% annually to 7 billion lb in 2003, valued at $12.7 billion. The industry is shaped by a number of factors, including population size and distribution patterns; average ...

Barrier Layer Protects CDs from Skips and Scratches

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July 31, 2000, ... distribution are manufactured out of its 13,000-sq-ft facility in Green Bay and marketed out of the U.K. and US offices. Each Layer Plays a Part The CDfender is made up of three separate layers. The ...

Innovation Drives Converter of Pressure-Sensitive Labels

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June 30, 2000, ... by Gabriel Mora, the architect responsible for Barcelona's famous Telefonica building, illustrates exactly how properly executed design can enhance a factory. Spotless and with flexible distribution between ...

Specialists in Interior Packaging Branch Out

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June 30, 2000, ...  to its technologically advanced ordering and distribution system, notes Lewis. "To supply these companies with the product they want today involves a lot of teamwork on our part. In fact, we are receivin ...

Outlook 2000 and Beyond: The State of the Trade

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June 30, 2000, ... improvements, distributions and handling, processing and converting, and environmental protection." The report cautions, "Leading world producers, especially in the developed industrialized nations, ...

On-Line Purchasing Saves Time, Money, and Space

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May 31, 2000, ... Printpack was buying from 15 other vendors that it could order from APR at equal or reduced costs. Notes Marquart, "We've saved big time." Delivery times also have been reduced, since APR has distribution ...

Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary

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March 31, 2000, ... cost-effective packaging forgrowing foodservice, medical, and distribution applications.In 2002, food will be over half (56%) of the $9.7 billion in converter sales in flexible packaging, with the remainder ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

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February 29, 2000, ... over the decade, having increased its Gross Domestic Product at an average rate of 3.8 percent. The nation boasts the most equitable wealth distribution in Latin America and is the only country on that ...

Curtain Coating Technology Can Mean Big Benefits

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February 29, 2000, ... attractiveness, limitations, and requirements. The Process and the Hardware Liquid distribution in the transverse direction (TD) is accomplished with a die, which is designed either as a slot or a ...

Integrated Information System Can Boost Profits

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January 31, 2000, ... procurement, inventory management, distribution-in a piecemeal fashion, often in response to an urgent problem. They wind up with a hodgepodge of disparate systems, none of which can link up with the others ...

Dutch converter retakes his company

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July 31, 1996, ... responsibility for distribution of its products in the Netherlands and in Belgium. In 1994 Daan Bolding led a successful management buyout from VAW-Europack and, in an unusual move, once again headed ...

Modified Atmosphere Packaging shows potential for growth

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June 30, 1996, ... of the century, when the technique will reach maturity in many of its end-use applications. The distribution market for MAP is expected to exceed the growth in the retail market as supermarkets continue ...

Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need

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June 30, 1996, ... polymer flow distribution changes in applications where polymer flow rate changes are required. The EDI Multiflow V manifold design incorporates an elongated manifold cross section, with an increasing ...

MSC Specialty Films reaches success down to the core

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May 31, 1996, ... they expect." MSC Specialty Films is on track toward meeting all of its expectations - with a rapidly growing business, control over the growth of its distribution network, and a core supplier that ...

Green Bay gears up for specialty labels

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May 31, 1996, ... 1985. An additional coating and converting plant has been built in Winchester, VA, and distribution centers with in-house slitting capability have been added at geographically strategic locations to better ...

AIMCAL Selects Seven for Annual Honors

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March 31, 1996, ... or on a peg rack display and holds its shape through the distribution cycle. The structure is PET/ink/adhesive/holographic metallized PET/3-mil LDPE. Judges praised the three-ply structure, noting that ...