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Blown Film: Measuring Melt Temps

(Controls)

February 28, 2010, ... search for high-value-added products to bring to their portfolios. Often, these products are in small market segments that do not have enough volume to justify a complete new system. Economics in the ...

Nonwovens Converting: H1N1 Antidote

(Substrates)

January 31, 2010, ... workers is compromised boils down to hospital economics. “A ProVent 10,000 gown costs $7 to $10, and it'll protect against viral diseases like H1N1 as well as blood-borne diseases like HIV,” says Kappler. ...

Gravure Sleeves: The Time Is Now

(Process Management)

August 31, 2009, ... an air cylinder just as flexo sleeves are. Technical benefits of sleeves include quick changes that support short-run economics, with 20%-30% less downtime. Jobs can be moved easily from press to press ...

Gravure Versus Flexo Printing Part 2

(Process Management)

July 31, 2009, ... are numerous, but data is rare. One analysis1 available online makes a good case for gravure economics and is backed with data. The essence of the argument goes like this: The prepress cost of gravure ...

Double-Duty Packages

(Substrates)

June 30, 2009, ... and energy optimization, cost-effective economics, and enhanced performance. An innovative clear polybag replaces corrugated for 80% weight reduction and 20% volume compression, enabling more efficient ...

Golf Balls by the Dozen

(News Eclips)

June 23, 2009, Caraustar Industries is cited by DuPont with a Noteworthy Accomplishment Award in the DuPont Packaging Awards for Caraustar’s redesign of Callaway’s Dozen Pak golf ball packaging. ATLANTA, GA | Caraustar ...

Web Exclusive: Flat Die Technologies Emerge as Keys to Innovation in Solar Electric Systems

(Archive)

May 13, 2009, ... debate about possible "peak oil," the national security concerns of nations that rely heavily on oil imports--these forces have increased the urgency for developing solar power and improved its economics ...

Meeting the Sustainability Challenge Without Compromising Barrier Performance

(Archive)

January 28, 2009, ... measurement tools and hard targets. The second thing that has become clear is that economics drive sustainability, not vice-versa. Sustainability programs have come to encompass sustaining the economics ...

Global Study Addresses Barrier Films & Coatings

(News Eclips)

November 04, 2008, ... materials used in the flexible packaging market. The study, Barrier Films and Coatings 2008 to 2012 for Barrier Flexible Packaging,” examines the market potential, economics, environmental impact, and ...

Web Coating: Process Characterization

(Coating/Laminating)

October 31, 2008, ... technology will improve process performance and economics significantly. The majority of the necessary process measurements can be made with conventional, commercially available instrumentation, such ...

Experience Speaks: Chaim Gofen

(Experience Speaks)

July 31, 2008, ... industry has been an excellent way for me to use the management skills I developed in the air force and my education in economics and political science. Do you have a personal motto? Only challenges ...

New Products, Part 2

(Archive)

November 06, 2007, ... says. Heidelberg | 888-472-9655 | us.heidelberg.com | PFFC-ASAP 422 Polyolefins Bring Benefits Amplify IO functional polymers deliver good performance, processing, and economics, company says, ...

SPI Issues Call for White Papers For New Online Community

(Archive)

August 27, 2007, ... on content, format, and criteria for acceptance, prospective authors should lot onto myplasticsindustry.com and click on "Insights" (for non-technical papers related to business topics—such as trade, economics, ...

Showing Off

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, ... Printers’ Success Quartet: Economics, Markets, Technology, People.” According to conference chair William Lamparter, president of PrintCom Consulting Group, “Executive Outlook will once again focus on ...

CONVERTER CLIPS

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... pouch consumption has exceeded 10 billion pouches/yr, with consumption projected to reach nearly 19 billion pouches by 2011. Cost of the study is US$4,495. Stick Pouches—Global Markets, Economics, and ...

Cause & Defect

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, ... Improves process economics by reducing defect losses Identifies regions on the web where a process cannot operate optimally Identifies opportunities for process improvement. Determining Defect Causes ...

Multi-Client Studies

(Flexpack)

March 06, 2007, ... Economics, and Technologies —2006 to 2010 is the first study dedicated to the stick pouch industry. Global stick pouch consumption has reached nearly 200 billion stick pouches per year, with some segments ...

Product Protection

(Technical Reports)

February 28, 2007, ... economics. OPP Developments Today, industry developments in coextruded OPP film technology offer end-users and converters new value-added options for “ultra” barrier protection. New ultra-high-barrier ...

Super Sized

(Corrugated)

December 31, 2006, ... for the global forest products industry, since July 2005. Her focus is on the end-use markets for paperboard. She holds a Master of Science degree in economics from Caltech and a Bachelor of Science degree ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, Nanotechnology functionality in flexible packaging, new methods of manufacturing; enhanced economics of 100% solids adhesives; clarifiers for polypropylene film; and coextruded HMW-HDPE film structures ...