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Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... to be experiencing the onset of a booming economy, according to several suppliers who presented papers at LatinPack. With previous editions of the program having been held in Caracas, Venezuela, and Bogota, ...

Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch

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July 31, 2000, ... household size and other demographic variables; consumer spending levels; activity within various packaging end-use markets; retail sales; and the overall health of the economy. Environmental considerations, ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

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June 30, 2000, ... (Hartsville, SC). Interview by author. Chicago, IL, May 2000. "Flexible Packaging: Economy and Eye Appeal" and "Packaging Machinery: Pampering a Fragile Product": Both articles courtesy of Snack Food ...

Outlook 2000 and Beyond: The State of the Trade

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June 30, 2000, ... sufficient growth in the domestic economy and the export market to support it; and increased competition from imported materials. The outlook is favorable for plastics during the period 2000-2004, with ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

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May 31, 2000, ... and Waynesville: The loss of the mill and the extrusion plant, together a major employer in the region, threatened the very stability of the Canton-Waynesville area's economy. Like the sigh of relief ...

Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary

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March 31, 2000, ... is mostly due to conversion from more costly #10 cans, the increase in meals eaten away from home also is a factor. As the economy keeps growing, consumers will opt to spend more to decrease tasks such ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

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February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

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February 29, 2000, ... Uruguay's capital, Montevideo, with 1.5 million people, is the administrative capital of Mercosur. Foreign investment has an important role to play in the continuing development of the Uruguayan economy. ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... economy in the world. It has made an outstanding recovery since the currency (the Real) was floated in January 1999. the nation, which occupies nearly half of South America and is the fifth most populous ...

The Good Times Keep Rolling -- At Least for Now

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December 31, 1999, ... it pertains especially to the present state of the US economy. "The current expansion," says Fry, "is the longest in US history. In the last 17 years, we have been in a recession for only eight months. ...

Need and innovation are driving digital printing.

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November 30, 1996, ... liner. Economy Models One common complaint concerning digital printing technology has been the high cost for the equipment and consumables. But there are alternatives to the expensive high-end systems. ...

Czech retail developments could affect converters.

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October 31, 1996, ... Delvita and Julius Meinl - follow suit, Czech converters will have to add personnel to their marketing, design, and sales staffs. Then the conversion from a socialist to a free-market economy will be almost ...

Perforating tear-resistant materials takes a big step.

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August 31, 1996, ... activated, and the label would be applied. The obvious advantages of carrierless labels include economy, weight reduction, and the elimination of nonrecyclable carrier sheets - the latter providing an ...

Downsizing reversal?

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July 31, 1996, This month I'd like to share with you some correspondence I received in response to my March editorial that discussed survival in a shrinking business This month I'd like to share with you some correspondence ...

A look at the status of UV/EB curing

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June 30, 1996, ... * Materials are generally purchased without solvent, i.e., high solids; * Volumes are lower (specialty products); * There is minimal economy of scale; * Manufacture of monomers and oligomers is ...

Changing the way we look at environmental regulations.

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April 30, 1996, ... ways to work in partnership not only with local government but with the private sector." Clinton also stated, "We have to disabuse our people of the notion that you have to grow the economy by weakening ...

The 1996 Metallizing Roundup: Experts Ponder and Predict

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February 29, 1996, ... y faces," he says. "A very-low-inflation economy is good, but that puts a lot of pressure on industrial products pricing, and when we've had raw materials price increases, as we've had in paper and film  ...

Emerging markets: doing business in Latin America.

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January 31, 1996, ... countries to discuss and analyze the economic and business trends in the area. The Brazilian panelist, Carlos Langoni, said, "The opening up of Brazil's economy is a radical revolution, a watershed, a ...

Economic Forecast: More of the Same, Unless...

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December 31, 1995, ... and staying there. So that makes us a little nervous about the forecast. But, we don't have major imbalances in the economy and, barring an oil price shock, we don't have that kind of pressure pushing us ...

Opportunities abound in an emerging Indian market

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December 31, 1995, ... ways to make inroads into India include setting up technology transfers, joint ventures, investments, franchising, exports, and imports. India Establishes Open Market Economy When India's Prime Minister, ...