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Hot Melt Symposium Covers Many Topics

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September 30, 2000, ... Coatings Conference in 2001 can be in any area of interest to the division members and conference attendees. This includes but is not limited to films and film extrusion, extrusion coating, barrier coatings, ...

Division Award Winners

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September 30, 2000, ... received the recognition for his 19 patents on innovative technology for coextrusion that has allowed converters to develop structures with better barriers, improved strength and sealing properties, and ...

A Basic Understanding of Chill Rolls

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September 30, 2000, ...  A chill roll primarily acts as a heat transfer and finishing device in the extrusion of flat sheet and cast film and in coating operations. Although these processes are different, the design criteria ...

Bringing Together the Many Benefits of Film and Paper

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September 30, 2000, ... most evident." New Equipment Runs New Product Harrier has invested in three main items of new production equipment: a Battenfeld Gloucester three-layer blown film coextrusion line; an eight-color Schiavi ...

The Waiting Is Over, Let the Copy Flow

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August 31, 2000, ... extrusions) that debuts this month on p. 95. Here you will find the latest news and summaries of some of the best peer-reviewed papers that TAPPI/PLC has to offer. The editor of this new section is our ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... 150 years of combined experience in the printing industry. NEX to Hold Technical Seminar TURNER FALLS, MA, USA—New England Extrusion (NEX) will hold its annual Film & Packaging Technology Seminar September ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

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June 30, 2000, ... PE extrusion coating process in 1948. 1950s Milprint (and other materials companies) develop reliable, cost-effective adhesives. Thin-layer laminations of multiple materials; combinations ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

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May 31, 2000, ... hit with the possibility of losing their jobs, ultimately their livelihoods. In October of 1997, Champion announced the sale of its Canton, NC, paper mill, its neighboring Waynesville, NC, extrusion ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ... explains Bell. "At first, the two worked under a licensing agreement with the 3M company to use the name ScotchPak." Bell says that in 1957 3M developed ScotchPak, a polyester and extrusion PE (polyethylene) ...

Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call

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April 30, 2000, ...  In addition to the extrusion lines, Apollo also operates five one-color Bell-Mark presses and one two-color Manzoni press that are portable and can operate in-line on any of the film machines. The presses ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

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March 31, 2000, Two Black Clawson coextrusion lines bring Bonar into the world of institutional french fry packaging. And what a big world it is. Two Black Clawson coextrusion lines bring Bonar into the world of institutional ...

Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary

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March 31, 2000, ... and coextrusions are used. Usually referred to as agchem, the agricultural chemical industry is growing at 4%. The use of high-barrier, reclosable, plastic pouches (including standup) for odor control, ...

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, ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, ... basis." Dan Ward, though, says North America is "far ahead of the rest of the world in coextrusion technology. Some very good inventions have come from the [eastern part of the world], but I think that, ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... Also: wax lamination in soap wrappers and chewing gum packaging (Lux, Palmolive). Flexo and Extrusion Capabilities The flexographic facility, housed in a separate building on the Londrina "campus," ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

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December 31, 1999, ... a small, innovative company that would be responsive to customers, quick to market, and good to employees. It would be another eight months before their Davis-Standard Egan extrusion coating line was delivered, ...

Partnering launches future growth in laminations

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August 31, 1996, ... manufacturers eliminated the tapes from the outer jacketing, replacing them with extrusion-processed materials. Other parts of the cable eventually incorporated extrusion processes as well (to reduce tape ...

AIMCAL Selects Seven for Annual Honors

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March 31, 1996, ... and extrusion laminated via a 7# low-density polyethylene to 60-ga Torayfan PC-1 metallized, biaxially oriented polypropylene. The BOPP layer is extrusion laminated via a 7# LDPE to 1.25-mil Sigma film. ...

Innovation is a winner in FPA competition

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March 31, 1996, ... sealant film. The sealant film is a proprietary extrusion from American National Can that provides strong seals, puncture resistance, the stiffness necessary to make the pouch stand up, and clarity for ...

Converting capabilities grow in Caribbean nations.

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September 30, 1995, ... Trinidad/Tobago (pop. 1.25 MM) has an estimated 20 extrusion plants producing a variety of PE products. With an estimated $15-MM industry, three of the larger converters are Polymer (Caribbean), Magnus ...