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Coating Operation Starts a Tradition of Growth

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November 30, 2000, Venture Coating Technologies, located in what once was a Wisconsin cornfield, is striving to be much more than a budding converting plant. Moving the process along is a slot-die coater assembled by Dri-Tec. ...

The Case Against Oxidation as a Primary Factor for Bonding Acid Copolymers to Foil

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November 30, 2000, ... processing. Extrusion coating is application of a curtain of molten polymer onto a substrate at high speeds. Contact with a chill roll quickly quenches the polymer. Under such conditions, obtaining ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ... performance requirements of packaged coffee. The adhesive lamination production system enables more precise control of manufacturing when compared to extrusion lamination, the company notes. The process ...

TAPPI's the PLACE to Sponsor Short Courses in Dalla

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November 29, 2000, ... first offering is the Extrusion Coating Short Course from February 12 to 14. After this course, the Film Extrusion and Coextrusion Short Course will run from February 14 to 16. Providing the two courses ...

Conference Features New Networking Opportunity

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October 31, 2000, ... Usher of Milliken & Company as Committee Technical Program Chairpersons. The meeting began with three simultaneous primer sessions entitled "Extrusion Primer, Plus," "Extrusion Coating Primer," and "Resin ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adapting flexible system in trim-recovery operations.

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July 31, 1995, Product output improves after James Rivers' Flexible Packaging Group installs a new air handling system for trim recovery and reprocessing on a cast extrusion Product output improves after James Rivers' ...

Converter's expansion plan brings clean room for bags

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December 31, 1994, ... line uses a twin-die configuration to enhance production flexibility. Twin-die extrusion lines have received some bad press in the past. Jeff Rupple, vice president and general manager, decided a few ...