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Wide-Ranging European Converter Keeps on Moving

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October 31, 2000, ... 160 employees work in three shifts, including 30 in research and development and quality control. Five extruders run in a separate facility for film extrusion. Two Davis-Standard machines produce cast ...

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 ...

Battle of the Materials Is on for Blister Packaging Market

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September 30, 2000, ... atom for a chlorine one, imparting significantly different basic properties. It is a superb moisture vapor barrier, is quite expensive, and is widely used in combination with PVDC. It can be extrusion ...

Materials

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September 30, 2000, ... heat seal strength, and point-of-use solubility. Coextrusion Has Pharmaceutical Uses Klockner Capital Corp., Gordonsville, VA; 540/832-3400 Pentapharm Aclar 130/02 is a barrier film for pharmaceutical ...

Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

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September 30, 2000, ... Ridge was made possible through interested investors and the employees' grassroots effort. A paper mill in Canton, NC, an extrusion coating facility in neighboring Waynesville, NC, and five DairyPak ...

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, ...

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 ...

Eastern European Converter Continues Pioneering Ways

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August 31, 2000, ... 508/384-1200; kiefel-extrusion.com Hosokawa Alpine American, Natick, MA; 508/655-1123; halpine.com Leybold Vacuum Products, Export, PA; 724/327-5700; leyboldvac.de/usa Galileo Vacuum Systems, ...

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 ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ...  Sonoco is supplying eight different SKUs in a structure using a Toray 60-ga clear OPP (F61W), reverse printed and extrusion laminated to a Toray 60-ga metallized heat-sealable OPP (PWS). The 8-color ...

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, ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

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February 29, 2000, ... to ISMA's portfolio of laminates. Adjacent to ISMA's printing and laminating department are the extrusion facilities, featuring five extruders: two from Dolci (Milan, Italy), two from Ciola, and one from ...

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, ...