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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, ...

Finding a simple solution to a shocking problem

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March 31, 1998, ... the wind-up stands on its Battenfeld Gloucester extrusion equipment. It seems that operators were getting shocked every time they touched or came too close to the winders. Even worse, customers were beginning ...

NOVA and Union Carbide to build ethylene plant

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October 31, 1996, ... the purchase of Horitech Film Mfg. Bhd, a plastics film extrusion business in Malaysia. The firm produces polyethylene film for baby diaper and feminine hygiene markets, and its current sales are about ...

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 ...

Video web inspection: the view from the press floor.

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September 30, 1995, ... extrusion coaters. They print on polyester, polyfoil-poly and, occasionally, on paper. End products include a great deal of flexible packaging (ranging from lidding material for gel snack packs to foil ...

Bagmakers add a strong link to quality chain

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July 31, 1995, ... all along the line. Amplas bagmakers fit perfectly into that philosophy. Sengewald USA, Marengo, IL, is a manufacturer of plastic mono-films, laminations and coextrusions for the food, nonfood and medical ...

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' ...

Book details Japan's packaging industr

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May 31, 1995, ... section entitled, "Plastic Extrusion Coat/Laminating Materials," which is Chapter 7. Chapter 5 is divided into 18 sections, each dealing with a separate plastic film. Section 17 is titled "Flexible Containers," ...

Costa Rican converter expands Latin market

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April 30, 1995, ... given no choice or compensation and left virtually penniless. He left Nicaragua and started up in Costa Rica using borrowed capital. In 1980, Empaques Universal began as a small polyethylene-film-extrusion ...

Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible

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March 31, 1995, ... vacuum packed, extending its shelf life from one week to three weeks. Cryovac used special coextrusion technology to create a high-abuse barrier and laminated a puncture-resistant layer to that to create ...

Printing system offers quality performance

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February 28, 1995, A solventborne rotogravure printing-ink system that provides ultralow retained solvents when adhesive or extrusion-laminating treated and on polyvinylidene-chloride A solventborne rotogravure printing-ink ...

Familiarity with change no surprise in this industry

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February 28, 1995, ... way, safely and environmentally." While the industry has seen drastic changes in film supply, it may also see changes in the types of films it buys. "Film producers will continue to work on in-line coextrusion ...

Dutch converter expands in worldwide flex-pack market

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January 31, 1995, ... is gaining popularity over gravure. Sengewald also does three-layer coextrusion in the US, laminates and prints polyethylene film. KNP BT's German operation is somewhat more sophisticated in coextrusion ...

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 ...