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Video web inspection: the view from the press floor.

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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 ...