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Dutch converter retakes his company

(Magazine)

July 31, 1996, ... variety of food and other uses. During a visit by Paper, Film & Foil CONVERTER, both Daan Bolding, the third-generation head of the company, and Ruud Groote, the account manager for the Netherlands, ...

On-line gauging brings big benefits to coating operation

(Magazine)

July 31, 1996, ... custom-coat virtually any web, including films, nonwovens, paper, metal foils, vinyls, and foam. (Material suppliers are proprietary.) But, says director of marketing Ray Ciamaga, "We can't be everything ...

A directory of custom slitting

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July 31, 1996, ... ranging from small operations with just two employees and several hundred thousand dollars in annual business to some that employ thousands and generate up to $100 million in revenue. Paper, Film & ...

Green Bay gears up for specialty labels

(Magazine)

May 31, 1996, ... to meet their own unique specifications as well as the needs of its customers. "We chose to work with Faustel because of their reputation in the industry for building specialty coating lines for film applications," ...

Paper characteristics: starting the job right

(Magazine)

April 30, 1996, ... gloss, and uniformity. Smoothness The smoothness of the ink film is determined, in part, by the substrate. An ink film is approximately 1 micron thick. To obtain its maximum gloss, an ink film should ...

AIMCAL Selects Seven for Annual Honors

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March 31, 1996, ... Downes, Michigan State Univ. Peter Rigney, publisher of Paper, Film & Foil CONVERTER, served as competition moderator. The Package of the Year, Nabsico's Ritz Snack Mix stand-up pouch, was touted by ...

Water-based adhesives meet just-in-time demands.

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March 31, 1996, ... treated films. Water-based systems are generally acrylic- or PUD-based. PUD adhesive systems have shown superior performance properties in the areas of clarity, machinability, and adhesion to many substrates. ...

The 1996 Metallizing Roundup: Experts Ponder and Predict

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February 29, 1996, ... challenge, and competition, but opportunities abound in the years ahead. To assess the current - and future - state of the metallizing industry, Paper, Film & Foil CONVERTER went to the people who make ...

European equity supplier acquires plastics division

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February 29, 1996, ... polyester business comprises activities in paraxylene, pure terephthalic acid (PTA), Melinar PET packaging, and Melinex polyester films. Annual turnover has doubled in the last four years and now exceeds ...

For adhesives or coatings, ask the right questions

(Magazine)

February 29, 1996, ... to answer these questions. Working together in this fashion will ensure a partnership that yields success. The key is simply to ask the right questions! Editor's Note: Paper, Film & Foil CONVERTER is ...

Regulation, competition drive the adhesives industry

(Magazine)

January 31, 1996, ... friendly products for the converting industry that are not just adhesives but paper, film, and foil constructions. According to Muny, one of the major innovations of the past decade is testing. "In the ...

Czech converter pursues new free-market direction

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August 31, 1995, ... employs 1,500 people with a sales volume of $44 MM annually. Privatized in mid-1994, Kovohute is now owned by four equal partners. Host for an exclusive PAPER, FILM & FOIL CONVERTER plant tour, as well ...

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 ...

Two-component adhesive system eliminates mixups

(Magazine)

June 30, 1995, ... made sense to Jerry Finch, vice president of operations for CSD/WestPac. He explains, "We were using a moisture-curing product that worked on most films - but the curing was so unpredictable." Even external ...

Book details Japan's packaging industr

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May 31, 1995, ... the entire study. Chapter 5, entitled "Plastic Films," is perhaps the most comprehensive section on flexible packaging. Papers are in Chapter 2 and aluminum foil in Chapter 3. There is also an interesting ...

Costa Rican converter expands Latin market

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April 30, 1995, ... Rica, is Central America's largest flex-pack converter with sales of $25 million. The firm has plants in San Jose and Jinotepe, Nicaragua, and manufactures a wide variety of printed polyethylene film ...

Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible

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March 31, 1995, ... laminating and printing operation. The bag is fabricated with three seals, then filled in-line and heat sealed on existing equipment. The linear low-density material in the film allows the bag to heat ...

Company develops line of cost-saving packaging

(Magazine)

March 31, 1995, ... for their customers. As a leading film-laminating packager for the food and diaper industry, the company was confident it had the experience to satisfy these demanding diaper packaging requirements. ...

Innovative uses, creativity earn honors from AIMCAL

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March 31, 1995, ... Mylar Films, Wilmington, DE. Technical and marketing excellence are the focal points of the AIMCAL competition, and packaging and labels containing a metallized substrate and currently in commercial ...

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 ...