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Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... in rigid and flexible plastics. Of the 22 presentations given, attendees bestowed the highest marks to Maria Noriega of Instituto Capacitacion e Investigacion del Plastico y del Caucho (ICIPC), who delivered ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... containers/min. Compact footprint and low operating cost make it ideal for in-plant container forming, co. reports. Cartoner Top Loads Flexible Pouches Dimension Industries LLC, div. of Douglas, Maple ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

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June 30, 2000, ... a multi-compartment-type structure. 1990s EVOH combined with other film structures in flexible snack food packaging applications. Metallized layer usage in packaging increases; metallized ...

Converter Can't Seem to Stay Out of Busines

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April 30, 2000, ... digital technology, and perhaps getting into wider web widths. The company has even produced some flexible packaging, "but that's not something that we go out and market everyday." But, says Curran, if ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ... own five-year study of flexible package printing methodologies in 1990. While he knew going in that rotogravure is a very precise, quality printing method, he still had issues with it. "First, there was ...

Electrically Heated Rollers Are Top Technology Choice

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March 31, 2000, The Thermalon line of electrically heated rollers from American Roller Co., Union Grove, WI, has won the 2000 Technology of the Year Competition sponsored The Thermalon line of electrically heated rollers ...

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, ...

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

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January 31, 2000, ... pressure-sensitive, gummed, and heat seal labelstock; flexible packaging, including barrier, clear, and metallized laminates and lidding materials; a range of p-s and heat seal mounting and laminating ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, ... companies, to accommodate the influx of flexible barrier packaging." Where It's at Today Today, high-performance barrier films, or high-barrier packaging, are utilized predominantly in the retail food ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, Dixie Toga's flexible division—Itap Bemis—settles into a new home with top-flight equipment producing both gravure and flexo products. Dixie Toga's flexible division—Itap Bemis—settles into a new home with ...

Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.

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November 30, 1996, ... of the line include run speeds to 3,000 fpm; coextrusion from up to three different extruders to manufacture up to five layers; extrusion lamination of two flexible webs; and the ability to handle virtually ...

Food Quality Protection Act limits Delaney Clause

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October 31, 1996, The FQPA action suggests there may be some momentum for eliminating the Delaney Clause as it applies to food and color additives in any food safety reform The FQPA action suggests there may be some momentum ...

The role of barrier materials in packaging low-fat goods.

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October 31, 1996, ... printing solvents used for flexible packaging and are generally the two that exist at the highest residual solvent levels in printed samples based on laboratory experience. Although MEK is not recommended ...

Perforating tear-resistant materials takes a big step.

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August 31, 1996, How do you perforate tough materials that are constructed not to tear? New perforating technology reportedly has the answer.When we attempt to perforate How do you perforate tough materials that are constructed ...

Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process

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August 31, 1996, ... have primarily used dyne liquids and pens to test the level of surface treatment on flexible films. In a "dyne test," wetting tension liquids (typically mixtures of ethylene glycol monoethyl ether and formamide) ...

Gauging system lights the way

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August 31, 1996, ... a host of other innovative products. These thin, flexible, lightweight-yet-rugged lamps deliver a cool, soft, nonglare light in even the smallest places. Making EL lamps was once a slow, labor-intensive ...

Downsizing reversal?

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July 31, 1996, ... themselves for long-term career growth and personal stability. "The second point covers how an individual needs to change, adapt, and be flexible in a continuously changing environment. What about retaining ...

Dutch converter retakes his company

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July 31, 1996, ... is the headquarters and plant of Bolding Verpakkingen, a $35 million flexible packaging converter. Highly regarded among Dutch packaging producers, the firm produces printed flexible substrates for a wide ...

FDA proposes to reduce environmental filing burdens.

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July 31, 1996, ... on the environment since environmental impact is not the principal focus of FDA's regulatory activity and expertise. Malcolm D. MacArthur is legal counsel to the Flexible Packaging Association, other ...

Aqueous adhesive systems: giving credit where it is due.

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July 31, 1996, ... the flexible packaging industry show that developmental efforts with aqueous systems have achieved significant advancements. A two-component flexible packaging adhesive is available that complies with ...