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Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

April 29, 2004, ...  Schiavi and Valmet Converting will be integrated into Bobst Group Business Area Flexible Materials, which comprises five product lines: flexo printing; gravure printing; coating/laminating; vacuum metallizing; ...

Products

(Magazine)

April 29, 2004, ... measure MVTR and OTR on a variety of flexible packaging structures, including flat films, laminates, and coextrusion. They feature company's Coulox coulometric-type sensor for oxygen and modulated IR for ...

Drupa New Product Digest

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, ... 600-mm dia. Visit Hall 11, Stand E68 at Drupa. Mid-Web Press Is Flexible Gidue Intl., Turate (CO), Italy; +39 (0) 29668181; gidue.com The Unipro 730-mm, mid-web packaging press reportedly can print ...

A Century Salute

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, ... on the eve of our 100th anniversary, as this allows us to diversify into the label and flexible packaging markets. Aquaflex makes an excellent product that will complement our line nicely. We look forward ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, News from: Amcor Flexibles, Brady Corp., Brandon Intl., Casia, CMM, CPP 2005, Creo, European Aluminum Foil Assn., Freedonia, GEW, Kurz GmbH, Rexam Healthcare Flexibles, Spectratech Intl., Uteco Converting, ...

The Family Breadwinner

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2004, ... despite sealing through multiple material layers. Gripping Power In the Other category, FLEXcon, Spencer, MA, won both marketing and technical awards for egrips, a nonslip appliqué from Flexible ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... for its private label products. The patented process belongs to Graphic Packaging Corp., Golden, CO. Composipac cartons use gravure graphics reverse-printed on the inside wall of a thin, flexible, transparent ...

Products

(Magazine)

January 30, 2004, ... from 75-300 lpi. Measures stochastic screens as fine as 10 microns and makes halftones easier to see and measure quickly. Color Optometer Is Flexible Gigahertz-Optik, Newburyport, MA; 978/462-1818; ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

January 30, 2004, ...  Coperion, coperion.com Cloeren, cloeren.com EGS Gauging, eurothermgauging.com ExxonMobil Films Put to Very Good Use The Films Business of ExxonMobil Chemical honored six flexible packaging ...

International Converting Industry News

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November 30, 2003, New from: Battenfeld Gloucester, Brückner Maschinenbau, Carpak S.A., Deacro Industries, Flexible Packaging Ltd., Henkel Group, Kleinewefers Verwaltungs, PCI Films Consulting, Rheinmetall (Jagenberg), ...

Products

(Magazine)

November 29, 2003, New from: Amacoil Inc., Avtron Mfg., Banner Engineering, Bilt-Rite Conveyors, BYK-Gardner USA, Comexi, Converter Accessory Corp., Extrusion Dies Industries, Flexible Steel Lacing Co., GEI Intl., Gencoa ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

November 29, 2003, ...  NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI, USA—Coim USA/Novacote Flexpack, a supplier of adhesives and coatings for flexible packaging, announces a new lamination technical center. The 6,000-sq-ft facility will feature ...

PLACE Recognizes Best Entries from Recent Conference

(The Place)

October 31, 2003, ... was Robert T. Versluys of Sonoco Flexible Packaging. The registrants at the conference indicate their choices for best paper and best session on a ballot form. Winners are the papers and sessions that ...

Cast Film Lines for Barrier Films

(The Place)

October 31, 2003, ... economically efficient and highly flexible production. The core of an extrusion line is the die assembly consisting of a co-extrusion adapter — the “feedblock — and a sheet die such as a mono-layer ...

Exercising Environmental Responsibility: Part 2

(Magazine)

October 30, 2003, ... last month in this column, the question arises how these examples of a lack of environmental responsibility pertain to those working in the converting and flexible packaging industries. In the case of ...

Converter Panel Attracts Interest at Conference

(The Place)

September 30, 2003, ... healthcare industry, flexible packaging laminations, barrier products, films, adhesives, etc. Other sessions involving panels that addressed topics of current interest to the audience at the conference ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... Nordmeccanica, NPES, Packaging Strategies, Pira Intl., Rexam Healthcare Flexibles, RIT, Smurfit-Stone, Stora Enso, Sun Chemical, TAPPI, Valéron Strength Films, Valmet (Rotomec), and W&H. Covering the ...

BOPP Film: How Real Is the China Threat?

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2003, ... period 1997 to 2002 and forecasts to 2007. It also provides profiles of the world's leading BOPP film producers accounting for more than 50% of the world's installed capacity. The European Flexible Packaging ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 31, 2003, ... “Retort pouches represent tremendous opportunity for flexible packaging to displace cans and bottles. Foods packaged in cans are often overcooked during the canning process. A retort pouch provides all ...

Breaking New Ground

(Flexpack)

August 31, 2003, With its recent purchase of the new PCMC Evolution, The Prairie State Group hopes to pave the way for a flexible packaging revolution. With its recent purchase of the new PCMC Evolution, The Prairie State ...