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Digital Flexo Plates: From Pioneers to End-Users

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... and peripheral markets, produce, beverage, and snack foods, as well as sporting goods. They have been particularly impressed with how clean reverse images come out. Combine that with their presses coming ...

Spills Are Out with New Spout

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... solid and liquid product applications for a variety of markets including food, beverages, coffee, medical, industrial, pet foods, health/beauty aids, agriculture, and chemical. Pouch Machine Opens Doors ...

AmeriStar Call for Entry Extended

(News | New Products)

May 30, 2002, ... of the year and acknowledge those that have contributed to outstanding creativity of a package design. There are 14 package categories, including food, beverage, health and beauty, electronics, and ...

Coating Control, Quality, & Paperboard Packaging

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April 30, 2002, ... can be another property of interest, especially for food packaging. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-compliant coatings can provide a barrier to cover the noncompliant ink. The coating prevents the ink ...

P-S Labels Every Which Way

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... and food labels, which are Logotech's key markets. The presses also can be extended up to ten print units, with additional letterpress, rotary screen, ultraviolet flexo, and rotary hot stamping units available. ...

Beauty & the Box

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... equally demanding needs of consumer product companies and consumers. Caraustar Customer Packaging Group Pepperidge Farms' Spritzers Cookies (Ashland, OH, plant); Hershey Foods' Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus ...

Diving into Pouches

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April 30, 2002, ... headquarters in Normanton (Wakefield) and a production plant in Stoke, allow it to produce a wide range of packaging solutions for many markets, including food, tobacco, confectionery, toilet tissue, and ...

Need New Equipment or Accessories? NPD Is the Place to Look

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... “ears” (or feet, eyes, tails) that hold ketchup, dips, and munchies or can be used to keep foods separated. The heavy-duty plates are said to be sturdy, soak-resistant, and microwavable. Notes Richard ...

MeadWestvaco Buys Irish Pharm-Packaging Operation

(News | New Products)

April 16, 2002, ... and also producers packaging for consumer electronic, beverage, and food applications. "Ireland is a hub for many pharmaceutical companies operating in Europe," says Rita Foley, senior VP at MeadWestvaco ...

Converting Industry News

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March 31, 2002, ... coatings in three sections: Food Packaging; Troubleshooting with UV and EB; and Conversion of Presses to UV and EB. Wikoff Color's Don Duncan, co-chair of the RadTech Graphic Arts Focus Group, says, ...

Products

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March 31, 2002, ... films in gravure printing for food packaging. Designed for maximum performance on PET, product's reduction in retained solvents reportedly makes it ideal for use in applications such as juice pouches or ...

What's New in Narrow We

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January 31, 2002, ... provide outstanding durability in high-moisture envelopes and an exceptionally smooth printing surface. These new grades are FDA-compliant for food contact and complement co.'s substrate offerings for glue-applied ...

Russian Flex-Pack Markets Holds Potential

(News | New Products)

January 23, 2002, ... an economy that was slated to expand in 2001 at a rate of 7%, consumer spending forecast to rise as much as 9%, and investment up to 20%. With many of the large multinational food/beverage processors ...

World Label Shipments to Grow thru 2005, Reports Freedonia

(News | New Products)

December 09, 2001, ... consumer sectors increasingly able to satisfy their desire for foods, beverages, personal care items, and other packaged consumer products. Pressure sensitive (i.e., self-adhesive) labels, which surpassed ...

Automated Sortation System Boosts Customer Satisfaction

(Magazine)

November 30, 2001, Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. Lithographics, a sheet-fed offset label supplier producing $50 million worth of labels annually for the food and beverage Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. Lithographics, a sheet-fed ...

One-Dimensional Converter Expands Its Reach

(Magazine)

October 31, 2001, ... spirits, food, and pharmaceuticals. A nine-color, 39-in. rotogravure press features dual unwind and rewind splicing stations, allowing it to run two jobs simultaneously. The facility also houses slitting ...

Reporter Clips

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October 31, 2001, ... is also very little leverage here either. Despite these pressures, the self-adhesive label market is overall relatively buoyant in Europe.” Food labeling represents the largest volume market but with ...

Prime Labels Are More Than a Family Affair

(Magazine)

August 31, 2001, ... not just food.” To meet these diverse demands, Prestige recently upgraded its prepress department for the second time in five years. The company added more than $250,000 in prepress equipment alone, ...

Vacumet Makes Metallizing Dreams Come True

(Magazine)

August 31, 2001, ... by the multiwall bag for Ralston Purina One dog food and cat food. Vacumet provides the facestock for that bag. The silver appearance of metallized paper is not seen by the consumer, but the metal coating ...

New Product Digest

(Magazine)

August 31, 2001, ... are said to be used for packaging everything from bakery and popcorn to coffee and pet food. Machine reportedly holds its settings and adjustments precisely to ensure consistent bag formation, and servo ...