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Dow Expected to Enjoy Earnings Growth in 2001

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February 28, 2001, ... facility — all of which will enable us to ramp up production quickly and economically.” Dow introduced new two Styron A-Tech advanced PS resins designed for performance in packaging and food service ...

Products

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February 28, 2001, ... effective way to print bar code labels in medical labs; sterile food, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical processing plants; clean rooms; and most other sterile industrial environments. Features include a print ...

Converting Industry News

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January 31, 2001, ...  Huhtamaki Van Leer Buys Packaging Resources DESOTO, KS, USA—Huhtamaki Van Leer has acquired Packaging Resources Inc., Lake Forest, IL, manufacturers of plastic containers, cups, and lids for the food ...

Inspection System Balances Print Quality with Economy

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December 31, 2000, ... well situated to serve both Eastern and Western Europe." He adds, "More specifically for the Teich group, Poland has many of the major supermarket groups, a large number of international food manufacturers—many ...

Converting Industry News

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December 31, 2000, ... Applied Films after capital increase. Coating technologies offered by this division include web coaters for food packaging. "LAC has an excellent portfolio of technologies that will expand our market ...

Reporter Clips

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December 31, 2000, ... labels offer significant cost savings for products that need to convey a great deal of information to consumers, particularly pharmaceutical and food and beverage products. What was traditionally accomplished ...

The Need to Know Drives Pharma Labeling Market

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December 31, 2000, ... comes in from stateside label converters. There is also a fairly large food industry in Puerto Rico, which is an excellent potential market for narrow web label producers. Silva says, "About 80 percent ...

What's New in Narrow We

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December 30, 2000, New from: A.B. Dick, ADI Intl., Conversource, Flexo Concepts, Labelmate LLC, Mark Andy/Comco Intl., Matik North America, Northwest Coatings Corp., Propheteer Intl., Sato America Inc., Sony Chemicals Corp. ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ... leave any plastic residue, says Biocorp, adding that, when composted, the products biodegrade completely into carbon dioxide, water, and biomass in 30-60 days, just like food scraps and yard trimmings. ...

Converting Industry News

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October 31, 2000, ... annually. The customer was not named, but the contract is in the snack food market. The company expects to begin phasing in new production under the contract during the first half of next year. According ...

Wide-Ranging European Converter Keeps on Moving

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October 31, 2000, ... and Germany. Domestically, the driving force among Spanish converters is the retailing industry. Similar to the U.K., the multi-chain retailers approach food manufacturers for new packages. In Spain the ...

Digital News for the Converting Industry

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October 31, 2000, ... Schawk provides advanced technology services for the food, beverage, and consumer products packaging, point-of-sale, and advertising markets. DAX Announces Marketing Promotion CHICAGO, IL, USA—Digital ...

Conference Features New Networking Opportunity

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October 31, 2000, ... who was the organizer of the event, "We wanted to provide an opportunity for all meeting attendees to have an entire evening at a premier networking experience. The food, drink, entertainment, and spectacular ...

International Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... milk, the Elopouch now is being used in a clinical nutrition package from Nutrichem. The nutriBag is a double-bag system for providing clinical nutrition to patients fed liquid food by tube in the stomach ...

Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... director is Don Carli, president of Nima Hunter. For more information contact NPES, 1899 Preston White Dr., Reston, VA 20191; 703/264-7200; npes.org Convenience Drives Snack Food Sales ALEXANDRIA, ...

Solving the Problem of Press Part Replacements

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September 30, 2000, ... parts to meet our own customer demands for quick delivery." At its 160,000-sq-ft Chicago-area facility, Clear Lam prints, laminates, and slits films and foils, primarily for the food industry. The company ...

The Vacumet Story Is a 30-Year History of Growth

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August 31, 2000, ... polypropylene toll metallizing. Within a year and a half, we changed that to probably 10 percent. Now, our business is pretty well concentrated on food packaging, balloons, the decal and label industry, ...

Eastern European Converter Continues Pioneering Ways

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August 31, 2000, ... Nesquik cocoa powder was an OPPack winner. Nestle Foods (Slovakia) had been using a PET/aluminum foil/PE laminate to package its cocoa powder. By using Mobil Plastics' newly developed high-barrier OPP ...

What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2000, ... after 1 wk at 120 deg F. Said to be stable, showing minimal viscosity change after 24 hr at 325 deg F. Approved for indirect food contact (CFR 175.105) and called suitable for application temperatures ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... be held November 5-9 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL. The show will feature more than 1,600 suppliers from around the globe exhibiting the latest in packaging, packaging-related converting, and food ...