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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 ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... food, baking, and garment industries. The company recently purchased five PrintVision/9000NT print defect detection systems from Advanced Vision Technology (AVT), Atlanta, GA. Arleen Neustein, Excelsior ...

Materials and Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ...  Stamping Foil Ideal for Food Packaging API Foils, Lawrence, KS; 785/842-7674; api-worldwide.com Low-temperature packaging foil, designated the 680 Series, was developed primarily for stamping on PP ...

Press Adds Flexibility of Film to Paper Operation

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June 30, 2000, ... to protect its traditional customer base, Saugerties sees potential new markets as plastic packaging for housewares, food, and other products that already are wrapped in flexible packaging, such as paper ...

Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact

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May 31, 2000, ... Food and Drug Administration regulations using novel chemistry, says Bentley. "The next great advance will be someone complying with the regulations but doing so in a very unusual way. That will mean taking ...

Box Plant Rises from the Ashes to New Heights

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May 31, 2000, ... Packaging continues to serve the same candy, tea, and food industries of the Pacific Northwest that helped launch the business in the basement of a print shop in 1963. The operation manufactures primarily ...

On-Line Purchasing Saves Time, Money, and Space

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May 31, 2000, ... gives me a lot of freedom during the day," notes Joseph Irabor, prepress manager for Arrow Industries, a Fort Worth, TX, converter of plastic food bags. "I don't have to waste time on the phone to order ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ... the food processors, companies like Green Giant, Sara Lee, and Stouffer's. Then they introduced their lines of boil-in-bag frozen food products to consumers." Bell says Kapak kept at the boil-in-bag ...

Globalization Is Driving Force Behind Fast-Growing NPE

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April 30, 2000, ... many packaging-related exhibits at NPE 2000 will generate new design and marketing concepts for food companies and other packaging specifiers." Organizers expect 85,000-plus visitors from more than ...

Seventy-Five Years and Counting for Bancroft Bag

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February 29, 2000, ... bag style, and served only the carbon black market." Today, Bancroft Bag produces its bags in a 300,000-sq-ft facility; provides bags for a host of markets, including pet food, fertilizer and other ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

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February 29, 2000, ... opened new markets for flexible packaging, and delivered innovations to the consumer, office, recreation, and pet food marketplaces. John Woolford, interim president of FPA, notes, "More than ever before, ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

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February 29, 2000, ... was started in 1964, and we have continuously expanded to serve both local and multinational food companies." Located in a new 5,000-sq-m plant in the area surrounding Montevideo--a pleasant colonial ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... located in Votorantim (S.P.) and Natal (R.N.), contains the most modern extruders, thermoformers, and printers and produces plastic packaging for margarine, drinks, ice cream, and food service applications. ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

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December 31, 1999, ... equipment, and that way we'd only need two maintenance people for our whole facility. We have 95 percent uptime on our equipment." Coating Excellence serves the food and industrial packaging markets with ...

Vision-Based System Wins the Battle Against Defects

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December 31, 1999, ... is designed to automatically detect defects in the printing process. Ultra Flex sells to Fortune 500 companies within the food service and textile industries. The company has more than 250 workers and ...

Aqueous adhesive systems: giving credit where it is due.

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July 31, 1996, ... the composition requirements of Food and Drug Administration regulation 21 CFR 177.1390, laminate structures, for use at temperatures of 250 deg and above. With a high degree of adhesion to many substrates, ...

Making Lemonade in the Converting Industry

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June 30, 1996, ... Manufacturers Institute (PMMI), Arlington, VA, is concerned about a slightly different but closely related subject: downsizing, specifically in the engineering departments of food companies. A PMMI ...

In-mold labels: film is today's hot development

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June 30, 1996, ... led to this novel way to label and decorate containers for detergent and other cleaning and laundry products, liquid and solid foods, health and beauty aids, and miscellaneous articles such as motor oil. ...

International Converting Industry News

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May 31, 1996, ... tons, the majority of which is sold for food packaging. Gordon Campbell, Courtaulds deputy chief executive/operations, reports, "This merger will combine two excellent businesses with complementary products ...

The challenge of formulating FDA compliance.

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April 30, 1996, Many application of adhesives, coatings, and inks for flexible packaging and other uses require compliance with regulations of the Food and Drug Administration Many application of adhesives, coatings, ...