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Adhesion of Coatings to Aluminum Foil

(The Place)

August 31, 2003, ... pass through the plastic layers. Around undesirably coarse precipitations in the surface, the aluminum can react continually with water-generating hydrogen and forming bubbles. This oxide growth finally ...

Let's Talk Trend

(Tapes)

August 28, 2003, ... double-digit growth rates, the label market continues its tradition of outperforming GDP by 3%-4% annually. As a result, the industry has expanded even when the economy hasn't, though certainly not at the ...

Active Packaging

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2003, ... hurdles to jump. Regulation standards are somewhat nonexistent, although groups are forming to drive standardization. Additionally, many new covert devices require coordination with readers and software. ...

Winding Better Rolls

(Archive)

May 31, 2003, ... the stretched rug. The elongated material is pushed ahead of the cart, forming a bulge in the carpet. If you held the rug at both ends while you rolled the cart, you would find the rug behind the cart ...

Catty Corp.: Flex-Pack Converter

(Flexpack)

May 31, 2003, ... our capacity by adding this one press.” In transforming the Bobst Champlain from a board press to a foil lamination unit, Catty added an Allen-Bradley computer-based logic system to work in conjunction ...

Measure Pressure with Thin Film

(Magazine)

April 30, 2003, ... orange. A very common cause is excessive coating weight. Sometimes a converter performing this type of lamination can experience low bond levels in the resulting lamination. One solution to increase the ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

March 31, 2003, ... is that end-users get powerfully performing technologies at the very low cost needed for mass adoption. Seal-It Labels Add “Pop” to Reebok Fitness Water Bottles FARMINGDALE, NY, USA—Seal-It Inc. has ...

AIMCAL Winners Pulsate with Panache

(Corrugated)

March 31, 2003, ... beneath to prevent loss of visibility while performing such diverse activities as dirt track racing, surgery, dental procedures, shot basting, industrial cleaning, or painting. The optical adhesive creates ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

March 31, 2003, ... folders and double CD holders.” Says Becker, “One of the main reasons I chose Bobst was their phenomenal technical support. They are literally just a phone call away.” “The Media is performing very ...

Cinching Belt Tightening Gone Bad: Part Two

(Magazine)

February 28, 2003, ... the outside of a roll during winding adds to the tension of the incoming web, forming a tighter roll with minimal increase in applied torque. You can reduce applied torque in other ways. Big changes ...

Filtration Transformation

(Magazine)

February 28, 2003, ... supplier relationships comes "a breakthrough" for one contract converter's final filtration of hot melts. Quiet revelations are transforming our world. Though Archimedes may not have subscribed to this ...

Cinching Belt Tightening Gone Bad: Part One

(Magazine)

January 31, 2003, ... develop an inertial torque that resists stopping. This loosening cinching action, if great enough, can drive the web tangentially into compressive buckling, forming a crossweb or crepe wrinkle inside the ...

Products

(Magazine)

January 31, 2003, ... changes in distance as small as 0.010 in. for controlling the unwind and rewind tension. Capable of performing up to 100 loop measurements/sec, this noncontact controller prevents stock from dragging on ...

Global Packaging Market

(Magazine)

January 31, 2003, ... Ahead But what are the remaining major issues facing the packaging industry today? Research highlights the fact that it is one of the worst-performing sectors of the world's stock markets and an unattractive ...

Opportunities in Academia

(Magazine)

November 30, 2002, ... in technology-transfer-based business strategies, licensing, sourcing, and acquisitions. His 30-year technology-transfer career includes 15 years exploring, forming, and managing strategic alliances with ...

Energy-Curable Inks

(Magazine)

November 30, 2002, ... and initiate the polymer chain propagation. Just like UV, these free radicals will react with other areas of unsaturation on the acrylated materials, forming a polymer chain until the reaction is terminated. ...

The Third Wave: An Iron Tale about the Business of Print, Vol. 11

(Magazine)

October 31, 2002, ... Lean Selling. For the last 20 years, sales, marketing, and customer-service functions have been transforming. In companies where customer service used to be known as "order entry," today, there are dynamic, ...

2000s

(News | New Products)

September 24, 2002, ... calls it, "A Non-News Day." April 2000 AIMCAL celebrates its 30th anniversary with a supplement in PFFC. June 2000 Peerless Machine & Tool’s P-Line paper plate and tray forming machine, introduced ...

1977 - 1979

(News | New Products)

September 19, 2002, ...  according to Shell Chemical Co.," writes Rigney in his June editorial. "A unique thermoforming process invented and developed by Shell has been adapted successfully in a commercial US operation, producin ...

May 1993 - 1994

(News | New Products)

September 19, 2002, 1920s and 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970 - 1973 1974 - 1976 1977 - 1979 1980s 1990 - April 1993 1995 - 1999 2000 to present The Mid-1990s...May 199313th1920s and 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970 - 1973  ...