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Sonoco and Nestle USA Sign Exclusive Agreement

(News | New Products)

September 05, 2002, ... needs with our growing portfolio of packaging solutions driven by increasing expenditures for new product-and-services development. Consumers are demanding different and more convenient forms of packaging, ...

Turning Defects into Perfection

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August 31, 2002, ... packaging products for a diverse group of companies in the snack, confectionery, general food, and soup industries. The company performs surface printing as well as reverse printing on the full range of ...

Reporter Clips

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August 31, 2002, ... Label Protects Packagers, Informs Consumers SCHAUMBURG, IL, USA—Label Express, an Impaxx company, developed the tamper-evident version of its Reveal Estate extended text label specifically for the upscale ...

1950s

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August 27, 2002, ... such as uniforms, hospital gowns, laboratory aprons, and restaurant garb.” 1957 Seven earthquakes and dozens of aftershocks rock the San Francisco area. The Society of Vacuum Coaters is founded. ...

1970 - 1973

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August 26, 2002, ...  recently termed ‘an analyst’s dream but an investor’s nightmare,’ by an important paper industry critic, is ready to turn the whole thing around," reports PFFC. Bemis forms a new film div., "which comprise ...

Knowing Your Limitations Can Accentuate Your Strengths

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July 31, 2002, ... to add it. The usual procedure would be to evaluate various adhesives that might offer very low-temperature adhesion to plastic bags. When the converter in this example performs such an evaluation, ...

Redefining Plasticizers in Inks and Coatings

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July 30, 2002, ... added plasticizer, nitrocellulose does not adhere to most packaging films since the binder forms a very rigid 3-D structure that cannot bend without cracking, and the internal stress is so strong that ...

Packaging That Really Works

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June 30, 2002, Active packaging has been present as a concept for many years in varying forms, but interest has grown recently thanks to a rash of publicity about the development of newly enhanced oxygen absorbers, ...

Converting Industry News

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June 30, 2002, ... and safety and/or environmental impact. Entries must be available commercially in 2002, and entry forms must be received no later than December 31. Winners will be announced at the PLGA's annual conference ...

The High End of EDP Labels

(Office Products)

June 30, 2002, ... five Didde forms presses — all modified by Pinnacle — that can produce sheet sizes ranging up to 17 by 22 in. All of Pinnacle's presses have the capability to pattern-adhesive in any size or shape, depending ...

Materials

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June 30, 2002, ... excellent dart impact and puncture resistance, good tear strength, sealability, and optics. Also reportedly provide excellent melt stability for improved blown film processability. Tape Conforms to ...

Toxic Release Inventory: AIMCAL Urges Members that Report Deadline Imminent

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June 09, 2002, ... may be. Here are some suggestions to get you organized for reporting: Designate someone at your facility to be responsible for TRI reporting. That person should obtain reporting forms with instructions ...

Presses Have Converter in Fine Form

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May 31, 2002, With some 40 years' experience in the business forms industry, Sam O'Connor has seen that marketplace undergo dramatic changes and not necessarily for With some 40 years' experience in the business forms ...

The Standard Standards

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May 22, 2002, ... of standards based on XML, ensuring maximum possible portability between different platforms and ready interaction with Internet-based systems. About CIP4 CIP4 brings together vendors, consultants, ...

Converting Industry News

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April 30, 2002, ... of the paper industry. Mitchell will maintain the existing machinery already in service, as well as offer new and modified products. Association News SERCOS Association Forms New Group BLOOMINGDALE, ...

Diving into Pouches

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April 30, 2002, ... many forms, most recently in 2000 with the management buyout of two factories from British Polythene Industries (BPI): Parkside and Britannia Packaging. The company's two U.K. manufacturing locations, with ...

Dive in the Ipex "SEE" of Technolog

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April 11, 2002, ... refurbished machines are awarded the ZISMO! quality seal, which informs a buyer the machine has "zero impressions since manufacturer's overhaul." Says Jon Guy, managing director of Heidelberg Used Equipment, ...

The Third Wave: An Iron Tale about the Business of Print, Vol. 4

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March 31, 2002, ... dramatic contrasts to commercial print. The closest parallel on the varied world of converting is the consolidation and shrinking demand for traditional products in the forms industry. Industry giants ...

Converters Strike Back

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March 31, 2002, ... compared to rigid plastic clamshells and other forms of security packaging. Inspection Perfection No matter how inventive the security solution, you have to make certain it works. Every converter that ...

RFID Labels a Good Read

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March 31, 2002, ... from greater distances than more common forms of automatic ID systems, such as bar codes. Costs Coming Down Kuzma saw airline luggage tags as a potentially prime market for RFID when X-Ident was established ...