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- Converting Industry News
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- December 31, 2000, ... Association (EMA) has launched its 2001 Metallized Product Competition to promote the use of metallized or nonmetal vacuum-coated products. Awards will be presented in packaging, functional/technical, ...
- Converting Industry News
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- September 30, 2000, ... multifunctional monomers (TMPTA-N, TRPGDA, HDODA, and TMPEOTA). The company recently implemented several de-bottlenecking measures at its Pampa, TX, facility as part of an expansion plan to increase worldwide ...
- Presses and People Make a Powerful Combination
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- September 30, 2000, ... "If you can have a digital press that functionally operates as a conventional press but economically meets the needs of the short-run, prime-label market, you have a technology that is going to revolutionize ...
- A Basic Understanding of Chill Rolls
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- September 30, 2000, ... are the same—roll load, face deflection, and heat removal rate. The functional aspects of a roll will vary considerably from process to process. The process and product predicate roll construction, materials, ...
- A Q&A on Remanufactured Equipment: Is It for You?
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- September 30, 2000, ... and requirements. If you run more simplistic linework, one- or two-color applications, special coatings, or non-register-specific jobs and need to improve functionality and downtime, then simple rebuilding ...
- The Vacumet Story Is a 30-Year History of Growth
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- August 31, 2000, ... and automotive trim. "We also do a lot of holograms for security and nonfunctional displays," Foley reports. "For example, we metallize the holograms you see on the Colgate toothpaste box and several different ...
- More New Products for the Converting Industry
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- August 31, 2000, ... is modular. Each instrument has a large, fully functional screen and an internal paper feed mechanism for easy operation, co. reports. Can be used as a stand-alone tester or as part of an automated testing ...
- Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch
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- July 31, 2000, ... freshness. The industry is meeting functional requirements while reducing costs by using thinner gauge materials and increasing processing speeds. Although downgauging will remain an important trend, ...
- Decorative Films Served by Multilayer Structure
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- May 31, 2000, ... to mass produce such a complicated film with up to three different resins in each of the five layers, reports Ellenbogen. The challenge, Ellenbogen explains, was getting the eye appeal and functionality ...
- Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application
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- April 30, 2000, ... instantaneously, engaging the brake more quickly at full torque and reducing the time required to stop the roll. Electromagnetic brakes can remain functional and in control even when operated at near ...
- Human/Machine Interface Offers Best of Two Worlds
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- March 31, 2000, ... (GUI), and HMIs running in Microsoft Windows or Windows NT environments are fast becoming dominant. While there's nothing new about the GUI, what is new is its expanding functionality. HMI software running ...
- FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less
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- February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...
- Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group
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- February 29, 2000, ... on a custom-made machine. By the end of 1999, a new Schiavi solventless laminator was to be fully functional. This machine features the latest technology and, notes Spritzer, will make a vital contribution ...
- Integrated Information System Can Boost Profits
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- January 31, 2000, ... business models and functionality-is the safest and most economical approach. When looking for an ERP solution, consider the following: Key is the ability to support manufacturing/converting operations ...
- Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.
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- November 30, 1996, ... configured with a Microcell software package. The PC3000/Microcell combination provides the functionality of a programmable logic controller (PLC) and a process control system with a built-in operato ...
- What you should know about filled adhesives and coatings
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- October 31, 1996, Adhesives and coatings sometimes contain fillers, because such ingredients can provide functional properties for certain applications. Examples of typical Adhesives and coatings sometimes contain fillers, ...
- FDA proposes to reduce environmental filing burdens.
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- July 31, 1996, ... where the "additive" is a "functional component of finished food packaging materials present at not greater than 5%-by-weight." Such submissions now must include an abbreviated EA. In the case of "nonfunctional" ...
- The 1996 Metallizing Roundup: Experts Ponder and Predict
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- February 29, 1996, ... but those other guys who snipe around the edges." For Bob Korowicki, "Foil replacement is still the greatest opportunity for the metallizing industry, considering volume, need, and a functional product. ...
- Custom coating operation is a clean winner
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- February 29, 1996, ... a clean industrial plant. The need to eliminate dust particles during coating is critical to many applications where even the smallest speck of contamination will spoil the functionality of the final product, ...
- New measurement technology improves web control.
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- January 31, 1996, ... functionality and performance reliability over what is typically seen in many light- to medium-tension applications today. Web tension fluctuations result from many events that occur in the course of ...