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New Products for the Narrow Web Converting Industry

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March 31, 2002, ... (water-based and UV), rotary screen, gravure, and offset. Mfr. reports material readily accepts hot stamping, has excellent die-cutting properties, and is designed for automatic label application. Digital ...

Products

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March 31, 2002, ... films in gravure printing for food packaging. Designed for maximum performance on PET, product's reduction in retained solvents reportedly makes it ideal for use in applications such as juice pouches or ...

Every Trick in the Book

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March 31, 2002, ... for a rotogravure-printed, stand-up pouch for dry soup mix from Inn on the Creek Foods, Midway, UT. Judges cited the absence of stress cracks even in seal areas, where there is considerable variation between ...

Exopack Inspects with AVT

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March 25, 2002, SPARTANBURG, SC --Exopack, says Advanced Vision Technology (AVT), has installed three additional PrintVision/9000NT systems at operations in Wisconsin

Diverse Products Meet Many High-End Needs

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February 28, 2002, ... can be applied in thicknesses from 0.012-75 microns and up to 74 in. in width, using gravure (direct, offset, and reverse), slot die, and proprietary processes. Substrate thicknesses range from 12-375 ...

Materials

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February 28, 2002, ... to package food items in the store. Two-Part Adhesive Offers Flexibility AdLamCo, York, PA; 717/845-7088 McStick 241 two-part, 100% solids adhesive with no VOCs can be run by flexo, gravure, and the ...

Products

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February 28, 2002, ...  MR3000 Register Control System is designed to control length register errors on gravure presses. High-performance fiber optic scanners are said to detect and automatically recognize register marks and ...

FPA Honors Both Flexible & Flashy

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February 28, 2002, ...  Gravure Glows Intense color and vibrant graphics convey the vitality of Fuze, a new line of healthy refreshment beverages in glass bottles. Graphics on the full-body shrink sleeves earned Gold Award ...

The Buck Stops

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February 28, 2002, ... this growth is from a very low base. MTI [Market Tracking Intl.] provides a breakdown for packaging worldwide: litho — 45 percent; flexo — 28 percent; gravure — 20 percent; and others — 7 percent.”  ...

Slitter Cuts Changeover Time

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February 28, 2002, ... two Rotomec gravure printing presses (one six-color and one eight-color machine, both with an 800-mm web width) and a Rotomec 1000-mm-wide extrusion coating machine. Prior to the arrival of the Titan ...

Graphics of the Americas 2002: Business Heats Up in Miami

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February 24, 2002, ... IT, can be supported by every segment of the printing industry—sheet fed or web printers, gravure, flexographic, or digital printers, even textile printers. In the past, numerous specialty niches with ...

Shamrock Gifts and Bags Utilize UV

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February 19, 2002, ... UV, "By doing this in-line, it's allowed Shamrock to have longer runs on their gravure presses with stops and fewer changeovers. The instant cure received with the system allows [the converter] to print, ...

Converting Industry News

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January 31, 2002, ... in that direction. The trend looks set to continue.” The CTC will house a fully operational Rotomec 4000-2 ES gravure printing press with Rotomec electronic shaft (ES) technology. The press will have ...

How Do You Measure Ink Film Thickness? Count the Ways

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January 31, 2002, ... of ink. Lithography is estimated to deposit an ink film of approximately 1-2 microns, whereas flexography's deposit is estimated at 2-3 microns. Rotogravure can have a wide range from 1-20 microns, depending ...

Reporter Clips

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January 31, 2002, News from: AWA's release liner conference, Gallus, and PCMC, plus coming events. Narrow Web Converting Industry News Coming Events Feb. 28 - March 1: 5th Packaging and Label Gravure Assn. Annual Marketing ...

Products

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January 31, 2002, ... Stork rotary screen technology and specialty finishing stations (hot foil stamping, die-cutting, embossing, and in-line imaging). In addition, co. offers LG-200 combo-press series (litho/flexo/gravure ...

Difficult Jobs? Combo Printing Can Tighten Screwy Requests

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January 31, 2002, ... cutting-edge tools to an ever-sharper delivery point. Combination and platform press equipment available today can deliver jobs that incorporate flexo, gravure, offset litho, and screen printing, even ...