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More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... reliable supply of consistent, high-quality polymers for difficult applications. Co. notes that both have outstanding hot tack and heat seal properties and consistent low gel performance, and they will ...

Label Converter's Business Is Prime Labels & Prid

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August 30, 2000, ... hot foil stamping, rotary silk screen, and letterpress. Notes Magel, "We're kind of a supermarket for labels. End-users can get just about anything they want from us." In addition to a three-color ...

Innovation Is the Winner in Box Competition

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July 31, 2000, ... ends are hidden underneath a die-cut slit and paper. Inside box panels are tipped and hot stamped, promoting a luxurious image. Materials include vat-lined board and silver pilgrim paper. The ribbon ties ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

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June 30, 2000, ... damage. Coextrusion process develops, combining various hot plastics to produce more desirable packaging properties. Vacuum metallized films introduced; these films provide superior oxygen-resistant ...

Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact

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May 31, 2000, ... s called eletrophotographic printing; these are electric photographic digital printers, what I would call 'electrostatic' types; they depend on a charge movement of an image. In this type of printing, you ...

Box Plant Rises from the Ashes to New Heights

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May 31, 2000, ... and recently added a Kluge hot foil stamper for increased graphic appeal. In a phrase that might sum up both his business philosophy and his response to the fire, Sonderen notes, "You've just got to keep ...

Golden Cylinders Go to Gravure's Very Bes

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April 30, 2000, ... Sonoco Flexible Packaging for Mother Parker's Higgins & Burke Coffees. The first package, which went from flexo to gravure, was cited for its photographic quality. DuPont, Wilmington, DE, supplied the film. ...

Electrically Heated Rollers Are Top Technology Choice

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March 31, 2000, ... uniformity across the roller face within +/-1 deg C, an impressive feat, according to the judges. Designed to replace complex hot oil, water, and steam-heated rollers, the Thermalon line reportedly can ...

Folder/Gluer Broadens Markets for Contract Converter

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March 30, 2000, ... the laminating material, exposing the pocket folder or blank box. This feature, notes Amar, allows them to use conventional liquid glue or hot melt directly onto the blank and not the laminate. "We asked ...

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

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January 31, 2000, ... materials, which are distributed in the general display, large-format digital print, photolab, picture framing, and sign markets; plus a host of industrial products, including double-sided tapes, protection ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, ... have a much greater affinity and appreciation for food quality, and consuming food is more of a social event, whereas in North America it's more on a 'I want it quick, I want it hot, and I want it fresh' ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... and features four gas chromatographs; two spectrophotometers; four Mocons for testing oxygen and moisture vapor transmission rates; and a great deal of additional testing equipment. The prepress department, ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ... further development. Rather than have two lenses, a single-lens camera used in the process would 'ride' on a little track. It would move and, let's say, take 25 shots, stepping each one. After making the ...

Narrow web adapts to multiple applications

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November 30, 1998, ... in addition to multiple print stations, you can add stations for laminating, hot foil stamping, rotary die-cutting, flatbed die-cutting, sheeting, perforating, or ink jet printing. Practically anything ...

Need and innovation are driving digital printing.

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November 30, 1996, ... at a cost claimed to be substantially less than that required for producing short-run jobs on a flexo or screen press. The Impressa can produce continuous-tone, photo-quality labels without dithering and ...

Laminator adds metallizing to the mix

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August 31, 1996, ... was purchased by Transfer Print Foils of East Brunswick, NJ, a company that makes innovative holograms and hot stamping foils and has patents on a transfer metallizing process. About the same time the ...

Dutch converter retakes his company

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July 31, 1996, ... gravure press to become operative in 1996. One seven-color flexo press from BHS is in operation. Laminating equipment includes a wax laminator from Kroenert capable of hot melt lamination and a specially ...

A directory of custom slitting

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July 31, 1996, ...  Rewinding capabilities: Center, surface, center-surface, traverse winding (spooling 1/32 in. to 5 in.) Materials: Paper, paperboard, film, foil, nonwoven, foam, tissue, photographic materials, composites, ...

Gravure winners go for gold

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July 31, 1996, ...  * Hallmark Cards Inc. for photo gold ornaments wrapping paper: Cited for excellent execution throughout the production process and the consistent reproduction of a photo-quality image; * Constant ...

Something new under the sun

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June 30, 1996, ... that can be applied in-line by conventional printing presses onto any substrate. The decades-long quest to perfect light-sensitive or photochromatic ink for conventional printing methods has finally ...