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- Flex-Pack Giant Bemis to Buy DuPont Shrink Film Biz
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- June 19, 2002, DuPont reports it has reached an agreement to sell its global Clysar shrink film business and manufacturing assets to Bemis Company, Inc. WILMINGTON, DE, USA—DuPont reports it has reached an agreement ...
- Focus on Crosslinking in Fluid Ink Systems
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- May 31, 2002, Crosslinkers are an important class of additives ink and coating formulators use to enhance properties. These materials must be selected carefully to Crosslinkers are an important class of additives ink ...
- Pactiv to Buy Winkler Forming
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- May 21, 2002, Pactiv Corp. reports an agreement to purchase Winkler Forming, Inc. Pactiv says it will purchase the thermoformer of amorphous polyethylene terephthalate (APET) for food packaging for $72.5 million (approximately ...
- Shrink Sleeve Market & Techology: AWAreness Report Now Is Available
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- April 18, 2002, Alexander Watson Associates (AWA) BV says its AWAreness Report, "Shrink Sleeve—Market & Technology Review," is now available. According to AWA, "This new AWAreness Report evaluates current and future trends ...
- Flint Ink UV: "Ideal" for Packagin
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- April 09, 2002, Flint Ink says it has inks ideal for CD, DVD, video, and software packaging; UV ink systems that produce durable, razor-sharp, high-gloss images that enhance in-store marketing and merchandising appeal. ...
- Krber PaperLink to Showcase New Systems at Converting Industry Events
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- February 19, 2002, According to a Körber PaperLink release, the holding company will showcase two of its company's paper converting systems—from Wrapmatic and Pemco/SHM (Strachan Henshaw Machinery)—at the upcoming Asian ...
- How Do You Measure Ink Film Thickness? Count the Ways
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- January 31, 2002, Almost every day I receive questions relating to ink or coating thickness determination. You would think it would be a simple matter, but it is not. Ink Almost every day I receive questions relating to ...
- Dealing with Ink Adhesion on High-Slip Films
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- December 31, 2001, One of the most common problems with printing high-slip films is poor ink adhesion. Such films have low surface energies, and the levels of slip additives One of the most common problems with printing ...
- Flint Ink Donates Thousands to September 11 Charities
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- November 25, 2001, Together the Flint Ink Foundation and Flint Ink worldwide have donated over $290,000 to September 11th charities, reports the ink supplier. ANN ARBOR, MI, USA—Together the Flint Ink Foundation and Flint ...
- NAPIM Survey Finds Printers Are Focused on Ink Performance on Press, Not on Price
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- November 15, 2001, America's packaging printers want their ink to perform on press as well or better than advertised. That's the key finding of a recent survey distributed among 2,000 printers by the National Association of ...
- MD Wrinkle Formation Causes and Cures
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- October 31, 2001, MD (machine-direction) wrinkle problems (sometimes called tin canning) still plague many converters and/or film suppliers. The two main contributing parameters MD (machine-direction) wrinkle problems (sometimes ...
- A Brief Chemistry Lesson On Printing Ink Pigments
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- October 31, 2001, ... these colorants is their solubility. Pigments used in printing inks are colorants that are insoluble in water and most solvents. For instance, copper phthalocyanine blue is the primary blue colorant used ...
- Crosslinking Agents Can Improve Physical Properties
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- September 30, 2001, One of the key areas of ink/coating formulation is the use of crosslinking additives to improve physical resistance properties, such as ink adhesion and One of the key areas of ink/coating formulation ...
- VOC-Compliant Inks: What State Are They In?
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- September 30, 2001, ... industry for at least two decades are environmental regulations and flexography. As the quality of flexo continues to improve, alternative ink technologies are making their mark in the push to reduce ...
- Electronic Ink Technology: New Players Aid Progress
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- August 31, 2001, Not only will these electronic inks be used on paper, but they can be printed and laminated to create many packaging products. More than a year ago, I Not only will these “electronic inks” be used on paper, ...
- Akzo Nobel Inks' Free Seminar Provides Education for Narrow Web Printers
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- August 28, 2001, October 23 and 24, 2001, narrow web printers, will have the opportunity to invest in education absolutely free. According to Akzo Nobel Inks, the ink supplier will host "New Technologies for Narrow Web ...
- Single-Source Ink Supplier for Package Printer
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- July 31, 2001, An alliance with Flint Ink allows Packaging Products Corp. to meet the needs of three facilities and 150 different customers. An alliance with Flint Ink allows Packaging Products Corp. to meet the needs ...
- Assessing the Potential for Ink Transfer and Migration
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- June 30, 2001, Potential transfer…depends on many factors, such as degree of cure, ink adhesion, pressure between cups, length of time in contact, etc. Recently, I received an e-mail in which a reader questioned ...
- Jet Inks, Colorants, and Packaging What's Ahead
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- April 30, 2001, The rapid growth of ink jet technology in various printing sectors forecasts their use in package printing. However, use of ink jet printing in packaging The rapid growth of ink jet technology in various ...
- The Missing Link: Plastics History Leads to Packaging
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- April 30, 2001, From fake flowers to hygienic-paper packaging, Germany's Böhme family has been in plastics for nearly 50 years. For almost as long, the company has linked its print quality to Fischer & Krecke presses. ...
