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- Success Personified
- (Flexpack)
- February 28, 2004, ... that decision.” One of the big attractions for PPI to the Ro-An equipment has been the vacuum section on its newer machines. “A lot of products we produce get downgauged thinner and thinner. People ...
- Darwin Would Approve
- (Unprinted Rolls)
- January 30, 2004, ... monitoring system will be used in the Austell facility to measure the thickness and uniformity of the aluminum coating deposited on plastic substrates. It was the winner of the Technology of the Year Award ...
- AmeriStar Awards Honor Best in Packaging
- (Flexpack)
- October 30, 2003, The Institute of Packaging Professionals (IOPP) recently announced the winners of its AmeriStar Package Awards, honoring the best in packaging for 2003. The Institute of Packaging Professionals (IOPP) ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 2003, ... and supplies distribution channel. Special anniversary activities this year will include a dinner and a display of historical memorabilia. An anniversary Web site, gonpta.com/100, chronicles the history ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 2003, ... die has a new design said to apply consistent, distortion-free fluid coatings even at very low coat weights. May enable some converters to run thinner coatings. Converters can improve quality and increase ...
- Lenticular Labels Emerge
- (Magazine)
- June 30, 2003, With a new, thinner lenticular lens from National Graphics, Outlook Group Corp. is converting p-s labels that turn heads. With a new, thinner lenticular lens from National Graphics, Outlook Group Corp. ...
- Clear, Crisp Color
- (Magazine)
- May 31, 2003, ... Judging for the awards was held February 11-12 in Rochester, NY. The winners were selected from more than 125 entries in 25 categories. Eight judges reviewed this year's entries: Jeannette Earl, retired ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2002, ... The awards banquet recognized three Golden Mummy winners for flexible packaging and four Pyramid winners for labels, in various applications using ExxonMobil films. “Our customers continue to impress ...
- Increasing Your Flexo Press Speed a Notch or Two
- (Magazine)
- November 30, 2002, ... speeds is to increase the color strength of the inks, so a thinner ink can be run. This will greatly improve the drying rate necessary for high-speed printing. Foaming: Another phenomenon that can occur ...
- Made You Look
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2002, ... at the Hyatt Regency Lake Las Vegas Resort, Henderson, NV. A total of 94 awards were given, including 38 first place, 20 second place, and 36 honorable mentions. Here are details on a few of the winners. ...
- 1974 - 1976
- (News | New Products)
- September 19, 2002, ... has been found from the flexible and generally thinner VC plastics." Cryovac turkey bag package extends shelf life. December 1975 Barry Goldwater speaks at National Flexible Packaging Assn. West ...
- 1960s
- (News | New Products)
- September 19, 2002, ... against Hubert Humphrey. December 1968 The retortable “wetpack,” developed by Continental Can Co., is used to contain the turkey dinner eaten by the Apollo 8 crew while circling the moon. January ...
- 1970 - 1973
- (News | New Products)
- August 26, 2002, ... turkey dinner eaten by the Apollo 8 crew on Christmas Eve, 1968, while circling the moon." PFFC reports: "Co-extrusion of plastic films is being heralded as the next rich green pasture for converters." ...
- FPI to Judge Packages "Outside the Box
- (News | New Products)
- February 28, 2002, ... award will be presented to winners in five categories, including: Best Plastic Single-Use Foodservice Package Best Foam Single-Use Foodservice Package Best Paper or Pulp Single-Use Foodservice Package ...
- The Power Savers
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2002, ... to permit the production of thinner films and to increase production outputs. Stepping Up The first step was for Rotapress to upgrade the tension control system with a fully automatic system. Each ...
- Shaft Collar Decisions Can Be Momentous
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2002, ... overcomes the surface friction between the shaft surface and the inner bore surface of the roll. If the shaft collar set screw isn't tight, or if the collar isn't snug up against the roll flange, slippage ...
- Factoring Terrorism into the Economic Equation
- (Magazine)
- December 30, 2001, ... that followed, travel and tourism plummeted, and consumer confidence fell. People remained glued to their TV sets rather than go shopping, go out to dinner, or attend ball games. This so-called ‘CNN effect’ ...
- Polymers / Laminations / Adhesives / Coatings / Extrusions
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2001, ... of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota. Professor Cussler was also the winner of the Best Paper Award for the Polymers, Laminations and Coatings Division in 2000. He spoke ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2001, ... plies of spiral-wound recycled paperboard with an inner ply of 15-g LDPE for moisture protection. The total construction is 0.040 thick. The recessed paper bottom is 0.032 thick, with LDPE for moisture ...
- Polymers/Laminations/Adhesives/Coatings/Extrusions
- (Magazine)
- July 31, 2001, ... awards. In 2001, the winner of the Division Leadership and Service Award with the accompanying Andreas Ahlbrandt Prize endowed by Enercon Industries, Inc. is Louis W. Piffer of Egan Davis-Standard Corporation. ...
