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Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Archive)

September 29, 2004, ... or shape, the material reportedly saves time and reduces waste, inventory needs, box size, and freight expenses. Retortable Carton Gets US Application Tetra Pak unveils the first commercial application ...

The 411 on RFID, Part 1

(Archive)

August 30, 2004, ...  December 2003 Matrics Inc. (matrics.com) forms a contract with International Paper (IP) (internationalpaper.com) to supply RFID tags for use in tracking inventory as part of IP's new warehouse tracking ...

Protecting Brands

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ... in a product's bar code. Minimizing “inventory shrinkage” is achieved today via three main technologies: electro-magnetic, acousto-magnetic, and radio frequency electronic surveillance systems. For comprehensive ...

MAGPOWR Moving Manufacturing to Oklahoma City

(Archive)

August 19, 2004, ... have access to MAGPOWR, the company says Fife and MAGPOWR employees are working duplicate shifts to build the inventory levels and technology support at the Oklahoma City location, while still operating ...

Frontline Expo in Chicago to Address Supply-Chain Management, RFID Issues

(Archive)

July 07, 2004, ... return on investment (ROI), increasing inventory turns, reducing shrinkage and counterfeit, and increasing on-shelf availability at each stage of RFID deployments. Dr. Sarma will also discuss approaches ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, ... Roll Inventory, and Credit & Collections modules. "We’re looking forward to the flexibility of CRC’s open database platform," says Bonita’s IT manager Garth Walker. "Easily accessing our data as well ...

The Latitudes of LEAN

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, ... it,” and you're asking, “Womack who?” then at least you've probably heard a lot of general things about “getting lean” — a.k.a. reducing waste, cutting inventory, and becoming more efficient — to get more ...

Keeping Score

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, ... sales per employee, inventory turnover, and more. The study provides industry “benchmarks” that allow label converters to gauge their own performance in nearly a dozen categories year-over-year and in ...

Fasson and Tailored Solutions Team Up to Streamline Electronic Orders for Narrow Web Industry

(Archive)

June 20, 2004, ... directly back into an inventory system, resulting in significant time savings, with improved order and inventory accuracy." The companies also report an added Label Traxx feature enables converters ...

New Products for the Converting Industry, PFFC, June 2004

(Magazine)

May 30, 2004, ... management software package is installed at ink supplier and communicates electronically with dispensing systems located at the packaging or label printer and distribution centers. Manages remote inventory ...

High & Low

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, ...  Slim Cell flexibility also created inventory cost savings. Explains Giugovaz, “To economize, we originally wanted the same load cell with 100-pound ratings for all five rollers, but the winder needed ...

A Century Salute

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, ... back to Western States. “Our average customer is a very modest-sized commercial printer,” he explains. “We carry a very complete inventory of converted envelope products; we have more than 1,600 SKUs in ...

Kodak to Acquire Two Heidelberg Businesses: NexPress Solutions and Heidelberg Digital

(News | New Products)

March 07, 2004, ... and the equity of Heidelberg Digital LLC., a leading maker of digital black-and-white printing systems. Kodak says it also will acquire NexPress GmbH, Heidelberg's German subsidiary, and certain inventory ...

Success Personified

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2004, ... inventory traceability; and Web site maintenance capabilities. Joseph explains, “The main goal was to get out of the system we had that was becoming difficult to manage. [We wanted] to be able to get ...

Data Sharing Made Simple

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2004, ... maximize profits. “Through TMM-CRM, sales people have the ability to look at orders, packing lists, inventory, etc., which is very important, because one of our goals is to tighten communication between ...

GASC's Print 2005 Will Be Held in Conjunction with Converting 2005 in September in Chicag

(News | New Products)

February 12, 2004, ... press, flexographic machinery, gravure, ink jet print engines, converting machinery, mailing equipment, material handling machinery, inventory software, envelope-addressing machines, finishing equipment, ...

CMYK=RGB - The Digital Color Revolution

(Technical Reports)

January 30, 2004, ...  Ever wonder why we constantly swap out anilox rolls? Because that's how we get density, correct? All converters have an anilox inventory (anywhere from 200-lpi to 1,200-lpi rolls). Between $2,000 and ...

CCL Label Expands RFID and Security Labels to Second Facility

(Tapes)

December 18, 2003, CCL Label says it designs and prints a wide range of high-quality paper and film, pressure sensitive, RFID, and security labels. FRAMINGHAM, MA, USA—CCL Label reports the expansion of its RFID (radio frequency ...

Alcoa's Whisker Lickin' Label: Shrink Sleeves Provide Purina Packaging with Pop and New-Found Flexibilit

(News | New Products)

December 11, 2003, ... still incorporate the graphics of your overall brand image and you, or your contract packer, is not forced to inventory multiple pallets of pre-labeled containers.” The Alcoa Flexible Packaging shrink ...

Converter Panel Attracts Interest at Conference

(The Place)

September 30, 2003, ... product performance, reduce carrying inventory, lower VOC emissions, reach for the goal of on-demand manufacturing, or create new packaging designs,” he said, “they always search for the latest available ...