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Converter Can't Seem to Stay Out of Busines

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April 30, 2000, When Robert Curran sold his three label companies in 1987, he figured he was out of the converting business for good. Today, he not only owns a folding When Robert Curran sold his three label companies ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

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February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

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January 31, 2000, ... pressure-sensitive, gummed, and heat seal labelstock; flexible packaging, including barrier, clear, and metallized laminates and lidding materials; a range of p-s and heat seal mounting and laminating ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... flexibles, and cartons and labels. The company began operating in 1935 when Jose Tscherkassky arrived in Brazil from Ukraine via Germany. An expert in printing, Tscherkassky started a firm dealing in the ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

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December 31, 1999, ... poly-coated products and laminated products, such as sugar pouches, gum and ice cream bar wraps, paper ream wraps, and labels. Nowak explains, "A lot of the things we're producing aren't the highest margin ...

Narrow web adapts to multiple applications

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November 30, 1998, ...  "If you're running a web containing two tracks of labels," says Doerr, "the press operator manually moves the camera from one track to the other from time to time to monitor the entire job. For around ...

Need and innovation are driving digital printing.

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November 30, 1996, ... a tour of Labelexpo USA 96 this past September, where all of the major substrate suppliers, including Mobil, Fasson, and MACtac, displayed lines made specifically for digital systems. Fasson now offers ...

EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.

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October 31, 1996, ... and Technology, Tag and Label Mfrs. Inst., Univ. of Tennessee, Western Michigan Univ., and individual printers and suppliers. The DfE Program welcomes the participation and input of flexographers. For ...

Perforating tear-resistant materials takes a big step.

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August 31, 1996, ... technology makes possible, many of which are demonstrated on the New Technology Sampler that accompanies this article. A major government agency had a serious problem with a special p-s paper label ...

Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process

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August 31, 1996, ... likely you do), you should be up to date on methods for measuring the level of treatment. As a growing number of end users switch from paper to plastic substrates to package or label their products, ...

PET supplies increasing as markets expand

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May 31, 1996, ... drink market. Film labels that perform on the newly developed contoured PET bottles remain a major challenge to the supplier. Required are shrink film formulations that intimately clasp the walls of ...

Paper characteristics: starting the job right

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April 30, 1996, ... can vary from job to job. "It depends on what you're going to print, what your subject matter is," suggests Bruce M. Riddell, VP of engineering for Spectrum Label Corp., San Carlos, CA. "Based on the job ...

AIMCAL Selects Seven for Annual Honors

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March 31, 1996, The Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters and Laminatots rewards outstanding packages and labels in its annual competition. The Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters and Laminatots rewards outstanding ...

Innovation is a winner in FPA competition

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March 31, 1996, ... option for solving the respiration problem of precut produce. The package label doubles as a breathable membrane, allowing for the release of carbon dioxide and the re-entry of oxygen. A natural citric ...

The 1996 Metallizing Roundup: Experts Ponder and Predict

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February 29, 1996, ...  paper "are unicomponent structures," Shea says. "They are repulpable. More than 99 percent is paper itself, and in most printed, metallized labels there's less metal than ink." Today's labels, he says, ar ...

Flexo/screen proves to be a winning combination

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January 31, 1996, ... client base. Customers ranging from Motorola and Black & Decker to Maybelline Cosmetics and the US Customs Service all, in turn, rely on Topflight for their high quality, color process labels. The company ...

Converting capabilities grow in Caribbean nations.

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September 30, 1995, ... the paper packaging industry produce multiwall bags, fibre drums, folding cartons and molded pulp trays for various domestic needs. Higher quality jobs, such as labeling, high quality corrugated boxes ...

Growing popularity of PET drives shortage to crisis level

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August 31, 1995, ... of factors. The industrial and packaging sectors saw a growth of 10% (most likely because of PET's green perception), while growth in labels, release and thermal transfer sectors hit 25%. Also, strong economic ...

Book details Japan's packaging industr

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May 31, 1995, ... wrap, household aluminum foil wrap, paper and plastic envelope, plastic closure, plastic shrinkable label, staple, plastic net, steel strapping, steel foil and among others. In contrast to this, the data ...

Flexographic Awards honor top industry achievers

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April 30, 1995, ... run litho, then converted to flexo. [] CITGO Eagle Sticker--film, process. Submitted by: Label Art Inc. Art techniques-used: electronic. Type of press used: in-line. Type of plate used: photopolymer. ...