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- FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less
- (Magazine)
- 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, ...
- Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater
- (Archive)
- 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 ...
- Saudi methanol producer plans expansion program
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- November 30, 1996, ... to amount to approximately [pounds]130 million. SCA Molnlycke's sales in France are about FFr 2.4 billion, of which FFr 500 million can be attributed to the Peaudouce diapers. Private-label diapers account ...
- Czech retail developments could affect converters.
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 1996, ... Post when I visited both Prague and Bratislava (Slovakia) in early September. Both are of interest to label makers and others involved in flex-pack converting. The Krone supermarket, probably the most ...
- Something new under the sun
- (Magazine)
- June 30, 1996, ... Roger Kimps. "We get our partners the work, and they perform it to our specifications...it's worked out quite well." One example of their work is frozen pizza labels. The company formed a joint venture ...
- 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 ...
- Innovation is a winner in FPA competition
- (Magazine)
- 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 ...
- Flexo/screen proves to be a winning combination
- (Magazine)
- 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 ...
- Improved paper chemistry provides multiple benefits
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- December 31, 1995, ... of interest only to your paper supplier. If you convert paper, what you don't know can hurt you. If you effortlessly convert packages, cartons, or labels with high recycled fiber and high ash content ...
- Video web inspection: the view from the press floor.
- (Magazine)
- September 30, 1995, ... vary from elaborate forms, bright balloons and flexible packaging to process labels and coupons. Yet, they all have one thing in common: video web inspection. "It's been a savior," says Rob Bredendick ...
- Tissue converter accrues benefits of AC servo drives
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- September 30, 1995, ... label brands. The seven-axis Bretting equipment purchased by Wepa includes an Indramat (Woodale, IL) digital AC servo drive and plug-in CLC (computer-logic card) multiaxis coordinated motion control ...
- Printer responds to tougher environmental standards
- (Magazine)
- April 30, 1995, ... companies using 1, 1, 1, TCA after May 15, 1993, must prominently display warning labels on any products manufactured with the compound. Vincent Trama, Poly-Pak's vice president for finance, figured ...
- Building quality into the web printing process
- (Magazine)
- April 30, 1995, ... a video system on the press, on average about 18%. This applies to two- or three-color line work as well as four-color process jobs. A narrow web converter who prints prime labels installed a video-inspection ...
- Familiarity with change no surprise in this industry
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- February 28, 1995, ... published a comprehensive report on the industry. He projects "total demand for metallized materials will grow from 161-million lb. in 1993 to 195-million lb. in 1998. Packaging end-uses, including labels, ...
- State legislative action includes removal of 2 bans: 1994
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 1995, ... bill would mandate specified levels of post-consumer recycled-material content and labeling requirements for trash bags and rigid-plastic containers. * Connecticut HB 5835, which was signed by the governor, ...
- Traditions fall as prepress moves into electronic age
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 1994, ... prepress has found its way into most segments of the converting industry. In some areas, such as flexible packaging and label converting, it's quickly becoming a way of life. Other areas, such as envelopes, ...