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Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ...  Due to rapidly escalating raw material costs, National Starch and Chemical Co. will add a 9.5% surcharge to the price of all liquid adhesives sold in the US, effective Aug. 21, 2000. Air Products ...

Nitrocellulose, Solvents, Recycling, and Safety

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September 30, 2000, ... industry. The lack of liquid solvent in the dry waste stream. Temperature. At no time should dry NC be overheated or be in contact with any surface at unsafe elevated temperatures. Under actual operating ...

The Vacumet Story Is a 30-Year History of Growth

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August 31, 2000, ... wanted to work with us under strict confidentiality for the next three or four years." The result was what Korowicki says was the first metallized aseptic liquid packaging material. During that period, ...

What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2000, New from: Absolutely Micro-Clean, AirTrim, Avery Dennison, Bell-Mark, BST Pro Mark, Cham-Tenero, ChemInstruments, Chesnut Eng., Davis Liquid Crystals, Dover Flexo, DuPont Cyrel, Enercon, FLEXcon, Gallus, ...

It's Definitely a Bull Market for High-Performance Film

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May 31, 2000, ... packaging, partly due to trends toward more convenience foods and flexible packaging for waste reduction. Examples are the liquid-dispensing microwave pouch designed by Maxie-Mixes and the Canadian A-Pak ...

Electrically Heated Rollers Are Top Technology Choice

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March 31, 2000, ... where tight temperature control is needed or for start/stop applications with minimal wasted product. While the initial investment may be slightly higher than with liquid-heated rollers, the long-term ...

Oxide-coated films are still finding their market niche

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November 30, 1996, ... and the stand-up retort pouch. Mitsubishi Kasei "Tech-barriar" films have been marketed in Japan for dry seaweed, liquid products, and lidstock. Europe consumes about 40 million [m.sup.2]/yr or 1.5 million ...

Need and innovation are driving digital printing.

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November 30, 1996, ... offset system and its liquid pigment-based toner; Scitex ink jet with a liquid dye and pigment-based ink; and Heidelberg's GTO system. All of these systems offer full-color direct digital printing, all ...

What you should know about filled adhesives and coatings

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October 31, 1996, ... task of adding the filler easier and to try to ensure dispersion uniformity, they may use a filler that is a concentrated paste or dispersion. Although these usually mix readily into a liquid adhesive ...

Partnering launches future growth in laminations

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August 31, 1996, ... suppliers are adopting proactive positions regarding the environment, seeking to have minimum negative impact on air quality, landfill disposal, and the treatment of liquid waste. To move in the direction ...

Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process

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August 31, 1996, ... energy," or wetting, is normally used to describe the reactivity of the surface of a solid substrate, while "surface tension" is used in reference to a liquid. Frequently, the two terms are used interchangeably, ...

Canadian show highlights packaging industry up north

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June 30, 1996, ... with PAC's much larger national PAC-EX show in Toronto. More than 180 companies exhibited. Several US firms were featured, including Matthews International Corp., Pittsburgh, PA; Electronic Liquid Fillers, ...

In-mold labels: film is today's hot development

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June 30, 1996, ... led to this novel way to label and decorate containers for detergent and other cleaning and laundry products, liquid and solid foods, health and beauty aids, and miscellaneous articles such as motor oil. ...

Improved paper chemistry provides multiple benefits

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December 31, 1995, ... paper and actually helping converters, who may not even be aware of it. The discovery has been used in fine paper grades, liquid packaging, and linerboard for about 15 years. In papermaking the simultaneous ...

Ceramic heater rollers an exciting new alternative.

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July 31, 1995, ... typically employ oil, water or steam to heat the roller. These liquid systems have dominated the industry virtually since the first heated roller was used. Many require a remote reservoir to heat the liquid, ...

Clean air rules are changing & you can have a say

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May 31, 1995, ... to this. First, building TTEs around each printing press is extremely expensive and interferes with production. Second, industry contends that the traditional liquid-to-gas mass-balance testing protocol ...

Familiarity with change no surprise in this industry

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February 28, 1995, ... nd better process controls have been the major changes." "We're diddling around with our computerized system, the way We deposit the metal for liquid packaging and with customized boat design," Himac's Wo ...