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Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... is expected to decrease marginally until 2008, while the output, or productivity level, is expected to experience a slight increase. Obviously, technological advances and subsequent automation are responsible ...

Nitrocellulose, Solvents, Recycling, and Safety

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... by a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) for optimal operation and safety. It also should include the features discussed in the remainder of this report. Automatic Vacuum System A vacuum system to ...

What Is the Role of Additives in Water-Based Inks?

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... provide the necessary rheological properties, but it is not uncommon for the ink formulator to add a thickening agent if the process necessitates a higher application viscosity. Oxidizing Agents ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ...  Bengal Inks Offer Superior Water Tolerance Gans Ink & Supply Co., Los Angeles, CA; 800/421-6167 Bengal Pantone shades represent a new generation of technologically advanced inks, says mfr. Suitable ...

Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch

(Magazine)

July 31, 2000, ... technological developments, and legal/regulatory issues also impact packaging demand. Efforts to reduce packaging costs and protect the environment will drive growth. Flexible packaging also has storage, ...

Outlook 2000 and Beyond: The State of the Trade

(Magazine)

June 30, 2000, ... by noting, "Although recognized in many circles as a mature sector, [the global paper and allied products industry] is also one of the world's most dynamic industries in terms of product development, technological ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... greatest technological advancement in rotogravure printing in the past 50 years." Boil-in-Bag Beginnings Kapak began converting in 1961. "My father, Harry Bell, and Benjamin Kaplan started the company," ...

Human/Machine Interface Offers Best of Two Worlds

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... and manual machine adjustment (causing variable accuracy, excessive downtime, waste materials, and astronomical maintenance costs) are a thing of the past. I/O modules, programmable logic controllers ...

Negotiating an Acquisition: Nine Steps to Success

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... mastered the complex psychological factors underlying the negotiation of an acquisition. The party that initially establishes control gets momentum. Once this occurs, the controlling party is generally ...

Seventy-Five Years and Counting for Bancroft Bag

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, ... delivery time, W&H also provided training for Bancroft's operators. "Because this piece of equipment encompassed such a technological leap from anything we had in this area, we sent four operators to Germany ...

Curtain Coating Technology Can Mean Big Benefits

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, ... range of admissible values for relevant process parameters (web speed, for example) always depends on thevalues of all other relevant process parameters, e.g., wet film thickness, rheological properties, ...

Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.

(Magazine)

November 30, 1996, ...  configured with a Microcell software package. The PC3000/Microcell combination provides the functionality of a programmable logic controller (PLC) and a process control system with a built-in operato ...

Laminator adds metallizing to the mix

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ... of its foil laminating capabilities. By supplying metallized paper, Alubec could offer an ecologically acceptable substrate to the label trade. Alubec needed to purchase two pieces of equipment to get ...

Perforating tear-resistant materials takes a big step.

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ... important ecological benefit. Richard Ulvila, director of research and development at Zimmer Industries Inc., has been a recognized leader in high-technology engineering and R&D for over 30 years. At ...

Bagmaking machines adapt to conquer new markets.

(Magazine)

July 31, 1996, ...  big evolution has been in electronics," he says. "You can do so much these days with programmable logic controllers, whereas in the past you had a million and one fussy little 'click-clack' relays." To ...

Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need

(Magazine)

June 30, 1996, ... edge trim, torque winder, and dual-reel scrap take-up. The systems can be supplied with one control panel, with optional microprocessor programmable logic control, or with separate controls. Wayne Machine, ...

Congress is considering FDA reform bills

(Magazine)

May 31, 1996, ... 27 the House Commerce Committee announced its plan to reform FDA's approval processes in three separate bills: the Drugs and Biological Products Reform Act of 1996 (H.R. 3199); the Medical Device Reform ...

Changing the way we look at environmental regulations.

(Magazine)

April 30, 1996, ... assigning a monetary value to ecological benefits, required under a cost-benefit approach. The Commission will recommend in a report due out in March that Congress avoid drafting regulatory reform legislation ...

Fresh produce offers converters opportunities for healthy sales

(Magazine)

December 31, 1995, ... products with active metabolism during the post-harvest period. The shelf life of fruits and vegetables can be extended by, in simple terms, retarding the physiological, pathological, and physical deteriorative ...

Economic Forecast: More of the Same, Unless...

(Magazine)

December 31, 1995, ...  not to happen, but until there's some reason to go off in either direction, it's really the logical forecast." Will low and stable moderate growth continue for the foreseeable future? Yes, to the exten ...