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Tollcoating.com Launches as Contract Mfg. Business

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June 23, 2008, ROCHESTER, NY | Carestream Health Inc., formerly Eastman Kodak’s Health Group, announces the launch of Tollcoating.com—a contract manufacturing business that provides solvent and aqueous coating services ...

Fast Access: To streamline and automate operations, Protect-all installs PECAS Vision ERP software from Radius Solutions

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April 30, 2008, ... and adhesive lamination products, Protect-all needed to replace its outgrown information management system. The company wanted a fully integrated manufacturing/accounting enterprise resource planning (ERP) ...

5 Steps to Green

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August 31, 2007, ... to a brand’s environmental stance. Undoubtedly, cosmetics and personal care brand managers must turn the same attention to packaging and manufacturing as they do to ingredients. But being environmentally ...

Lasting Impression

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February 28, 2007, ... officer Steve Frantz, client services manager Tina Deardorff, director of sales special projects Tonya Kowa, and VP of manufacturing Don Ellis. Teaming Up The sole purpose of the team visit is to sit ...

Board to the Future

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May 30, 2006, ... hold the ice. Gluing the complex folding sequence is a manufacturing challenge, the company reports, accomplished with a Jagenberg gluer and a talented operator. Coated natural kraft was chosen for ...

Can This Coater Be Saved?

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January 30, 2006, ... It may not meet requirements for manufacturing new products, and financial performance is less than optimum. Other factors are the need for additional manufacturing capacity to meet sales requirements ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2005, ... Goes Back to W&H for (Much) More When Gene Schneck, manufacturing VP of Hood Packaging, says his company has confidence in the products of Windmoeller & Hoelscher, he definitely puts his money where his ...

ASC Call for Speakers

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November 14, 2005, ... submission deadline is Monday, January 9, 2006. Suggested presentation topics include: Manufacturing/Operations Site Security and Count-Terrorism Measures Materials Resource Planning Processing ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

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September 29, 2005, ... systems built around its Izon deep, 3D photopolymer-based labels. DAS will maintain and enhance its manufacturing facility in Logan, UT, where Izon products are produced. DAS also will invest in new capacity ...

Converting Industry News

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August 30, 2005, ... UK, specializes in printed folding cartons, with heavy emphasis on the food and pharmaceutical industries. The converter applies stringent control procedures throughout its manufacturing processes to ensure ...

Always the Student

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May 30, 2005, ... manufacturing techniques at every point in your administrative and manufacturing process, you will achieve the yields to which you’re entitled using available equipment and systems. Another curative ...

On the Move...

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May 30, 2005, ... a strategic partnership agreement with Beiren Group Corp. , a printing machinery manufacturer based in Beijing, China. Initially, the agreement covers the manufacturing and assembly at Beiren of Scitex' ...

ERPs Tricky for Converters

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January 30, 2005, ... PlastiSoft Corp. (plastisoft.com), contends there are only a handful of ERP systems suitable for a converting operation. Purchasing a system based on manufacturing, rather than converting, is a costly ...

More than Nuts & Bolts

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November 29, 2004, ... seek out programs such as Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing to improve plant efficiencies and ensure customer satisfaction. Although these process improvement approaches have proven successful for many, ...

A Price to Pay

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September 29, 2004, ... projected impact. The following factors must be evaluated during this process: The strength of the company's marketing program, including the diversity and control of its customer base; For manufacturing ...

Data Sharing Made Simple

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February 28, 2004, ...  use the company ERP system as a customer management tool. This created loop holes in the sales cycle.” Solution-Driven Software Since 1998 Wisconsin Film & Bag has employed The Manufacturing Manage ...

Converting Industry News

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January 30, 2004, ... technology. Purchases Woodward Manufacturing Has New Name, Owner EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ, USA—Joseph N. Giorgio has purchased the assets of Woodward Manufacturing and formed a new company, Woodward ...

Green Stands for Go

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July 31, 2003, ... — the firm began as a small paper-trading house just after World War II. In 1970 the firm started manufacturing flexographically printed all-paper bags and polyethylene (PE) carrier bags. It converted ...

Neither Boom Nor Bust

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December 31, 2002, ... a few more early this year. Then, the economy will probably start to grow again with about a 2 percent growth in manufacturing production and 3 percent GDP in round numbers.” Now we know what those ...

The Third Wave: An Iron Tale about the Business of Print, Vol. 11

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October 31, 2002, ... lean" in manufacturing and accelerate this very important practice right into the sales environment. This column is the eleventh in a yearlong series of columns about the challenges facing the converting ...