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- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2004, ... 21-22 at the Radisson Hotel, Princeton, NJ. The conference will cover materials, machinery, markets, sourcing, production, and quality and will include special presentations and a panel discussion. ...
- Converters' Wish Lists: Part II
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2004, ... personalities. Two converters making exactly the same product using exactly the same raw materials may have completely different requirements that a supplier must consider. Therefore, suppliers must ...
- GASC's Print 2005 Will Be Held in Conjunction with Converting 2005 in September in Chicag
- (News | New Products)
- February 12, 2004, ... press, flexographic machinery, gravure, ink jet print engines, converting machinery, mailing equipment, material handling machinery, inventory software, envelope-addressing machines, finishing equipment, ...
- Technology: The Great Equalizer
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2004, ... or plasma treating and are likely also unprepared for the diversity of materials and inks and the importance of FDA compliance for food contact. And while commercial printers may not be prepared to undertake ...
- A Pharma Focus
- (Flexpack)
- January 31, 2004, ... operations director and a pharmacist by training, revealed exactly how the company operates. Much of foil lidding material for blister packaging is gravure printed. G&A maintains seven gravure presses. ...
- Coating and Laminating: At the Heart of the Packaging Industry
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2004, ... are being used to run other materials and laminates such as unsupported films, tag materials, cartons, sleeves, and even toothpaste tube laminates. The introduction of general-purpose, UV-curable inks ...
- G Prime A Rheological Indicator to Predict the Extrusion Coating Performance of LDPE
- (The Place)
- January 31, 2004, ... Oscillatory measurements were performed at 170∞C in the linear viscoelastic region with a frequency sweep between 20 and 0.01 Hz. When a material undergoes oscillatory stress with frequency, the response ...
- Converters' Wish Lists: Part I
- (Magazine)
- January 30, 2004, ... a wide variety of materials in their operations. These include many different films, coatings, adhesives, inks, etc. Converters can use these successfully only if they have all the necessary information ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- January 30, 2004, ... graphic arts, photoinitiators, cationic chemistry, formulation, nanotechnology, raw materials, industrial applications, water-borne formulations, and an international market overview. As part of the ...
- Get More with Less
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2003, ... design engineer Jeff Hermes at Nexen Group Inc. (nexengroup.com), Vadnais Hts., MN. “In addition, faster web speeds and a wider range of materials are being run on the same machine requiring different ...
- Where Past Meets Future
- (Magazine)
- December 30, 2003, ... we are creating PFFC's Economic Monitor, which will include data on converter revenue, profitability, work on-hand, raw material costs, capital investment, economic conditions, and much more. The only ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- December 30, 2003, ... institute and various materials organizations over the past 30 years. It also reviewed Good Manufacturing Practices from the Food and Drug Administration and environmental terms and characteristics from ...
- A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI
- (Magazine)
- December 30, 2003, ... and “Modeling and Measuring the Bending Stiffness of Flexible Packaging Materials.” All the papers present practical information that has value for research, development, technical service, marketing, ...
- Reporter Clips
- (Magazine)
- December 30, 2003, ... marketing study completed by Skeist. The study says US production of p-s products amounted to more than 15 billion sq yd of material worth close to $15 billion in 2002. In five years, consumption should ...
- Ontario Approves Historic Plan to Charge Industry for Recycling; New Packaging Fees to Begin Spring 2004
- (News | New Products)
- December 28, 2003, ... new government has asked the Waste Diversion Ontario to submit by March, a plan to expand recovery of material suitable for blue box from the current 45 per cent to 60 per cent by 2008. While the plan ...
- European Report Covers Flex-Pack Industry in Depth
- (Flexpack)
- November 30, 2003, ... (Quarter 1 2003) is an example of what “European Flexible Packaging” contains on a regular basis. The report begins with a summary of resins, substrates, and raw materials prices. Tracing the prices of ...
- A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI
- (Magazine)
- November 29, 2003, ... materials, machinery, and evolving technology.” The dates for the 2004 TAPPI PLACE Conference will be Monday, August 30, to Wednesday, September 2. The meeting is at The Westin Indianapolis, 50 South ...
- AWA Reports on European Self-Adhesive Industrial Tape Market in 'Groundbreaking' New Stud
- (Tapes)
- November 13, 2003, ... self-adhesive tapes, including market segmentation across the value chain, from raw material suppliers through to the end user. "Present and future volume demand (including projected growth rates) by ...
- Two FDA Bioterrorism Rules Exempt Food Contact Substances
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2003, ... the mode of transportation used. A copy of the FDA confirmation also must accompany the food. 1Section 409(h)(6) of the Act defines “food contact materials” as “any substance intended for use as a component ...
- Exercising Environmental Responsibility: Part 2
- (Magazine)
- October 30, 2003, ... by the FDA should not say a material has approval. Instead they should say the product conforms to the composition requirements of a particular FDA regulation subject to any qualifications. As noted ...