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- Paper Roll Handling: What's Right For You
- (Archive)
- May 30, 2007, With the potential to improve productivity, worker safety, and the bottom line dramatically, paper roll handling automation is making its way into many operations. A variety of material handling options ...
- Sweets Success
- (Magazine)
- April 30, 2007, ... customer of Ukrainian flexible packaging material. Built upon the foundation of an old Soviet Union polyolefin converter, Ukrplastic started its free market climb in 1998. Oleksander Galkin, the company' ...
- Cradle 2 Cradle
- (Magazine)
- April 30, 2007, ... Program, introduced a year ago, that provides third party certification of materials and products. For more information visit www.mbdc.com. Kistler's presentation addressed WalMart's packaging sustainability ...
- Rules of the Roll
- (Magazine)
- April 30, 2007, ... requires equipment designers and installers to understand the best way to wind or unwind and transport rolls of material, how the material will behave in the process, and how to integrate roll handling ...
- Cause & Defect
- (Magazine)
- April 30, 2007, ... bearings in the coater web transport system. Contaminants also come from raw materials in the coating solution, coater dryer air and air-handling systems, and ambient air in the coating room. Chemical ...
- Ipack-Ima Takes "Made in Italy" Products to Chin
- (Archive)
- April 10, 2007, PRESS RELEASE SHANGHAI, CHINA—Ipack-Ima is going to create an Italian "outpost" in the Chinese market for converting, packaging, and food processing companies. Beginning next July, it will provide ...
- The Wow Factor
- (Flexpack)
- February 28, 2007, ... For more information visit flexpack.org. Gold Award Winners FPA commends flex-pack converters and suppliers for combining improvements in manufacturing, materials, graphics, and printing to produce ...
- What's Ne
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2007, ... Xeikon 6000 digital press achieves speeds 60% faster than previous model for paper substrates from 40 (27# text) to 350 gsm (16-pt board) as well as polyester film, transfer materials, and label stock. ...
- Folding Carton Shows Off
- (Carton Box)
- February 27, 2007, ... packaging technologists would deny that when it comes to new product introductions, flexible packaging in the form of plastic films increasingly has been chosen over more rigid materials such as the folding ...
- NARROW WEB & LABEL REPORTER
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2007, ... Alexander Watson Assoc. The study includes market volumes and growth rates by region, types of labeling formats, and new materials and converting techniques. It also outlines the market structure and ...
- A Look at Liquid
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2007, ... cartons by plastic has been offset to some extent by new applications in packaging for juice, other foods, and nonfood packaging for dry materials such as powders. Together these new applications represent ...
- First Glance
- (Magazine)
- December 30, 2006, ... activation to market its “smart temperature” IceWave skin patch for sore, stiff muscles. Graphic Packaging Intl. (GPI), Marietta, GA, did the job with its Composipac material. The material, metallized ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- December 13, 2006, ... and switches between different substrates quickly.” The all-Heidelberg shop with its 68 employees produces packaging materials for high-end national clients in the pharmaceutical, medical, food, and ...
- CONVERTER CLIPS
- (Magazine)
- November 30, 2006, ... earlier this year, designated the “7 Rs of Packaging”: Remove, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Renew, Revenue, and Read. The metrics are as follows: 15% will be based on Material Value 15% will be based ...
- A Call to Arms
- (Magazine)
- November 30, 2006, ... our natural resources, generates effluent and emissions, and so on. Therefore, it is cheaper in today’s marketplace to use spent silicone-coated paper liners as raw material for paper-based products rather ...
- Cure Cockling
- (Magazine)
- November 30, 2006, ... the release liner, from the manufacture of the liner material to the creation of the PSA system and through any printing and converting processes, until the final removal of the liner. The Cause of ...
- Wal-Mark Unveils Packaging Scorecard
- (Archive)
- November 05, 2006, ... experts, and internal and external stakeholders, outlined the following metrics for the packaging scorecard: 15% will be based on Material Value 15% will be based on Product / Package Ratio 15% will ...
- Labelexpo New Products
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2006, ... Light Films combine precise layers of polymeric materials with different reflective qualities and add prismatic impact for appearance, brand differentiation, and shelf appeal. Colors are said to shimmer ...
- Rhodia Polyamide Increases Prices
- (Archive)
- September 26, 2006, ... Polymer range, and Technyl Compound. The adjustments are necessary to fall in line with the pricing policy led by Rhodia to compensate for the rise in raw materials, energy, and transport costs. See rhodia-ip.com. ...
- Dow Increases Prices of Latex Products
- (Archive)
- September 24, 2006, ... sold into the paper industry in the U.S. and Canada. All prices will increase by $0.06 per dry pound. The increase is a result of continued escalation in all major raw materials including styrene, butadiene, ...
