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- Waste Not: Waste Management in Europe's Packaging and Label Industrie
- (Magazine)
- June 30, 2002, ... To achieve this, the EU encourages the following steps: minimization of the amount of material used in packaging applications; re-use of components; recovery; and recycling. That “encouragement” ...
- Tapes & More Tapes
- (Magazine)
- May 31, 2002, ... family of products is used by paper mills, printers, and web converters to join rolls of material in-line on web presses for continuous production. The properties of that tape have been developed to improve ...
- Stripe Slitting: The Challenge of Staying within the Lines
- (Magazine)
- May 31, 2002, ... same line constraint applies to slitting web products. Slitting a homogenous wide material into narrower rolls is relatively easy. However, slitting material with lines or stripes, where the stripe-to-slit ...
- Cutting to the Chase
- (Magazine)
- April 30, 2002, ... thin-gauge, light-tension material. The company struggled with mechanical chucks for several years. A myriad of problems frustrated operators and complicated the process. First, the machine motors strained ...
- Ashland Specialty Chemical Company Ups Resin Prices
- (News | New Products)
- April 23, 2002, ... with shipments on and after May 13, 2002. "The price is due primarily to rapidly escalating costs of raw materials, particularly styrene monomer, which are impacted by current global pricing instability ...
- CONVERTER EVENTS - 2002
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2002, ... Packaging Training Course, American Society for Testing & Materials, Westpak Laboratory (610/832-9500). Dec. 12: Practical Course for Laboratory Operators, Brookfield Eng. Laboratories, Middleboro, ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2002, ... requirements. Switching to reusable Pak-Line roll suspension crates from Homasote Co. enabled the company to cut shipping material costs by 50% without putting its film at risk. Richard Martinelli, ...
- Web Line Knowledge Offers a Competitive Advantage
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2002, ... starts with web handling: how to unwind, transport, and rewind web materials. We must be able to handle the web before we can process it. Topics include: Web Properties: Tailor web processes to web ...
- Bioterrorism Legislation Could Affect Converting Industry
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2001, ... packing, processing, preparing, treating, packaging, transporting, or holding food….” Reading the two definitions together, one could conclude packaging materials that are “food additives” also are ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2001, ... to 10 lb and can actuate every 4 sec. Initially designed for placing sterile plastic cups in an FDA clean room environment, the gripper has found application in small rolled materials and other lightweight ...
- A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI
- (Archive)
- December 30, 2001, ... time.” Technical Papers In planning for the Hot Melt Symposium for 2002, Tangen has solicited papers on the raw materials, formulations, safety, and testing of reactive hot melt products. Other areas ...
- Post 9/11 Activities Continue to Affect Converting Industry
- (Magazine)
- November 30, 2001, ... efforts continue by both government and the private sector to adopt new procedures to protect people and property from future terrorist attacks. Hazardous materials transportation has been of particular ...
- Automated Sortation System Boosts Customer Satisfaction
- (Magazine)
- November 30, 2001, ... bundle size, and spacing density. Once scanned, the label bundles are diverted to 1 of 26 sort lanes. Errors from scanning, spacing, or incorrect materials handling are tracked and diverted to one of two ...
- Polymers / Laminations / Adhesives / Coatings / Extrusions
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2001, ... separated into small groups to solve a practical problem from the presenter. Another innovation at the meeting was a session on “Styrenic Materials” that included papers on “Styrene Butadiene Copolymer ...
- Security in an Insecure World: Life After September 11
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2001, ... industry is beefing up security, paying special attention to the transport of hazardous materials of all descriptions that travel through our nations railways, waterways, airways, and highways. Anticipation, ...
- Reporter Clips
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2001, ... notes. The former one-piece label also was divided into three separate, smaller labels — all delivered on the same backing web and all applied at the same time. That kept stresses on the material to a ...
- Vacumet Makes Metallizing Dreams Come True
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 2001, ... it, McGarel provides his customers with just-in-time delivery. “It's necessary,” he says, “especially for converters that make labels for the brewing industry. The volume of material that goes in and out ...
- Slitter Savvy: Visual Roll Defects & Remedies
- (Magazine)
- July 31, 2001, ... Start with proper tension, nip and/or torque. Splices: These necessary evils normally are due to web breaks or cutting out defective material in a parent roll. Most customers will allow up to three ...
- Polymers/Laminations/Adhesives/Coatings/Extrusions
- (Magazine)
- June 30, 2001, ... be Professor Edward L. Cussler of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. The title of Cussler's presentation is “Fick's Second Law or Diffusion for Dummies.” ...
- Pellet Transfer: Preventative Measures Employed to Reduce Streamer Formation
- (Magazine)
- April 30, 2001, ... of both. The type of blower system used depends on the desired path of the material transferred and the position of the blower relative to that path. Blowers can cause streamer formation by introducing ...
