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Trends in Flexible Packaging Markets: Two Different Views

(Magazine)

May 31, 2001, ... evalute trends. Based on replies from some of its members, FPA names fresh produce the top market for growth by 2005, followed closely by drugs, medical/surgical, pet food, and snacks. Let's analyze ...

Division Conference Offers Varied Program

(Magazine)

May 31, 2001, ... in the biomedical field for many years for applications such as sutures, bone screws, controlled release encapsulation, and tissue scaffolding. Until recently, the cost of using medical grade PLA for ...

International Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... and converter of adhesive-coated materials, Coating & Converting Solutions (CCS), West Midlands, England, has been serving the food packaging, medical markets, and more since its inception in 1998. The ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... committee spearheaded by past president Suzanne Zaccone. Promising opportunities, they explained, exist in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and related healthcare markets. One market observation cited ...

PLGA Meeting Honors Gravure and Its Printers

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... were maintained with design conforming to press capabilities. Medical/Pharmaceutical Subcategory: Functional Winner: Tolas Corp. Product: Enbrel (from drug mfr. Immunex) Details: Three colors; ...

The Missing Link: Plastics History Leads to Packaging

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... embossed and laminated specialty films for baby diapers as well as feminine hygiene, adult incontinence, and medical products.) Böhme Clopay's production doesn't look that much different from when it ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, Avery Dennison Medical is new organization in its Worldwide Specialty Tape Division; Dunsirn adds small-roll converting capability, "perfect for digital print market"; and Label Graphics, Whitehouse, NJ, ...

The Amcor Story Continues

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, ... food and beverage customers. Operating on a Complex Level Ghent manufactures a wide range of complex flex-pack constructions. These include structures for the medical device industry using grid-lacquered ...

Materials

(Magazine)

March 30, 2001, ... and metals. It is reported to be fast drying, and its environmentally safe qualities make it suitable for markets such as food processing, medical, and beverage, notes co. Tie-Layer Resin Provides High ...

A Primer on How to Put Substrates Together

(Unprinted Rolls)

February 28, 2001, ... of two constructions. One is a pouchstock, and the other is a construction that has use in the medical packaging industry. A typical pouchstock is a combination of paper/polyethylene/foil/PE. The material ...

Modifying Adhesives for Superior Performance

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... of industrial laminations used in cable wrap and flexible circuitry, and they can withstand the rigors of flexible, film-to-foil laminated packaging for medical, industrial, and food products. These high-performance ...

Flex-Pack Operation Likes to Convert the Complex

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... department as well as two W&H bagmakers that produce all types of pouches for products in the chemical and medical fields. Complex Structures Key to Operation A true measure of the technical proficiency ...

Products

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... effective way to print bar code labels in medical labs; sterile food, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical processing plants; clean rooms; and most other sterile industrial environments. Features include a print ...

OSHA'S New Ergonomics Rule Covers a Lot of Groun

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, ... are MSD hazard information and reporting; management leadership and employee participation; hazard analysis and control; training; medical management; and program evaluation. Compliance obligations ...

In-Mold Labeling Makes Strides Worldwide

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, ... competitive edge in the packaging and label segment, said Kilian Renschler of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen. David Howard of Johnson & Johnson Medical advised that IML has a future in the medical and ...

Polyester Film Sourcing: Tips to Improve the Bottom Line

(Magazine)

November 30, 2000, ... film. End Use: Is the application low, medium, or high end? Flexible duct polyester film would be considered low end, while medical packaging would be high end. Gauge: There are three main categories ...

Narrow Web People Places

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, News from: American Bank Note Holographics, Multilabel Argentina, Rothchild Printing Group, and Veriad (formerly United Ad Label). The Rothchild Printing Group, Elmhurst, NY, promoted Jeffrey E. Rothchild ...

Materials

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, New from: AdLamCo. Inc., H.B. Fuller Co., Kraton Polymers, Metallized Products Inc., Proma Technologies, Russell-Field Paper Co., Rohm and Haas Co., Sun Chemical Ink, and Unifoil Corp. Holographic Paper ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... combination is suitable for applications such as medical labels, luggage tags, steel and wire tags, warning tags, and lumber labels. Colored Valeron film is available for hunting and boat licensing. For ...

The Digital Advantage... More Than Just Printing

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... very important; a majority of the company's product is made for the medical industry - products that need to maintain strict sanitary and quality specs. "We produce either rollstock or pre-made pouches, ...