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October 31, 2000, News from: AWA, Baggage Direct, Dunsirn, Raflatac, Sofacap, Sony Chemicals Corp. of America, and W/S Packaging Group, (Wisconsin Label/Superior Label). Narrow Web Converting Industry News Closure Capsules ...

Estimating the Drying Rate of Flexo Ink in the Laboratory

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September 30, 2000, One reason the drying rate of flexo inks has become an important subject is the general trend toward the use of thinner ink films. In the narrow web sector, One reason the drying rate of flexo inks has ...

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September 30, 2000, ... America, Seal-It, and Web Label Ltd. Narrow Web Converting Industry News Comco Seminar Will Address ''Total Concept Packaging'' MILFORD, OH, USA—Comco International, a manufacturer of flexographic printing ...

Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

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September 30, 2000, ... and the company holds regularly scheduled training sessions, during which operators might spend a day practicing setting impressions. The training and experience has paid off for the narrow web converter; ...

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August 31, 2000, News from: Crane & Co., Dow Corning, Flexographic Trade School, Indigo, MACtac, Polyweave, Proma Technologies, Raflatac, Scapa Tapes, and Tokyo Lithmatic Corp. Narrow Web Converting Industry News Dow ...

Flexography Comes of Age and Keeps on Growing

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August 31, 2000, ... to reduce solvent emissions, UV has given narrow web flexo printers the ability to compete with lithography. UV has had limited success in wide web printing, due mainly to the fact that wide web's primary ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... system it sells is now available for customers to test at their own sites. Program also includes co.'s narrow web Uni-Dyne systems and Plasma-Jet systems for multi-surface corona treating on three-dimensional ...

Innovation Drives Converter of Pressure-Sensitive Labels

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June 30, 2000, ...  The plant has 16 narrow web printing presses combining a variety of silk screen, letterpress, flexo, offset, and stamping techniques. The three Gallus 200 presses have eight stations (letterpress and ...

Press Adds Flexibility of Film to Paper Operation

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June 30, 2000, ... equipment available from more than 20 flexible packaging press suppliers before narrowing the selection down to 3. Ultimately, says Decker, the Bobst Schiavi press was chosen "because it offered the ...

Drupa 2000A Big Success Any Way You Count It

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June 30, 2000, ... press for both narrow and wide width formats and its 100% digitally driven gravure press. Approximately 26% of the attendees at Drupa were interested in the paper converting and package production market ...

Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact

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May 31, 2000, ... the advances in flexo printing, Podhajny says. "I think flexography is going to continue to evolve, especially in light of the fact that ultraviolet curing in narrow web continues to grow extremely rapidly." ...

On-Line Purchasing Saves Time, Money, and Space

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May 31, 2000, ...  centers" that contain products specific to the wide web, narrow web, or corrugated industries. Create their own product "catalog" by selecting a list of favorites. (Each product is assigned a code uniqu ...

Golden Cylinders Go to Gravure's Very Bes

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April 30, 2000, ... was the winner. Partnering with a flexo printer who wanted gravure quality to expand its customer base and a narrow web/short-run press manufacturer, the winner incorporated standard operating procedures ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

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March 31, 2000, ... (All of Bonar's inks are supplied by Flint Ink.) In 1995, reports Barrett, the operation began looking for a new coextrusion coating line to expand capabilities. "We surveyed the marketplace and narrowed ...

Cartonmarker Adds Flexo to Give Customers a Choice

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February 29, 2000, Colbert Packaging expands its capabilities by adding a second Mark Andy narrow web flexographic press to its stable of equipment. Colbert Packaging expands its capabilities by adding a second Mark Andy ...

FTA winners show off strides in Flexo

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June 30, 1996, ... Forum in Boston, MA, held May 13-15. Entry classifications included wide web, narrow web, combined corrugated, preprinted linerboard, envelopes, newspaper/publications, student entry, and special achievement. ...

Today's printing presses are whatever you want them to be

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March 31, 1996, ...  rugged enough to hold up for a number of years without the need for a tremendous amount of maintenance." Future Trends Narrow web equipment is getting wider, says Eulich. "For some packaging application ...

Business and education join forces, and everybody wins

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February 29, 1996, ... are a valuable asset to the entire printing and converting industry," explains Crouch. They are able to use the equipment without having to pay the overhead of keeping it in their own facilities." Narrow ...

Flexo/screen proves to be a winning combination

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January 31, 1996, ...  newest presses, the "FP" Series flexible packaging narrow web press for printing on light films. The press, which was introduced in August at CMM International, is designed for short runs and can produc ...

Holograms continue to gain in converting applications.

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February 28, 1995, ... Smith said. "The widths used by the packer tends to be narrower. For instance, a typical crisp pack is around 270-mm wide. The converter will process several widths across the web. Depending on the application, ...