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Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... Dutra Highway. It is on the border of the municipalities of Sao Paulo and Guarulhos. Built in the late 1970s, the facility's labels are used by firms such as Brahma, Unilever, Kaiser (beer), Nestle, Texaco, ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ... e lenticular lens [in this process] is a custom-made, extruded plastic," he says. "Each lens is of a unique design in order to fit various types of customer orders. For focus issues, its lenticule desig ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

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December 31, 1999, ... is as good as anybody's." Nowak adds, "We originally ordered the machine to run down to three to five pounds of poly, and we have been able to run below three. As we pushed the machine, there were some ...

Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.

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November 30, 1996, ... improving adhesion to substrates, and developing new extrusion coated structures. Determining optimum operating conditions often requires normal production to be halted in order to conduct experimental ...

Label converter controls quality from the inside out

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ... control of its manufacturing. The firm literally "insources" key materials in order to extend its stringent manufacturing standards and quality control all the way down the supply chain. One example: ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

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May 31, 1996, ... packaging runs. Duralam, a printer and converter specializing in value-added flexible packaging, began to sense a change in customer order patterns in the early 90s as it found itself facing an ever-increasing ...

Advances in prepress are making heads spin.

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May 31, 1996, ... process, from imposition, trapping, and proofing to imaging, color management, and plating. The system consists of the PlateRite PI-R1080 digital plate recorder, the TrueRite larger-format digital proofing ...

Green Bay gears up for specialty labels

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May 31, 1996, ... says Tom Mecklenburg, GM/VP of the Coated Products unit. After testing various coater/laminator features and working closely with Faustel's design team, Green Bay ordered a machine that would suit the customized, ...

Laser positioning system creates clean, productive environment

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April 30, 1996, Nashua Graphic Products eliminates dust problems on a slitting line and improves slit width tolerance with a Dienes Laser Positioning System.In order Nashua Graphic Products eliminates dust problems on ...

Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea

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March 31, 1996, ... experienced sales and management team, supported by a computer network that's tied into the manufacturing plant in Bloomington and provides on-line, real-time tracking of order status and other key data. ...

European equity supplier acquires plastics division

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February 29, 1996, ... of strategic partnerships in order to strengthen ICI's competitive position. ICI Far Eastern will construct a second plant of 450,000 tpa capacity at Kuan Yin site. This plant will be the first to utilize ...

Business and education join forces, and everybody wins

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February 29, 1996, ... own decisions, from design through scheduling press time. "We do this because, in order to be successful, students not only have to understand the technology but must develop common sense, organization, ...

Pollution and politics: how green will the new year be?

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January 31, 1996, ... of the States With the trimming of the federal budget, EPA has had to reorder its priorities. One inevitable outcome of this process will be the continued emergence of environmental enforcement and ...

"Partnering" helps get press up to spee

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November 30, 1995, ... a huge just-in-time order to a major manufacturer. The job, to be printed on matte, clear PS, was complicated. It first required the laydown of an opaque color, followed by the laydown of four additional ...

Doctor blades are the right Rx for gravure

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September 30, 1995, ... the quality. The volumetric quality of the gravure process is attractive to converters, because they need to control coating weight in order to control cost. However, in order to take advantage of the ...

Change is the only certainty, so make it work for you.

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September 30, 1995, ... has also changed in subtler ways in order to respond to a host of new conditions and constituencies: government regulations, political activism, criticism of big business and so on. Some of these changes ...

Voluntary environmental standards are on the way

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August 31, 1995, ... order to correctly assess the effectiveness of these EMS programs and ensure the accountability of responsible corporate managers for the success or failure of these endeavors. Moving beyond philosophical ...

Training is the key to success in '90s corporate climb.

(Magazine)

August 31, 1995, ... the problem was lack of teamwork. He ordered the entire plant shut down for two days and sent everybody for experiential training in team building. In a business setting the employees were divided into ...

Consider film cores when analyzing costs.

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July 31, 1995, ... floor with our operators in order to help us save money down the road," says Berndt. "We've already seen results; Sonoco has saved this facility money in more ways than one." After Sonoco studied AlliedSignal' ...

Interest in waste-disposal technologies at all time high

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May 31, 1995, ... many angles in order to provide guidelines for applications ranging from packaging to technical components with case histories that examine current trends in recycling plastics for these industries.  ...