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Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ... performance requirements of packaged coffee. The adhesive lamination production system enables more precise control of manufacturing when compared to extrusion lamination, the company notes. The process ...

What's New in Narrow We

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October 31, 2000, ...  TruCheck Bar Code Verifier. The software package includes the ability to verify PDF417 and Micro PDF417 symbologies. All existing TruCheck systems can be factory upgraded with the new capabilities. TruChec ...

Digital Products for the Converting Industry

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October 31, 2000, ... package printing, reports mfr. Press is capable of 1,000 four-color frames/437 linear mph. Offers resolution of 800 dpi and 200 lpi with high-definition imaging capability and accepts Adobe Postscript ...

UV Protection of Hot Melt Adhesives for Packaging Applications

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October 31, 2000, ... of adhesive properties can result in a label or tape easily peeling from a container or package. The label or tape may prematurely fall off the substrate, or the constructed product may simply fall apart. ...

What's New in Narrow We

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September 30, 2000, ... ensure trouble-free performance in automated applications and is recommended for large labels; Raflacoat is suitable for applications involving uneven substrates; Raflalite is recommended for small packages ...

Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

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September 30, 2000, ... wage increases, bang-up benefit packages, or morale-building company-sponsored social events, converting plant owners and managers are trying many different ways to get the good employees they have to ...

A Q&A on Remanufactured Equipment: Is It for You?

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September 30, 2000, Today's consumers pay as much attention to the package as they do to what's in it. So brand managers and print buyers demand higher quality graphics, Today's consumers pay as much attention to the package ...

The Vacumet Story Is a 30-Year History of Growth

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August 31, 2000, ... Pioneer Award ever presented by AIMCAL (Association of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters, and Laminators) for the Elkin's coffee bag. That same year Vacumet received the first Package of the Year award for ...

Eastern European Converter Continues Pioneering Ways

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August 31, 2000, ...  flexible converting operation. Marketing director Smiereak Anton explains that in one year the industrial design department converts hundreds of new graphic layouts and thousands of lithographies. Packag ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... they predict a 10% increase in the total exhibiting area over 1998. Converflex Europe 2001, the 7th International Paper, Tissue, Paper Converting, Package Printing Machines, and Materials Exhibition, will ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... to open the bag and create a convenient pour spout. Then the card can be returned to its previous position and resealed. The Serve-N-Seal bag provides protection for the package contents between uses, ...

Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch

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July 31, 2000, ... industry is being challenged by rising material costs and greater demand for products such as low-fat snacks, which require innovative technologies and substrate combinations to meet packager needs for ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ... own five-year study of flexible package printing methodologies in 1990. While he knew going in that rotogravure is a very precise, quality printing method, he still had issues with it. "First, there was ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

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February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, ... by the package may help sell the product, but product performance keeps customers coming back. And performance is exactly what today's high-barrier plastic films deliver. High-barrier packaging can comprise ...

Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority

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January 31, 2000, ... in a new production line in the U.K. that is completely inside a clean room, so that film actually will be produced in a clean environment, packaged in a clean environment, sent to us, and then converted ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

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December 31, 1999, ...  package." While foil may be considered a better barrier than metallized film, once foil is folded, it tends to get little flex cracks in it, Nowak explains, which may make the metallized film a bette ...

Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.

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October 31, 1996, ... susceptor technology and proprietary demetallization, we were able to develop a package that works." He explains that throughout the industry, demetallization is achieved by applying solvent to metal ...

Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process

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August 31, 1996, ... likely you do), you should be up to date on methods for measuring the level of treatment. As a growing number of end users switch from paper to plastic substrates to package or label their products, ...

Web-inspection system supports label operation

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July 31, 1996, ... image monitor, and a high quality CCD camera. The Mini Gem is packaged with an intuitive icon control unit, manual camera, and lens control for ease of operation, Luranc says, and a small electronics ...