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Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

(Magazine)

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 ...

Assessing Real-Life Sealant Performance in Flexible Packaging

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September 30, 2000, ... to seal completely through the folds, contaminants, and wrinkles that occur in an actual packaging environment. Testing the integrity of flexible packages allows better prediction of "real-life" performance ...

Solving the Problem of Press Part Replacements

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September 30, 2000, ... produces lidding materials for personal-sized packages of jellies, sauces, and cheeses, as well as laminates for "liquid packaging" such as condiments and single-serving juice containers. All product ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... packages are printed on an 11-station Cerrutti press at Sonoco's Edinburgh, IN, plant. With just six weeks to complete the project, Sonoco turned to cylinder engraver Keating Gravure USA, Charlotte, ...

Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch

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July 31, 2000, ... is dominated by paper-based packages, with plastic, metal, and glass containers comprising the substantial remainder. The converted flexible packaging industry is only one segment of the $104 billion ...

Innovation Is the Winner in Box Competition

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July 31, 2000, ... categories and 21 end-use classes, were "some of the most unique and well-designed packages in recent years." She adds that "converters just seem to get better and better in their package design and execution...the ...

Strong, Versatile Cartons Offer Plenty of Shelf Appeal

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June 30, 2000, ... is said to allow for ease in setup and for quick loading and securing of the product. The packages also demonstrate excellent printing and gloss on recycled boxboard. Somerville produced the Polo Madison ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

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June 30, 2000, ... of Kraft Foods) cheesecake "snack bars." Bars are shelved in refrigerated display, within folding carton packages of six bars, each bar individually enclosed in film wrapping. Introduction of "shaped" ...

Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact

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May 31, 2000, ...  "the biggest revolution in the entire meat industry is going on: Meat products in overwrapped packages-including pork, beef, chicken, and turkey-are all being replaced. Rather than meat being packaged whol ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

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May 31, 2000, ... in Clinton, Iowa, took their entire reduction in salary and kept their full benefit packages. Other locations reduced their benefits significantly, so the employees didn't have to take as much of a hit ...

Golden Cylinders Go to Gravure's Very Bes

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April 30, 2000, ... packages to meet eight different designs. The tricky part was adding another custom color when no more print units were available. The solution? Blend the signature custom color with one of the process ...

Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary

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March 31, 2000, ... 30% of the total 7 billion red-meat packages will use case-ready packaging by 2002. However, the emerging nature of this market, its size, and the complexity of packaging requirements will mean considerable ...

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, ... end packages be vertical form-filled, or cold-sealed, or is the converter going to put a zipper onto it?" Machine Considerations The machines that produce these high-tech films have been modified and ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ... been used previously in marketing pieces and on product packages (most commonly in the form of sheet-fed-produced tip-ons), his company's innovations make it possible to produce more efficiently (and less ...

Finding a simple solution to a shocking problem

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March 31, 1998, ... from bagmaking to processing food packages. A lot of the specialized converting machinery is sensitive as far as the way it unwinds, and if the film we make for them is sticking together, it creates problems ...

Two states adopt regulations for rigid-container laws

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January 31, 1998, ... postconsumer content. * Be reusable - used five or more times for the same or substantially similar use. Under the law, source-reduced packages are exempt for five years if reduced 10% by weight ...

Movin' on up - a look at relocating a business.

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November 30, 1996, ... the potential taxpayer visit the area. According to Throckmorton, "We find those communities that offer the best incentive packages and bring them into the program. Many realize that the best way to ...

Oxide-coated films are still finding their market niche

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November 30, 1996, ... lb/yr. The applications include lidding stocks for modified atmosphere packages (MAP), MAP meat packaging, dried soup pouches, pharmaceuticals, and chocolates. "Buss" brand retortable ready-meal trays containing ...

Czech retail developments could affect converters.

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October 31, 1996, ... When Tesco reported that shelf-stable retort pouches and trays could sell in the U.K. market, British converters soon supplied the packaging materials. The superb packages at Marks and Spencer (U.K.) were ...