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Esko-Graphics Transfers Ownership, Packaging Activities to Axcel

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September 24, 2005, Esko-Graphics announces that its shareholder, Kirkbi A/S, has entered into an agreement with Axcel to transfer the ownership and all packaging-related activities of Esko-Graphics to Axcel. The transaction ...

curious Packaging Wins Fibermark's 'Best in Sho

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September 19, 2005, ... innovation in over 50 categories, including 23 packaging categories. Entries are judged on overall appearance, decoration, printing quality, design, use of color, construction quality, and the relationship ...

Packaging Machinery Demand in China to Grow 8.6% Through 2009

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September 07, 2005, By 2014, packaging equipment demand in China will exceed that in Japan, making China the second largest market in the world behind the US. These and other trends are presented in a new study from The Freedonia ...

Testing for Toxins in Packaging

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August 30, 2005, In September the Toxins in Packaging Clearinghouse (TPCH) is planning to commence a pilot testing program, funded by the EPA, to randomly test product packaging for toxic materials that violate state laws. ...

Curtis Packaging Launches Website

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August 16, 2005, Curtis Packaging has launched a new corporate Web site designed to provide its customers and prospects with a direct connection to the company's resources and capabilities. PRESS RELEASE SANDY HOOK, ...

Packaging Must Open Up to Single-Pass Inkjet

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July 30, 2005, ... printing in the form of a matrix of stationary print heads above a transport system for the material and into production and manufacturing lines in the converting and packaging markets. A number of factors ...

Obesity: Can Packaging Help?

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July 30, 2005, ... affordable cost, as well as on portion control. The result will be a continuing stream of new opportunities for the converting industry and other packaging producers. At a workshop on the topic of “Perspectives ...

Packaging Services Expo Debuts

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July 18, 2005, With a comprehensive program designed to reach contract packagers, Packaging Services Expo, sponsored by the Tarsus Group, debuted at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Ctr. in Rosemont, IL, May 1-12. PRESS ...

COF in Printed Packaging

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June 29, 2005, Automatic packaging operations require a specific range of lubricity to process packaging products. Printing inks contribute to the package lubricity and affect both the static as well as kinetic coefficient ...

Green Printing and Packaging Earns 10 Printing Industry of the Carolinas Awards

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June 06, 2005, Green Printing and Packaging Co. has won ten awards at the Printing Industry of the Carolinas annual award competition for printing excellence in 2004. PRESS RELEASE LEXINGTON, NC—Green Printing and ...

Packaging Workflow Symposium at P 2005

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May 28, 2005, The Packaging Workflow Symposium will accompany the P show and examine the topics of "Packaging Converting Workflows," "Smart Packaging Systems," and "Advanced Converting Technologies." PRESS RELEASE STUTTGART, ...

Baby Boomers at The Packaging & Design Summit

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May 09, 2005, At The Packaging & Design Summit, JoAnn Hines will discuss the power of Baby Boomers in today’s economy. PRESS RELEASE KENNESAW, GA—At The Packaging & Design Summit, JoAnn Hines will discuss the power ...

The ABCs of Retort Packaging

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March 06, 2005, PFFC contributor Stanley Sacharow and his company, The Packaging Group, present the Retort Pouch/Tray/Lid 2005 Conference, April 12-14, 2005. PRESS RELEASE Contributing editor Stanley Sacharow’s company, ...

Alcan Packaging Wins Flexo Grand Slam

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March 01, 2005, Alcan Packaging has won the first ever Flexo Grand Slam Award for sweeping the three most prestigious awards for flexo package printing in the 2003/2004 season. PRESS RELEASE FAIRFIELD, NJ—Alcan Packaging ...

Is a Packaging Makeover Ahead?

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February 27, 2005, ... only because of the proposals themselves, but because they reflect different policy approaches to addressing packaging wastes. Legal Briefs The basic principles behind extended producer responsibility ...

Innovative Packaging Sets Two Production Records

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February 17, 2005, Innovative Packaging Corp.’s (IPC) second shift team set a production record on its 98-in. BHS corrugator. The third shift team also set a time record, going over six consecutive shifts with zero downtime. ...

Film Trends Focus of of Plastic Packaging Conference

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January 23, 2005, InnoPlast Solutions and Gehrke, Kaas, & Assoc. announce the second annual conference on "Global Trends in Plastic Packaging Films," scheduled for February 28–March 3 at the Hilton Hotel-Airport, New Orleans, ...

Ampac Packaging Acquires Flexicon

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January 16, 2005, Ampac Packaging, a producer of high-performance film structures for bags and food packaging—ranging from monolayers to nine-layer coextruded barrier films—has acquired Flexicon, a manufacturer of high-performance, ...

Packaging Easy for Seniors, Tough for Kids

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November 30, 2004, Stora Enso and Bosch have joined to introduce PharmaPak SHR, a customized packaging solution comprising an automatic cartoning machine, a novel package Stora Enso and Bosch have joined to introduce PharmaPak ...

Pira Launches 4th Annual Future of Packaging Conference

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November 07, 2004, On Tuesday, November 30 and Wednesday December 1, Pira will host it’s 4th Annual Future of Packaging conference at the Renaissance Salzburg Hotel in Salzburg, Austria. The European conference will allow ...