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Connect with the Asian Flexible Packaging Market

(Flexpack)

June 06, 2006, The AsiaPLACE Symposium is designed to attract professionals from the Asian flexible packaging industry and will provide new technologies and techniques within converting operations, as well as practical ...

Biodegradable Plastics in Packaging Applications

(Archive)

June 04, 2006, Bioplastic packaging materials offer some exciting possibilities, but do they make commercial sense? How far advanced is the technology and how are they performing in the real world? Found out at the Biodegradable ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

April 29, 2006, ... to the packaging future of Russia. Corey Reardon of AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. presented his Global Metallizing Outlook, indicating 609,000 tons of metallized substrates were produced in 2005, showing ...

Packaging Execs to Deliver Keynote Speeches at Pack Expo

(Archive)

April 12, 2006, ... entitled, "Packaging: A Change Agent in Change." He will make the case that the packaging industry must transform itself from being viewed simply as suppliers into partners capable of meeting rapidly changing ...

Critical Trends in the Converting Industry

(Magazine)

March 30, 2006, ... type is well represented in the sample Respondents working primarily in paperboard packaging comprised the smallest subgroup (13%). Respondents tend to work for either the largest or the smallest companies. ...

Personal Care Items & Packaging

(Magazine)

February 27, 2006, ... and their attendant need for packaging, is the increasing global demand for such products. In many ways, the packaging required for personal care items is very similar to that used for food. For example, ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

February 27, 2006, News from: Rollprint Packaging Products, DuPont Teijin Films, Edgar B. Gutoff, The Packaging Group, Applied Films, Freedonia Group, Jetrion, PPC, Siegwerk Group, FPA, Kodak, NPES, FKI Logistex, Repacorp ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

January 30, 2006, News from: Master Arts, Pregis Corp., Alliantz Flexible Packaging, Skeist, Liberty Carton Co., ABN AMRO Capital, Cello-Foil, Society of the Plastics Industry, Sonoco, Harper Corp. of America, Sartomer, ...

Packaging 2006: What's Ahead

(Magazine)

November 29, 2005, As 2005 comes to a close, we review a few selected legal and regulatory developments likely to have an impact on the converting industry. Legal Briefs Packaging innovations continue to offer consumers ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

November 29, 2005, News from: AWA, Color Spectrum Network, Hood Packaging, AIMCAL, Kurz, Brantjen & Kluge, PLGA, Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Nordmeccanica, Adhesives Research, Remmele, Zip-Pak, Chesapeake Corp., PPC, ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

October 30, 2005, ... a wide range of upscale packaging with the 700, and the company reports it can provide UV protection, perfecting, or special effects to customers as well. INDUSTRY NEWS Litho Plate Study Released ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Magazine)

September 29, 2005, News from: KWH Plast, Kuen Yuh Machinery Engineering, Excelsior Packaging Group, Battenfeld Gloucester Engineering, Presto Products, Transpac Comercializadora, Freedonia Group, Foodservice & Packaging ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Magazine)

September 29, 2005, ... Kapak Now One Cincinnati, OH—Ampac Packaging has completed the acquisition of Kapak Co., Minneapolis, MN, a manufacturer and innovator in stand-up pouches for the food, medical ag-chem, and health and ...

Testing for Toxins in Packaging

(Magazine)

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. ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 30, 2005, News from: Suominen Flexible Packaging, Intl. Dispensing Corp., Qualvis, Freedonia Group, DuPont, A&V, Davis-Standard, PerfectProof, X-Rite, Rohm and Haas, Special Chem, Dienes Group, Körber Paperlink, ...

Packaging Must Open Up to Single-Pass Inkjet

(Magazine)

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?

(Magazine)

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 ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

July 30, 2005, News from: AWA Alexander Watson Assoc., Douglas-Hanson, Excelsior Packaging Group, Tamarak Products, Bobst Group, Intl. Paper, Sherwood Technology, DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers, PrintCity, Stork ...

COF in Printed Packaging

(Magazine)

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 ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

June 29, 2005, News from: DigiPops, Prime UV Systems, Converflex Argentina, Mamata Machinery, National Adhesives, PLGA, PCMC, Proslit, Conformer Expansion Products, Packaging Personified, Eastman Kodak, Polymer Processing ...