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Global Packaging Market

(Magazine)

January 31, 2003, This is a time of change in the packaging industry: a time of issues and challenges; a time for re-establishing the horizons of business; and a time for defining strategies for a successful and profitable ...

Creo Updates Packaging Software & More

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January 21, 2003, Creo recently announced updates and upgrades to its packaging software solutions, including its production workflow products, remote and hard proofing solutions, and flexo and offset computer-to-plate ...

Global Packaging Study Reviews Top 100 Players

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December 17, 2002, AWA Alexander Watson Associates, specialist market research consultants to the packaging, converting and printing industries, reports it's now offering "The Global Packaging Market: The Top 100 Players," ...

Package Printing Expos Show Results

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November 12, 2002, ... More information about Heidelberg and its printing press products is available at heidelberg.com. Pack Expo Draws Packaging Professionals from 92 Countries Nearly 72,000 packaging professionals attended ...

Passion for Printing May Lead to Serious Competitive Battles

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October 31, 2002, ... experienced a deep recession. Many are out of business; others are looking passionately for a means to survive. Many commercial printers believe converting packaging materials is comparable to reaching ...

GAMIS Funds Proofing and Printing Sales Studies for 2003

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October 20, 2002, ... reports, "This research will provide an understanding of why, when, and how the decision to purchase new press equipment is made. The research will be segmented by commercial, newspaper, packaging, and ...

LatinPack's Plastic Packaging Seminar Location Chang

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October 10, 2002, LatinPack seminar, Plastics in Packaging, is relocated to Hotel Fiesta Americana, Reforma, Mexico. The two day seminar, slated for October 16 and 17, 2002, will include discussions and presentations on ...

What Is the Role of Tack in Printing Inks?

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September 30, 2002, Since the earliest attempts at transferring ink from one surface to another, the characteristics of a printing ink have been an important factor in print Since the earliest attempts at transferring ink ...

PPC Seminar to Survey Digital Printing Impact on Folding Carton Converters

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September 22, 2002, The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) will provide a look at digital's impact on the folding carton converting industry at its upcoming fall technical and production (T&P) forum (Nov. 7 and 8, 2002). Paperboard ...

Quality Controlled Music Packaging

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August 31, 2002, The music packaging industry continues to debate digital file format merits but globally agrees on the importance of preflighting for quality control. Since the advent of computer-to-plate (CTP) manufacturing, ...

F&K Expands Packaging Product Range with Kochsiek Buy

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August 22, 2002, ... its packaging equipment resources and product range. FAIRFIELD, NJ, USA—Fischer & Krecke's Fischer Group (comprised of Fischer & Krecke GmbH, Bielefeld, Germany) announces the acquisition of Kochsiek GmbH, ...

Agfa Calls Young Creatives for Packaging Contest

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July 11, 2002, ... an important experience." Agfa says the design will be via three packaging formats: a folding carton box; a tin can label; and a sticker to put on the lid of the can. "Eventually," adds co., "we will put ...

Packaging That Really Works

(Magazine)

June 30, 2002, Active packaging has been present as a concept for many years in varying forms, but interest has grown recently thanks to a rash of publicity about the development of newly enhanced oxygen absorbers, ...

MeadWestvaco and EastPrint Start Packaging Venture in Moscow

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June 24, 2002, STAMFORD, CT -- MeadWestvaco Corp. reports a joint venture with EastPrint Ltd., resulting in the creation of a new consumer packaging company in Russia. STAMFORD, CT -- MeadWestvaco Corp. reports a joint ...

Digital Packaging World: PIRA Conference to Meet in UK

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June 11, 2002, Digital Packaging World, set for July 2 and 3, 2002, in Birmingham, UK, "aims to provide you with up-to-date information on how digital has developed over the last year," says event sponsor Pira International. ...

Packaging That Takes You Away

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May 31, 2002, ... a tropical-paradise scene on a coffee package to a game piece printed and embedded into the packaging itself, the winners of the Gravure Assn. of America's 16th annual competition revealed the eye-catching ...

Coating Control, Quality, & Paperboard Packaging

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April 30, 2002, ... can be another property of interest, especially for food packaging. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-compliant coatings can provide a barrier to cover the noncompliant ink. The coating prevents the ink ...

Agfa Installs 100th XCalibur at Display/Commercial Printer Park Printing

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April 14, 2002, Agfa Corp. recently announced the installation (at Park Printing, Minneapolis, MN, USA, a point-of-purchase display and commercial printing operation) of its 100th Xcalibur VLF platesetter. RIDGEFIELD ...

Flint Ink UV: "Ideal" for Packagin

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April 09, 2002, Flint Ink says it has inks ideal for CD, DVD, video, and software packaging; UV ink systems that produce durable, razor-sharp, high-gloss images that enhance in-store marketing and merchandising appeal. ...

Antioxidants, Oxygen Scavengers, Free Radicals, and Packaging

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March 31, 2002, ... property is explained as two electrons in the molecule that are not paired to each other. These “free unpaired” electrons can interact with a variety of packaging materials and food products to create ...