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Core selection - the difference between success and failure.

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January 31, 1996, ... operation. But the ability to deliver on that promise may literally rest with its core. Scott Pleune, marketing manager/paper and film industries for Sonoco Products Co., Industrial Products Div., Hartsville, ...

Don't forget your unwind

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January 31, 1996, ... by the size and weight specifications of the material that the machine is designed to handle. For example, film is generally sold in small roll diameters to 32 in.; paper is sold in 40- to 60-in. rolls; ...

Pollution and politics: how green will the new year be?

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January 31, 1996, ...  EPA plans to begin in 1996 the research and rulemaking necessary to establish a MACT standard for the coating of paper, film, and foil, with the aim of completing that rulemaking by the year 2000.  ...

Label maker modifies tried and true business form

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January 31, 1996, ... With this unique design we tried to use as traditional a process and paper as possible." First, the back of the liner is printed on a Webtron 650 six-color press. Then the liner and the Fasson dull ...

Viscosity system saves ink and improves print quality

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December 31, 1995, ... single-service paper and plastic disposables. The company prints on a variety of substrates, including poylethylene, polypropylene, OPP, and shrink films. Materials are provided by Mobil, James River, ...

Video web inspection: the view from the press floor.

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September 30, 1995, ... extrusion coaters. They print on polyester, polyfoil-poly and, occasionally, on paper. End products include a great deal of flexible packaging (ranging from lidding material for gel snack packs to foil ...

Tissue converter accrues benefits of AC servo drives

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September 30, 1995, ... presently employs about 800 with plants in Arnsberg and Marsberg, Germany. It is considered medium-sized, but there's nothing medium about its products, including more than 100,000 tons of hygienic paper ...

Retrofit brings older sheeters back to life.

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August 31, 1995, ... a great deal of blade maintenance, especially when running high calipers (greater than 0.028 in.) or recycled paperboard. It may be normal to replace the knife blades on a monthly basis, if not more frequently. ...

Cylinders and rolls - a quiet revolution

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July 31, 1995, ... abrasion-resistant tungsten carbide coating. Converters can adjust the degree of roughness through grinding. Once applied, TG coating can be finished from mirror smooth to a rough sandpaper-like surface ...

Consider film cores when analyzing costs.

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July 31, 1995, ... a number of papers and spoken on such subjects as customer-supplier partnerships, customer satisfaction and film core specification. He has held various marketing and planning positions at the company ...

Adapting flexible system in trim-recovery operations.

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July 31, 1995, ... more efficient in-line processing, product savings and various operator conveniences. As part of the Packaging Business in the approximately $5-billion family of businesses owned by paper giant James ...

Mead expands in-house capabilities with sheeter

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July 31, 1995, ... adjustable slitter stations provide optimum-performance center and edge trimming for the highest-quality square-cut sheets. Paper dust is removed with an extraction unit fitted to each slitter station. ...

Printer responds to tougher environmental standards

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April 30, 1995, ... further use. To top off a growing list of problems, Newsday, a Long Island, NY, daily newspaper, broke a lead story on the area environment in January 1993. It cited Poly-Pak Industries as one of four ...

Strong growth predicted for flex-pack industry

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March 31, 1995, ... film structures accounted for nearly six out of 10 sales dollars in 1993. While multiweb film packaging has dominated sales since 1989, single-web films and single-web papers are making a steady comeback. ...

Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible

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March 31, 1995, ... is resealable. InterFlex Group Inc. Changes to the packaging structure reduced the amount of film used and extended the shelf life for this Cuddly Family Farms turkey product by 60%. The paperboard ...

Shredders provide recycling advantages

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February 28, 1995, ... cores are said to save costly waste-disposal problems for companies using paper cores, including those involved in corrugating, papermaking, printing, and paper, film and foil converting. Advantages include: ...

Familiarity with change no surprise in this industry

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February 28, 1995, ...  isn't the only shortage the metallizing industry faces," Randall D. Jacobs, marketing manager, Van Leer Metallized Products USA Limited, Franklin, MA, said. "Paper is another. The metallizing industry i ...

State legislative action includes removal of 2 bans: 1994

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February 28, 1995, ... fee (ADF), none of them were heard in committee prior to the legislature's adjournment on April 15, 1994. The ADF is a 2-cent fee on all "individual, separate and sealed glass, plastic, plastic-coated paper, ...

Plan seeks to put corrugated into recycling mainstream

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January 31, 1995, ... for more than five years, collecting plastic, aluminum and bimetal cans, glass and newspaper. "Residents support the recycling program wholeheartedly," Duffy said. "They participate with enthusiasm - in ...

Direct-mail group introduces green stewardship challenge

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December 31, 1994, ... 1991 that examines areas in which direct marketing creates an environmental impact. A new edition will be published in 1995. * An annual Recycled Paper Survey, which has been conducted since 1992.  ...