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Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Archive)

May 30, 2004, CMM, Creative Packaging Solutions, F.L. Smithe, Gravure Expo, Inst. of Packaging Pros., Klöckner Pentaplast, Kraton Polymers, Mesirow, Petco, Praxair, Print 05 (Converting 05), RadTech, Skeist, Soluol, ...

International Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

May 30, 2004, ... of China, is a growing producer of cast PP (CPP) film, as well as PVC, PE, and metallizing film. With CPP a growing, competitive market in China, Fuzhou head Ng Hing Shui wants to improve his company' ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Archive)

May 30, 2004, ... boxes are expected to offer the best prospects through 2007. While folding paperboard boxes will rebound from their low base in 2002, faster growth will be restrained by competition from other packaging ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

April 29, 2004, ... Packaging Competition were announced at an award’s banquet. Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., Chicago, IL, received the coveted President’s and Innovation awards for its folding carton for Family Time Perfect ...

Top of the Line

(Magazine)

April 29, 2004, ...  The National Paperbox Assn. (NPA) announced the winners of its 54th Annual Packaging Competition during the association's 86th Annual Meeting, held April 21-24 at the Marriott Desert Springs Resort & ...

Innovation on Board

(Magazine)

April 29, 2004, ... (PPC) announced the winners of its 61st National Paperboard Packaging Competition at a ceremony held March 14 in Chicago, IL, USA. A total of 100 awards were presented; below is just a sampling of this ...

Il Melograno Packs Fresh Salads in Cargill Dow's Maize-Based Nature Works PL

(Archive)

April 21, 2004, ... concerns with its new ready-to-use salads packaged in clear, flex-fill bags made from Cargill Dow's maize-based NatureWorks PLA— rather than traditional petroleum-based plastic film. Cargil Dow reports ...

Waste & That Blue Box

(Flexpack)

March 31, 2004, ... PET bottles, HDPE bottles, plastic film and plastic laminates, PS, and “other plastic.” Stewardship Ontario recently has proposed to increase the fees for such wastes by 43.6%. The program seems to adopt ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, ... — can be used to generate the tools for foil production. Supplier Information Kurz; kurzusa.com UV Flexo Press Competes with Gravure Casia s.r.o., Trutnov, Czech Republic, is making inroads into ...

The Family Breadwinner

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2004, AIMCAL recognizes winners of its annual competition for opening new markets and for technological superiority. A metallized bag is nothing new on supermarket shelves. But when it was introduced to the ...

Selling Quality

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2004, ... by Seville include 45# coated paper/60-ga oriented polypropylene (OPP); PET/polyethylene (PE)/OPP/OPP; aluminum foil/PE; polyamide (PA)/PE; and other constructions. The paper/OPP bag supplied to US-based ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... packaging; online auctions; and packaging R&D. In a recently published multi-client study, PakIntell compares opportunities for PET, PP, and HDPE in some key and selected end-use markets. The study ...

Technology: The Great Equalizer

(Magazine)

January 31, 2004, ...  planning to go into Chapter 11; however, the health of most industries generally is reflected in the ability of equipment users to purchase new technology to remain competitive. Technology is the grea ...

Alcoa's Whisker Lickin' Label: Shrink Sleeves Provide Purina Packaging with Pop and New-Found Flexibilit

(News | New Products)

December 11, 2003, ... beverage, and industrial markets. RICHMOND, VA, USA—Alcoa Flexible Packaging reports it's supplying the shrink sleeve label for Nestle Purina PetCare’s modernized Whisker Lickin’s packaging. According to ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

November 29, 2003, ... PVC, PS, and PET. For more information on the study, contact Freedonia Group at 440/684-9600 or visit freedoniagroup.com. SPI Q1 Report Analyzes, Forecasts Plastics Industry WASHINGTON, DC, USA—The ...

AmeriStar Awards Honor Best in Packaging

(Flexpack)

October 30, 2003, ... recently announced the winners of its AmeriStar Package Awards, honoring the best in packaging for 2003. Packaging professionals competed in 14 categories including Food, Beverage, Health & Beauty Aids, ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... adhesives. According to Nordmeccanica, the unit is performance-rated to 500 mpm operating speed on a wide range of substrates, including PE, BOPP, PET, paper, and aluminum foil. Industry Studies  ...

Meeting the Need

(Materials)

September 30, 2003, ... The print-receptive and thermally stabilized PET film reportedly provides a high degree of adhesion to both UV and solvent-based hardcoats and graphic inks and is said to have a superior scratch- and chemical-resistant ...

Foil Converter Changes Course

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... “Esterpeel” heat sealable lidding films. This was a construction based either on a heat seal or specialty lamination on polyester (PET) film. This soon led the firm into the emerging area of high-temperature ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 31, 2003, ... Competition for the Snow River family of packaging. The entry category was Housewares and Appliances. The three cartons in the line are straight tuck end cartons used in combination with an insert. ...