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The Vacumet Story Is a 30-Year History of Growth

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... Vacumet has come a long way from its beginnings, but strong company values remain the same. Newspapers and magazines tell us almost daily of the latest mergers in the dot coms, banking giants, pharmaceuticals, ...

It's Definitely a Bull Market for High-Performance Film

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... for ready-made meals and microwave cooking; and medical and pharmaceutical packaging. Much of nylon film packaging is used in the food industry for items such as meat, cheese, condiments, bakery items, ...

Converter Can't Seem to Stay Out of Busines

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April 30, 2000, ... a far cry from first-year sales of $80,000 just seven years ago. All three businesses are focused on four target markets: personal care, food, pharmaceuticals, and industrial. The company's sales have come ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ... of product areas: lawn and garden, industrial, health and beauty, coffee, snack foods, bird seed, pharmaceutical and medical, retort, and more. Bells adds that the company makes the products out of ...

Globalization Is Driving Force Behind Fast-Growing NPE

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April 30, 2000, ... survey of NPE 2000 exhibitors, packaging drew the most responses when participants were asked to indicate their key markets. Pharmaceutical and cosmetics packaging were selected by 40% of respondents, ...

Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... do not disperse friction material particles into the surrounding air, making them the preferred option for applications in food processing and pharmaceutical plants, as well as in photographic film processing ...

Cartonmarker Adds Flexo to Give Customers a Choice

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February 29, 2000, ... narrow web flexographic press to its stable of equipment. Colbert Packaging, a folding carton and set-up box company located in Lake Forest, IL, had already carved a niche for itself in pharmaceutical ...

Shorter Turnaround Time Drives Move to CTP

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January 31, 2000, ... for customers across the US. Approximately 90% of its business comes from the pharmaceutical, software, food, specialty products, and game industries. From a product management standpoint, SVH must print, ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, ... devices, pharmaceuticals, and, to a lesser degree, tobacco, though he notes that the use of this type of packaging in the North American tobacco market has been declining significantly. He adds that ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... Paraguay, and the Andean nations. Plans are underway now to enter the growing Latin American pharmaceutical market with both flex-packs and printed cartons. Dixie Toga has grown to become one of the ...

Oxide-coated films are still finding their market niche

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November 30, 1996, ... lb/yr. The applications include lidding stocks for modified atmosphere packages (MAP), MAP meat packaging, dried soup pouches, pharmaceuticals, and chocolates. "Buss" brand retortable ready-meal trays containing ...

Perforating tear-resistant materials takes a big step.

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ...  A major pharmaceutical company has approved UltraMicroperf for blood sample vials, a critical and demanding application. The technology also permits fan folding of plastic films, tear-resistant materials, ...

PET supplies increasing as markets expand

(Magazine)

May 31, 1996, ... of the Netherlands (located in Etten Leur) is currently on the verge of introducing containers for a variety of applications, including jams, ketchups, pickles, and pharmaceuticals. The containers are ...

Laser positioning system creates clean, productive environment

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April 30, 1996, ... its #2 makeready slitting line. The ISO-9002 certified company provides other Nashua facilities as well as outside customers with adhesive label papers for retail and pharmaceutical applications, specialty ...

Viscosity system saves ink and improves print quality

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December 31, 1995, ... with the need for a new viscosity control system. Lally Pak provides printed film and bags to a variety of industries, including packaged frozen food, medical and pharmaceuticals, confectionary, and ...

Converting capabilities grow in Caribbean nations.

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September 30, 1995, Using Puerto Rico as a shining example of successful plastics/packaging industrial expansion (particularly for pharmaceuticals), many other Caribbean Using Puerto Rico as a shining example of successful ...

Czech converter pursues new free-market direction

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August 31, 1995, ... products that tend to concentrate on the dairy, tobacco, food and confectionery markets. There is also dedicated production of high-grade blister stock that is for the international pharmaceutical market. ...

UV letterpress assures quality at QA Label

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July 31, 1995, ... pharmaceutical industry as a marketplace of opportunity for labels - if they could deliver the quality these jobs demanded. They believed that what was a newer process in the US at the time - UV letterpress ...