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(News | New Products)

September 24, 2009, ... negotiating discounts from suppliers for fast payment of invoices; paying suppliers with a credit card that pays cash back; bonus programs in which all plant personnel participate; lean manufacturing practices; ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT

(New Products)

August 31, 2009, ...  Mirel performance bioplastic materials, made from renewable resource, plant-derived sugar, are claimed durable in use but will biodegrade at the end of their useful life. Despite having the physical properties ...

Ampac Flexibles Improves Efficiency with Bobst Titan SR8 Slitter

(News | New Products)

August 19, 2009, ... Minneapolis plant the ability to significantly increase slitting speeds and produce larger roll sizes to meet the growing demands of rollstock customers. The new high-speed Titan SR8 operates at up to ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Narrow Web)

May 31, 2009, ... into its new plant in Sun Prairie, WI. The 36,000-sq-ft space offers many efficiencies and energy-saving features. The deadline for submissions to the 2009 In-Mold Decorating Assn. competition is ...

Carton & Box Reporter

(Carton Box Main)

May 31, 2009, ... of its 2008 Plant of Year Award, the company's highest honor. The plants — Cameo Container box plant in Chicago; the Coshocton, OH, containerboard mill; and the Ft. Lauderdale, FL, recycling plant — were ...

Growth Strategy

(Flexpack Main)

May 31, 2009, ... investments at two US facilities, installing a new Windmoeller & Hoelscher extrusion system in its 270,000-sq-ft Auburn plant and a Totani pouchmaking machine in its 55,000-sq-ft Elk Grove Village facility. ...

Victory Lane

(Trends/Management)

March 31, 2009, ... their product lines and answer your questions. Approximately 150 exhibitors will occupy booth space in the exhibition hall. Converting machinery and prepress, pressroom, postpress, and plant equipment ...

Platemaking Upgrade

(Prepress)

February 28, 2009, ... tissue, and labels, and has won awards both nationally and internationally. Livio Simionato, managing director of Nu-Maber, says, “In our plant we almost exclusively use Degraf machines for preparing ...

Web Coating: Process Characterization

(Coating/Laminating)

October 31, 2008, ... in an overall plant information system. On-line coating weight gauge to measure coating weight, MD and TD profiles, and roll-to-roll averages; Surface inspection systems to identify defects, frequency, ...

October Carton & Box Reporter

(Carton Box)

September 30, 2008, ... control of waste. Manufactured by RTC Technologies, Scrap Trakker is an automated system that replaces the manual process of collecting scrap data on the plant floor and significantly improves data accuracy, ...

Door to Door QC

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2008, ... plant and sends a finished product out the other end. We're the only guys that go from polymer, pigment, and grit all the way through to the finished product. It's a total solution in one phone call.”  ...

Packaging Buzz at Drupa Was Large - Very Large

(Carton Box)

July 31, 2008, ... job and create an optimized makeready sequence, delivering greater consistency from job to job, shift to shift, and plant to plant. What do all of these technology advances ultimately mean for package ...

Bagmaking Guiding: Air Solution

(Web Guiding)

July 31, 2008, ... conventional electronic web guide systems. According to David Weathers, engineering and maintenance manager at Duro's Jackson, TN, plant, these systems have required significant maintenance time for sensor ...

February Carton & Box Reporter

(Carton Box)

January 31, 2008, ... starch consumption; total plant productivity; and equipment listings by plant. Thirty-eight companies with more than 340 plants in 12 countries participated in the survey, an increase of 58% over the 2005 ...

Products

(New Products)

December 31, 2007, ... Company says most equipment can be installed quickly and easily without interrupting daily plant operations. Audit is available for both large and small systems. Kaeser Compressors | 800-777-7873 | www.kaeser.comPFFC-ASAP ...

Release Liner Special Report, Part 2

(Magazine)

October 31, 2007, ... Union in the late 1980s, Itasa’s management team saw major development opportunities in the “common market” and decided to invest in meeting these opportunities in terms of plant, technology know-how, ...

Knowledge = Power = Success

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... for individual plants to develop training that is unique to the press, the print job, materials, typical problems, and the individual. The FlexSys training sessions can be established to fit around work ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... in-plant scrap for the packaging industry. In addition to recycling for all types of production scrap, including foils, laminates, plastic films, and containers, the facility will include equipment to ...

Converter Clips

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... Kiefel's Kirion C control system and C2 auto profiling system. Packaging Personified, which also has a plant in Sparta, MI, is an extruder, printer, and converter of flexible packaging serving customers ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... order processing, sales service, inventory, purchasing, plant data collection, scheduling, job costing, and accounting. Optional modules include CAD links, RF bar coding, touch screen technology, and more. ...