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May 31, 2001, ... offers additional air valve options said to match virtually any plant requirement. Available in standard sizes or custom engineered for specific needs. Punched Blades Provide PrecisionMax Daetwyler ...

What's Really Going on with Your Anilox Rolls

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May 31, 2001, ... anilox inventory greatly improves your productivity and bottom line. Recently, I was in a large plant in Brazil that had an employee whose sole job was to keep tabs on the entire inventory of anilox rolls. ...

Division Conference Offers Varied Program

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May 31, 2001, ... for greenhouse films, new methods to manipulate light inside a greenhouse to help control plant diseases, and additives that improve oxygen and UV barrier properties for protection of packaged goods.  ...

Converting Industry News

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April 29, 2001, ... defect detection system at its Spartanburg, SC, plant, International Paper's Flexible Packaging Group decided to install five additional AVT systems. Two more are being added at Spartanburg, and one each ...

Two-Drum Slitter Packs a One-Two Punch

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March 31, 2001, ... very successful converting (sheeting) companies, Melchi set about finding a suitable plant and location. The plant he selected is in Three Rivers, MI. “The choice of location, and obviously the company ...

Dow Expected to Enjoy Earnings Growth in 2001

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February 28, 2001, ... the Polyethylene, Polypropylene, Ethylene Styrene Interpolymers, PET/PTA, INSITE Technology, and Wire and Cable Business. He explained that Dow Plastic's newest PP plant is the fourth to be built in four ...

Extrusion Coating Line Audit Can Bring Big Benefits

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January 31, 2001, ... resolutions you can make for 2001. This process will help your plant gain credibility with upper management by increasing production and reducing waste caused by weaknesses in procedures and equipment ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ... install the machine in its new Riverwood, New South Wales, plant, alongside four other Dusenbery slitters. Designed to convert a broad range of flexible packaging and specialty films at speeds to 460 ...

Converting Industry News

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October 31, 2000, ...  current PET manufacturing capacity of 1.5 million metric tons, these alliances bring the total sales capacity to 1.6 million metric tons. Consolidations Mead to Close Containerboard Plant DAYTON ...

Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

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September 30, 2000, ... e-retailing and e-business, mergers, acquisitions, contract negotiations, flex time, health-care coverage, time/life/work issues—take a breath—the list could go on and on, company owners and plant managers ...

SuperCorrExpo 2000 Will Be a Celebration of Corrugated

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August 31, 2000, ... of selected sessions, an international visitors' lounge, local plant tours, and more. A new feature this year is a training program for all visitors, on the exhibit floor. Several times each day, exhibitors ...

Human/Machine Interface Offers Best of Two Worlds

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March 31, 2000, ... choose to retrofit the technology. An HMI can be retrofitted by a plant's control engineer, a systems integrator, or a company that provides this product. These retrofits have been occurring in other ...

Shorter Turnaround Time Drives Move to CTP

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January 31, 2000, ... CD presses with aqueous towers. The electronics are processed through Mac systems and then downloaded into a Barco packaging system for full production layout. Until the introduction of CTP to the plant, ...

Green Bay gears up for specialty labels

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May 31, 1996, ... 1985. An additional coating and converting plant has been built in Winchester, VA, and distribution centers with in-house slitting capability have been added at geographically strategic locations to better ...

European equity supplier acquires plastics division

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February 29, 1996, ... its 380,000 tpa plant located at Kuan Yin, near Taipei. The joint venture company will be named ICI Far Eastern Limited. FET will pay [pounds]61 million for its 30% share, which will result in a one-off ...

Core selection - the difference between success and failure.

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January 31, 1996, ... SC, explains that proper core selection can not only improve production efficiencies at your own facility, but it can greatly diminish the likelihood of problems at your customer's plant. Consequently, ...

New measurement technology improves web control.

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January 31, 1996, ... area of measuring the web tension. If tension is not controlled, product quality and plant productivity almost inevitably will be affected. Distortions in a material that has been stretched as a result ...

Economic Forecast: More of the Same, Unless...

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December 31, 1995, ... was passed on in finished-goods prices. Another brake on inflation. Yet, industrial chemicals prices rose very sharply in 1994 and into 1995. "You had some plant outages and strong demand around the ...

Viscosity system saves ink and improves print quality

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December 31, 1995, ... it, and tests it. Part of the lease/purchase agreement includes a plant visit by Norcross technicians to train operators and to make sure the equipment is installed and operating correctly. Says Herbst, ...

Pollution prevention makes good sense

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November 30, 1995, ... or practices that reduce or eliminate the creation of pollutants or waste at the source." This definition encompasses any in-plant practice that prevents pollutants from entering any waste stream or from ...