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Corona Treaters Adapt to Converting Processes

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September 30, 2000, ... substrates—coated papers, plastic films—but the covered roll system is the most efficient way to handle the job, according to Seaman. Ballard says, "The basic difference between the various technologies ...

Bringing Together the Many Benefits of Film and Paper

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September 30, 2000, ... looking to use plastics-processing technology to match paper industry standards. If you are aiming to do everything that paper does well, reel quality has to be the same as in the paper industry, and if ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, News from: EuroWaxPack, Excelsior Packaging Group, Innovative Packaging Corp., International Paper, Kem Plastic Playing Cards, SIG Combibloc, and Sonoco. Covering Converting Industry Updates, Installations, ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... mm and is supplied in diameters of 70, 76, 120, and 150-152 mm (combined). It can be used with cardboard, plastic, or steel cores. Available as optional equipment on new machines or can be retrofitted ...

Materials and Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... plastic bags utilized in the food industry. In addition, foil is said to adhere to other flexible packaging plastics, including both CPP and OPP, polyester, PE, and p-s stocks. Series is described as an ...

Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch

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July 31, 2000, ... production, performance, and distribution advantages over rigid and other packaging mediums. Plastic films will extend their leadership based on extensive applications and the availability of improved ...

Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact

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May 31, 2000, ... chemistry not covered in those regulations and determining how to meet the regulations." He explains, "I'm thinking of something along the lines of taking a very basic, inexpensive plastic film and putting ...

On-Line Purchasing Saves Time, Money, and Space

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May 31, 2000, ... gives me a lot of freedom during the day," notes Joseph Irabor, prepress manager for Arrow Industries, a Fort Worth, TX, converter of plastic food bags. "I don't have to waste time on the phone to order ...

Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call

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April 30, 2000, Ray Glenn, VP of Apollo Plastics, Jersey City, NJ, never went to medical school, but his company's approach to customer service sometimes makes him wish Ray Glenn, VP of Apollo Plastics, Jersey City, NJ, ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

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March 31, 2000, ...  Equistar Chemicals, Houston, TX; 713/652-7300 Westlake Plastics Co., Lenni, PA; 610/459-1000; fax: 610/459-1084 Dow Chemical Co. Chemicals & Metals Div., Midland, MI; 517/832-1465 Nova Chemicals ...

Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary

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March 31, 2000, ... and coextrusions are used. Usually referred to as agchem, the agricultural chemical industry is growing at 4%. The use of high-barrier, reclosable, plastic pouches (including standup) for odor control, ...

Seventy-Five Years and Counting for Bancroft Bag

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February 29, 2000, ... International Paper, Champion, Longview Fibre, and Tolko. Film is supplied to the company by Coating & Laminating Specialties, Bemis Converter Films, Louisiana Plastics, Cadillac Plastic & Chemical, Inteplast, ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

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February 29, 2000, ... prowess: an agreement with Neoplastica (Portugal) to supply ISMA's printed lidding stock for fresh pasta and cured meat markets for Mercosur Neoplastica customers; plans to expand the holographic flex-pack ...

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

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January 31, 2000, ... in the converting industry. From short-run specialty bags to the season/holiday-changing colorful foil and plastic packaging that encloses chocolate "drops," (hint: Kisses anyone?), converted products are ...

Two states adopt regulations for rigid-container laws

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January 31, 1998, ... dealing with the recycling of rigid containers and issued comprehensive regulations implementing those laws. Under the California law known as the Rigid Plastic Packaging Container Act, manufacturers ...

Innovation is a winner in FPA competition

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March 31, 1996, ... Minneapolis, MN, for reducing packaging weight by 80%. The Avitene[R] MCH (microfibrillar collagen hemostat) stand-up pouch uses a peelable stand-up pouch containing a plastic tray with a peelable lid ...

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, ...

Opportunities abound in an emerging Indian market

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December 31, 1995, ... their horizons as well. The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc., Washington, DC, is so interested in developing new business opportunities for its members, in fact, that it recently joined the US Dept. ...

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 ...

Bagmaking operation refuses to stand still

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September 30, 1995, As the plastic bag operation at Shields Bag & Printing Co. continues to grow and evolve, 32 Battenfeld Gloucester production lines keep pace.In 1954 Gene As the plastic bag operation at Shields Bag & Printing ...