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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Innovation Drives Converter of Pressure-Sensitive Labels
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- June 30, 2000, ... we can mention the rise of the supermarket; the constantly increasing use of plastic packaging; the growth of personal computing; the growing use of automatic identification using bar codes; the acceleration ...
- Press Adds Flexibility of Film to Paper Operation
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- June 30, 2000, ... "A lot of those products are being made by companies that buy their paper packaging from us but purchase polyethylene and other plastic materials from other suppliers for their consumer product line." ...
- Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting
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- June 30, 2000, ... of Ziegler-Natta catalysts (see 1953). These chemists both contributed to high polymer development, which has proven to be useful in the manufacture of films, plastics, fibers, and synthetic rubber. ...
- 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, ...
- FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less
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- February 29, 2000, ... layer has elastic memory that allows the material to better resist bumps and dimples from hard, dry pet food. The plastic bag is highly resistant to moisture and grease, providing better protection than ...
- 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 ...
- High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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- January 31, 2000, ... by the package may help sell the product, but product performance keeps customers coming back. And performance is exactly what today's high-barrier plastic films deliver. High-barrier packaging can comprise ...
- Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader
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- December 31, 1999, ... located in Votorantim (S.P.) and Natal (R.N.), contains the most modern extruders, thermoformers, and printers and produces plastic packaging for margarine, drinks, ice cream, and food service applications. ...
- Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater
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- December 31, 1999, With a combined 50 years of experience in the converting industry, William R. Arndt and Michael R. Nowak decided to start their own coating business, With a combined 50 years of experience in the converting ...
- Narrow web adapts to multiple applications
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- November 30, 1998, ... plastic substrates, which, because of their inherent inefficiencies vs. the metal electrode, cannot be treated with the ceramic electrode system. To eliminate downtime, you need a system that's versatile ...
- NOVA and Union Carbide to build ethylene plant
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- October 31, 1996, ... the purchase of Horitech Film Mfg. Bhd, a plastics film extrusion business in Malaysia. The firm produces polyethylene film for baby diaper and feminine hygiene markets, and its current sales are about ...
- EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.
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- October 31, 1996, ... Assn., Flexible Packaging Assn., Flexographic Technical Assn., Industrial Technology Inst., National Assn. of Printing Ink Mfrs., Plastic Bag Assn., RadTech International, N.A., National Inst. of Standards ...
- Label converter controls quality from the inside out
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- August 31, 1996, ... The company stocks large quantities of materials, everything from paper to plastics, in roll form. In another example of "doing it themselves," Walle sheets its own stock in-house on Strachan Henshaw ...
- Taking the "magic" and the mystery out of treatin
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- August 31, 1996, ... Inks, coatings, and adhesives can then adhere to the uncontaminated surface in the usual Velcro-like fashion. Some converters in-line-treat all the plastic films they process. In doing this, they are ...
- Perforating tear-resistant materials takes a big step.
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- August 31, 1996, ... not to tear? New perforating technology reportedly has the answer. When we attempt to perforate tear-resistant materials such as plastic films, we are trying to create controlled tearing of materials ...
- Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process
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- August 31, 1996, ... likely you do), you should be up to date on methods for measuring the level of treatment. As a growing number of end users switch from paper to plastic substrates to package or label their products, ...
