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Chesapeake Corp. Dedicates Pharmaceutical Paperboard Packaging Plant in China

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November 08, 2007, PRESS RELEASE KUNSHAN, CHINA | Chesapeake Corp., a supplier of value-added specialty paperboard, plastic, and pharmaceutical packaging, had dedicated its new pharmaceutical paperboard packaging in ...

Eco-Friendly Packaging for an Eco-Friendly Product

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October 13, 2007, ... corn, not foreign petroleum. This material is produced from plastic that consists of polyactide, a corn-based polymer. Corn plastic is more energy efficient than other plastics and takes 60% less fossil ...

Diamond Packaging Earns Paperboard Packaging Awards

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June 12, 2007, ... Diamond Packaging won the first-ever Gold Award in Combination Materials, a new category that recognizes the trend toward combing paperboard with alternative materials such as plastic. The company earned ...

High Visibility Packaging Study

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December 13, 2006, ... million pounds of plastic resins. Gains will be driven by favorable advances in consumer spending along with the growing influence of mass market retailers, which tend to favor blister packs, clamshells ...

Snack Food Packaging Demand to Reach $5.6 Billion in 2010

(Flexpack)

November 15, 2006, ... Freedonia Group, Inc. Flexible packaging will face growing competition from smaller rigid containers such as cups, canisters, and other molded containers . Plastic containers will see the fastest growth ...

Packaging M&As Continue

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September 30, 2006, ...  Prudential Capital Group purchases a majority interest in Ampac Packaging (flexible packaging). Apollo Management purchases Tyco's Plastics, Adhesives, and Coated Products businesses (flex-pack). This ...

Barrier Packaging Seminar

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September 19, 2006, ... on permeability concepts in plastics, fabrication systems and troubleshooting (coextrusion, extrusion coating, lamination, metallization, etc.), design of multilayer structures for food packaging, and ...

Plastic Suppliers Receives Environmental Excellence Award

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March 01, 2006, Plastic Suppliers has won the Flexographic Technical Assn.'s (FTA) Environmental Excellence Award in the category of Innovative Technology for its EarthFirst PLA film. PRESS RELEASE COLUMBUS, OH—Plastic ...

COF in Printed Packaging

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June 29, 2005, ... could be at play. These changes usually take about 24 hrs. If the COF increases, migration of solvent or plasticizer to the ink surface is a possibility. If the COF decreases, the ink could be drying ...

Is a Packaging Makeover Ahead?

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February 27, 2005, ... Board of Supervisors Resolution No. 007-04-COE. It would impose a 17-cent/bag surcharge on all paper and plastic grocery bags given to shoppers at grocery stores. Initially, the measure would apply to ...

Fresh-Cut Produce Processor Pairs Products with NatureWorks PLA-Based Packaging

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October 24, 2004, ... the nature-based containers being used by Club Fresh are NaturesPLAstic JustFresh bowls manufactured by Wilkinson Manufacturing Company, Fort Calhoun, NE, USA. "Like those made of petroleum-based plastic, ...

Packaging for the World

(Flexpack)

September 29, 2004, ... nordmeccanica.com Kroenert Corp.; kroenert.com Sigdopack; sigdopack.com Votocel; votocel.com Terphane; terphane.com Toray Plastics; toraytpa.com Aluar Aluminio; aluar.com.ar Hydro/VAW; hydro.com ...

Agfa to Showcase Cost-Reducing Screening Technology for Packaging at DigiPack Congress

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September 19, 2004, ...  Printed offset, flexo, and letterpress onto paper, plastic, and metal foils, all at 212 lpi. Explains manager of Agfa's packaging business Kris Vangeel, "We produced these samples as evidence of the capabilities ...

Converting, Sheeting, Packaging.... Korber PaperLink to Showcase Range of Solutions at Graph/Converting Expo 2004

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September 06, 2004, ... HS 542 plastic and wire binding machine, the world's first fully automatic machine that can handle all three types of binding - plastic coil, spiral-wire and double-wire - for delivering unmatched productivity ...

Chinaplas 2004 Breaks Attendance Record; More Than 57,000 Flock to Shanghai for Plastics Show

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July 29, 2004, Chinaplas 2004 concluded July 2, and the show's sponsor says this year's edition of the plastics and rubber trade event was a record breaker. PRESS RELEASE CUPERTINO, CA, USA—Chinaplas 2004 concluded ...

Bobst Group's Acquisition of Valmet Expands OEM's Position in Flexible Materials/Packaging Marke

(News | New Products)

March 18, 2004, ... of the newest products in the Bobst family, Bobst provides the following information about Valmet's converting product line-up: Atlas : A global supplier of slitters and rewinders for plastic film, ...

Converted Flexible Packaging Demand to Expand and Reach 6.8 Billion lbs. in 2008

(Flexpack)

February 23, 2004, ... flex-pack study Converted Flexible Packaging. "Plastic films will continue to make inroads vis-a-vis their paper and foil counterparts, with particularly good growth increases for polypropylene film," ...

Alcoa Sells Packaging Equipment Business to American Industrial Partners

(News | New Products)

January 11, 2004, ... and plastic wraps, Alcoa wheels, and Baco household wraps. The company has 120,000 employees in 41 countries. PITTSBURGH, PA, USA—Alcoa reports it has sold its packaging equipment business to American ...

Alcoa's Whisker Lickin' Label: Shrink Sleeves Provide Purina Packaging with Pop and New-Found Flexibilit

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December 11, 2003, ... foil, thermoformed trays, cable wrap, plastic shrink sleeve body labels, and Reynolon shrink film—serving the world’s leading consumer products manufacturers within the pharmaceutical, medical, food & ...

AmeriStar Awards Honor Best in Packaging

(Flexpack)

October 30, 2003, ... Regenerist package was developed as a collaboration between AGI/Klearfold and P&G. The InSight package, AGI/Klearfold’s name for this combination-style package, brings together printed plastic sleeves ...