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Converting Industry News

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October 31, 2000, News from: Arrow Paper, Ato Findley, Bostik, Caraustar, Clemson, Comco, Eastman, EFC Inc., Empriva, FBF, GE Plastics, GretagMacbeth, MacDermid, MAJIQ, Market Tracking Intl., Mead, MSDSBank.com, Nordson, ...

Conference Features New Networking Opportunity

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October 31, 2000, ... Company, Eastman Chemical Company, Equistar Chemicals LP, Heritage Plastics, Inc., MarTech, Mica Corporation, and Westlake Polymers Corporation. Foster noted that "people leaving the gala were unanimous ...

International Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, News from: Akzo Nobel Inks, AVT, Collano, Elopak, NPES, Plastics and Rubber Machinery Assn. of VDMA, Polytech, Sappi Novobord, Shanghai Printing Group, and TrendWatch. Covering the Full Spectrum of International ...

Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... in 1999, a 6.7% increase over 1998, according to year-end data released by the Plastic Industry Producers' Statistics Group of the American Plastics Council (APC). Resin production climbed to 97.5 billion ...

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 ...

SuperCorrExpo 2000 Will Be a Celebration of Corrugated

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August 31, 2000, ... corrugated and returnable plastics; the partnership between marketing and bottom-line profits; and the partnership between the manufacturer and customer. Saturday concludes with James Carville and Mary ...

What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2000, ... variable information printing on corrugated boxes, plastics, glass, and more. Silicone Base Paper Is White and Smooth Cham-Tenero Paper Mills Inc., Fabrikstrasse, Switzerland; +41 417853333 Hi-Fi ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... 440/684-9600 Barrier Resins Is Subject of New Study NORWALK, CT, USA—The total US market for barrier-type resins was almost 4 billion pounds in 1999, according to a new study, RP-137N: Plastics for ...

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 ...

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.  ...

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 ...

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, ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, ... shelf and remain fresh for several months, possibly up to a year. For a number of years many companies -- both plastics suppliers and converters -- have been involved in the development of high-barrier ...

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 ...

Finding a simple solution to a shocking problem

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March 31, 1998, Static electricity was causing big problems for Favorite Plastics. The solution - a Tantec system - was only a phone call away.Favorite Plastics, a Brooklyn, Static electricity was causing big problems ...

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 ...

Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need

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June 30, 1996, ... a lot of people are facing greater demands as far as performance. They're being asked to bring together a lot of different plastics to satisfy their customers, and it's getting more and more difficult for ...

New CMM Show aims at Latin American markets

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February 29, 1996, ... plastics industry and produced by Bill Communications, Caravajal, S.A., and Coast Publishing (Coast Com.). The sixth annual Foodpack of the Americas, also from Blenheim, is reported to be the only pan-American ...

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 ...