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Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

October 30, 2005, ... line will include all existing blowers, static bars, air knives, cleaning stations, web cleaners, and other static control components. Julie Industries will maintain the static flooring portion of the ...

Obesity: Can Packaging Help?

(Magazine)

July 30, 2005, ... affordable cost, as well as on portion control. The result will be a continuing stream of new opportunities for the converting industry and other packaging producers. At a workshop on the topic of “Perspectives ...

Globally Speaking

(Flexpack)

June 29, 2005, ... service the near-term needs of its existing customer base, but it wasn’t satisfied with its position to service the planned continued growth. “Our growth consumed a significant portion of our manufacturing ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

June 29, 2005, ... PCMC also featured a plant tour to showcase some of its nonwovens printing/converting equipment. At the conclusion of the day-and-a-half lecture portion of the event, which was held at Northeast Wisconsin ...

Odor & Exempt Solvents

(Magazine)

May 30, 2005, ... packaging industry has moved to water-based and radiation-curable technology, a significant portion still uses solvent-based inks and coatings. Use of strong odiferous solvents such as toluene and methyl ...

Give Customer What He Wants

(Magazine)

May 30, 2005, ... the customer a sample and asking him to do a complete evaluation of his own. This is the most critical portion of any change process. The converter must be completely honest with the customer by telling ...

Introduction to Roll Handling

(Magazine)

April 29, 2005, ... lifting. No approach has been found for totally eliminating back injuries caused by lifting, though it is felt that a substantial portion can be prevented by an effective control program and ergonomic ...

Get Out of the Scroll Business

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... The web’s outside will see increased tension. In many cases, the web springs back with no induced curl, but there are limits. The amount of stress change from forming a curve is directly proportional ...

New Products

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... quality as higher priced model. Recycle Large Portions Erema North America, Ipswich, MA; 978/356-03771; erema.net T-DD (double disk) technology is a new configuration of company’s recycling system ...

Rotary Screen Printing's Contribution to RFID, Part

(Archive)

January 30, 2005, ... Growth The growth of the RFID market depends a lot on reducing the size of the chip - or finding an alternative solution to the chip. That's because the chip makes up such a big proportion of the label' ...

Vancouver Sharp Imaging Installs Creo's Thermoflex Mi

(Archive)

December 28, 2004, ... workflow to computer-to-plate as well as expand the flexo portion of business. Marc Lebel, Vancouver's plat manager, says, "With the Creo system, we will be able to eliminate a lot of the manual work we ...

Eliminate Pesky Bubbles

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... volume of a bubble (bubble volume is inversely proportional to pressure), allowing the bubble to rise much faster. The vacuum also removes some dissolved gas. However, it does complicate the design, because ...

Good News Hunting

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... mark over the next three to four years.” Many of these products come in sophisticated reclosable bags and pouches, while single-serve portions are marketed in thermoformed containers. With all this ...

Extrusion Dies

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... traditionally have entailed either of two problems: the interruption of streamlined melt flow or the tendency to leak. External deckles, which apply wedge-driven compressible seals over portions of ...

A Price to Pay

(Magazine)

September 29, 2004, ... seller maximum protection, the result can be a post-closing opportunity for the acquirer to recover a considerable portion of a seller's deal proceeds. Should owners only sell their companies when ...

People & Places

(Magazine)

September 29, 2004, ... North American industrial markets; Brian Jacob, president of Jacob Flexographic Services, becomes regional sales agent for the printing industry, covering NJ, DE, MD, and portions of NY and PA; and John ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, ... Panel.’” This 60-minute portion of the session will provide an excellent opportunity for attendees to discuss their specific questions and problems in the real world. “The panelists bring a total of 169 ...

Products

(Magazine)

January 30, 2004, ... is said to deliver a 50% increase in production over earlier systems with the same size extruder and to allow feeding much larger portions of material into the system without prior material size reduction. ...

Mixing It Up

(Archive)

November 30, 2003, ... Dye Addition N, the mixer speed in rpm P, the mixer power consumed, proportional to N3D5. (3) Re, the mixing Reynolds Number = D2N?/µ Where D = impeller diameter ? = solution density µ = solution ...

Drug Dispensers

(Archive)

September 30, 2003, ... and heat sealable polyethylene (PE) portions. The foil serves as a vapor barrier, and PE is used for heat sealing purposes. Emerging and Future Patch Technologies Extended Wear Patches — Because of ...