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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 ...

Adhesion of Coatings to Aluminum Foil

(The Place)

August 31, 2003, ... functional groups do not completely cover the adhering interface of the plastic, other interactions also play a role — hydrogen bonds or Van der Waals interactions, weaker, but acting on a larger portion ...

Pay Attention to Tension

(Archive)

August 31, 2003, ... varied proportional to roll diameter. Second, diameter is needed to calculate inertial torque during acceleration and deceleration. Q: Are driven unwinds better at handling these diameter-based variations? ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2003, ... simple die-cut cards, hold the fragile portions of the product securely in place, eliminating the need for more expensive “fillers.” The contents of the package are fully visible to the consumer.  ...

The Printing Saga Continues

(Magazine)

August 31, 2003, ... their products through better design and printing,” says Regis J. Delmontagne, president of the Graphic Arts Show Co., the show's organizer. “Today we have continued and expanded that portion of the show ...

Converting Industry News

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July 31, 2003, ... annum, within two years a large proportion of the extra capacity could be absorbed by the growth in domestic demand; and finally, China currently imports about 200,000 tonnes of BOPP film annually, and ...