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Converting Industry News

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December 31, 2000, ... Invests for Growing Pouch Market TAICHUNG, TAIWAN—HCI Converting Equipment Co. reports it will be showing a new pouch machine with improved designs and features at the CMM Intl. show in April. Through ...

Flexible Packaging Committee News

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December 31, 2000, ... of form-fill-seal machines could add this new closure device. Another development from the same inventor addressed reclosing of gussetted bags or stand-up pouches with a single piece of molded or folded ...

Products

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November 30, 2000, ... and vibrations. Sensor is said to resolve surface thickness variations as fine as 0.0007 æm when averaged at 100 Hz. Pouch Machine Is Versatile and Flexible Custom Design and Development, Green Bay, ...

The Case Against Oxidation as a Primary Factor for Bonding Acid Copolymers to Foil

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November 30, 2000, ... during the antioxidant experiment to an accelerated aging test in acetic acid. Pouches made from the structures were filled with a 3% acetic acid solution. The pouches were stored at 40øC and periodically ...

The Digital Advantage... More Than Just Printing

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October 31, 2000, ... very important; a majority of the company's product is made for the medical industry - products that need to maintain strict sanitary and quality specs. "We produce either rollstock or pre-made pouches, ...

International Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... Industry News, Events & Activities Asceptic Pouch Finds Market in Medicine OSLO, NORWAY—Elopouch, the aseptic packaging pouch system from Elopak is being put to new use. Best known for packaging UHT-processed ...

New Packaging Technology Will Star at Pack Expo

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September 30, 2000, ...  Using Packaging to Overcome Toxins in Food , Barbara Blakistone, National Food Processors Association. Markets and Opportunities for Retortable and Standup Pouches in Japan and Asia , Masahiro ...

Assessing Real-Life Sealant Performance in Flexible Packaging

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September 30, 2000, ... pouches on a vertical form/fill/seal machine, and tested to determine leaker rates. The paper examines four comparisons. In the comparison of a POP material to a linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE), ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... containers/min. Compact footprint and low operating cost make it ideal for in-plant container forming, co. reports. Cartoner Top Loads Flexible Pouches Dimension Industries LLC, div. of Douglas, Maple ...

Specialists in Interior Packaging Branch Out

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June 30, 2000, ... pouch packaging, and the egg was invented for Hanes. That's when we started looking for diversification; we began to think about getting into slitting and rewinding." Rewarding Relationships Winter, ...

It's Definitely a Bull Market for High-Performance Film

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May 31, 2000, ... packaging, partly due to trends toward more convenience foods and flexible packaging for waste reduction. Examples are the liquid-dispensing microwave pouch designed by Maxie-Mixes and the Canadian A-Pak ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ... it into the very first pouchmaking machine. That's how the boil-in-bag application began." Bell continues: "Kapak had to go out and educate everybody what boil-in-bag was all about. We did that through ...

Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary

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March 31, 2000, ... flexible packaging plays an increasingly important role in many markets. Multilayer stand-up pouches have helped invigorate markets such as pet foods and agricultural chemicals. Films and pouches are providing ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

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February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

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December 31, 1999, ... poly-coated products and laminated products, such as sugar pouches, gum and ice cream bar wraps, paper ream wraps, and labels. Nowak explains, "A lot of the things we're producing aren't the highest margin ...

Oxide-coated films are still finding their market niche

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November 30, 1996, ... and the stand-up retort pouch. Mitsubishi Kasei "Tech-barriar" films have been marketed in Japan for dry seaweed, liquid products, and lidstock. Europe consumes about 40 million [m.sup.2]/yr or 1.5 million ...

Czech retail developments could affect converters.

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October 31, 1996, ... When Tesco reported that shelf-stable retort pouches and trays could sell in the U.K. market, British converters soon supplied the packaging materials. The superb packages at Marks and Spencer (U.K.) were ...

Bagmaking machines adapt to conquer new markets.

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July 31, 1996, ... of running them." Pouches are the Hot Ticket Today's hot bagmaking markets, according to Gary Gould, president of GN Packaging Equipment, Mississauga, Ont., Canada, are zippered pouches, stand-up ...

Modified Atmosphere Packaging shows potential for growth

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June 30, 1996, ...  * the pillow pouch format used for foods such as fresh salads; * the flowpack format used to package cheese and bakery products. Courtaulds Acquisition - UCB Films, U.K., part of the Belgium-based ...

PET supplies increasing as markets expand

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May 31, 1996, ... boil-in-bag pouches constructed from "Mylar/polyethylene" Coated with a thin layer of reflective aluminum (MET/PET), Mylar film reached outer space as the inflatable Echo I satellite. Between 1959 and ...