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Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... Hunter, Prime Graphics Internet Communications, chaired by Scott Gilbert, St. Laurent Paperboard Corp. Prepress, chaired by Chris Deye, Phototype Science Council, chaired by Chris Harper, ...

What Is the Role of Additives in Water-Based Inks?

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August 31, 2000, ... greater latitude in ink wettability and press performance. Surfactants are used in very small amounts, in the range of 0.1%. Their use must be designed with care, as some surfactants can contribute to ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... for both large presses printing high-end graphics or for small-format, sheet-fed presses, inks are said to offer the "widest window of water tolerance" available. Product's strong lithographic tolerance ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

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June 30, 2000, ... and Chicago Printed String Co. (1924) Cellophane introduced to US by E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. Inc. (1927) Hudson-Sharp produces a three-color flexo press that uses oil-based inks; it is utilized ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

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May 31, 2000, ... financial growth." The purchase adds approximately 100 employees, one plant, and two state-of-the-art offset web presses to the company's DairyPak div. It looks as if Y2K has settled in nicely for ...

Converter Can't Seem to Stay Out of Busines

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April 30, 2000, ... in 1987, he figured he was out of the converting business for good. Today, he not only owns a folding carton business and a prepress operation but another label company as well. So, just where did his ...

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, ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

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February 29, 2000, ... in a carefully planned section of the plant next to a state-of-the-art prepress department featuring Scitex equipment. Flexographic printing is done on three presses: an eight-color Comco; a six-color ...

Czech retail developments could affect converters.

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October 31, 1996, If the Czech converting industry feels that Czech environmental legislation is being disregarded by retailers, the pressure on internal industry to conform If the Czech converting industry feels that Czech ...

EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.

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October 31, 1996, ... Pilot Plant of Western Michigan Univ. (WMU). They will be run on WMU'S press, and the preliminary tests will be conducted. One type of ink will then be sent to each volunteer facility for the field demonstrations. ...

In-mold labels: film is today's hot development

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June 30, 1996, ... and pressure-sensitive labels in many applications because of their many advantages. Besides a lower cost during long runs, these advantages can include various filling and processing benefits and a significantly ...

Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need

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June 30, 1996, ... using a variety of features, including computer-circulated spiral mandrel distributors, which keep pressure losses to a minimum even in small-volume production; a predistributor system with thermal separation ...

Laser positioning system creates clean, productive environment

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April 30, 1996, ... short test runs showed some of the slit widths out of tolerance, They also had trouble setting the correct male/female knife relationships, such as side pressure, toe-in, etc., to achieve clean cuts across ...

New measurement technology improves web control.

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January 31, 1996, ... compressing. In one type of strain gauge transducer, for example, a mechanical force applied to the load cell stretches small resistive strain gauges glued to a measurement area in the unit. The stretching ...

Economic restructuring in Central European enterprises.

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September 30, 1995, ... restructuring in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. The authors note that some enterprises are apparently doing well and trying to adjust to new market pressures. Most hope to achieve this adjustment ...

Buyer beware when comparing video systems

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May 31, 1995, ... video web inspection. The series will present the technological basics, define concepts and principals essential to successful adaptation of the technology in the pressroom and will explore the future ...

Printer responds to tougher environmental standards

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April 30, 1995, ... product, which is printed on flexographic plate-type printing presses, is delivered to such well-known major retailers as Gap Kids and the Limited. For years, Poly-Pak met its air quality permit requirements, ...

Innovative uses, creativity earn honors from AIMCAL

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March 31, 1995, ... AIMCAL's annual meeting in Phoenix, AZ, on March 15-19. Impressed with the new application for metallization, along with the fact that the metallized label replaces a more expensive part, judges declared ...

In-feed section meets stringent standards

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February 28, 1995, The company offers a redesigned in-feed section for its R200 press. The section features a more compact design and stability allowing customers to meet The company offers a redesigned in-feed section for ...

Familiarity with change no surprise in this industry

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February 28, 1995, ... the money's just not there. So, it's mostly going into the European market." The polyester film market has been depressed for many years and now it's just trying to catch up. "The prices go up but the film ...