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Converting Industry News

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December 31, 2002, ... and vacuum web coating. Coating/laminating topics included environmental concerns; gravure coating; PSA (pressure-sensitive adhesive) product testing; laminating adhesives; release systems; and many more. ...

PSA Online Outlet Provides Savings

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November 21, 2002, MACtac, manufacturer of pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) materials, reports it's established MACtacMarket.com as an ongoing money-saving opportunity for the roll label converting market. STOW, OH, USA—MACtac, ...

Release Liners: A Worldwide Special ReportMedical/Healthcare Use

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October 31, 2002, ... market. The majority of liners actually are featured on final products as a protective backing for a pressure-sensitive adhesive. However, a high proportion are used for film, foam, and adhesive casting ...

Release Liners: A Worldwide Special ReportReducing Silicone Mist

(Archive)

October 31, 2002, ... she has held a Technical Service and Development role at Dow Corning serving the Paper Industry Group in the areas of pressure-sensitive adhesives and release coatings. Paul Vandort received bachelor ...

Outsourcing Protects Trade Secrets

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October 31, 2002, ...  Pilot coating is a typical but important step in product development. It is especially critical for release liners in the pressure-sensitive market. The best tests simulate an environment as close as ...

What's New in Narrow We

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October 31, 2002, ... tagstock is used for ink jet- and laser-printable business cards, CD jewel case inserts, badges, and more, co. reports. Matte-coated stock is non-pressure-sensitive and designed to release cleanly from ...

Halloween Is Coming: PSA Ghosts Can Be Pretty Scary

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September 30, 2002, ... on Halloween. It is instead a term used in the pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) field to indicate residue remaining on a surface after removing a removable p-s label. The residue has an oily appearance ...

1960s

(News | New Products)

September 19, 2002, ... (including Russia) met to discuss problems and exchange ideas. October 1962 The newest innovation in cellophane-wrapped bread, developed by DuPont, is a pressure-sensitive end label, which retains ...

1990 - April 1993

(News | New Products)

September 19, 2002, ... a clear self-adhesive film is placed on top, which actives the migrating ink dots, and they enlarge. September 1990 Two pressure-sensitive tapes designed for medical applications involving the human ...

1977 - 1979

(News | New Products)

September 19, 2002, ... being associated with the ‘rotten egg’ odor." Adhesives Research, Inc., Glen Rock, PA, "is the first pressure-sensitives coater in the US, and one of the first in the world, to convert to a 100 percent ...

Labelexpo Americas Doing Fine

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September 10, 2002, In more ways than one, Labelexpo Americas exhibited the true American spirit yesterday and today. At noon September 11, 2002, show organizer Tarsus, as well as the 400-plus exhibitors and hundreds of attendees, ...

Raflatac Gains P-S Material Market Share with MACtac Buy

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September 05, 2002, Finland-based UPM-Kymmene and US-based Bemis Co. swap converting industry businesses: Bemis Company's MACtac, pressure-sensitive materials producer, now will be part of Raflatac (UPM-Kymmene subsidiary) ...

Materials

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August 31, 2002, ... than 24 pressure-sensitive papers and film products for offset printing. Co. says product lines represented are Ultra Bak bright white facestock for life-like color application; Ultra Bak label paper; ...

Reporter Clips

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August 31, 2002, ... the direction of the attempted removal. This feature makes it almost impossible to move the label to another product's package. Reveal Estate is a simple, one-piece pressure-sensitive label that incorporates ...

1970 - 1973

(News | New Products)

August 26, 2002, ... Awareness Grows: The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) institutes an ecology category in its annual carton competition. February 1971 Pressure-Sensitive Grows in 70: "The tag and label industry was ...

Knowing Your Limitations Can Accentuate Your Strengths

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July 31, 2002, ... or another, and converters are no exception. These limitations most frequently relate to their converting equipment. A specific converter may manufacture an extensive line of tapes with pressure-sensitive ...

Turning Standard into Specialty

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July 31, 2002, ... water jet does lend itself to some different markets.” Mastering Intricacies As a specialty converter, Budnick processes mostly high-end, pressure-sensitive coated materials, not commodity label stock. ...

Reporter Clips

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July 31, 2002, ... a high-performance, p-s (pressure-sensitive) acrylic adhesive system, products are said to provide excellent holding power and good tack and to bond well to a wide variety of surfaces, including metals ...

FINAT Congress Addresses Customer Demand

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July 31, 2002, ... manager in a label converting company. Noel Mitchell, president of the European Pressure-Sensitive Manufacturers Association, presented the overall European label stock usage picture, confirming double-digit ...

What's New in Narrow We

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June 30, 2002, Substrate Offers Gloss and Print ContrastRaflatac Inc., Fletcher, NC; 828/651-4800; 800/992-3882; Kromekote Extragloss p-s (pressure-sensitive) labelstock Substrate Offers Gloss and Print Contrast Raflatac ...