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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 ...

The High End of EDP Labels

(Office Products)

June 30, 2002, ... Label. Do-It-Yourself Philosophy Traditionally, says Cochran, EDP labels have been produced in “commodity” fashion, with suppliers converting master rolls of pressure-sensitive material into die-cut ...

Tapes & More Tapes

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May 31, 2002, ... tapes, TPP/MOPP strapping tapes, tear tapes, carton sealing tapes, filament tapes, duct tapes, and specialty tapes. Notes Carroll, “Basically, we're making pressure-sensitive tape for anything you can ...

FFTA Campaigns for Flexo

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May 31, 2002, ... unit. Eckart America, Painesville, OH, introduced Ultrastar FX-1803 and FX-1805, solvent-based metallic inks for flexible packaging and pressure-sensitive labels. The inks are said to deliver optical ...

Avery Completes Jackstadt Acquisition

(News | New Products)

May 21, 2002, ... agreement was announced early last September, had a purchase price of approx. $295 million, including assumption of debt. Based in Wuppertal, Germany, Jackstädt is a manufacturer of pressure-sensitive ...

RadTech 2002 Yields High Performance

(News | New Products)

May 05, 2002, ... printing plates, which account for nearly half of total); and adhesives (3% of total UV/EB US market; includes laminating, pressure-sensitive, and optical adhesives) The RadTech Report (as ...

P-S Labels Every Which Way

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April 30, 2002, Tadbik Ltd. reports it is the largest pressure-sensitive label converter in Israel, controlling more than 60% of that country's prime label market and Tadbik Ltd. reports it is the largest pressure-sensitive ...

Every Trick in the Book

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March 31, 2002, ... an extended, pressure-sensitive (p-s) film label for USanimals from Usana Health Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT. The label replaces less durable p-s paper and p-s metallized paper labels and unwraps partially ...

It's Tape to Innovate: PSTC Celebrates 25 at Tech XX

(News | New Products)

March 17, 2002, ... 30," says the Council, "six industry leaders will serve as faculty for 12 hours of classroom discussion and interactive learning in 'Tape University 102: Advanced Technology for Pressure-Sensitive Tapes.' ...

Diverse Products Meet Many High-End Needs

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February 28, 2002, ... structures. Otherwise, if you want, for example, a color metallized film with a pressure-sensitive and liner, you have to work with several companies, or the company would be sourcing materials from other ...

Reporter Clips

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February 28, 2002, News from: Brook & Whittle, Convergent Label Technology, Indigo N.V., Mark Andy, Scapa North America, and Xaar plc, plus coming events and narrow web People & Places. Narrow Web Converting Industry ...

Helping Bring Home the Bacon

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February 28, 2002, ... some pretty tough customers. Brian Weller has a pretty simple business philosophy: “As long as people continue to eat, we think we're okay.” That's because the pressure-sensitive label company he founded ...

Reclosability & Flex-Packs

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January 31, 2002, ... and recloseability: zippers sliders pressure-sensitive adhesives snap closure laser uses fitment Zippers Take Off Introduced into the market in the late 1980s by firms such as Dole, Nestlé, ...

Mark Andy/Comco Flexo Feast Feeds Minds of Converting Industry

(News | New Products)

January 01, 2002, ...  for instance, that carton packaging method goes into a pouch structure, the converter doesn’t have to lose it to a flexible packager; he can keep it in-house. Or if a tag-and-label guy wants to print pressure-sensitiv ...

Reporter Clips

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December 31, 2001, ... GmbH, Wuppertal, Germany, with annual revenues of $400 million. Jackstadt is a manufacturer of PSA (pressure-sensitive adhesive) materials based in Germany. The all-cash transaction is expected to be ...

One-Dimensional Converter Expands Its Reach

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October 31, 2001, ... in pressure-sensitive, heat-shrink, and in-mold labels. But just two years ago, the Cincinnati, OH-based company was best known as “a premier supplier of in-mold labels,” says Steve Mulch, senior VP of ...

TLMI Awards: Hardworking Labels & Tags Reap Their Reward

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September 30, 2001, ... in the Coupon category. The two-ply promotional label is not pressure-sensitive; it was designed to be used as a detachable coupon and to be applied by high-speed labelers using wet glue without flagging ...