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Managing Your Way Through a ''Green'' Futur

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March 31, 2000, ... and 75% by 2006. Latest reports anticipate that the goal for 2001 is achievable, although serious questions remain regarding the ability to meet the 75% threshold and the quality of the recycling activities ...

Human/Machine Interface Offers Best of Two Worlds

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March 31, 2000, ... by Microsoft. Quality Control Made Easier Beyond mastering machine control, HMI software also can be used for on-line quality control, statistical quality control, and enterprise-wide planning. Equally ...

System Keeps Static Buildup Problems Under Control

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February 29, 2000, ... began several years ago, when Shanks was assigned to research and secure the best possible static control solution available in an effort to improve employee safety and optimize quality control within ...

Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority

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January 31, 2000, ... circuit board imaging, high quality ceramic tableware, and CD printing. The company reports its range includes many industry leaders such as Capillex capillary films and Plus direct emulsions. Autotype ...

Static electricity can be a very costly problem

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August 31, 1998, ... want to run higher quality products at higher speeds, and dust will lower the quality of laminated products, coated products, and printed products," says Kessler. "The bottom line is that static costs the ...

Two states adopt regulations for rigid-container laws

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January 31, 1998, ... suppliers or their customers. On Oct. 21, 1994, the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission adopted regulations implementing the 1991 Oregon Rigid Plastic Container Recycling Law. The Recycling Law ...

EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.

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October 31, 1996, ... in cost and product quality but also in environmental and health safety. Yet for all the hard work done to date, information comparing the three ink technologies in a complete and systematic way is ...

Partnering launches future growth in laminations

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August 31, 1996, ... Second, customers today more and more are demanding "partnerships" that improve profitability, service, and quality for themselves and their supplier (Chase & Sons). And third, both customers and their ...

FTA winners show off strides in Flexo

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June 30, 1996, ... and defect visibility); and level of execution (image sharpness, ink coverage, registration, dot/screen/vignette quality, and consistency). Judging the competition were Dave Akin, Menasha Corp.; Randy ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

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May 31, 1996, ... short runs with a narrow version of a wide web press from PCMC. In business for nearly 30 years, Duralam Inc., Appleton, WI, prides itself on delivering "Quality...On Time" for short- to medium-size ...

Advances in prepress are making heads spin.

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May 31, 1996, ... to achieving that end goal of delivering a high quality product are changing on an almost daily basis. Bethea noted that, traditionally, conventional prepress equipment was purchased on the assumption ...

Custom coating operation is a clean winner

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February 29, 1996, Targeted toward industries with very strict standards, Rexam Custom's Netherlands plant sets its own high standards of quality.Rexam Custom, a specialty Targeted toward industries with very strict standards, ...

Senate Republicans push amendments to Clean Air Act

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January 31, 1996, ... Administrator demonstrate that a state has acted in "bad faith" before applying sanctions. However, the application of sanctions for failing to meet air quality standards would not be affected. The amendments ...

Opportunities abound in an emerging Indian market

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December 31, 1995, ... goods and expecting high quality. After decades of towering import duties, India has changed its policies and now encourages international investment There are plenty of companies looking east to expand ...

Converting capabilities grow in Caribbean nations.

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September 30, 1995, ... of packaging: a lesser quality for domestic consumption and a better quality (typically involving imported packaging or its components) for export goods. Glass is the only packaging material that can ...

Doctor blades are the right Rx for gravure

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September 30, 1995, A new doctor blade design, offering spring load tension and high contact angle, reportedly makes the quality printing afforded by gravure even better.The A new doctor blade design, offering spring load ...

Plastics society urges repeal of Clean Air Act provisions

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September 30, 1995, ... company president Ted Swain. "Recycling is environmentally sound, and the market will increasingly demand it. Wood chip supplies are diminishing, and we have the technology to make quality products out ...

Consider film cores when analyzing costs.

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July 31, 1995, ...  current core specifications and applications, it proposed switching to a thinner wall core, which would lower costs without sacrificing quality. Sonoco all examined the length of AlliedSignal's cores an ...

Future of video inspection systems seems bright.

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June 30, 1995, ... bar-code quality, monitoring and correcting registration as well as checking for other print defects. The high-end active video inspection systems can also alert the operator when errors are found and ...

Clean air rules are changing & you can have a say

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May 31, 1995, ... can produce quality data if it's followed conscientiously. The final guidance document allows industry to use alternatives to the gas-to-gas protocol, provided the data produced by those alternatives ...