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Release Liner Special Report, Part 2

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October 31, 2007, ... major space implications for Itasa. The new machine occupies much of what was previously raw materials warehouse space. To compensate, the company currently is leasing an outside warehouse and ...

Ahlstrom Raises Prices on Label and Packaging Papers

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October 23, 2007, Ahlstrom will increase prices on all its label and packaging papers, as a consequence of the continuous rise of raw materials and energy costs. PRESS RELEASE HELSINKI, FINLAND | Ahlstrom will increase ...

CRI Increases Prices on Ink

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October 15, 2007, ... that the price increases are necessary due to two major factors: elimination of refunds that Chinese exporters receive from the Chinese value-added tax (VAT) and a continuing rise in raw materials, transportation, ...

2008 TAPPI Coating & Graphic Arts Conference Call for Papers

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October 08, 2007, ... in 2010 and beyond. Green chemistries. Renewable raw materials (pigments, binders, or additives). Nano materials (pigments, binders, or additives). Dry coating. Barrier coating. Blade scratch reduction. ...

In Search of Tension Isolation

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September 30, 2007, ... is the same as the entering web. If the tension zone has a positive or negative speed ratio (or draw), it would increase or decrease the tension, respectively. But the tension in any zone is not independent ...

Wet on Wet

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September 30, 2007, ...  And that, he suspects, will help sustain the company’s own development for years to come. Open House Draws International Attention After taking delivery of Fischer & Krecke’s first CI flexo ...

the PLACE

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September 30, 2007, ... food packaging ink segment. The constraints preventing full penetration into food packaging applications are the potential for odor and taste transfer, the potential for migration of existing raw materials, ...

Thomas E. Tyndall

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September 30, 2007, ... industry right now? Rising raw material costs are a challenge. In this competitive market, it is tough to pass along the increases because increased materials costs do not represent increased value to ...

Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2007, ... the macro pressures on the European packaging industry. The value chain is complex, involving a variety of supply sources—raw materials and chemicals, coating and lamination, conversion—and end-users. ...

Scoring the Scorecard

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August 31, 2007, ... raw materials. The whole supply chain is going to end up getting involved in this.” In fact, most already are. The FPA, PPC, Fibre Box Assn. (FBA), and American Forest & Paper Assn. (AFPA), among others, ...

5 Steps to Green

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August 31, 2007, ... manufacturing. It has been estimated that recovered fiber now accounts for approximately 37% of the domestic raw materials used to make paper products. Recycled paper, in fact, takes much pressure off ...

Be A Good Citizen

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August 31, 2007, ... the purchase of raw materials to the disposal of packaging—has been a primary focus of sustainable operations. For example, major end-users are demanding lighter-weight packaging, which reduces shipping ...

News Clips

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August 31, 2007, ... uses the distance from the converter to the end-user to judge the transportation impact, but it does not include the distance the raw materials travel to the converter. Also, some thought there should ...

SPI Issues Call for White Papers For New Online Community

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August 27, 2007, ... finance, and operations management—as well as domestic and international regulatory issues) or "Tech Zone" (for technical papers on science, emerging technologies, raw materials, processing techniques, ...

WHAT'S NE

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July 31, 2007, ...  The SR-2400 is a 56-in.-wide split roll belt bag machine for the production of plain or printed side weld or bottom seal bags. Dual-lane servo draw machine is said to feature superior stacking control ...

Working Undercover

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June 30, 2007, ... a broad base of suppliers of both raw materials and security devices and technologies as well as with converters to define and meet the needs of particular brand protection challenges. Science today ...

Coding: A Digital Signature

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June 30, 2007, ... authenticate their raw material components and track the global distribution of finished goods. And no crisis has dramatized the need for “cradle to grave” product protection more than the contaminated ...

Driving R&D

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June 29, 2007, ... it has the ability to control open loop draw, closed loop tension, and dancer position. Several web-transport system configurations can be analyzed with a computer-based software tool (WTS for Windows) ...

Going Thin

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June 29, 2007, ... Web Exclusive There is a strong economic incentive to make webs as light and thin as possible providing, of course, performance properties are not sacrificed. To begin with, raw material costs are contained. ...

AWA Publishes Vacuum Coated Papers & Films Sourcebook

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June 16, 2007, ... coated by direct and transfer processes. The study provides in-depth statistics on regional markets, drawing on an enhanced base of input from within the industry worldwide, and assesses the trends in ...