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Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Archive)

May 30, 2004, ... work on-hand, raw material costs, capital investment, economic conditions, and more. The report is based solely on the responses of converters that have agreed to become members of our economic panel. ...

Drupa 2004 Exceeds Expectations; Global Print Industry Anticipates Improvement

(Archive)

May 20, 2004, ... and international visitors could get information about every link in the value chain—from raw materials, manufacturing, and processing to the broad range of papers and paperboards. The strong visitor interest ...

Koerber PaperLink Schneider XT System Helps Converters and Paper Mills Eliminate Dust

(Archive)

May 02, 2004, ... beset with drawbacks and really don't work effectively. "Brushes and adhesive rollers damage the surface of the paper. Vacuum suction systems are largely inadequate, as the suction power is far too weak ...

Fast & Flawless

(Magazine)

April 29, 2004, ... equipment from Stanford Products. Terry Conway, a director of Spectratek Technologies, says packagers really have only two essential concerns when marketing their products: “How do I draw attention ...

Gussets Lead to Growth

(Magazine)

April 29, 2004, ... says Inwood, and eliminates the need for heavier chipboard or corrugated stiffeners, which add weight and cost to shipping. Inwood notes that, on average, less than 1% of direct mail pieces draw a response, ...

Optimum Release

(Magazine)

April 29, 2004, ... particularly at high speeds. Finally, capital investment required for a dedicated UV line is relatively low. The limitations that continue to prevent wider acceptance are high raw material costs, nitrogen ...

Proud & Proficient

(Flexpack)

April 29, 2004, ... “all our suppliers are selected based on their reliability, and their products must be approved by our technical department. escortnavi geneva We project the imports of most of our raw materials five months ...

National Adhesives to Increase Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Prices Mid-May 2004

(Materials)

April 18, 2004, ... adhesive product line is composed of hot melt, waterborne, solution rubber, and solution acrylic adhesives. "The price increases are necessary to offset rising raw material and energy costs," says National ...

PFFC Economic Monitor: Subscribe Today

(News | New Products)

April 03, 2004, ... said their pre-tax profits decreased in 2003 versus 2002. Other charts in this report will indicate the inability to raise selling prices, increases in raw material costs, and lower revenue levels as the ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, ... to remove the sealed plastic wrap and put the pack directly in the oven or under the grill. There is no need to touch the raw product before cooking. Heat-proof package also can be used over a barbecue, ...

PFFC's Quarterly Economic Monitor Survey Provides Specific Converting Industry Informatio

(News | New Products)

March 02, 2004, ... to the converting industry, look no further. PFFC's Economic Monitor provides this information quarterly—including data on subjects like converter revenue, profitability, work on-hand, raw material costs, ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ...  Detergent Packages Draw Customers Laundry and dishwashing may not be fun or exciting, but detergent packages certainly can be. That's why Korex Companies, Wixom, MI, USA, turned to the Composipac process ...

Converters' Wish Lists: Part II

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... personalities. Two converters making exactly the same product using exactly the same raw materials may have completely different requirements that a supplier must consider. Therefore, suppliers must ...

What Is Cationic UV Technology?

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... grew, UV free radical inks found application in offset printing applications for metal can decoration and in lithographic printing applications. Cationic UV ink technology lagged behind due to raw material ...

Success Personified

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2004, ... — the recent acquisition of a bag production facility in Sparta MI. This addition brings a new market to the company's diverse résumé of bag production. “The addition of drawstring, drawtape, and handle ...

Making Waves in Fragrance Packaging: Eastman Chemical's Glass Polymer Sleeve Creates Cool Effec

(News | New Products)

February 10, 2004, ... manager Suj Rawal. In addition, the developers of this particular package say it includes a proprietary Risdon-developed edge sealer, Color Pour adhesive. "Color Pour is used to keep the Ocean Pacific ...

COOL Rules!

(Magazine)

January 31, 2004, ... a preservative to fresh strawberries), the resulting product is not a processed food item and thus is subject to the COOL requirements. Many of the covered commodities required to bear country of origin ...

The Global Metallizing Market

(Magazine)

January 31, 2004, ... manufacturers in Europe, the Middle East, and India continues, and raw material producers and converters also are rationalizing. The new entity Treofan has resulted from the merger of Trespaphan and Moplefan, ...

G Prime A Rheological Indicator to Predict the Extrusion Coating Performance of LDPE

(The Place)

January 31, 2004, ... to polymer edge instability and web breaks. The rheology-related phenomena that may cause problems in extrusion coating are neck-in (NI) and draw-down (DD). Neck-in is the reduction of film width. It ...

UV & Jet Inks: An Exciting Combo

(Materials)

January 30, 2004, ... the cost of conventional jet inks due to the higher cost of the raw materials. In most other UV printing applications, the cost of UV ink is offset by improved productivity. In the case of UV jet inks, ...