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Thomas E. Tyndall

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Archive)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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

(Slit)

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

(Archive)

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 ...

A Developing Story

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... facility obviously provides even more space for Polykote to store and convert its customers' raw materials. “Certainly, from a volume standpoint, it allows us to do more,” says Guzzo, “but really it's the ...

Critical TRENDS

(Special Reports)

May 31, 2007, ... Sales Revenue Percent Increase Q. By what percent did 2006 revenue increase over 2005? Raw material costs continued to increase. Slightly fewer respondents reported an increase in 2007, however ...

Knowledge = Power = Success

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... draw their strength from outside sources, including high schools, colleges, universities, and independent industry training institutes. Focusing on Flexo Flexographic Trade School (FTS) (www.weareflexo.com), ...

Converter Clips

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... petroleum. All process steps were studied, including the production of raw materials and continued through all processing, transportation, and fabrication. Reportedly, the data show that packages weighing ...

Mike Schmitt

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... important as well. And, of course, you have to stay focused on the customer. What is the biggest threat to the converting industry right now? For packaging converters, volatility in the cost of raw ...

Cause & Defect

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, ... bearings in the coater web transport system. Contaminants also come from raw materials in the coating solution, coater dryer air and air-handling systems, and ambient air in the coating room. Chemical ...

Design & Color: Part II of II

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... space would be preset based on dispenser ink drawdowns. At step 2 the ink supplier matches the original art with production dispenser inks used on the press. Very often the original art colors are specified ...