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Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Magazine)

January 30, 2005, ... chuck. ANI Issues an Alert on Shortage PLYMOUTH, MN—ANI Printing Inks reports a drastic shortage of acrylic acid, one of the key base raw materials used to produce binders for UV and water-based ...

Sun Chemical Forms New Business Unit, Sun Chemical Security

(Archive)

January 02, 2005, ... use of taggants or markers by "fingerprinting" raw materials. Currency—primarily intaglio inks as well as varnish and overt features designed to prevent counterfeiting. "There is a confusing variety of ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, ... with flexo printing, die-cutting, folding/gluing, corrugated and board conversion, inspection, and accessories all in one zone. Notes exhibition director Trevor Crawford, "…the lines between postpress ...

A Communication from the PLACE div. of TAPPI

(Flexpack)

December 30, 2004, ... g/m2 at 150 m/min to obtain stable processing conditions. The line speed was then increased in steps of 50 m/min until the web broke. The line speed at which the web broke (draw-down speed) and the neck-in ...

Getting it Right, the First Time

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December 30, 2004, ... systems that are easier to use, and auto registration. "A number of things are driving these changes, including a higher level of quality expectations from customers, increased cost of raw materials, especially ...

Coating & Laminating Special Report, Part 2

(Archive)

December 30, 2004, ... and economics. "The greatest challenge facing metallizing companies is strengthening their position in the supply chain. Large raw material suppliers are increasing the cost of materials used in producing ...

Coating & Laminating Special Report, Part 4

(Archive)

December 30, 2004, ... and the high cost of raw materials—particularly petrochemicals and resins—a degree of rationalization has taken place. This involves primarily the laminators, most of whom are global players, but pan-European ...

Coating & Laminating Special Report, Part 6

(Archive)

December 30, 2004, ... can never include the normal longer-range sources of machine, raw material, and environmental effects impacting product variability. These may take several days to a number of months to occur. Also, ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, ... show, which is expected to draw more than 22,000 print providers and technical and creative professionals from around the world. More than 500 exhibiting companies will cover 500,000 sq ft of exhibit space. ...

Model Mock-Ups

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... industry]." Forging Ahead Haney PRC is building its business based on the concept of innovation, quality, and being able, as Haney describes it, to crawl inside their customers’ heads and know exactly ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... featured speaker awards for Dan Bemi of MEGTEC Systems from the coating/laminating sessions and Pete Martin of Pacific Northwest Laboratory from the vacuum web coating sessions. IMLCON 2004 Draws ...

New Product Digest, Part 1

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November 29, 2004, ... data on raw material consumption by the extruder at the rate of one update every 0.5 sec. High-speed responsiveness makes control applicable even in extrusion lines where there are frequent ramp-down/ramp-up ...

Dec. 7-9: AMI's Polyethylene Films 2004 Will Focus on North American Industr

(Archive)

November 21, 2004, ... at how specialty mineral products can add value to products. The conference also will showcase an additives and raw materials session which will include the latest developments as well as additional presentations ...

Supplier News

(Magazine)

October 31, 2004, ... slitter/rewinder completes the center's equipment offerings. Douglas sees moderate growth in new technologies and cold seal applications — even with the cost of raw materials rising — for the core business ...

thePLACE

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... Flexibles, Mark Montsinger of Bryce Corp., Eric Koch of C&H Packaging, and Tom Dunn of Printpack, Inc. Each person addressed what they would like to see in innovations in raw materials and converting equipment. ...

Extrusion Dies

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, Due to the intense competition in today's marketplace, extrusion-coating converters face greater challenges than ever. Coating Control Applying molten polymer to a substrate often entails drawdowns of ...

Technical Facility

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... types, such as multilayer high-barrier and low-sealing films, as well as specialty raw materials. It is reported to be the only pilot lab facility in the world with simultaneous stretching technology. ...

Pilot Line

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... rents the 33-in. lines to raw material suppliers, such as silicone manufacturers, that want to run tests of their own or demonstrate potential capabilities to their own customers. Krebs says the pilot ...

Coating Rods

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... be coated at production speeds. Manual and motor-diven drawdown machines were introduced for the laboratory in the 1980s and 1990s. These use wire-wound rods and allow scientists and technicians to ...

Converting Industry News

(Archive)

October 30, 2004, ... completes the center’s equipment offerings. Douglas sees moderate growth in new technologies and cold seal applications—even with the cost of raw materials rising—for the core business of Rohm and Haas’s ...