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Release Liners: A Worldwide Special Report

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October 31, 2002, ... face of raw material price increases they cannot pass on and heavy pressure on margins. Those in the middle of the value chain in the release liner market are experiencing pressures, too, and it is here ...

Honeywell Launches Site for Plastic Info... at Users' Fingertips

(News | New Products)

October 27, 2002, ... updated website offers several significant additions, which gives customers access to pertinent Honeywell plastic information -- literally at their fingertips. Says the co. of its improved portal: "Drawing ...

US Label Shipments to Grow thru 2006

(News | New Products)

October 22, 2002, ... presents this and other label product trends for the converting industry. According to Freedonia, expanded shipments will generate demand for 2.5 billion lb of raw materials, and technologies ranging ...

Products

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September 30, 2002, ... production and assembly costs in printing, folding, winding, and embossing units and in draw rollers and cross cutters. Automatic Web Inspection Futec, Hertfordshire, England; +44 (0) 1442 241700; ...

Thin Webs without Wrinkles

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September 30, 2002, ... surface spreader rolls and the “curved axis” or bowed roll systems were described as “excellent” systems according to the study. The single distinguishing drawback of bowed spreader rolls, compared ...

What's New in Narrow We

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September 30, 2002, ... web-fed materials does not involve plates or dies. Using Corel Draw to prepare the image, the shape to be cut is programmed into the built-in computer. Has an operating speed of 400 mpm with a web width ...

Suppliers Predict Strong 2003 Recovery

(News | New Products)

September 26, 2002, ... CMM Events, organizer of CMM (Converting Machinery/Materials Conference and Expo) International. But other recent news reports reveal that some raw materials producers, as well as US government officials, ...

1974 - 1976

(News | New Products)

September 19, 2002, ... suggested National Center for Resource Recovery, Inc. With raw materials in short supply, the municipal waste stream is now being recognized as untapped reservoir of steel, aluminum, glass, paper, and ...

1990 - April 1993

(News | New Products)

September 19, 2002, ... use at an Austrian firm. 1991 Less than 48 hours after Iraq ignores a U.N. deadline for withdrawing troops form Kuwait, President Bush announces that the US and coalition forces have attacked Baghdad. ...

1977 - 1979

(News | New Products)

September 19, 2002, ... board now can be produced in 2- and 3-compartment styles, as well as deep drawn roaster pans, broiler pans, and steam-cabinet trays." April 1979 Flexographic Technical Assn. (FTA) Helps Industry with ...

1950s

(News | New Products)

August 27, 2002, ... the first Doctor Machine, a salvage rewinder designed to reclaim scrap rolls of material due to defective printing. March 1950 Crawford Inc. offers a quick-change rotary press. Company says press can ...

1970 - 1973

(News | New Products)

August 26, 2002, ...  growth industry, one of its most promising areas of activity in pressure-sensitive labels, for which large new markets continue to open up and expand." Bemis Co. developed drawcord PE "Dometop Re-Clos-It ...

Turning Standard into Specialty

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July 31, 2002, ...  “Laser technology offers the ability to convert any shape, in any volume, with no design drawbacks,” explains Wegmann. “It really allows the user tremendous freedom in designing a part.” “It's generally ...

Converter's Niche: Innovatio

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July 31, 2002, ... and training sessions or in digital printing in marketing and advertising. By using new raw materials and by continuous product and process optimization, cost-reduction potential for the whole series ...

DOVIDs: Functional Beauty

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July 31, 2002, ... to draw images on the plate surface in a similar way to those produced by a dot matrix printer. This is a laser interference technique and not a holographic imaging technique. The resulting image does ...

Seminar Addresses UV/EB Curable Technology

(News | New Products)

July 21, 2002, ...  Technical presentations included an overview of the UV/EB technology and markets, equipment used for UV cure, the raw materials used in UV/EB inks and how to formulate with them, and troubleshooting ...

Products

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June 30, 2002, ... Industry Tech, Laser Machining, Maxson Automatic, PCMC, Pentalift Equipment, RK Print-Coat Instruments, Schlumpf, Starna Industries, TecScan, Valco Cincinnati, W+D Machinery, and Woodward Mfg. Drawdown ...

In the Bag

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June 30, 2002, ... profits.... In the Bag The heavy-duty sack industry has been showing some changes based on the prices of raw materials as well as the production technologies. The effect of those variables will determine ...

PET Film: Mitsubishi Increases Price

(News | New Products)

June 04, 2002, ... one. With the escalating cost of raw materials and the lowest variable margins ever recorded in the polyester film industry, we were compelled to adjust our current pricing structure. On a positive note," ...

Converting Industry News

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May 31, 2002, ... is capable of producing more than 300 million lb (140,000 metric tons) of NatureWorks PLA/yr and uses up to 40,000 bushels of locally grown corn/day as the raw material. The facility harvests the carbon ...