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Spills Are Out with New Spout

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... pouch can be squeezed to evacuate the product through the spout; or the consumer can place his or her lips around the spout and, through suction, draw the liquid up through the valve. If the pouch is ...

Sonoco to Raise Paperboard Prices

(News | New Products)

May 14, 2002, ... by $50 (US) per ton, effective June 4, 2002. Says Jim Bowen, Sonoco sr. VP, "We are initiating this increase as a partial pass-through of increasing costs in energy, logistics, insurance, raw materials, ...

Smurfit-Stone Streamlines Sourcing with Perfect Commerce Software

(News | New Products)

May 06, 2002, Perfect Commerce, Inc., a supplier of enterprise supply management (ESM) software and services, recently announced a Smurft-Stone investment in its product technology.

Thriving on Gravure & Location

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... and envy, is slightly smaller than Rhode Island and about as big as metropolitan London. Luxembourg may not be as big a tourist draw as its superpower neighbors, but its charms are nonetheless unique ...

New Products for the Narrow Web Converting Industry

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... has programmable tension control and end-of-roll detection. Slitter has auto edge guiding and entry and exit “S” wrap pull rolls with adjustable “draw” control; interchangeable slitting assemblies for ...

Sonoco Ups Euro Coreboard Prices; Packaging Provider also to Close California Bag Plant

(News | New Products)

April 30, 2002, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM Sonoco recently announced its intent to increase prices (for all paper grades manufactured at its European mills) by 40 to 50 Euro per

Need New Equipment or Accessories? NPD Is the Place to Look

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... fabric cutting machines. Drawdown Machine Is Automatic Industry Tech, Oldsmar, FL; 727/867-5182; industrytech.net The Auto-Draw III is said to offer laboratory users the lowest-cost, fully automatic ...

Ashland Specialty Chemical Company Ups Resin Prices

(News | New Products)

April 23, 2002, ... with shipments on and after May 13, 2002. "The price is due primarily to rapidly escalating costs of raw materials, particularly styrene monomer, which are impacted by current global pricing instability ...

Every Trick in the Book

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... drawn susceptor tray, replacing a previous susceptor container that tended to result in overly browned crust yet cool filling. The Qwik-Wave® “dish” consists primarily of 48 ga PET (from DuPont Teijin ...

Release-Liner Review at LabelExpo USA

(News | New Products)

March 31, 2002, ... issues, opportunities, and the value-chain; papers from leading raw material manufacturers, which will evaluate pulp trends and the implications for release liners (as well as for papers, films, and silicones); ...

Coating and Laminating Special Report

(Archive)

February 28, 2002, ... about long-term profitability, due to the increasing competition in almost every sector. Price fluctuations in raw materials exacerbate the situation and make a stable pricing structure impossible to maintain). ...

Overcoats Offer Protection (and You Don't Have to Button Up

(Magazine)

January 31, 2002, ... have been formulating them using various raw materials ranging from nitrocellulose to PU. The overcoats contained formulating ingredients intended to provide specific properties necessary for the end use. ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

January 31, 2002, ... products, laminators, and raw material suppliers such as release liner manufacturers — to collect its waste and dispose of it responsibly. AWA Conferences organized the first event covering the topic ...

Russian Flex-Pack Markets Holds Potential

(News | New Products)

January 23, 2002, ... our quality management system to meet all international standards such as ISO-9000:2000." Raw materials include OPP from Manuli and ExxonMobil and inks from Akzo Nobel and Siegwerk Druckferben. Moving ...

Fundamentals Keep the Converting Industry Strong

(Magazine)

December 31, 2001, ... suppliers. Maintain adequate records on all aspects of production. Keep retains of everything from raw materials to finished goods. Test finished products adequately at appropriate intervals during ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

December 31, 2001, ... unique flavors, banana, orange cream, and vanilla shake, and two standard flavors, chocolate and strawberry. The shrink labels for all five flavors are rotogravure printed in ten colors on heat-shrink ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Archive)

December 30, 2001, Providing practical information to the converting and packaging industries. Conference Draws Rave Reviews by John Benham Subscribing to the theory that numbers do not lie, results of a post conference ...

Agfa Xcalibur: Jewel in Converter's Crow

(News | New Products)

December 19, 2001, ... Xcalibur system is the reason why we produce better printing—it's just that simple," says Doug Rawson, VP/GM of Superior Lithographics. According to the co., Xcalibur uses an extremely reliable semi-automatic ...

Wide Web Handling and the Problems It Can Bring

(Magazine)

November 30, 2001, ... Many of you have let me know that my efforts were not futile. I also want to thank all of the people at PFFC magazine, especially managing editor Debbie Donberg for redoing my raw materials and making ...

K Show Visitors Down, But Plastics Show Organizer Says Business Is Good

(News | New Products)

November 14, 2001, ... "The exhibitors (raw materials and machinery mfrs. as well as plastics and rubber processors) agreed that in the current difficult global political and economic environment, K 2001 again proved its status ...