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Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

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September 30, 2000, ... a number of other employee enticements. The company is located strategically—halfway between Appleton and Green Bay—so it can draw people from either city. The facility offers an exercise room, and a d ...

Customer Satisfaction Begins and Ends with Quality

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September 30, 2000, ...  backs it up with aggressive investment, careful selection of raw materials, and routine training of employees to enable them to be a valuable resource for customers. All of that adds up to a company wit ...

Hot Melt Symposium Covers Many Topics

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September 30, 2000, ... job information, meeting schedules, and on-line anonymous buying and selling opportunities. For his presentation entitled "Raw Material Trends for Hot Melt Adhesives in Europe," Robert W. Smith of The ...

Polyester Film Supplier Helps Converter Grow

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September 30, 2000, ... inventory of raw materials to meet virtually any customer tape need. Custom Tapes buys more than 5 million lb of paper annually from Kimberly-Clark and smaller suppliers, along with 5,000-10,000-lb rolls ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... management. Show News Converflex Europe Draws New Exhibitors MILAN, ITALY—Centrexpo Spa, organizers of Converflex Europe, report that 23% of all bookings for the 2001 show have come from new exhibitors; ...

Study Assesses the Future of Release Liners in Europe

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August 31, 2000, Manufacturers of release liners and the converters and laminators that use them, in Europe and beyond, are experiencing a challenging trading environment. With pressure building on prices due to raw material ...

For ''Friendly'' Adhesives and Coatings, You Must Prioritiz

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August 31, 2000, ... the material will not harm the environment. This lack of harm must cover many factors. Raw materials used in the product must not deplete any naturally occurring material. The method or process that combines ...

Label Converter's Business Is Prime Labels & Prid

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August 30, 2000, ... working relationship with Trinity Graphics and other raw materials suppliers and equipment manufacturers as critical to Premiere's quality development. The converter often supplements its own R&D staff ...

Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch

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July 31, 2000, ... US packaging industry. As such, beyond food industry trends, vendors of converted flexible packaging are subject to a number of factors, including raw material prices, technological developments, environmental ...

Specialists in Interior Packaging Branch Out

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June 30, 2000, ... buys no raw film or foil materials to run on it, though it does buy paper products from International Paper and Westvaco for use in its numerous other converting operations. A History of Adapting Winter, ...

Outlook 2000 and Beyond: The State of the Trade

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June 30, 2000, This month we bring you our annual summary of the converting-related industries from the US Industry & Trade Outlook, published by The McGraw-Hill Cos. This month we bring you our annual summary of the ...

Box Plant Rises from the Ashes to New Heights

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May 31, 2000, ... sections used for warehousing raw materials and finished goods remained structurally sound, and a new addition that was under construction at the time of the fire suffered only smoke and water damage. ...

Coating Operation Cleans Up Its (Trim Removal) Act

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May 31, 2000, ... Inc. Flaking Off into Trouble In the production process, a liquid-state, epoxy-type resin, comprising raw glass and a catalyst, is applied in a bath onto a woven fiberglass web that is 38-58 in. wide, ...

On-Line Purchasing Saves Time, Money, and Space

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May 31, 2000, ... utilizing the FlexoSource system, "Our inventory reduction has been unbelievable," notes Marquart. Printpack has slashed its raw materials storage area from 370,000 to 90,000 sq ft. The company orders ...

Bag machine adds value to customer-oriented operation.

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November 30, 1996, A new FMC servo draw bag machine fits right in at All-Pak, a company that takes customer needs very seriously.When Fred J. Faletti founded All-Pak Inc., A new FMC servo draw bag machine fits right in at ...

Temperature control helps ink customers optimize performance.

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November 30, 1996, ... Raytek Raynger PM portable noncontact thermometers to help its customers get the most out of their presses. Any printing process is difficult to maintain without a good sense of the raw materials and ...

Czech retail developments could affect converters.

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October 31, 1996, ... after shopkeepers admitted to ignorance of the law. City-center rivals Tesco and Kotva both take back empties, and a straw poll conducted by the Prague Post found Krone to be the only offender among ...

Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.

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October 31, 1996, ... tight specifications and good roll formation, which provide the necessary even tension control that minimizes blocking at the core and gauge bands. "We constantly seek out quality, low-cost raw materials, ...

Label converter controls quality from the inside out

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August 31, 1996, ... allows us to customize them to meet our own needs." Walle's inks are drawn down on the same paper the labels will be printed on and are constantly subjected to rigorous computerized testing. "When we'r ...

New possibilities for beer packaging in PEN and LCP

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August 31, 1996, ... raw materials needed for PEN production. At the recent Interpak exhibit, Greiner and Sons (Kremsmunster, Austria) exhibited PEN bottles for beer. These were designed as returnable and refillable bottles ...