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One New Treater, Many New Benefits

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November 30, 2001, ... of our need for treatment on a third line, they brought a totally new concept to the table,” Clemons recalls. “They offered to work with us up front to custom design the unit to meet our needs. This unit ...

The Cadillac of Corrugated: Tri-Wall

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November 30, 2001, ... was a necessity at the heart of production, in the flexo folder/gluer operation, where the final containers are made,” recalls Chambers. “To keep our quality commitment of giving our customers exactly ...

Workhorse Winders Do More Than Ever Before

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November 30, 2001, ... and recall it at a later date for a repeat performance.” “Everything is electronic and much more quantifiable,” adds Butler. Data acquisition capabilities allow operators to store speed and tension ...

One-Dimensional Converter Expands Its Reach

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October 31, 2001, ... nobody, particularly in detergent packaging, was happy with the performance of glue-applied labels,” recalls Mulch. “On large bottles, glue-applied labels are more difficult to control and position reliably ...

Die-Hard Creativity Keeps Converter Growing and GROWING

(Office Products)

September 30, 2001, ... “got into” Jannel's business shortly thereafter. Murphy recalls, “The real truth of the matter is, one night at dinner, Mike is like, ‘I don't know what to do. I've got this building. I'm toying with the idea ...

Sierra Story Is a Saga of Changing Times

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September 30, 2001, ... Koz-loski recalls. Sierra, however, wasn't discouraged. In February 1997 Shade Jr., Kozloski, and an investor group purchased Shade/Allied Coated Products and renamed it Sierra Coating Technologies LLC. ...

Vacumet Makes Metallizing Dreams Come True

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August 31, 2001, ... customers, each roll is sealed in a moisture-resistant plastic. McGarel recalls a large shipment of wrapped rolls sent to a customer in Europe. “The rolls arrived with sea salt on them. We don't know how ...

CPSC: The Other Packaging Regulatory Agency to Watch

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August 31, 2001, ... to order recalls or propose regulations. Packaging-related recalls have most frequently involved violations of child-resistant packaging requirements over the years. The agency attempted to propose regulations ...

Products

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June 30, 2001, ... Store and recall up to ten job setups. Digital Press Runs at High Speed Barco Graphics, Vandalia, OH; ph: 937/454-1721;fax: 937/454-1522. Designed for industrial applications, the.factory digital ...

All Zipped Up: Hard-to-Beat Valley Packaging Tackles New Zipper Technology

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June 29, 2001, ... which was two or three years ago,” recalls Lance, “and we didn't understand who would ever buy that ‘zipper-on-a-roll’ stuff. But a year ago last spring, we became convinced it was a keeper. There seemed ...

Sheet Fed Lithography: Hammer Lithographic

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March 31, 2001, ... came to us and said, ‘We have this unique looking wide-mouthed PET bottle, and we want to put the most dynamic label we can find on it,’” recalls Iovoli. “That label turned out to be the award-winning ...

Tension Control

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March 31, 2001, ... a major maintenance headache,” Long recalls. “They were not very reliable. They were messy. We had rust, line clogs, line breakage, and water spills. Plus, the technology was behind the times.” The ...

How One Converter Mastered Sheet-Fed Films

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March 31, 2001, ... was then a new wide-mouthed PET bottle. “Perrier came to us and said, ‘We have this unique looking wide-mouthed PET bottle, and we want to put the most dynamic label we can find on it,’” recalls Iovoli. ...

Forging Ahead into the Digital Printing Frontier

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January 31, 2001, ... helped him make the swift decision—he was in the car, riding back from Indigo's Connecticut facility to Manhattan—to buy the Indigo. "My dad was with me," V.J. recalls, "and he asked what I thought about ...

Coating Operation Starts a Tradition of Growth

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November 30, 2000, ...  have an actual facility in which to house the coater/laminator. "That's when the clock started ticking in my mind," he recalls. "So, I raced over here, signed with the city, and designed the building. Wha ...

The Vacumet Story Is a 30-Year History of Growth

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August 31, 2000, ...  grew out of a meeting with the late W.R. Scholle in the early 1980s. "I met him at an AIMCAL meeting," Korowicki recalls, "and Bill said he had a project in the works that needed metallized polyester. H ...

Specialists in Interior Packaging Branch Out

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June 30, 2000, ... in Massachusetts. Recalls Stroud, "Jagenberg/Kampf brought it down in February of 1998, installed it, and then provided our operators with a week of training." The 63-in. duplex slitter/rewinder runs ...

Box Plant Rises from the Ashes to New Heights

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May 31, 2000, ... of Sonderen Packaging, Spokane, WA, recalls of the June 1998 fire. Yet, they very well could have been, had Sonderen and his 46 employees not acted fast to save the business. Help from dedicated personnel, ...

Decorative Films Served by Multilayer Structure

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May 31, 2000, ...  Ellenbogen says, recalling the development process and the choice of suppliers: "I knew what I wanted and speculated on the resins that would be needed. But it was the help I received from Barrier and ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

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March 31, 2000, ... Labor Day that year," Barrett recalls, "and by mid-November we put the first resin and paper through the machine. We were selling commercial products off the line by Christmastime." Both lines run at ...