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Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact

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May 31, 2000, ... to Barry Conrad, VP of Peerless Machine, "After years of research, we believe we can confirm that the Peerless P-Line was the first paperboard plate-forming line to be roll-fed. Roll feeding greatly enhanced ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

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May 31, 2000, ... percent of the requirements for all of our DairyPak plants. In addition, we have our own on-site research and development facility." Waynesville's R&D facility includes such equipment as an X-Rite color ...

Decorative Films Served by Multilayer Structure

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May 31, 2000, ... the ALUphane film took almost three years to develop and perfect so it was color-stable and cost-effective to produce. After extensive research, Allied determined that a structure with caps of K-Resin ...

System Keeps Static Buildup Problems Under Control

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February 29, 2000, ... began several years ago, when Shanks was assigned to research and secure the best possible static control solution available in an effort to improve employee safety and optimize quality control within ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, ... in use for the product. You don't want to have an overengineered film for a bag of potato chips." Dan Ward, research specialist, Equistar, agrees that economics is behind the development and innovations ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ... ten years of research and test runs, Jacobsen has secured two US patents (additional patents are pending) to take the 3-D process from sheet-fed to roll-fed and cut the expensive multistep process to just ...

Need and innovation are driving digital printing.

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November 30, 1996, ... are the result of enormous amounts of research and development dollars, and all are the subject of ongoing development. John Ickes, corporate VP and general manager worldwide printing, Indigo, reports ...

Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.

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November 30, 1996, Quantum Chemical Corp. assists converters with product and process improvements on its state-of-the-art extrusion coating line located at the Allen Research Quantum Chemical Corp. assists converters with ...

New possibilities for beer packaging in PEN and LCP

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August 31, 1996, ... (LCPs) as beer bottle resins. Work being done with LCPs at North Carolina State Univ. (Raleigh, NC) is making bottles less permeable than those made by PET. Researchers there successfully developed a detailed ...

Perforating tear-resistant materials takes a big step.

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August 31, 1996, ... important ecological benefit. Richard Ulvila, director of research and development at Zimmer Industries Inc., has been a recognized leader in high-technology engineering and R&D for over 30 years. At ...

Dutch converter retakes his company

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July 31, 1996, ...  Most of Bolding's research and development activities are directed toward lightweighting and attempting to effect barrier reduction by using single-ply constructions as replacements for multi-ply laminates. ...

Foil and potatoes - Aluminum Assn. presents a response.

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July 31, 1996, ... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is tracking research at the Univ. of Wisconsin on the safety of aluminum foil in wrapped baked potatoes. The recently completed Univ. of Wisconsin study ...

Aqueous adhesive systems: giving credit where it is due.

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July 31, 1996, ... in solvent adhesives followed a progression from easiest to hardest end use. Researchers in the aqueous field used the same approach. That is why the first adhesive was the p-s acrylic copolymer and the ...

A look at the status of UV/EB curing

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June 30, 1996, ... a relatively complex, multistage, batch process; * There is less competitive intensity; * It is a newer technology and not fully depreciated; * There is a higher research and development cost ...

Something new under the sun

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June 30, 1996, ... mixtures. Ten Years of Research This unique coating was developed for Graphic Management Specialty Products by a research team headed by Conrad Canter. He and his two partners have more than 100 ...

MSC Specialty Films reaches success down to the core

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May 31, 1996, ...  Dickerson says MSC Specialty Film's sophisticated research and development team helped them win the 1994 and 1995 Technology of the Year award from the Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators ...

The challenge of formulating FDA compliance.

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April 30, 1996, ... work of research, development, or technical service chemists involved in formulating a product for a food packaging application? Should these individuals be concerned with the regulations? Must formulators ...

For adhesives or coatings, ask the right questions

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February 29, 1996, ... Massachusetts Inst. of Technology and over 30 years of experience in the research, development, and technical service of products used in flexible packaging, coatings, pressure-sensitive-adhesive applications, ...

Business and education join forces, and everybody wins

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February 29, 1996, ... 25 full-time graduate students. In addition to seven regular faculty members, the program has four full-time people engaged in industry support activities, including training, testing, and research. Students ...

Regulation, competition drive the adhesives industry

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January 31, 1996, Perhaps the biggest reason for the rapid change in the adhesives business is the Environmental Protection Agency's push to eliminate volatile organic Perhaps the biggest reason for the rapid change in ...