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Presses and People Make a Powerful Combination

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September 30, 2000, ... press, "so we had very rigid testing guidelines. We made a big investment in time and effort to make sure we chose the right press." The choice? A 10-in., six-color Webtron flexo press. Ironically, the ...

Technology Puts Converter "In-Line" for More Succes

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September 30, 2000, ... polypropylene overwrap and rigid paperboard susceptor sleeve) with a single flexible wrapper, said to result in greater ease of use by the consumer and representing significant source reduction over the ...

Hot Melt Symposium Covers Many Topics

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September 30, 2000, ... ChemQuest Group, Inc., stated that hot melt materials have the second largest adhesive demand by formulative technology and are very important in the rigid bonding and packaging sectors. Key raw materials ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... in rigid and flexible plastics. Of the 22 presentations given, attendees bestowed the highest marks to Maria Noriega of Instituto Capacitacion e Investigacion del Plastico y del Caucho (ICIPC), who delivered ...

Innovation Is the Winner in Box Competition

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July 31, 2000, Rigid box and folding carton industry firms from around the world shared 123 awards presented by the National Paperbox Association (NPA) as part of its Rigid box and folding carton industry firms from ...

It's Definitely a Bull Market for High-Performance Film

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May 31, 2000, ... the next five years. Much of this growth is due to the increasing trend away from rigid materials and toward flexible materials. The Move to Flexibles There have been several new product designs in ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

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March 31, 2000, ... it down to Black Clawson and one other supplier. What really impressed us about Black Clawson was its die technology—the rigid-lip die versus the flex-lip die. We thought the rigid lip would be advantageous. ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

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February 29, 2000, ... customers are realizing that good things come in less packaging. The 1999 Top Packaging Award winners prove that flexible packages can offer the strength and durability of rigid, while increasing convenience ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... "Our multinational company base constantly is expanding based on the newly acquired interest in strategic supply chain management." Dixie Toga is divided into three basic operating divisions: rigids, ...

Oxide-coated films are still finding their market niche

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November 30, 1996, ... roughness. Chemical diffusion probably produces the best barrier, but the process is much slower than evaporation. Oxides can be deposited onto a wide variety of flexible and rigid substrates. The focus ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

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May 31, 1996, ... deck rigidity and allow precision printing at high speeds. Schwemin adds that a color touchscreen control pivots for ease of viewing and displays press status, diagnostic messages, deck position information, ...

Paperbox winners honored for industry excellence

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April 30, 1996, The National Assn. rewards folding cartons and rigid boxes for unique and outstanding packaging contributions.Forty rigid box and folding carton manufacturers The National Assn. rewards folding cartons ...

Paperboard industry showcases its winning ways

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April 30, 1996, ... the spine, an inner book portion with full overlap ends sealed with double tab locks, and an E-flute insert that provides rigidity to the structure. According to the judges, the package "truly showcases ...

Pollution and politics: how green will the new year be?

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January 31, 1996, ... innovative regulatory programs to specifically address the cleanup of these properties. The brownfields approach eschews rigid clean-up levels and bases the cleanup of such sites on the actual risk ...

Converting capabilities grow in Caribbean nations.

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September 30, 1995, ... investors. This will probably increase both packaging variety and output. The Cuban firms presently providing plastics packaging - flexible and rigid - include Combinado de Papelos Blanco (paper/polyethylene); ...

Clean air rules are changing & you can have a say

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May 31, 1995, ... in plant operations, making it possible for a firm to combine plant modifications and material substitution with great latitude, instead of being subjected to the rigid and arduous permit process. The ...

Reynolds subsidiary in Spain benefits from technology transfer

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May 31, 1995, ... are rigid and there's tough competition from other better well-equipped flex-pack converters in Europe. It would seem that more emphasis should be spent on the upgrading of overall equipment and total European ...

Film offers food packagers green marketing opportunity

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April 30, 1995, ... directed at the rigid plastics industry m states like California, Oregon, Wisconsin and Florida. The laws and implementation dates vary, but packagers in those states are already scrambling to produce ...

Strong growth predicted for flex-pack industry

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March 31, 1995, ... specifically fresh produce and the drugs and medical/surgical markets, aided by the continued conversion to flexible from rigid packaging. The FPA projects the value of industry shipments will grow ...

Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible

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March 31, 1995, ... features. The challenge was to replace a rigid canister for packaging numerous individual, water-soluble pouches of hazardous materials, such as pesticides and herbicides. The easy-to-open package boasts ...