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More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... dry film, adhesives appear clear and colorless. Analyze Anilox Rolls with Kit Harper Corp. of America, Charlotte, NC; 704/588-3371; 800/438-3111; harperimage.com Lab-In-A-Box anilox surface analysis ...

Barrier Layer Protects CDs from Skips and Scratches

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July 31, 2000, ... and then laminated to the PC film on a 62-in. wide flexographic coater. The film is then slit into three rolls, 20 1/2 in. wide, on equipment manufactured by Parkinson. The second laminating step takes ...

Innovation Drives Converter of Pressure-Sensitive Labels

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June 30, 2000, ... strictly to the production of p-s labels, capturing almost 15% of Spain's market. Out of a total of approximately 200 million sq m of roll-fed, p-s material used in Spain, the Caposa Group converted 25 ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

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June 30, 2000, ... tremendous advances in printing; sophisticated, in-line mechanical operations; controlled-atmosphere applications for food products; and much more. Food packaging is an area in which food-product developers ...

Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact

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May 31, 2000, ... says finished rolls have to maintain their quality for longer lag times, because they're held in warehouses or shipped overseas. "There are ways to make the product stand up. Some people can't believe that ...

Release Papers: New Trends Are Driving the Market

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May 31, 2000, ... by tailoring papers to unique specifications is being influenced by four emerging trends in the industry. Basis Weights and Calipers Trend 1: Lower basis weights and calipers in roll label, super-calendered, ...

Coating Operation Cleans Up Its (Trim Removal) Act

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May 31, 2000, ... using a liquid coater from Caratsch (co. no longer in business). A metering roll system assures proper coating weight. The impregnated fiberglass web goes through overhead ovens (also from Caratsch) for ...

More Laminating Diversity Equals More Success

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May 31, 2000, ... "The foam comes in rolls of various thicknesses, and it's first butt-welded, or seamed, together. Then it's put on the conveyor, which relaxes the foam, and it enters a system that guides the web into the ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ... rollstock, and Kapak was developed with the idea of becoming the first converter of that rollstock. Our first machine originally was a G.T. Sheldahl & Co. poly-bag machine. We retrofitted it and turned ...

Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call

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April 30, 2000, ...  Maximizing Floor Space Ray Glenn likes to show off the new lines, or more precisely, he likes to show the quality of the rolls on the winders. Some of his older lines are immediately adjacent, makin ...

Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application

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April 30, 2000, ... processing applications. In these applications, tension control systems are typically installed at the unwind roll that feeds material into the production machinery. This article covers four types of ...

Managing Your Way Through a ''Green'' Futur

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March 31, 2000, ... as an opportunity likely will gain a competitive advantage as more and more pressure is applied on the industry to achieve measurable improvements in these areas. Controlling Air Emissions While much ...

Human/Machine Interface Offers Best of Two Worlds

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March 31, 2000, ... and manual machine adjustment (causing variable accuracy, excessive downtime, waste materials, and astronomical maintenance costs) are a thing of the past. I/O modules, programmable logic controllers ...

Converted Solutions Slitter/Rewinder Boosts Productivity on Laminating Line

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March 31, 2000, ... drum roller. The equipment can run at speeds to 300 mpm. A Package That Smooths the Way According to Dr. Les Squires, production director of Web Dynamics, several factors influenced the purchase of ...

Cartonmarker Adds Flexo to Give Customers a Choice

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February 29, 2000, ... our existing customers, as well as bring in new customers." "In the flexo process," adds Johnson, "you're taking it from roll to print to die-cut to stripping and finished carton, all in one 80-foot line. ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

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February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

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January 31, 2000, ... coater is designed to run web widths up to 1.55 meters [61 in.] and has an additional three-roll coating head prior to hot melt coating for printing single-color, priming, or siliconizing. "In addition," ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, ... and Printpack also took on early leadership rolls in the barrier film industry. Today, according to a recently published study by Kline & Co., converting companies such as Huntsman, Bemis, and Reynolds ...

Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority

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January 31, 2000, ... receives coated jumbo rolls from its U.K. parent at the 67,000-sq-ft Schaumburg facility. It converts the rolls into sheets and smaller rolls and ships to customers in the US, Canada, and Latin America. ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... remain on Dixie Toga's payroll) in the plants of certain high-volume customers to aid in the production of their material. At present, the company has personnel in the Brahma and Kaiser bottling plants, ...