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- 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, ...
- Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater
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- December 31, 1999, ... were very responsive." The line arrived at the end of July 1997, and six weeks later the line was running and the company sold its first roll. More Top-Notch Suppliers Nowak credits the CMR die bolt ...
- Static electricity can be a very costly problem
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- August 31, 1998, ... surface that gains electrons will become positively charged. Converters who work with roll materials have a first-hand familiarity with static electricity, primarily from the occasional shock. These ...
- Label converter controls quality from the inside out
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- August 31, 1996, ... offset presses operate at widths to 40 in.; each press can run up to eight colors at speeds up to 15,000 sheets/hr. The Harahan plant's offset inkmaking department boasts three large roll grinding machines ...
- Partnering launches future growth in laminations
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- August 31, 1996, ... issues and to get a foothold in the market, Chase & Sons decided to purchase laminate material in master roll form from a European manufacturer. Upon receipt at the company's facility (located then in Randolph, ...
- International Converting Industry News
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- May 31, 1996, ... 35-70 g/m2; and masking paper from 45-120 g/m2. The Dusenbery machine will handle a range from 20 g/m2 to 35-70 g/m2 in mill rolls weighing up to 3,000 kg. On each slitting cycle, the jumbo roll is ...
- Handling hazardous materials: are you up to date?
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- May 31, 1996, ... preparations for a press or laminator. Male employees wearing dangling neckties frequently bent next to the nip rollers of an extruder that was running at 500 fpm. Other instances that come to mind include ...
- Green Bay gears up for specialty labels
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- May 31, 1996, ... Speed Sleeve system on both the silicone applicator and adhesive cotter backup rolls to allow for ten-minute changeovers. With this pneumatically operated system, the entire change sequence can be accomplished ...
- Flexo label printer grows by leaps and bounds
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- April 30, 1996, ... plan now is to concentrate on getting the basic p-s roll label business to a level of performance that will more than fund further growth into profitable new niches. "My customers expect consistently ...
- Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea
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- March 31, 1996, ... dust was everywhere and bulldozers were still running around. There was no water, no compressed air, no gas hookup, nothing the technicians from Germany were accustomed to, but they rolled up their sleeves ...