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

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June 29, 2001, ... process. “We pre-apply the reclosable fastener to the rollstock, transverse to the film edges,” reports Lance. By taking out the “add-the-zipper-at-the-end” step, the pre-zippered form/fill/seal packaging ...

Cut-to-Register Sheeting Trims Time and Labor Costs

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May 31, 2001, ... different patterns up to 68 in. wide and is used for both rollstock and sheetstock. At any given time, the company maintains “a signficant amount of tonnage of rollstock for converting,” Pennell says. ...

Flex-Pack Operation Likes to Convert the Complex

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February 28, 2001, ... European markets. The trend among many users is to substitute other structures for the materials wherever possible. Other materials produced at the facility include coffee rollstock (PET/adh/MET PET/adh/PE) ...

Reporter Clips

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December 31, 2000, ... Wausau, WI, has opened a slitting facility in Kennesaw, GA, a suburb of Atlanta. The facility allows Wausau to provide same-day and next-day service of custom-slit p-s rollstock to a growing customer base ...

The Need to Know Drives Pharma Labeling Market

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December 31, 2000, ... follows three basic operations: printing, guillotining, and folding. An estimated 90% of Manati's products are prefolded prior to shipment to the customer, while 10% is supplied on rollstock or flat ...

Controlling Your Web from Beginning to End

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November 30, 2000, In Part 1 of a two-part series, Bill Hawkins looks at the devices and designs that can help you keep your web under control. In Part 1 of a two-part series, Bill Hawkins looks at the devices and designs ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ... filing system for quick removal. Adhesive-Laminated Rollstock Designed for Coffee MINNEAPOLIS, MN, USA—Kapak Corp. has developed a line of adhesive-laminated rollstock designed to handle the demanding ...

The Digital Advantage... More Than Just Printing

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October 31, 2000, ... very important; a majority of the company's product is made for the medical industry - products that need to maintain strict sanitary and quality specs. "We produce either rollstock or pre-made pouches, ...

Presses and People Make a Powerful Combination

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September 30, 2000, ... raw materials and accessories, Valestrino notes, including Fasson rollstock, Akzo Nobel inks, DuPont photopolymer plates, and Rotoflex rewinders. Earning Its Good Reputation Today L.A. Label converts ...

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 ...

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, ...

Bag machine adds value to customer-oriented operation.

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November 30, 1996, ... converter of bags and printed rollstock with state-of-the-art equipment and technology. A key part of that equipment is a recently acquired servo draw bag machine from FMC. "Our formula for success is ...

Flexible packaging converter treats its customers right.

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October 31, 1996, ... new team had a strong background in food packaging, and we naturally grew in that direction. Although we still make some poly bags, our primary products are single-web rollstock and laminations. We are ...

Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.

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October 31, 1996, ... some cases, reduce them. Being a low-cost producer of microwave popcorn rollstock, we have been working closely with companies like Himac to reduce costs in ways that include downgauging and sourcing low-cost ...

Dutch converter retakes his company

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July 31, 1996, ... the firm started by his grandfather at the turn of the century. Zaandam is situated close to major roads and is well-linked to the pan-European highway network. A leading supplier of both rollstock ...

Pressure-sensitive line utilizes all-vector drive system

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June 30, 1996, ... 1995 and is now in full production, providing rollstock for label converters. The new line includes a proprietary coating head design and an Advanced Systems flotation dryer with an exceptionally long ...

Innovation is a winner in FPA competition

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March 31, 1996, ... Center). Kapak Corp., Minneapolis, MN, adds the zipper reclosure feature and converts the rollstock into pouches for filling by Dial. The job required multiple-color application with very tight registration ...

Custom coating operation is a clean winner

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February 29, 1996, ... with an outside environment, is designated as a "normal" area. This is where all "dust-generating" materials, such as cardboard shipping containers, are handled. Raw materials, such as rollstock, are ...

Adapting flexible system in trim-recovery operations.

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July 31, 1995, ... as dictated by their changing product wrap needs." Most of the PE film processed at the plant is slit in-line and wound onto a fiber board core. The rollstock is sent for printing and converting into ...