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FTA Gets Flexo Engines Started at Forum/Info*Flex

(Flexography)

May 31, 2011, ... are not widely used. Fronczkiewicz says, “Only a handful of people are using very thin plates. I'm surprised they haven't been scrapped altogether.” However, the plates offer ecological and user benefits ...

Post Consumer Resin Gets New Life from Milk Jugs and Water Bottles

(Flexpack News)

May 18, 2011, ... in the future with a buried layer of PCR to allow use in food contact applications, employing its newer proprietary blown film lines. At present, says Harji, the plant is sending minimal scrap to landfills. ...

FTA Gets Flexo Engines Started at Forum/Info*Flex

(Flexography)

May 03, 2011, ... these plates are not widely used. Fronczkiewicz says, “Only a handful of people are using very thin plates. I’m surprised they haven’t been scrapped altogether.” However, the plates offer ecological and ...

Coating Matters: Steam-The Cure for Curl

(Surface Prep)

March 31, 2011, ... key contributors to positive cash flow include incremental sales of products meeting lay-flat specifications, reduction in material scrap, and increased production efficiencies with improvements such as ...

Coating Matters: Defects | Finding the Cause

(Coating/Laminating)

December 31, 2010, ... company has been slot die coating a polyester substrate with a 50% solids fluid at room temperature. Unfortunately, a third of the coated web is scrap due to a consistent streak being coated in the machine ...

Coating/Laminating: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2010, ... reducing costs. Selig's laminations require multiple passes through the line, and the new equipment allows extremely high-speed splices with minimal scrap. One unanticipated side benefit turned out to ...

James Sanfilippo

(Trends/Management)

August 31, 2010, ... customers with innovative packaging solutions. What sustainability efforts has your company made? We employ a closed-loop manufacturing process at our plants to ensure scrap is reused, and our air-conditioning ...

Driving Speed

(Drives/Motors)

April 30, 2010, ... for the 21st century. Instead of scrapping their investment, Amgraph's senior management decided to prepare their equipment for the needs of tomorrow by upgrading its analog control system to high-efficiency ...

Trends in technology

(Coating/Laminating)

April 30, 2010, ... expand in the coming decade. These systems are needed to determine defects rapidly and accurately on the product as it is coated. It is a necessary technology to improve quality and reduce scrap losses. ...

Foil Capsules Launch Sales

(New Products)

August 31, 2009, ... says Pletcher. “Because we want to ensure that the quality is consistent and that we're not creating scrap material by printing defective product, it's just a standard way of doing business for us.” Setting ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT

(New Products)

August 31, 2009, ... extrusion through to printing, laminating, and converting. Users can construct custom or stock product specifications, including raw materials, run and scrap rates, and labor and overhead costs. Capable ...

Pack Expo Co-Locates with CPP and Other Events for Value

(News | New Products)

August 30, 2009, ... Uses Less Scrap The 750 Servo Pouch Machine from Hudson-Sharp Machine Co. (Booth # S-5649) uses a single web of film to produce two-up, stand-up resealable pouches. Single web pouch production uses less ...

Carton & Box Reporter

(Carton Box Main)

May 31, 2009, ... GreenAccess charges a flat fee per pound to handle the scrap and coordinates pickup and delivery of the recycled scrap between the printer and the mill. All fees and the cost of the recycling system are ...

Contamination Combat

(Web Cleaning)

May 31, 2009, ... impact on production can be significant, as stopping the press, cleaning the plates, and starting up again will take at least ten minutes on a four-color press and may generate 50 m of scrap. In terms ...

NEW PRODUCT DIGEST - May 2009

(New Products)

April 30, 2009, ... digital AC drives. Visit booth 112. ▶Elite Cameron | +44 0 1823 366221 | www.elitecameron.com Circle 410 or visit www.freeproductinfo.net/pff Sensors Reduce Scrap The 710S Series of sensors for ...

Surface Winder Is Reversible

(News Eclips)

March 03, 2009, ... on the touch screen. Straight edge cutovers also are possible without fold-over to produce rolls with flat, wrinke-free film down to the core, thus allowing usage of the entire roll and preventing scrap. ...

Green Is Global

(Archive)

January 31, 2009, ... of the opportunities of waste and scrap sorting for different recycling techniques, both in waste management companies and in the converting industries. Film liner is a valuable and versatile material ...

Carton & Box Reporter

(Carton Box)

November 30, 2008, ... Awards, and an Innovation Award. Acme Corrugated Box Co., Hatboro, PA, has installed the Scrap Trakker waste data collection and reporting system from RTC Technologies, Kenosha, WI. The system will ...

October Carton & Box Reporter

(Carton Box)

September 30, 2008, Freedom Corrugated Adds Scrap System KENOSHA, WI | Freedom Corrugated, Hazleton, PA, has installed a Scrap Trakker data collection and reporting system Freedom Corrugated Adds Scrap System KENOSHA, WI ...

Get a Grip

(Narrow Web)

September 30, 2008, ... less changeover and save on scrap. It creates a lot more efficiency for them.” Weber says this secure grip is particularly critical for WebCut as a contract converter that constantly switches between ...