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Pellet Transfer: Preventative Measures Employed to Reduce Streamer Formation

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April 30, 2001, ... for polyethylene pellets including transfer in and out of bulk shipping mechanisms can lead to several imperfections in the shape and form of a polymer. These imperfections can cause several downstream ...

Sheet Fed Lithography: Hammer Lithographic

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March 31, 2001, ... capable of running the sheet-fed material with exceptional quality, getting it cleanly off press, and cutting and shipping the finished labels in an almost continuous process. “Our ability to turn BOPP ...

Critical Payloads to Benefit from Thermal Package

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March 31, 2001, A shipping container designed to transport such temperature-sensitive items as organs, tissue, and body fluids is awarded AIMCAL's Package of the Year. The film behind it takes the Technology of the Year ...

Tension Control

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March 31, 2001, ... functions, storage and shipping areas, and offices. The heart of the Bellwood printing plant is the centrally located pressroom, which contains four Bobst-Champlain rotogravure board presses, three ...

How One Converter Mastered Sheet-Fed Films

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March 31, 2001, ... testing and four years of experience converting BOPP, Hammer reports it is capable of running the sheet-fed material with exceptional quality, getting it cleanly off press, and cutting and shipping the ...

Converting Industry News

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February 28, 2001, ... orders and shipping. The increased speed of information trading will create a need for dynamic lead times, capacities, yields, and costs. According to Dale Hayes, VP of customer relationship management ...

International Converting Industry News

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February 28, 2001, ... house, fully tested and ready for shipping. Two more have been sold in Latin America and two in Germany. Among the presses sold, two are the smaller EG 402, for shorter runs and repeat lengths, narrower ...

Reporter Clips

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December 31, 2000, ... to shipping, will be considered as potential paper topics. The TLMI Technical Committee is seeking contributions from both converters and suppliers, TLMI members and nonmember companies. Presenters ...

Reporter Clips

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November 30, 2000, ... tags, shipping sack tags, fence tags, cable tags, wire tags, and more. The Valeron film is ready to be converted to exact specifications, rewound, and shipped within 24 hrs from Russell-Field. Quebec ...

On the Move

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November 30, 2000, ... to house an expanded finishing area, new offices, storage space, and five new shipping docks. Wes Harrington is the new national sales and marketing manager of Comco International, Milford, OH. Steven ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ...  A major source of potential contamination in the past was the metallized bags the converter used for shipping. Sometimes the foil would flake off during shipment or when the packaging was being opened, ...

Some Causes of Blocking in Heat Seal CoatingsPart II

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October 31, 2000, ... heat seal coating. This soft material on the surface causes blocking when the coating is wound into a roll. Shipping and storage conditions are very common causes of blocking with heat seal coatings. ...

Materials

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October 31, 2000, New from: AdLamCo. Inc., H.B. Fuller Co., Kraton Polymers, Metallized Products Inc., Proma Technologies, Russell-Field Paper Co., Rohm and Haas Co., Sun Chemical Ink, and Unifoil Corp. Holographic Paper ...

Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... retailers. NextPak is intended to increase "e-tailer" profitability by integrating packaging, fulfillment, and shipping activities into one seamless operation. Raymond M. Curran, president and CEO of Smurfit-Stone, ...

Presses and People Make a Powerful Combination

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September 30, 2000, ... that what leaves the shipping dock doesn't come back. Valestrino suggests that while the time employees spend in training might seem to arrest productivity on a short-term, day-to-day basis, the ultimate ...

Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

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September 30, 2000, ... they run our control room, and we have one in shipping, but he also works hand in hand with the people out on the floor. For us, this is very critical, because we do not want layers of management that ...

Customer Satisfaction Begins and Ends with Quality

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September 30, 2000, ... improved processes." Corrugator superintendent Brian Wisinski explains, "Every employee on the corrugating line has to understand—in detail—the importance of quality." For both the standard shipping ...

Barrier Layer Protects CDs from Skips and Scratches

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July 31, 2000, ... is die-cut into its disc shape, it is bulk packed for shipping to fulfillment houses and packaged for retail sale. In its first year, Optimanufacturing produced millions of pieces at its new facility. ...

Specialists in Interior Packaging Branch Out

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June 30, 2000, ... orders from our customers over the Internet, through e-mail, in our EDI [electronic data interchange] system. From there, we are producing orders, and we are sending them through an advanced shipping notice ...

Outlook 2000 and Beyond: The State of the Trade

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June 30, 2000, ... boxes, cartons, and shipping containers." The reports adds this niche of the industry continued to find excellent export opportunities in 1999. An increase of 3% in product shipments is foreseen ...