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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, ...

Narrow web adapts to multiple applications

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November 30, 1998, ... materials such as shrink sleeves, adhesives and ultraviolet inks in the proper temperature range for trouble-free converting. With the proliferation of exotic substrates and water-based inks, surface ...

Laminator adds metallizing to the mix

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August 31, 1996, ... to customer-specified humidity levels, it is hermetically sealed in shrinkwrap before shipment or storage. Alubec uses water-based lacquers and adhesives. "It's more than ecology; we have to give the ...

Gravure winners go for gold

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July 31, 1996, ... and line colors. A special magenta helped reproduce the design's bright colors. The gravure-printed shrink-wrap label applied to a generic aerosol can enabled the customer to reduce lead time, inventory, ...

PET supplies increasing as markets expand

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May 31, 1996, ... drink market. Film labels that perform on the newly developed contoured PET bottles remain a major challenge to the supplier. Required are shrink film formulations that intimately clasp the walls of ...

Innovation is a winner in FPA competition

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March 31, 1996, ... a corrugated end cap is placed on one end of the sofa; and the entire structure (tray, sofa, composite bag, and end cap) is encased in a PE shrink-film bag, which is stapled under the tray bottom. The ...

Regulation, competition drive the adhesives industry

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January 31, 1996, ... such as oriented polypropylene, you start to get significant shrinkage at 160 deg F. With today's warm-applied systems, developed three to four years ago, the application temperatures are a mild 130 to ...

Flexo/screen proves to be a winning combination

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January 31, 1996, ... materials will save you money," explains Brown, "but you still must maintain the same level of quality." The question is how to successfully run that thinner material through the press without it shrinking ...

Time-based competition strategy gains momentum

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May 31, 1995, ... getting their orders now. Inventories of finished goods shrink because they aren't necessary to ensure quick delivery The fastest manufacturers can make and ship an order the day its received. For this ...

Book details Japan's packaging industr

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May 31, 1995, ... wrap, household aluminum foil wrap, paper and plastic envelope, plastic closure, plastic shrinkable label, staple, plastic net, steel strapping, steel foil and among others. In contrast to this, the data ...

Holograms continue to gain in converting applications.

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February 28, 1995, ... cylinders." A disadvantage of embossing onto paper is that it will shrink. "Although the shrinking of the hologram on the paper could be potentially devastating, paper seems to be consistent in shrinkage, ...

State legislative action includes removal of 2 bans: 1994

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February 28, 1995, ... or refillable or reusable containers. Other provisions could have mandated: recycled content in packaging, a ban on transport packaging, including shrink wrap, from disposal in landfills and incinerators, ...

Slower growth, continued expansion seen in 1995

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January 31, 1995, ...  and shrinking it in some respect. It has also taken on the meaning of shrinking the labor force, substituting technology and higher productive machines for labor." Announced layoffs are going to becom ...