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1950s

(News | New Products)

August 27, 2002, ... in the bag, vacuum sealed, and flash dipped in hot water which shrinks the bag around the product “like a second skin.” May 1952 An internal reorganization necessitated by the consistent growth of ...

Flexo Fabulous

(Magazine)

June 30, 2002, ... submitted by Lewisburg Container, Lewisburg, OH, was the gold award winner in the process segment and best of show in the combined corrugated category. Judges note the difficult colors, skin tones, ...

Tapes & More Tapes

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... Together, the two facilities employ an average of 200 people. The Middletown plant is considered the company's “general-purpose” facility, primarily supplying paper masking and duct tapes. The Sparta ...

Thriving on Gravure & Location

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... and prepress. The Luxembourg site is home to all three separate companies: Mipa, Met-Lux, and OPI-Lux. Choosing Gravure for Performance David Haskins, the British-born general sales and marketing ...

BRAND PROTECTION: The Converter's Rol

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... do to prevent fraud?” Brand owners are asking more of their packages these days, and as they do, converters are being asked about package security, authentication, and tracking. You want to respond ...

Technology Raid Ipex-Style

(Magazine)

February 28, 2002, ... design package. We're taking some of core technologies, like the gearless Infiniti press, and asking the question, ‘How do we make this machine more palatable to a larger market share?’ In other words, ...

Ozone Generation: Sherman Treaters/Pillar Give the Goods

(News | New Products)

February 06, 2002, ... ozone into the building. So, basically, making the unit more operator-friendly; that's the ultimate answer to the question. PFFC: What are converters asking from their ozone generation equipment investment? ...

One New Treater, Many New Benefits

(Magazine)

November 30, 2001, ... as skin packaging. Optimum plant manager Herb Pack summarizes his company's feelings about the new treater: “Corotec was terrific to work with. Their help with the new line was invaluable. Whenever we'v ...

Battling the Biothreats

(Magazine)

November 30, 2001, ... release, Colorcon addresses many of the questions converters, packagers, and even consumers likely will be asking. According to Colorcon, microbes that contaminate packaging materials typically are ...

Battling the Biothreats

(News | New Products)

November 27, 2001, ... release, Colorcon addresses many of the questions converters, packagers, and even consumers likely will be asking. According to Colorcon, microbes that contaminate packaging materials typically are ...

Many New Players Join India's Flex-Pack Boo

(Magazine)

September 30, 2001, ... toothpaste/toothpowder and skin and fairness creams in laminated pouches. Tobacco and betel nut-based intoxicants/mouth fresheners are the other unit-dose-packed unique products catering to the local taste. ...

Digital Printing at Your Service: Keeping Customers Happy

(Magazine)

June 30, 2001, ... is totally dedicated to long-run production, increasingly, they're trying to be in the service business.” Your customers, who may be asking for shorter, more “flexible” runs, probably are aware they ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, ... and adhesives (along with its extensive converting capabilities) to develop advanced technologies and products for the growing $350 million worldwide wound care and skin therapy medical marketplace.  ...

Materials

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... 860/688-7000. Polyflex® PE films are coated with pressure sensitive (p-s) rubber adhesives. Available in wide range of colors, films are described as ideal for PE splicing, masking, surface protection, ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... to the co., EasySplice is the first repulpable splicing tape that can be applied in a single straight line, without the need for expensive nose tabs; Easy Cover Auto is the first 3-in-1 paint masking product ...

US and EU Health Activities Are Focusing on Chemicals

(Magazine)

January 31, 2001, ... when children are exposed to certain chemicals. EPA is asking companies that manufacture and/or import any of the 23 listed chemicals to voluntarily sponsor evaluation of the chemical(s). Some of these ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... Ignites Candy Sales MOORESVILLE, NC, USA—When Beacon Sweets launched its line of Baskin-Robbins Smooth & Creamy Hard Candy, sales were disappointing. Company executives looked closely at the package and ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... is extremely smooth. Co. reports that adhesive shows unprecedented strength, and, even with UV varnishes, this strength often makes bonding surface masking unnecessary. Available in various viscosity grades. ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... masking paper." Prior to 1996, the facility had two coating lines, a 60-in. Egan coater/laminator and a proprietary 106-in.-wide coater/laminator. Each coater includes an in-line two-color flexo press. ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

(Archive)

December 31, 1999, ... can't be met much better than that." New Products Add Strength to Line CEI recently launched a paper/poly/film-constructed product, tradenamed Sharkskin, for use in the ream wrap market. This product ...