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More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... electric, hydraulic, and water utility connections are accomplished automatically via a specially designed coupling assembly. Options include a cantilevered sleeve roll and remote gap setting readouts ...

Golden Cylinders Go to Gravure's Very Bes

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April 30, 2000, ... even ultra-short runs with features that include pre-sets, self-alignment, sleeve technology, patented blade, dryer hoods, and a touchscreen press management system. For Technical Innovation-Post Press, ...

Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary

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March 31, 2000, ... wrapper and foil laminate sleeve, however, are high-value materials. In summary, flexible packaging has found its way into nearly every section of the manufacturing economy. Conversions from rigid packaging ...

Seventy-Five Years and Counting for Bancroft Bag

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February 29, 2000, ... have different features. "[This bottomer] can put a filling spout in [each bag] with up to four different materials in the filling spout. We call the filling spout a 'sleeve,' so basically, you can have ...

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 ...

Two states adopt regulations for rigid-container laws

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January 31, 1998, ... except a lid or closure. The rebuffed industry definition would have exempted sleeves, domed lids, or trays contained in bags like plastic cookie trays. The adopted version now broadly defines rigid-plastic ...

Gravure winners go for gold

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July 31, 1996, ... Paperboard Shorewood Packaging Corp., Newport News, VA, was the winning printer for the Maxfli golf ball lid, tray, and sleeve family. Printing, embossing, coating, and die-cutting were performed in-line. ...

Something new under the sun

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June 30, 1996, ... became a licensee, GMSP had a sales representative and a technical person at press side for the duration of the test run. "They're a hands-on group," says Bennett. "They rolled up their sleeves and worked ...

PET supplies increasing as markets expand

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May 31, 1996, ... developments introduced specifically for this emerging market. Included are a variety of sleeve concepts, metallized paper labels, and even labels that change in color due to temperature fluctuations. ...

Green Bay gears up for specialty labels

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May 31, 1996, ... Speed Sleeve system on both the silicone applicator and adhesive cotter backup rolls to allow for ten-minute changeovers. With this pneumatically operated system, the entire change sequence can be accomplished ...

Gravure gets easier

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April 30, 1996, ... and ancillary materials and supplies have been developing innovations and "short cuts" that have made the process less costly and more efficient. From combination presses to lightweight coating sleeves, ...

Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea

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March 31, 1996, ... dust was everywhere and bulldozers were still running around. There was no water, no compressed air, no gas hookup, nothing the technicians from Germany were accustomed to, but they rolled up their sleeves ...

Die-cutting developments continue unabated.

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September 30, 1995, ... as replaceable blankets and cutting sleeves. On another front, the flexible die-cutter is beginning to gain adherents with each passing year. Flexible dies are not new; American Can Co. pioneered the ...

Cylinders and rolls - a quiet revolution

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July 31, 1995, ... to be a consensus among those we interviewed that sleeves offer a great potential for growth. Besides being seamless, they're lightweight and stable, combining the best features of D-mount and integral ...

Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible

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March 31, 1995, ... sleeve was removed, and the original single-layer stretch nonbarrier film was replaced with a shrinkable five-layer coextruded barrier film. The package was flexo printed and hermetically sealed. The ...

Folder produces envelope-type covering

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February 28, 1995, ... to length, folded in half and the edges ultrasonically bond, resulting in a sleeved cover closed on three sides. The process is automatic and produces covers ready for packaging at a rate of up to 90/min. ...

German company develops recovery concept for plastics

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December 31, 1994, ... m/min. It features 360 [degrees] length register and is driven by driving belts. All settings are on the operator's side, and sleeve stereos and doctor blades can be set with chamber. * A Saudi Arabian ...