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Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ... designed the Infiniti." A unique sleeve presentation system is said to make changeovers easier and quicker with less set-up time. Multapex Depends on Dusenbery SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—Multapex Pty. Ltd., ...

Digital Products for the Converting Industry

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October 31, 2000, ... to strip chart recorder, oscilloscope, or external display having a full-scale sensitivity of at least 200mV by a standard 9-V battery. Direct-to-Sleeve Platemaking a Time-Saver MacDermid Graphic Arts, ...

Reporter Clips

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September 30, 2000, ... awa-bv.com Sleeve Labels Are the `Icing on the Cake' FARMINGDALE, NY, USA—Seal-It has created decorative, full-sleeve labels for Betty Crocker's "Easy Flow Decorating Icing." The heat-shrink PVC label ...

Technology Puts Converter "In-Line" for More Succes

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September 30, 2000, ... polypropylene overwrap and rigid paperboard susceptor sleeve) with a single flexible wrapper, said to result in greater ease of use by the consumer and representing significant source reduction over the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...