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1977 - 1979

(News | New Products)

September 19, 2002, ... MA, headquarters. "Heart of the laboratory is company's new generation 30-in. Park mini-coater, which is capable of applying hot melt and 100 percent solid silicone coatings." High Maintenance: "Working ...

May 1993 - 1994

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September 19, 2002, ... efforts, a report entitled Municipal Solid Waste Materials and Management (by Freedonia Group) predicts US municipal solid-waste generation will increase 2.4% per year to reach 227-million tons by 1997. ...

More Food for Thought

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August 31, 2002, ... and consolidations, down-sizing and elimination of jobs, and all the other factors that accompany organizations and their employees trying to work harder and smarter, we must be willing to adopt the possibility ...

1970 - 1973

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August 26, 2002, ...  student contest for designing a symbol to promote interest in improving environmental quality and lessening solid waste pollution. Gary Anderson, an architecture student at USC received a $2500 tuitio ...

FINAT Congress Addresses Customer Demand

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July 31, 2002, ... in which margins are under severe pressure, and consolidation and globalization have made labels a buyer's market. Highlights included a keynote address from Dean Scarborough, president and chief operating ...

Products

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June 30, 2002, ...  ExStik meter utilizes a flat-surface electrode that measures pH in liquids, semi-solids, and solids. A “Smart Chip” is said to eliminate guesswork by indicating when electrode needs to be recalibrated ...

Every Trick in the Book

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March 31, 2002, ... pattern-etched aluminum foil/pattern resist coat/adhesive/24-pt solid bleached sulfate (SBS)/blue porcelain ink design/overcoat. The carton susceptor is a similar structure on 35# coated paper instead ...

Converting Industry News

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February 28, 2002, ... absorbent substrates really pushes the envelope.” Other challenges cited by FTA members included the printing of fine screens and solids on tissue substrates. One ink industry market analyst said, ...

The Buck Stops

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February 28, 2002, ... chipboard, solid bleached board, and solid unbleached board. StoraEnso, Iggesund, and M-Real are among the top suppliers for solid bleached boards. Production capacity for all paperboards in Europe — including ...

Coating and Laminating Special Report

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February 28, 2002, ... the coating and laminating value chain, consolidation is occurring—though often to the detriment of the supply side, due to the increasingly dominant end-users, who are leveraging their purchasing power. ...

Reporter Clips

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January 31, 2002, ...  This view was echoed by Todd O'Reilly, global business manager, labels, for UCB Films, in a conversation during one of the conference networking events: “Consolidation has stepped up the globalization ...

Valmet Tech Center to Open for Converters Worldwide

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January 13, 2002, ... or four years, we have seen the number of our customers getting smaller as a direct result of more and more mergers, takeovers and general consolidation of the flexible packaging industry. Our strategy ...

Fundamentals Keep the Converting Industry Strong

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December 31, 2001, ... so many supposedly promising dot.com organizations. Fortunately, this has not occurred in the converting and flexible packaging industries. While some reorganizations, consolidations, and the like have ...

Anilox Roll Inspection: So Simple, So Important

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December 31, 2001, ... characterizations. When optimized for various elements required of the printer, including solid coverage, line work, screens, process work, and combinations, the anilox roll's performance is standardized ...

VOC-Compliant Inks: What State Are They In?

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September 30, 2001, ... and rotogravure was made convincingly. (For more on Project FOG, see PFFC, July 2001, p. 50.) Solvents Still Entrenched in Film Sector Water-based inks have a solid hold on the flexographic printing ...

Westvaco Launches Forte for Folding Cartons, "A Mini-Flute Alternative

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September 18, 2001, ... medium-sized packaging. According to Westvaco, Forte is a 36-pt solid fiber board that provides compression strength equal to, or greater than, F, G, and N mini-flute board. It's said to combine an extremely ...

What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2001, ... liners, and coated cartons. Also said to retain all the traditional benefits of outstanding thermal stability to prevent char, reduce maintenance costs, and extend equipment service life. The 100% solids ...

Products

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July 31, 2001, ... Higher Print Quality BHS Printing Machinery Corp., Baltimore, MD; 410/666-2700 UV flexo printing press is said to offer higher print quality and more brilliant colors using 100% solid inks with no emissions. ...

Party Defection Brings a Sea Change in the Senate

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June 30, 2001, ... been confirmed. Assistant Administrators for EPA's offices of Solid Waste and Emergency Response; Enforcement and Compliance Assurance; Environmental Information; and Research and Development have not ...

Division Conference Offers Varied Program

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May 31, 2001, ... polymer resins covalently bonded with stable solid-state additives. The session on “UV/EB Materials For Flexible Packaging” will have a paper on “EB Curing In Flexible Packaging” by Anthony J. Bean ...