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Think the Ink You're Using Is A No-Brainer? Think Again

(Materials)

December 31, 2000, ... from your inks, converters also should be aware that there is one particular ink type—water-based, solvent-based, ultraviolet—that will best suit each application. Today's increased use of "clear" applications ...

Converting Industry News

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November 30, 2000, ... interest to converters. Session 1A on Monday afternoon was devoted to Regulatory Updates. Richard Wright, Ashland Chemical, presented an overview concerning adhesives, chemicals, and solvents that included ...

What's New in Narrow We

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October 31, 2000, ... to install and use. Co. adds that it has a "Try Before You Buy" program that offers rentals as a low-cost, no-risk way to try products. Solventless Fluorosilicone System for Stable Release GE Silicones, ...

Materials

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... and it is recommended for use in flexible film, paper packaging, and multiwall sack applications, as well as an inside coating on food cartons. Formulated with no VOCs or solvents. Metallized Paper ...

Products

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... peristaltic pump is available for use in converting industry applications using solvent-based inks. Dual-roller technology with longer compression cycles reportedly reduces friction and tube fatigue, resulting ...

Estimating the Drying Rate of Flexo Ink in the Laboratory

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September 30, 2000, ... before they can pass through this conveyer dryer. The result is that the ink has lost much of its solvent, and the drying test provides little assurance that the ink will dry effectively on a high-speed, ...

Materials

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September 30, 2000, ... inks and varnishes. GAX 13-128 is an alcohol-soluble polyamide resin suited for pigment grinding. It is said to yield low-viscosity pigment dispersions at high-pigment concentrations. GAX 13-617 is a co-solvent ...

Flexography Comes of Age and Keeps on Growing

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August 31, 2000, ... to reduce solvent emissions, UV has given narrow web flexo printers the ability to compete with lithography. UV has had limited success in wide web printing, due mainly to the fact that wide web's primary ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... reduces plate production time by 75% through a dry thermal plate processor that eliminates conventional chemical solvent or aqueous washout. A high quality flexo plate that normally takes up to 3 hr to ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... solvent-polished, cut, cemented, drilled, or decorated without difficulty. Because of its printability, it is said to be well-suited for cards and other lithographic applications. Visit Eastman Chemical ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... solvent-based inks in "press-ready" disposable containers. Pumps Are Compatible with UV Coatings Miltec UV, Stevensville, MD; 410/604-2900; 800/999-2700 Air-operated, double-diaphragm pumps are compatible ...

Barrier Layer Protects CDs from Skips and Scratches

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July 31, 2000, ... substance that adheres the disc to the CD. Brabender explains, "You can call it an adhesive, but it's not a true adhesive because of its nature. It's a solvent-based material that we call an optical couplant. ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ...  and marketing, the press can handle web widths up to 45 in. and is designed to run up to 600 fpm. Kapak utilizes solvent-based inks, all of which are supplied by Inx International, and a Pillar coron ...

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, ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

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February 29, 2000, ... on a custom-made machine. By the end of 1999, a new Schiavi solventless laminator was to be fully functional. This machine features the latest technology and, notes Spritzer, will make a vital contribution ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... from Sao Paulo) include two Rotomec nine-color presses and two Schiavi (Bobst Group Inc.) presses, a nine- and a ten-color model. Other equipment includes a Rotomec solventless laminator, two wax coaters, ...

Bag machine adds value to customer-oriented operation.

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November 30, 1996, ... models and one 64-in.-wide model. A new Paper Converting Machine Co. eight-color Vision II flexo press, 37 in. wide, will be installed in January 1997. All four presses run solvent-based inks from Sun ...

Temperature control helps ink customers optimize performance.

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November 30, 1996, ... is the amount of heat that is being applied to the printed web to flash off solvents that are used in the construction of heatset inks," Zborovsky explains. "A certain percentage of these solvents has to ...

Flexible packaging converter treats its customers right.

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October 31, 1996, ... CI press. Printing is both line and process. Solvent-based inks are supplied by Croda, Sun Chemical, and Merit. Flex-Pak has a totally enclosed pressroom with an Anguil 10,000-scfm catalytic incinerator ...

Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.

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October 31, 1996, ... susceptor technology and proprietary demetallization, we were able to develop a package that works." He explains that throughout the industry, demetallization is achieved by applying solvent to metal ...