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AIMCAL Selects Seven for Annual Honors

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March 31, 1996, ... metallized polyester/adhesive/125-ga LDPE. Printing was on an FMC six-color, central-impression press with solvent-based inks. The package can reportedly be processed easily on form/fill/seal equipment. ...

Water-based adhesives meet just-in-time demands.

(Magazine)

March 31, 1996, ... of 7 to 21 days at room temperature. The Solvent Way In the past converters have used solvent-based, dry-bond laminating adhesives for virtually every application, from lower performance (snack food ...

Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea

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March 31, 1996, ... designer and utilizes both photopolymer and rubber plates. A staff of ink specialists from Sun Chemical Corp. is on hand at all times to blend as many as eight different solvent-based ink colors to match ...

Regulation, competition drive the adhesives industry

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January 31, 1996, ... adhesive, the race is on to formulate a product that will at least equal the performance of these restricted solvent-based adhesives. "The most important thing that happened to the adhesives industry was ...

Viscosity system saves ink and improves print quality

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December 31, 1995, ... and a measuring cycle that can be observed by the operator. The installation consists of eight MP90 controllers and M8BO measuring elements mounted on 5- or 10-gal ink containers. (Lally Pak uses solvent-based ...

"Partnering" helps get press up to spee

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November 30, 1995, ... so it's resistant to all UV and solvent-based inks as well as to the Werneke water-based inks in use at Viking. Serious but Solvable Giles' first thought was to utilize DIP's disposable paper ink trays ...

Hot melt applications continue to grow

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June 30, 1995, ... engineer to crawl under the machine and expose himself to a gooey adhesive heated to 400 [degrees]. In the past converters had a choice. They may have elected not to use hot melts because solvent-based ...

Two-component adhesive system eliminates mixups

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June 30, 1995, ... Ruppert, CSD/WestPac Division director of technical services. As a printer and laminator of packaging materials for salted, meat and confection snacks, the converter chose to avoid solvent-based laminating ...

Clean air rules are changing & you can have a say

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May 31, 1995, ... of the three major ink technologies available to the flexographic printer of flexible packaging. This joint effort will research solvent-based, water-based, and ultraviolet-cured ink chemistries for specific ...