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Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, News from: Air Products and Chemicals, APC, Ashland Specialty Chemical, BASF, CHA Industries, Chromas, Cham Paper, Coast Controls, Daetwyler, Dienes, Harper Corp., HDFC, MagneTek, Mebane Pkg., National ...

Materials

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September 30, 2000, New materials from: API Foils, Chris Craft Industrial Products, Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Cognis Coatings & Inks, Eastman Chemical, Klockner Capital Corp., Kraton Polymers, and Menges Roller Co. Substrates, ...

Customer Satisfaction Begins and Ends with Quality

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September 30, 2000, ... cartons and the custom, multicolor specialty cartons CPP supplies, quality means consistently high strength and maximum printability. For its more than 450 customers located throughout the Midwest, CPP ...

Polyester Film Supplier Helps Converter Grow

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September 30, 2000, ... a main product line. Custom Tapes has grown to offer approximately 40 different specialty tape products, which include silver and gold decorative metallized films; a "pre-space tape" for the graphic arts ...

Printing/Converting Show Bursting at the Seams

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August 31, 2000, ... this technology to run folding cartons, flexible packaging, direct mail, specialty documents, and labels gain a significant competitive advantage, because web-fed is faster than sheet-fed, and finishing ...

Reporter Clips

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August 31, 2000, ... paper industries of Italy. Crane Acquires Stake in Polyweave DALTON, MA, USA—Crane & Co. Inc., a manufacturer of specialty papers since 1801, has acquired a stake in Polyweave Intl. LLC, Memphis, TN, ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... develops and manufactures specialty, high-performance PSA coated products. Jefferson Smurfit Expands Operations DUBLIN, IRELAND—Smurfit Argentina SA, a sub. of Jefferson Smurfit Group has acquired ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... Paper at internationalpaper.com. Aseptic Carton Extends Shelf Life NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA—Fat Tuesday, a national chain of specialty drink bars has launched a line of premium retail drink mixes packaged ...

Outlook 2000 and Beyond: The State of the Trade

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June 30, 2000, ... specialty-type products. The report notes that in each of the top four resin sections—polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, and polystyrene—there are fewer than five companies with significant ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

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May 31, 2000, ... but it also includes a cut-size sheeting operation and does some specialty coating and one-color printing with a Black Clawson flexographic printer/coater. Blue Ridge also has two sheeters at Waynesville. ...

Electrically Heated Rollers Are Top Technology Choice

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March 31, 2000, ... said to offer several advantages over conventional corona or flame treatment. Use of specialty gases and electrode design enables the plasma system to activate surfaces such as polytetrafluoroethylene, ...

Seventy-Five Years and Counting for Bancroft Bag

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February 29, 2000, ... chemicals, cement, and more; and has no less than 15 bag styles, 7 of which are specialty bags that were developed in-house. Giving Customers a Double-Patch Bag Among Bancroft's specialties is the double-patch ...

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, ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

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December 31, 1999, ... and order production costs. If it's a job that's run before, the operators go to the CMR-2000 and pull up the recipe. Major resin suppliers include Eastman, Equistar, and Huntsman. Specialty additives, ...

Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.

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October 31, 1996, ... Packaging, Maple Grove, MN, is a niche converter offering innovative and cost-effective solutions for branded, specialty packaging. Using patented susceptor technology, the company is a leader in microwave ...

Web-inspection system supports label operation

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July 31, 1996, ... and hotels. Label America specializes in four-color process and data processing labels printed on a variety of papers, films, and specialty substrates and maintains an on-site raw materials inventory of ...

On-line gauging brings big benefits to coating operation

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July 31, 1996, ... users to reduce the downtime associated with roll changes. Additionally, single- and double-coated tapes are produced in sheet form for many specialty applications. Details of slitting and sheeting equipment ...

A look at the status of UV/EB curing

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June 30, 1996, ... is fully evaporated, film properties will be reduced. Motivators for Use UV and EB curing applications are still referred to as niches of specialty businesses, and there remain very few markets using ...

Modified Atmosphere Packaging shows potential for growth

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June 30, 1996, ... companies will provide greater opportunities for the development of new specialty products and further strengthen the cellulose film business. Gordon Campbell, Courtaulds' deputy chief executive, says ...

Pressure-sensitive line utilizes all-vector drive system

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June 30, 1996, A new MagneTek AC drive gives Kanzaki Specialty Papers the chance to evaluate it against DC units, and the results make AC look good.Kanzaki Specialty A new MagneTek AC drive gives Kanzaki Specialty Papers ...