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Converters' Wish Lists: Part II

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... often is more important than immediate help, because talking to the technical service representative can at least allay some present concerns and provide a plan of attack to solve a difficulty. Converters ...

Dow Unveils Versify* Plastomers and Elastomers; New Technology to Generate Unique Performance for Flex-Pack Converters

(News | New Products)

February 26, 2004, ... plastomers and elastomers. According to the material manufacturer, Versify is a new range of propylene-ethylene copolymers designed to improve optics, sealing and hot tack performance, elasticity, flexibility, ...

Gidue to Launch Unipro Packaging Press at Drupa; OEM Also to Showcase Other Converting Machinery

(News | New Products)

February 23, 2004, ... delivery table where the stacked piles of in-mold labels printed face up can be collected easily. Gidue's New Flexo Standards Details of the new Standards for Flexo Auto-Certification program—developed ...

Narrow Web Industry News

(Magazine)

January 30, 2004, ... kraft liner. The other side of the carrier film is coated with a high-performance acrylic adhesive and backed with an 80# sheet-form release liner. A high-performance, moderate-tack silicone PSA enables ...

Uteco to Debut New Flexo Press and Gravure Products at Drupa 2004

(Flexpack)

January 27, 2004, Eurograv Ltd. reports Uteco Converting S.p.a will showcase one its new central impression (CI), 8-color gearless flexographic presses at Drupa. In addition, says the Uteco press distributor, Uteco will ...

There's a Duck in My Duct

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... groceries, hardware, office supplies, home improvement items, etc. The important point is that a tape user must know what properties of adhesion, cohesion, tack, aging, etc., are necessary for the application ...

Converting Less Ordinary

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... sizes and can be connected in series or stacked for greater voltage. Custom battery sizes and shapes also are available and are developed with the assistance of GSI's engineering department and the customer. ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... devices that have replaceable or disposable parts. The removable adhesive is protected by an easy-release 60# kraft liner. The permanent acrylic adhesive is said to exhibit high tack and peel, good ...

Products and Materials

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... The briquetting system may be adjusted to produce bricks from 8-30 in. for easy handling, stacking, and palletizing at rates to 350 lb/hr. Invisible Ink Enhances Security Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Tapes)

November 30, 2003, ... Corp., Somerville, NJ; 908/685-2333 A horizontal three-roll stack/lamination take-off with roll widths to 24 in. can produce film, sheet, and/or laminates. A heavy-duty frame with linear motion guide ...

Considering China, Part II

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... the 2001 terrorist-attack second anniversary looming, I couldn't help but think of our now threat-ridden way of life here in the US. The media purveys the belief (and I would venture to say many American ...

Furthering Substrate Functionality

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... adhesion, plasma treatment may be worth a look. According to the experts, there are few, if any, substrates the technology can't tackle, and in addition to creating superlative adhesion today, it's poised ...

Converter Panel Attracts Interest at Conference

(The Place)

September 30, 2003, ... High Performance Heat Sealing Applications.” He discussed a new family of metallocene-catalyzed polyethylenes that have outstanding toughness and excellent hot tack performance. Barry A. Morris and ...

Exercising Environmental Responsibility: Part 1

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... move. Consider a similar story involving a recent congressional election. A challenger for the position was attacking the incumbent by accusing him of trying to poison his constituents with arsenic. ...

Adhesion of Coatings to Aluminum Foil

(The Place)

August 31, 2003, ... when each bonding aluminum atom carries a single soap group. Even at room temperature, acetic acid can easily pass through a coating infiltrating chemical bonds by advanced attack and leading to adhesion ...

A Look at Adhesion Increase in Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives

(Tapes)

August 31, 2003, ... to be very soft and have high adhesive strength and tack will increase more rapidly in bond values than those that have lower application strength. This increase in bond value is the reason pressure-sensitive ...

Materials

(Materials)

August 31, 2003, ... Co., Bridgewater, NJ; 800/797-4992; adhesives.nationalstarch.com Duro-Tak 34-176A hot melt PSAs are said to excel in peel and tack in applications in which labels must stick to fruit and vegetable surfaces. ...

Products

(Magazine)

August 31, 2003, ... up to 12,000 sheets/hr with a maximum sheet size of 72 × 104 cm (28 × 41 in.). Allows foil stamping on printed products to be achieved on-line, without intermediate stacking or warehousing. Said to produce ...

Let's Talk Trend

(Tapes)

August 28, 2003, ... customers that require a cross-section of converted materials and prefer to deal with a single source of cartons, cut-and-stack, and p-s roll labels. At the same time, American and Canadian converters ...

Tag & Label Industry Timeline

(Tapes)

August 27, 2003, ... drags on, Americans turn to movies and big band music for fun; FDR begins the first of four terms. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US enters WWII. War dominates life in the '40s, and war production ...