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Converting Industry News

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February 28, 2001, ... simplified product selection; on-line order entry, processing, and tracking; and a directory of specialty converters for OEMs and other end-users. Ty Silberhorn, president and CEO, says, “Finding the ...

Products

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February 28, 2001, ... for Laser Marker Domino Amjet, Gurnee, IL; 847/244-2501 The DGM-IT high-resolution laser marker has a new, versatile tracking capability. The device provides continuous, precision line imaging, without ...

A Glossary of Descriptive Terms, Fourth Installment

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December 31, 2000, ... rate side to side. Lateral shifting also may be due to uneven drying and/or shrinkage forces acting on the web surface. Web steering is essential to maintain web tracking on the machine centerline when ...

Printer Helps Customers Manage Printing Needs

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December 31, 2000, ... by ensuring that invoices, tracking labels, and promotional literature efficiently support each purchase. Auditing for Waste Wallace, a 92-year-old company with annual sales of nearly $1.6 billion, ...

Controlling Your Web from Beginning to End, Part II

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December 31, 2000, ... Often the steering system must be damped severely to prevent wrinkles. Severe damping in one zone allows the web to wander in the next zone. Sometimes the overdamped steering causes web tracking to be ...

A Glossary of Descriptive TermsThird Installment

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November 30, 2000, ... machine speed, the quicker the wrinkles appear and disappear. When these wrinkles are present, there is nonalignment between the web resistance forces and the roll tracking forces. Because the wrinkles ...

Converting Industry News

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November 30, 2000, ... went live November 30, at which time registered users were able to take advantage of a list of materials, simplified product selection, on-line order entry, processing and tracking, and technical bulletins. ...

Converting Industry News

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October 31, 2000, News from: Arrow Paper, Ato Findley, Bostik, Caraustar, Clemson, Comco, Eastman, EFC Inc., Empriva, FBF, GE Plastics, GretagMacbeth, MacDermid, MAJIQ, Market Tracking Intl., Mead, MSDSBank.com, Nordson, ...

Reporter Clips

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October 31, 2000, ... smart label technology, Baggage Direct is said to be the world's first RFID (radio frequency identification) smart label tracking and delivery service using "truly disposable" tags. Baggage Direct, a ...

Materials and Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... an ink re-mix feature to help convert surplus blends into new colors for current jobs to reduce waste and improve profits. Additional features include inventory control, lot number tracking, and bar coding. ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

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March 31, 2000, ... graphics-based single window to monitor all operations and components of each line. The system allows for more than supervision of the line, notes Carne. It includes quality tracking, historical-data trending, ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, ... & Co. Inc., Little Falls, NJ, has been tracking it, reports Kline senior consultant Jay Dwivedi. Venki Chandrashkdar, director, polymer commercial development at Equistar Chemicals LP, Houston, TX, ...

Integrated Information System Can Boost Profits

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ... involved in manufacturing your products, the more the attributes multiply, making manual tracking and control virtually impossible. Yet, delivering the attributes promised is key to customer retention, ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

(Archive)

December 31, 1999, ... orders on the Concord Business Systems order entry production system, which Nowak describes as excellent. "We were their beta test market for bar code tracking," he says. The system tracks bar-coded rolls ...

Foil and potatoes - Aluminum Assn. presents a response.

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July 31, 1996, ... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is tracking research at the Univ. of Wisconsin on the safety of aluminum foil in wrapped baked potatoes. The recently completed Univ. of Wisconsin study ...

Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea

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March 31, 1996, ... experienced sales and management team, supported by a computer network that's tied into the manufacturing plant in Bloomington and provides on-line, real-time tracking of order status and other key data. ...

Flexo/screen proves to be a winning combination

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January 31, 1996, ... to get product to our customers even sooner." To help accomplish that, Topflight has developed a proprietary order tracking and scheduling system that allows every department, from sales and service ...

Pollution prevention makes good sense

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November 30, 1995, ... This goal can be satisfied by gathering information regarding the multimedia waste generated during each production process and then back-tracking to determine the sources of the waste. Another method ...

Adapting flexible system in trim-recovery operations.

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July 31, 1995, ... smaller, with the attending tracking problems these sizes cause) for manual feeding to the chopper. The new system requires no winding or subsequent feeding of trim rolls to the chopper at all - and it ...

Strong growth predicted for flex-pack industry

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March 31, 1995, ... employees with work. The top growth market for flexible packaging has changed for the first time since FPA began tracking the growth markets. Half of the converters and suppliers who responded expect ...