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Specialists in Interior Packaging Branch Out

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June 30, 2000, ... on doors and told them that we were available to supply them with inner frame. We could [give them] very, very quick turnaround, and we had no real minimums or maximums. And, obviously, the companies we ...

Box Plant Rises from the Ashes to New Heights

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May 31, 2000, ... high-end customized boxes, specializing in runs of small to medium lengths requiring quick turnaround times. "The number one issue in boxmaking today is speed," says Sonderen. "In the past five years, ...

Converter Can't Seem to Stay Out of Busines

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April 30, 2000, ... about turnaround times led him to establish yet another company, Vista Graphics. This subsidiary met the prepress needs of Carton Master and Spectra Label. Together, the three companies are officially ...

Converters See Hurdles Ahead in Digital Printing

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January 31, 2000, ... view of trade shops. While many bemoaned the loss of control in turnaround times when going out-of-house, they tended to look to trade shops to make the investments in digital technology and expertise ...

Bag machine adds value to customer-oriented operation.

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November 30, 1996, ... converter, says Faletti, "so we're small enough to be customer-service oriented with quick turnaround yet sophisticated enough to service the larger end-user." All-Pak's 60,000-sq-ft facility houses a ...

Web-inspection system supports label operation

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July 31, 1996, ...  overall success to a dedicated workforce of nearly 100 employees with keen problem-solving capabilities. The company meets its goal of a two-week turnaround "consistently 94%" of the time, says Luranc ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

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May 31, 1996, ... flexographic press to better manage its short-run print business. The goal was to take costs and time out of the prepress and printing cycles, improve margins and order turnaround, and increase throughput ...

Gravure gets easier

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April 30, 1996, ... cylinder that is said to maintain the quality of conventional engraving at a cost and turnaround comparable to flexo. Both are designed to broaden the user base for gravure by making the technology less ...

Laser positioning system creates clean, productive environment

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April 30, 1996, ... weeks. Because Nashua maintains its own in-house knife sharpening operation, turnaround time wasn't a problem. Knife life, however, definitely was a problem. As part of the companys corporate-wide quality ...

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

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March 31, 1996, ... that will not only meet converters' requirements for faster turnaround times but also meet tightening environmental regulations. One such development has been the introduction of fast-curing, water-based, ...

In-house sheeting promotes growth and quality

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February 29, 1996, ... to shorten manufacturing turnaround times. This would make Hammer Lithograph more competitive in a marketplace that is constantly demanding shorter lead times." "When we relied on the mills for sheeted ...

Flexo/screen proves to be a winning combination

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January 31, 1996, ... the competition, Topflight offers superior service and turnaround. "We don't want the customer to wait for anything," Brown notes. The company has been working for more than two years to reduce its lead ...

Mead expands in-house capabilities with sheeter

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July 31, 1995, ... Morgan J. Beake, Mead's manufacturing director. "It will reduce our dependence on outside contractors, give us more control over production, allow us to provide a quicker turnaround time to our customers, ...

Two-component adhesive system eliminates mixups

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June 30, 1995, ... including increased production speeds, faster turnaround for customers and an improved end product. * The curing process is much easier to control because of measured doses of basic component A and ...

Computerized dispensing provides ink management

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March 31, 1995, ...  technical staff are able to support their own system. Dispensing hardware was constructed of easily available, American-made parts for reliability and ease of maintenance. To minimize turnaround time ...

Traditions fall as prepress moves into electronic age

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December 31, 1994, ... of the reasons for moving from traditional to electronic prepress are the same reasons many other business processes are being revamped in the 1990s. Just-in-time inventory, quality, quick turnaround, ...

Converter's expansion plan brings clean room for bags

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December 31, 1994, ... to handling numerous, relatively small orders, product customization, quick turnaround and creating flexible manufacturing lines and customer service systems to make it all work. The company recently ...