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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, ...

Narrow web adapts to multiple applications

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November 30, 1998, ... materials such as shrink sleeves, adhesives and ultraviolet inks in the proper temperature range for trouble-free converting. With the proliferation of exotic substrates and water-based inks, surface ...

Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.

(Magazine)

October 31, 1996, ... equipment. The presses laminate, print up to five colors, apply coatings in register, and slit - all in one pass. Both flexography and gravure printing are available. Water-based inks are from Color Converting ...

Laminator adds metallizing to the mix

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August 31, 1996, ... to customer-specified humidity levels, it is hermetically sealed in shrinkwrap before shipment or storage. Alubec uses water-based lacquers and adhesives. "It's more than ecology; we have to give the ...

Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process

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August 31, 1996, ... of laminated films - particularly with the growing popularity of water-based inks, coatings, and adhesives. The surface energy of a solid polymer cannot be measured directly because solids typically ...

Green Bay gears up for specialty labels

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May 31, 1996, ... for curing. The second coating station applies a water-based, pressure-sensitive adhesive, using the reverse gravure method. Both coating stations use a fountainless/enclosed applicator featuring an internal ...

Innovation is a winner in FPA competition

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March 31, 1996, ...  The single-layer package reduces package weight by 18% and volume by 25% over the previous package. The structure can be printed with water-based inks, and the single-layer package reduces package waste ...