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Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... see the May 2000 issue of PFFC, p52. Supplier News Coast to Build Web Guides in Europe SARASOTA, FL, USA—Coast Controls, manufacturer of all-air automatic web guiding systems that operate entirely ...

Printing/Converting Show Bursting at the Seams

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August 31, 2000, ... at this year's event. Visitors can register for the show, enroll for seminars, and make hotel reservations on-line at gasc.org. The web site offers an "Attendee Assistant" feature that provides a keyword ...

Reporter Clips

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August 31, 2000, News from: Crane & Co., Dow Corning, Flexographic Trade School, Indigo, MACtac, Polyweave, Proma Technologies, Raflatac, Scapa Tapes, and Tokyo Lithmatic Corp. Narrow Web Converting Industry News Dow ...

Flexography Comes of Age and Keeps on Growing

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August 31, 2000, ... to reduce solvent emissions, UV has given narrow web flexo printers the ability to compete with lithography. UV has had limited success in wide web printing, due mainly to the fact that wide web's primary ...

A Glossary of Terms to Help Avoid Failure to Communicate

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August 31, 2000, ... terms I use when I describe technology connected with web handling. Air Entrapment: The process of capturing boundary air between web wraps during the winding process. Alignment: Making the axis ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... Tilt-Lock, Titan (Valmet), Veeco, Warner Electric, and Webex. Adhesives Provide ''Quick Stick'' National Starch & Chemical, Bridgewater, NJ; 800/797-4992; nationalstarch.com Duro-Tak 36-612A adhesives, ...

Innovation Drives Converter of Pressure-Sensitive Labels

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June 30, 2000, ...  The plant has 16 narrow web printing presses combining a variety of silk screen, letterpress, flexo, offset, and stamping techniques. The three Gallus 200 presses have eight stations (letterpress and ...

Drupa 2000A Big Success Any Way You Count It

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June 30, 2000, ... 320 D, as well as its new, higher speed third-generation web digital presses, the DCP 320 D and the DCP 500 D. Barco Graphics released Plato, intelligent digital plate layout software targeted toward ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

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May 31, 2000, ... for the primary unwind and a Measurex web inspection system. Denney says the Waynesville location supplies Blue Ridge's Diary-Pak converting operations with the coated board for the gable-top containers. ...

Cartonmarker Adds Flexo to Give Customers a Choice

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February 29, 2000, Colbert Packaging expands its capabilities by adding a second Mark Andy narrow web flexographic press to its stable of equipment. Colbert Packaging expands its capabilities by adding a second Mark Andy ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ... They want it to "jump out" at the consumer, and making that happen through patented three-dimensional printing and converting techniques is precisely the goal of Gary Jacobsen, president and CEO of Web ...

Temperature control helps ink customers optimize performance.

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November 30, 1996, ... the US and Europe. Sun also regularly sends field technicians to customer plants to review and suggest methods of improving the operation of a variety of web presses. The company's Carlstadt, NJ, Technical ...

A look at the status of UV/EB curing

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June 30, 1996, ... of UV/EB-curable inks has been strong, particularly in the area of flexography, where a number of wide web machines have joined thousands of narrow web presses that have used UV-curable inks and overprint ...

Gravure gets easier

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April 30, 1996, ... imprinter that eliminates the purchase and storage of preprinted web stocks. The unit can imprint crisp, clear, large and small graphics, reportedly with gravur-type print quality, on all types of paper, ...

Business and education join forces, and everybody wins

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February 29, 1996, ... Web Experience Clemson recently increased its capability with a narrow web corona treating system donated by Enercon Industries Corp., Menomonee Falls, WI. The system is the third that Enercon has donated ...

Retrofit brings older sheeters back to life.

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August 31, 1995, ... 0.028 in. or multiple webs) and short sheets. Start with Two Questions To determine if a knife retrofit is right for your company, you must consider the following two questions: 1. Is the existing ...

Mead expands in-house capabilities with sheeter

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July 31, 1995, ... continues without the machine stopping and with virtually no waste. A tension-control unit ensures that the web is kept taught and minimizes lateral movement as the board enters the cutting head. Heavy-duty ...