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- The 411 on RFID, Part 3
- (Archive)
- August 30, 2004, ... before the move from bar codes to RFID is complete." Not all the workers affected by the technology shift will lose their jobs, since others will be created within the new supply chains. However, efficiencies ...
- Investing in Success
- (Magazine)
- July 31, 2004, ... toured the facility and offered formal remarks to workers, invited guests, and the media. Cheney chose to visit CEI in part because of its continued strong growth in today's economy and its recent effort ...
- Safety in Converting: Part III
- (Magazine)
- June 29, 2004, ... case is an excellent example of a hidden housekeeping problem, many instances exist in which housekeeping problems are more overt. The same PE dust on the floor of the production area could cause workers ...
- Safety in Converting: Part II
- (Magazine)
- May 31, 2004, ... almost immediately not to place his hands anywhere near a nip. While that certainly is excellent advice, additional factors exist. For complete safety in the vicinity of a pinching nip, workers must ...
- Watch for New Overtime Regs
- (Magazine)
- May 30, 2004, ... these rules will go into effect August 23. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the minimum wage is $5.15 an hour. Workers eligible for overtime are compensated at a rate of one and one-half times ...
- Safety in Converting: Part I
- (Magazine)
- April 29, 2004, ... to someplace where the fumes will not harm workers, or workers must be provided with appropriate breathing devices. Converting lines that run a coated web through an oven obviously generate vapors; ...
- Aluminum Association to Participate in NAM's Coalition for the Future of Manufacturing in U
- (Materials)
- February 05, 2004, ... lack of skilled workers rising business costs AAI adds it has assumed a strong leadership role in government-relations activities at NAM, and it's urging its members to join the Coalition ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- January 30, 2004, ... The Laser Microgage 2000 allows workers to check alignment on production line. Said to be easy to set up and use, system will check mechanical straightness, slide and stage runout, surface flatness, machine ...
- Northeast Graphics Show Drawing Increased Interest and Participation
- (News | New Products)
- November 06, 2003, ... Papers, New England Copy Specialists, PrintCafe, Printer's Marketplace, Printing Equipment Guide, PrintStaff, PrinterWorkers.com, Prographic, Prolitho Inc., Sheppard Envelope, Southworth Company, Star Bindery ...
- Green Bay Packaging Folding Carton Div. Achieves 10 Yrs with No Lost-Time Accidents
- (News | New Products)
- September 30, 2003, ... executive VP; Richard Graber, VP/general manager; and Jim Napoleone, corporate director safety/health/workers' compensation. Green Bay Packaging says the folding carton division is based in Green Bay; ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- July 31, 2003, ... regime based on sound science that also protects our workers and the environment. SPI kicked off the campaign for signatures during NPE 2003 in Chicago, IL, June 23-27. For an electronic version ...
- At NPE 2003 SPI Promotes Petition to Offset the "China Factor
- (News | New Products)
- June 24, 2003, ... manner. Implementation of a regulatory regime based on sound science that also protects our workers and the environment. To sign or for more information about the SPI petition to US government leaders, ...
- Is the Retort Pouch Really Ready to Replace the Metal Can?
- (Flexpack)
- March 31, 2003, ... which were compressed into blocks and wrapped in foil or cellophane. Heiss and his coworkers conceived of a thin-profile package with a high surface area to volume. The first retort pouch was cello/foil/pliofilm, ...
- SPI Study Ranks Plastics Industry 4th Largest in US
- (News | New Products)
- January 21, 2003, A recently released report from The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc. (SPI) shows the US plastics industry employed more than 1.5 million workers nationwide in 2001. WASHINGTON, DC, USA—A recently ...
- Release Liners: A Worldwide Special ReportReducing Silicone Mist
- (Archive)
- October 31, 2002, ... to a blank device placed in a similar environment. This method can be used on stationary points on coating equipment and via a personal detection device. Workers wear a small plastic canister attached ...
- 1977 - 1979
- (News | New Products)
- September 19, 2002, ... to write regulations aimed at preventing workers from eye and skin hazards, and they’re expected to have broad impact -- skin disorders are reported to be the most prevalent of occupational diseases.... ...
- 1970 - 1973
- (News | New Products)
- August 26, 2002, ... of solid wastes disposal." September 1971 Anaconda Aluminum is ordered to pay largest settlement ever in a sex discrimination case. "Nearly 300 women workers of Anaconda Aluminum Co. received [the $190,000 ...
- FTA Narrow Web Survey Says 70% to Invest in Capital in Next Year
- (News | New Products)
- August 12, 2002, ... more than 60. Only 21.7 percent of the survey audience reported having more than 90 employees, with just 17.4 percent having 100 or more workers. Print runs averaged 75,000 labels or fewer at 57 percent ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- July 31, 2002, ... workers nationwide in 2000. Another 843,300 persons were employed by upstream suppliers of the plastics industry, which brought the employment impact to 2.4 million, about 2% of the US workforce. The ...
- The High End of EDP Labels
- (Office Products)
- June 30, 2002, ... for another company in the early 1990s, he and several coworkers gained valuable experience in providing “mission-critical” custom and stock cut-sheet labels for EDP (electronic data processing) applications ...
