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Converting Industry News

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April 29, 2001, ... IL. The line includes airshafts and chucks used on web processing equipment. EMT plans to expand its workforce to accommodate the new product line, which will be manufactured in Green Bay. Openings ...

Some Smart Ways to Face Inevitable Price Increases

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March 31, 2001, ... usually can find ways to become even more efficient. The best source for ideas to improve efficiency is the workforce. Ask the personnel in the adhesive, coating, or primer mixing room, the coating machine ...

Digital News

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January 31, 2001, ... recruiting and maintaining an effective workforce. DAX to Be Powered by Hilgraeve's Hypersend MONROE, MI, USA—Digital Art Exchange Inc. (DAX) is entering a strategic partnership with Hilgraeve's HyperSend. ...

Inspection System Balances Print Quality with Economy

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December 31, 2000, ... "First, there was a young, enthusiastic workforce already working together successfully, and secondly, the acquisition of a going concern gave us a two-year headstart. The advantages include supply chains ...

The Need to Know Drives Pharma Labeling Market

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December 31, 2000, ... manufacturing base. Most of the world's larger pharma firms maintain plants in Puerto Rico, feasting on a workforce that is both highly educated and motivated. Although tourists have been visiting San ...

Protecting Your Company with Restrictive Covenants

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September 30, 2000, ... today's highly mobile workforce, these agreements are finding their way into all levels of employment. Although state law usually imposes an implied duty of loyalty on an employee to his or her employer, ...

Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

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September 30, 2000, ... workforce in 2006 will number 141 million, 10 million shy of the 151 million jobs the department estimates will be available that year. In citing these statistics, futurist Edward D. Barlow Jr., Creating ...

Eastern European Converter Continues Pioneering Ways

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August 31, 2000, ... joint ventures and/or financial investment by a foreign company. Chemosvit is a well-managed company with a dedicated and educated workforce. With strong positions in supplying huge multinational food ...

Material Handling Equipment: An Ergonomic Answer

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August 31, 2000, ... that most large companies (that employ a majority of the workforce) already have these programs in place and that smaller companies have not yet implemented them. For those of you—whether your company ...

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

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January 31, 2000, ... sq ft, and the company employs a workforce of 80. Production runs three eight-hour shifts, Monday through Friday, with weekend overtime as necessary. Equipment Old and New With business booming, Ferrisgate ...

Label converter controls quality from the inside out

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August 31, 1996, ... three plants: Harahan; Winchester, KY; and Goodyear, AZ. The Winchester and Goodyear operations run flexo, and Harahan runs litho. Together, Walle's three plants employ a highly skilled workforce of nearly ...

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 ...

Modified Atmosphere Packaging shows potential for growth

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June 30, 1996, ... group, is to acquire Courtaulds' cellophane films business, which includes the Bridgwater, Somerset, site in the U.K. and a workforce of 490 employees. The acquisition brings to UCB the technology that ...

A look at the world of German Packaging today.

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March 31, 1996, ... workforce. I continually heard "how much better it was before 1991" and how tough it is now to attain profitability. Another factor influencing the German converting/packaging industry is the long-term ...

Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea

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March 31, 1996, ... on everyone working together. (The workforce, including the Dallas headquarters, totals 75 people.) He says, "We want everyone to know that this is their company. One of the reasons it took three times ...

Business and education join forces, and everybody wins

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February 29, 1996, ... Packaging Foundation (ICPF). "ICPF believes in putting something back into the industry and helping to create a qualified workforce for the future," says Michel Defenbau, director of sales and marketing ...

Opportunities abound in an emerging Indian market

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December 31, 1995, ... as India's population becomes more sophisticated in its buying habits, demands for quality increase. Also, as more Indian women enter the workforce, they have less time to fulfill traditional domestic roles. ...

New relationship challenges old ways

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November 30, 1995, ... and the transformation from a manufacturing to an information/service-based economy will continue to cause significant workforce issues. The introduction of new work structures has raised the skill ...

Converting capabilities grow in Caribbean nations.

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September 30, 1995, ... off the coast of Florida, Cuba has fantastic potential for North American converter expansion. An educated workforce, coupled with recently increasing consumerism, has provoked interest among many multinational ...

Economic restructuring in Central European enterprises.

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September 30, 1995, ... by reducing the size of the workforce, closing unprofitable facilities and selling or leasing nonproductive assets. On the strategic side of restructuring, the measures most commonly taken are the establishment ...