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- Materials and Products for the Converting Industry
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- August 31, 2000, ... video camera, the PC-based system inspects, measures, and stores microscopic images on three axes (X, Y, and Z) and performs the following cell measurements: area; screen angle; percent of coverage; and ...
- Specialists in Interior Packaging Branch Out
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- June 30, 2000, ... and through their contacts with Jiffy's paper suppliers, discovered that the area was in need of a sheeted paper supplier. "That was how it got started," says Lewis. "The company actually was formed on ...
- Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call
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- April 30, 2000, ... allows Apollo to produce film from 0.0006 to 12 mils. End-use products converted from the film products include box liners, bags, shipping sacks, pallet covers, shrink bags, and more. The factory, located ...
- Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application
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- April 30, 2000, ... processing applications. In these applications, tension control systems are typically installed at the unwind roll that feeds material into the production machinery. This article covers four types of ...
- System Keeps Static Buildup Problems Under Control
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- February 29, 2000, ... kraft; a variety of papers including SCK and MF/MG glassine; and clay coats, all covering a wide range of basis weights. (Substrate suppliers are proprietary.) Applications range from digitally printed ...
- 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, ...
- High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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- January 31, 2000, ... packaging with various substrates, including plastic film, paper, and foil. Obviously, in one short article we cannot cover this subject in full and do justice to its history and current applications. ...
- Partnering launches future growth in laminations
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- August 31, 1996, ... mechanical requirements of coating and laminating (covered by Geometric). A short demonstration on a pilot coater inspired them to test Chase & Sons' materials on the equipment. To adopt a new processing ...
- Gauging system lights the way
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- August 31, 1996, ... the time we discovered the problem, we had already generated at least 35 feet of scrap." Given the high cost of the materials used in EL lamps, even a small amount of scrap could be costly, notes Durante. ...
- A look at the status of UV/EB curing
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- June 30, 1996, ... by RadTech International North America, offered 24 sessions covering a wide-ranging spectrum of technology and issues in ultraviolet and electron beam curing. Topics included materials, equipment, processing, ...
- A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.
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- May 31, 1996, ... with register/impression recovery and automatic gear mesh, is engineered for precise deck positioning and gear mesh in three minutes or less for fast, accurate racking. Tension is controlled by an integrated ...
- Gravure gets easier
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- April 30, 1996, ... roll sleeve that is easily handled and can be changed in just minutes. The sleeves are composed of fiberglass with a rubber cover, making them extremely lightweight. Consequently, they can be manufactured ...
- Innovation is a winner in FPA competition
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- March 31, 1996, ... flexible packaging system said to protect upholstered furniture as well as a corrugated box. A sofa, for example, is placed on a corrugated tray; the sofa is covered with a PE film/PE foam composite bag; ...
- Improved paper chemistry provides multiple benefits
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- December 31, 1995, ... paper and actually helping converters, who may not even be aware of it. The discovery has been used in fine paper grades, liquid packaging, and linerboard for about 15 years. In papermaking the simultaneous ...
- EC packaging waste directive drives European legislation.
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- July 31, 1995, ... many nations. In February 1995 the DSD set up the Brussels-based Packaging Recovery Organization (PRO), an umbrella organization whose aim is to "clarify the prerequisites and legal criteria for awarding ...
- Ceramic heater rollers an exciting new alternative.
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- July 31, 1995, New heater roller technology is reportedly yielding reduced warmup and temperature-recovery times while reducing maintenance downtime and improving process New heater roller technology is reportedly yielding ...
- UK packaging markets expected to show growth in plastics, paper
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- July 31, 1995, ... its decline. Cartons are so versatile that although they aren't a growing market, there is no danger of serious decline. Other forms of paper-based packaging show static or low growth patterns. "Recovery ...
- Interest in waste-disposal technologies at all time high
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- May 31, 1995, ... and consulting and remediation, will make up $64.7 billion, or 47%. The resource center, which includes water treatment, resource recovery and energy systems, will make up $42.7 billion, or 31%; and the ...
- Printer responds to tougher environmental standards
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- April 30, 1995, ... be properly adapted to water inks, and quality and production would be reduced. Solvent recovery was another possible alternative considered for Poly-Pak. Flexographic inks are usually made up of fou ...
- Innovative uses, creativity earn honors from AIMCAL
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- March 31, 1995, ... vacuum-metallized process with an additional step for holographic embossing. The paper is sheet-fed offset printed by Seneca and laminated to package-cover and puzzle stock. Nonfood Packages: Technical ...