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- NatureWorks Introduces Smart Care
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- April 30, 2006, To assist customers, brandowners, and retailers in handling its nature-based plastics, NatureWorks LLC has introduced Smart Care communications tools and materials, designed to educate and inform the supply ...
- Exhibit at CMM 2007
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- April 23, 2006, ... services also will have all on-site material handling fees included in the price for the exhibit space. CMM 2007 will take place June 4-7, 2007, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, ...
- Multi-Station A-Frame Winding
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- April 22, 2006, ... Whether at the wind-up or the let-off, loss of material due to start/stop marks is decreased up to 2% when compared to winding small rolls. Menzel will present a Multi-station at the NPE Show June 19-23, ...
- A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI
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- March 30, 2006, Improving productivity with automated slitter positioning, polymeric nanocomposites enabled by controlled architecture materials, benefits of new technology ionizers for web handling, and the effect of ...
- What Makes an MSDS Useful?
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- March 30, 2006, The people using a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) generally are those that work with a material, health care providers and emergency care responders, and the general public as consumers. MSDS authors ...
- Digital Integration
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- March 30, 2006, ... material handling steps, work-in-process inventories, and a lot of the labor that typically goes into such jobs when run in multiple steps. This saves time, saves money, reduces waste, and drastically ...
- Biopolymers May Lead to Zero-Waste Communities
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- March 06, 2006, ... engage practitioners in developing short-term and long-term solutions to handling the PLA material. Programs to understand the practical dynamics of market introduction are underway with two prominent ...
- If Not Rough, How About Groovy?
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- February 27, 2006, ... For a long-term solution with consistent performance, add grooves or ridges to your roller. Ridges and grooves are cut into your roller materials, whether steel, aluminum, or rubber, and can be hard-coated ...
- Slitting New Product Digest
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- February 27, 2006, ... stability, and increase cut quality. Holder/blade is used for shear slitting materials, including paper, coated papers, fine printing papers, foils, paperboard, chrome-coated, polycoated, all films, and ...
- Bobst to Exhibit at IPEX
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- February 14, 2006, ... General's vacuum web coating and metallizing solutions provide deposition of aluminium and clear barrier coatings for packaging, decorative and label applications. Other materials can be deposited for ...
- MDC Receives ERA Award
- (Archive)
- February 11, 2006, ... is a manufacturing process to produce lightweight gravure cylinders. Advantages reportedly include: cost savings by using polymer material rather than steel, reduced shipping and handling costs, storage ...
- What Static Can Do is Shocking
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- January 30, 2006, ... similar to the material people use to decorate Christmas trees. A strand of the tinsel drapes across a moving web so it contacts the web. This is a simple and relatively inexpensive method to reduce static. ...
- Are You Rough Enough?
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- January 30, 2006, ... that has high roughness (and usually hardness, too). We know if we push the hard, rough object against the to-be-scratched object and work the surfaces back and forth against each other, the soft material ...
- Can This Coater Be Saved?
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- January 30, 2006, ... ft. $3,931,200 Thinner coating wt 60.0 M sq. ft. $12,000,000 New business Availability loss 65.5 M sq. ft. $7,862,400 Operational *Scrap material savings=$0.10/sq. ft., ...
- About Cold Seal Adhesives
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- December 30, 2005, People actually refer to this class of product using three different names—cold seal adhesives, self-seal adhesives, and cohesives. Remember that all the terms describe exactly the same material. PLC Probe ...
- The Secret Strain
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- December 30, 2005, Web Handling What is strain and what’s so secret about it? Strain is the dimensional change of a material as it is tensioned, loaded, stretched, or compressed. Strain is the dimensional difference ...
- Why Isn't Your Slitter Running
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- December 30, 2005, Walk by any slitter and more likely than not, it won’t be running. Why? Besides having no input material or no demand for slitting, your slitter likely is not running because the slitter operator is busy ...
- Converting Industry News
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- November 29, 2005, ... waste management strategies to deal with label matrix and used release liner. Raw material prices have been, and will continue to be, a challenge. This ongoing situation was compounded by the paper ...
- New Products
- (Magazine)
- November 29, 2005, ... material supply. Available in diameters of 16 and 25 mm. End stops can be adjusted finely, simplifying construction and allowing for multiple positions with a single unit. PFFC-ASAP 401 Antiblock ...
- Need a Hand?
- (Magazine)
- November 29, 2005, ... lost productivity, and lost money. In addition to damaged rolls and materials, employee safety is a major risk when rolls are handled manually. Consider roll handling equipment. Your workers—and your company’s ...