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- Inevitable Ergonomics: Standard Smarts
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- April 30, 2002, ... not be a standard for you in Madras, India. Just who ensures we're all following the same standard? But the chasm between standards isn't always that geographically wide. In the US alone, material handling, ...
- Need New Equipment or Accessories? NPD Is the Place to Look
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- April 30, 2002, ... with ranges from ⅛-1.5 PLI, reportedly making it suitable for a range of materials including light films, film laminates, nonwovens, and light papers. Two 10-hp motors are utilized in an AV vector drive ...
- Valron Cures Bayer's Headach
- (News | New Products)
- April 02, 2002, ... Packaging began looking for alternative materials to the PET/Nylon structure," the co. adds. "Valéron was clearly the film of choice," says Richard Black, American Packaging's business development manager, ...
- RFID Labels a Good Read
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- March 31, 2002, ... must be sized to achieve the desired read distance — the bigger the antenna, the longer the read distance. That may be simple enough, but the process is complicated by the fact that the adhesives and materials ...
- Products
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- March 31, 2002, ... gauge consistency, and optical quality. Ring is easy to adjust and operate, co. reports. Holographic Materials Increase Marketing Power Unifoil Corp., Passaic Park, NJ; 973/365-2000; unifoil.com UniLustre™ ...
- MAN Roland, Agfa, and Others Give Global View of Package Printing
- (News | New Products)
- March 21, 2002, ... accessories, die-cutting systems, rollers, drying systems, and material handling devices. Says North American attendee, David M. Wolff, VP of sales, General Press Corp.: "It was my first time over there, ...
- Converting Industry News
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- February 28, 2002, ... requirements. Switching to reusable Pak-Line roll suspension crates from Homasote Co. enabled the company to cut shipping material costs by 50% without putting its film at risk. Richard Martinelli, ...
- Pyramids and Wound Rolls: Long-Lasting Quality
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- February 28, 2002, ... layers, a wound roll's initial wraps are the foundation for subsequent roll buildup. In winding rolls we also create impressive performance through structure. Wound rolls are a package to store web materials ...
- Products
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- February 28, 2002, ... U.K.; +44 01 473 710 912; ashe.co.uk Sapphire 160-60 slitter/rewinder is suitable for narrow and wide web applications. Designed to handle a range of material such as PP, PET, cellophane, cellulose, and ...
- The Buck Stops
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- February 28, 2002, ... folding carton material is a one-side-coated SBS (solid bleached sulfate) board available from the company's Packaging Resource Group. White reports it isn't possible to provide statistics regarding flexo' ...
- Converting Industry News
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- January 31, 2002, ... flexible packaging materials. Covering an area of about 2,000 m2 (20,000 sq ft) and adjoining the existing production facility at Valmet Rotomec, the CTC will open in mid-March this year and have its official ...
- Web Line Knowledge Offers a Competitive Advantage
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- January 31, 2002, ... starts with web handling: how to unwind, transport, and rewind web materials. We must be able to handle the web before we can process it. Topics include: Web Properties: Tailor web processes to web ...
- Reclosability & Flex-Packs
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- January 31, 2002, ... is applied to the inside of the packaging by heat-sealing the zipper flange to the sealing layer of the base stock. Various blends of coextruded materials are used for zipper formulations, including ethylene ...
- Products
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- December 31, 2001, ... to 10 lb and can actuate every 4 sec. Initially designed for placing sterile plastic cups in an FDA clean room environment, the gripper has found application in small rolled materials and other lightweight ...
- Control of Adhesion and Removal of Heat Sealable Tops on Polymer Containers
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- December 31, 2001, ... peel is the real challenge. Peelable sealant materials rarely contain a single component or a single layer. A siingle component cannot meet the demands of food packaging — barrier to oxygen and moisture, ...
- Post 9/11 Activities Continue to Affect Converting Industry
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- November 30, 2001, ... efforts continue by both government and the private sector to adopt new procedures to protect people and property from future terrorist attacks. Hazardous materials transportation has been of particular ...
- Automated Sortation System Boosts Customer Satisfaction
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- November 30, 2001, ... bundle size, and spacing density. Once scanned, the label bundles are diverted to 1 of 26 sort lanes. Errors from scanning, spacing, or incorrect materials handling are tracked and diverted to one of two ...
- Polymers / Laminations / Adhesives / Coatings / Extrusions
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- October 31, 2001, ... separated into small groups to solve a practical problem from the presenter. Another innovation at the meeting was a session on “Styrenic Materials” that included papers on “Styrene Butadiene Copolymer ...
- MD Wrinkle Formation Causes and Cures
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- October 31, 2001, ... the area between the gauge bands, the wraps begin to fold into the undulating pattern of transverse compression failure of a thin web material. This pattern is known in the trade as MD wrinkles or “tin ...
- What's New Product
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- September 30, 2001, ... produced at equally high throughput rates, mfr. reports. Knife Assemblies Cut Range of Materials Azco Corp., Elmwood Pk., NJ; 201/791-1428 Stainless steel guillotine units are designed for cutting ...