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- Managing Your Way Through a ''Green'' Futur
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- March 31, 2000, ... and minimizing the waste associated with packaging products. This inevitably will lead to mandated recycling and regeneration of packaging material. As we look out into the twenty-first century, here ...
- Curtain Coating Technology Can Mean Big Benefits
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- February 29, 2000, ... coating methods such as roll, blade, bar, air knife, and spin coating. In particular, problems related to recycling of excess fluid, replenishing of evaporating solvents, formation of foam, and crusts ...
- Two states adopt regulations for rigid-container laws
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- January 31, 1998, California and Oregon have enacted far-reaching laws dealing with the recycling of rigid containers and issued comprehensive regulations implementing California and Oregon have enacted far-reaching laws ...
- Czech retail developments could affect converters.
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- October 31, 1996, ... large Prague stores. "(Krone) is stealing from the consumer," said Radek Svitil, spokesman for the Czech environmental association Recycling Group, which specializes in waste and packaging legislation. ...
- Label converter controls quality from the inside out
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- August 31, 1996, ... t that allows us to have flexibility, such as water-based ink systems, and we're recycling certain process chemistries that may be utilized. Our company size gives us the flexibility to react quickly to n ...
- Tetra Pak plant in Spain is environmentally certified.
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- July 31, 1996, ... Disposal - Waste disposal and recycling look set to offer increasing market potential in Southeast Asia, according to a study into waste management in eight area countries. The study was undertaken jointly ...
- In-mold labels: film is today's hot development
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- June 30, 1996, ... heat, moisture, and chemical resistance than those labels made from paper. There are also recycling advantages with film labels. However, the greatest advantage with the use of film is a decorative consideration ...
- PET supplies increasing as markets expand
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- May 31, 1996, ... soft drink recycling infrastructure, set the stage for frantic user interest in the material. Now, with the pace of applications rapidly increasing, packaging pundits expect PET resin growth to top 12% ...
- MSC Specialty Films reaches success down to the core
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- May 31, 1996, ... has been helpful in putting MSC Specialty Films in touch with recycling facilities, such as paper depulpers, that allow MSC to recycle the cores. They have also suggested a refinishing program in which ...
- Trim system in India to be first to handle sugarcane paper.
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- March 31, 1996, ... The concept of using bagasse for papermaking is crucial to the Indian pulp and paper industry, which suffers a shortage of forest-based cellulosic raw materials. Recycling Units Tesco Stores U.K. ...
- Pollution and politics: how green will the new year be?
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- January 31, 1996, ... to former municipal landfills, and parties who sent waste to oil and battery recycling facilities prior to 1987. The Oxley bill also repeals the preference under the current law for remedies that focus ...
- Pollution prevention makes good sense
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- November 30, 1995, ... data indicates that last year, while facilities made progress controlling the release of toxic chemicals - primarily through recycling efforts - the amount of waste generated by industrial operations actuall ...
- Plastics society urges repeal of Clean Air Act provisions
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- September 30, 1995, ... or to obtain a copy of the report, contact Betty B. Horn, L/PSC Executive Administrator, 4509 Willet Dr., Annadale, VA 22003. 703/323-1790; fax: 703/425-7462. * Recycling Expansion - Port Townsend Paper ...
- Growing popularity of PET drives shortage to crisis level
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- August 31, 1995, ... foil were several decades ago. In the late 1970s PET made its indelible mark in the packaging industry when it rapidly replaced the glass bottle for soft drinks. Recycling activities soon began, and ...
- Recycled paperboard mfrs. unite to promote usage.
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- July 31, 1995, ... end use of recovered paper products like old corrugated containers, old newspapers and mixed office papers, 100% recycled paperboard maximizes the recycling efforts of millions of American consumers and ...
- EC packaging waste directive drives European legislation.
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- July 31, 1995, ... related recycling costs. Originally, the fees were determined by the volume of the package or container, regardless of material type. However, the fee structure was changed on Oct. 1, 1993, and is now ...
- Adapting flexible system in trim-recovery operations.
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- July 31, 1995, ... into a chopper for recycling. This entire process not only led to delays, it also required extra bodies to complete. It could also give the line operator problems as he had to take trim at two different ...
- UK packaging markets expected to show growth in plastics, paper
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- July 31, 1995, ... and recycling of paper is a fundamental component of the industry, and there will be significant growth in this area," the report states. "The use of more recycled paper in packaging need not result in ...
- Interest in waste-disposal technologies at all time high
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- May 31, 1995, ... McIlvaine estimates that the potential near-term market for sewage-sludge dewatering technology is about $50 million a year. According to EBI, the recycling industry in the US should grow at about ...
- Costa Rican converter expands Latin market
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- April 30, 1995, ... business is its recycling operation. Despite the lack of national and local legislation in Costa Rica, the company is recycling polyethylene resin at growing rates of more than 150 tons/month in Cost ...