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Valmet There for You 24-7

Published: November 28, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
Valmet Converting reports a unique approach to customer-focused communications for service and support. The co. says the new Valmet 24-7 HelpLine was launched at K 2001 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Battling the Biothreats

Published: November 28, 2001, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
UPDATED 12/21/01—With its arduous R&D efforts and its innovative technology, once again, the converting industry is stepping front and center to face a national crisis. Fortunately, the anthrax-in-the-mail problem has waned, but the industry still is investigating ways to protect our mail and our nation's life-sustaining food supply.

Anthrax & Printing: GATF and /PIA to Help Calm Newfound Fears

Published: November 26, 2001, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
Though Halloween is almost a month behind us, we in the US still are getting our share of "scares." Anthrax carries on its grisly spectacle, and despite a drop in newly reported anthrax cases over the last few weeks, terrorism, especially bio-terrorism, continues to weigh heavily on our collective conscious.

Pactiv Sells Single-Faced Corrugated Business

Published: November 26, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
Pactiv Corp. announced today the sale of its single-faced corrugated Netherland-based business to Palm Industrie Beteiligungs GmbH Co. KG. The single-faced corrugated business had sales of approximately $20 million in 2000, and, reports the co., the sale of this business is another step in the restructuring of its protective and flexible packaging segment that was announced in January 2001.

Flint Ink Donates Thousands to September 11 Charities

Published: November 26, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
Together the Flint Ink Foundation and Flint Ink worldwide have donated over $290,000 to September 11th charities, reports the ink supplier.

CreoScitex to Be Just "Plain" Creo; Impressive Rock-Tenn Installation Proves Creo Products Are Anything But

Published: November 19, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
Creo Products Inc. will consolidate all of the company's activities and businesses under one brand name and logo, the company announced today. According to the Canadian-based manufacturer, beginning January 2002, it will phase out the name "CreoScitex," and the Creo logo will be updated.

Packaging Mfr. Gets Efficient with Concord Software

Published: November 19, 2001, By Nsenga B. Thompson, Staff Editor
Packaging Personified Selects Concord’s Axapta for ConvertingATLANTA, GA--Concord Business Systems Inc. announced the Carol Stream, IL-based Packaging

NAPIM Survey Finds Printers Are Focused on Ink Performance on Press, Not on Price

Published: November 16, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
America's packaging printers want their ink to perform on press as well or better than advertised. That's the key finding of a recent survey distributed among 2,000 printers by the National Association of Printing Ink Manufacturers (NAPIM).

Italian Industry Associations Cover Converting News

Published: November 16, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
Two Italian industry associations, ACIMGA and UCIMA, are making converting industry news available on their web sites.

Canadian Partners Graphic Support Carries Purup-Eskofot Products

Published: November 15, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
Partners Graphic Support (PGS) recently announced a distribution agreement for all Purup-Eskofot prepress products, say the Canadian graphics arts industry supplier.

LPS Pouches Provide Added Security

Published: November 15, 2001, By PFFC Staff
MOONACHIE, NJ--In reponse to consumers' increasing product security concerns, LPS Industries has developed "unit specific bar coding." Now available on

K Show Visitors Down, But Plastics Show Organizer Says Business Is Good

Published: November 15, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
K 2001 show organizer, Messe Düsseldorf, reports a "pleasing" outcome, despite a 12% drop in attendance from 1998.

Envelope Maker Touts "Safer" Glama-lope Solution; Reports Sharp Sales Increase

Published: November 13, 2001
CTI Paper USA, Inc. confirms sharp sales increases in Glama-lope translucent envelopes and Glama Natural translucent papers, which the co. says provide added security for direct mail and personal end uses.

Post-Millennium Envelope Report Predicts Big Change

Published: November 13, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
The Envelope Manufacturers Association and the EMA Foundation for Paper-Based Communications recently released The Emergence of the Post-Millennium Envelope Manufacturing Industry. According to the trade groups, the report suggests the envelope-making industry is about to undergo a dramatic change...

BASF and Heidelberg Announce Alliance

Published: November 09, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
BASF recently announced its North American Printing Systems group has formed an alliance with Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Ltd. The agreement enables Heidelberg to distribute BASF's line of K+E Printing Inks in Canada.

C.A. Litzler Offers New Dryer

Published: November 09, 2001, By PFFC Staff
CLEVELAND, OH--As a result of C.A. Litzler Co. Inc.'s acquisition of Thermovation Engineering ( a custom designer of infrared ovens) and a combination

PGI Provides Industry with Price-Friendly Proofing Product

Published: November 05, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
Polaroid Graphics Imaging (PGI) LLC announces a pricing "breakthrough" in its proofing system offerings.

Enercon Expands Rep Network with Canada's Canflexographics

Published: November 05, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
Enercon Industries Corp. reports its surface-treating products can be purchased in Canada through Canflexographics, Brampton, Ontario. According to the co., Canflexographics now is Enercon's exclusive Canadian sales representative, providing sales and service support for Enercon's full line of narrow and wide web surface-treatment systems.

Flexo Operations: Help Is Here! BST Pro Mark DFI Donation Trains Future Flexo Workforce

Published: November 05, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
With the donation of its Powerscope video web inspection system, BST Pro Mark now is among the suppliers helping DiTrolio Flexographic Institute (DFI) students get a hands-on education.

Sonoco Completes Purchase of Phoenix Packaging

Published: November 02, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
Sonoco reports it has finished the previously announced purchase of Phoenix Packaging Corp., a privately held co. headquartered in North Canton, OH.

Agfa Assists in September 11 Aftermath

Published: November 02, 2001, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
From ongoing attacks on Afghanistan to Anthrax in the US to civil unrest in Pakiston to the turbulent turns of the stock market, since September 11th, world affairs continue to keep global citizens teetering between a sense of well-being and panic. But many companies (from across the globe) are contributing to a sense of stability by donating their efforts...

Polymers / Laminations / Adhesives / Coatings / Extrusions

Published: November 01, 2001, By David J. Bentley Jr., Editor
Providing practical information to the converting and packaging industries

Converting Industry News

Published: November 01, 2001
News from: Canflexographics, Columbus Container, Enercon, Greystone Mfg., Henkel, Omega Research Associates, Omega Systems, PCMC, Plastics USA, Print 01, VantagePoint Group, Webtron/ZIGZAG, and Weidenhammer Packaging.

Products

Published: November 01, 2001, By Nsenga Byrd Thompson, Staff Editor
New products from: Agfa, Contech, CreoScitex, Gerber Innovation, Global Graphics Software, Imation, J.E. Doyle, Man Roland, New Era Converting Machinery, and Printcafe.

MD Wrinkle Formation Causes and Cures

Published: November 01, 2001, By William E. Hawkins, Film Handling Solutions Ltd.
MD (machine-direction) wrinkle problems (sometimes called tin canning) still plague many converters and/or film suppliers. The two main contributing parameters

One-Dimensional Converter Expands Its Reach

Published: November 01, 2001, By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor

A pioneer in in-mold labeling, Multi-Color Corp. makes some acquisitions that bring shrink sleeve and p-s labels into the mix.

Security in an Insecure World: Life After September 11

Published: November 01, 2001, By Sheila A. Millar, Attorney-at-Law, Keller & Heckman, Washington, DC
The events of Sept. 11, 2001, were tragic, horrifying, bewildering and, ultimately, sobering. The terrorist attacks have focused our attention as never

IML Conference Transcends Packaging with Broader Range of Topics

Published: November 01, 2001, By David J. Bentley Jr., Contributing Editor
The Tenth Annual Intl. In-Mold Labeling Conference, held September 24-26, at Marriott's Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, AZ, departed from the strong emphasis

Harmonic System Gets Tension Under Control

Published: November 01, 2001, By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
Family-owned Capital Printing, based in Fairfield, NJ, serves its growing customer base the old-fashioned way, reports president and founder Vijay Patel:

What's New in Narrow Web

Published: November 01, 2001

All of the items in What's New in Narrow Web were featured at Labelexpo Europe, 2001, which was held September 26–29 in Brussels, Belgium.

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