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- More Laminating Diversity Equals More Success
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- May 31, 2000, ... opportunities, not necessarily foam. Maybe we'll get into other converting-type laminating with other substrates." Considering the number of markets Bondtex is already in, Hightower's plans to get into ...
- Converter Can't Seem to Stay Out of Busines
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- April 30, 2000, When Robert Curran sold his three label companies in 1987, he figured he was out of the converting business for good. Today, he not only owns a folding When Robert Curran sold his three label companies ...
- Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application
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- April 30, 2000, ... machines use tension control to provide a constant pull of a web or filament through the machine, thereby ensuring consistent product quality. Printing and converting industries account for most web ...
- French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar
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- March 31, 2000, ... says this converting operation supplies more than 25% of the institutional french fry packaging to North America, no small feat considering that 4.5 billion lb of french fries are sold annually in the ...
- Drupa 2000 Celebrates Change on a Global Scale
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- February 29, 2000, ... to a four-year cycle. "The fair is responding to shortened innovation cycles," notes Messe Dusseldorf. Paper converting and package production have been re-integrated into the exhibits. This means, according ...
- 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, ...
- Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group
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- February 29, 2000, ... a company no longer in operation. Both the PE and PP manufactured are used internally. Completing the converting operation is a range of slitters and bagmaking machines, located near a fully equipped ...
- Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.
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- January 31, 2000, Specialization is something that seems to be burgeoning in the converting industry. From short-run specialty bags to the season/holiday-changing colorful Specialization is something that seems to be burgeoning ...
- High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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- January 31, 2000, ... and Printpack also took on early leadership rolls in the barrier film industry. Today, according to a recently published study by Kline & Co., converting companies such as Huntsman, Bemis, and Reynolds ...
- Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority
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- January 31, 2000, ... speed on the rewind is 500 fpm. The slitter is equipped with Ashe Converting winders, of which Rupp says, "They're made for a slitter, they're tension-controlled. They do a fantastic job." Autotype has ...
- Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater
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- December 31, 1999, With a combined 50 years of experience in the converting industry, William R. Arndt and Michael R. Nowak decided to start their own coating business, With a combined 50 years of experience in the converting ...
- Static electricity can be a very costly problem
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- August 31, 1998, Static electricity is described as a nonflowing electrical charge that builds up on nonconductive or ungrounded conductive materials. The most common Static electricity is described as a nonflowing electrical ...
- Finding a simple solution to a shocking problem
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- March 31, 1998, ... for Favorite Plastics. The solution - a Tantec system - was only a phone call away. Favorite Plastics, a Brooklyn, NY, manufacturer of film for the converting industry, was experiencing problems at ...
- Bag machine adds value to customer-oriented operation.
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- November 30, 1996, ... models and one 64-in.-wide model. A new Paper Converting Machine Co. eight-color Vision II flexo press, 37 in. wide, will be installed in January 1997. All four presses run solvent-based inks from Sun ...
- Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.
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- November 30, 1996, ... that it has significantly improved bond rates and increased productivity while supplying customers with treated substrates for subsequent converting processes. In addition to increasing bond strength, ...
- Label converter controls quality from the inside out
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- August 31, 1996, ... and strict manufacturing controls that are at the heart of the company's success. The Keeney family had been in shipbuilding before entering the label converting business in 1982. Though the elder Keeney ...
- Perforating tear-resistant materials takes a big step.
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- August 31, 1996, How do you perforate tough materials that are constructed not to tear? New perforating technology reportedly has the answer.When we attempt to perforate How do you perforate tough materials that are constructed ...
- Dutch converter retakes his company
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- July 31, 1996, Daan Bolding has history on his side as the head of Bolding Verpakkingen, a converting operation started by his grandfather almost 100 years ago.Just Daan Bolding has history on his side as the head of ...
- Web-inspection system supports label operation
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- July 31, 1996, ... the first converters to install the TruColor Mini Gem system, introduced last fall at the Converting Machinery/Materials Exposition (CMM). "It's a good system, it's affordable, and TruColor offers excellent ...
- Bagmaking machines adapt to conquer new markets.
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- July 31, 1996, In 1962, when Herbert Baier, president of Peco, Fairfield, NJ, entered the converting business, the state-of-the-art blown film line was making extruded In 1962, when Herbert Baier, president of Peco, ...