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- Customer Satisfaction Begins and Ends with Quality
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- September 30, 2000, ... for less cost. Says Stone, "In today's competitive business environment, this `help-your-customer-prosper scenario' goes a long way toward establishing `most-valuable-supplier status.'" He offers an ...
- Technology Puts Converter "In-Line" for More Succes
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- September 30, 2000, ... both the cost and delivery times of converting popcorn bags. The result, says company president Eric Jackson, was "high conversion costs, excessive waste, and long lead times." Phoenix brought its first ...
- Synthetic Paper from Plastics
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- September 30, 2000, ... low cost, and versatile processing possibilities of the polymers. Earlier work has described the process of making synthetic paper from plastics. This includes high loading with fillers. Plastic bags ...
- Flexography Comes of Age and Keeps on Growing
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- August 31, 2000, ... It is an outstanding example of how this industry, when pushed into new technology through cost considerations and/or regulations, not only finds ways to make that technology work but continues to improve ...
- Materials and Products for the Converting Industry
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- August 31, 2000, ... THink 2000 Windows-based ink management system offers a multi-lingual format that supports international measurements. Designed to provide batch ticketing, job costing, and color mixing, program includes ...
- Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch
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- July 31, 2000, ... technological developments, and legal/regulatory issues also impact packaging demand. Efforts to reduce packaging costs and protect the environment will drive growth. Flexible packaging also has storage, ...
- When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending
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- May 31, 2000, ... of a lot in terms of cost base. In addition, the paper markets have improved, so our prices went up at the same time that our costs went down. That sort of double effect has increased the spread, and so ...
- It's Definitely a Bull Market for High-Performance Film
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- May 31, 2000, ... this is resulting in the wider acceptance of flexible circuits as an interconnect solution. In the past, cost has kept designers away from flexible circuits. However, with the increasing maturation ...
- On-Line Purchasing Saves Time, Money, and Space
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- May 31, 2000, ... take little room to store, such as stickyback tape for plate mounting, can increase inventory costs significantly. For example, that tape may cost a much as $300/roll. Says Marquart, "If I can have them ...
- Managing Your Way Through a ''Green'' Futur
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- March 31, 2000, ... a fraction of the costs that were required only a few of years ago. The cost savings achieved through use of these programs have come by replacing expensive active treatment alternatives with management ...
- Electrically Heated Rollers Are Top Technology Choice
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- March 31, 2000, ... compete on a cost/performance basis with induction-heated and other electrically heated rollers. The Thermalon RC100 incorporates ceramic materials thermally applied a fraction of an inch below the ...
- FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less
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- February 29, 2000, ... at the FPA's Fiftieth Anniversary Annual Meeting, held February 29 through March 3 at the Westin La Paloma in Tucson, AZ. FPA reports that the winners improved product protection, reduced costs and materials, ...
- Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.
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- October 31, 1996, ... Packaging, Maple Grove, MN, is a niche converter offering innovative and cost-effective solutions for branded, specialty packaging. Using patented susceptor technology, the company is a leader in microwave ...
- Dutch converter retakes his company
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- July 31, 1996, ... There are two reasons for the move toward lighter weight materials, reports Bolding: environmental regulations and cost reduction. (The company expects to install pollution control equipment in 1998.) ...
- On-line gauging brings big benefits to coating operation
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- July 31, 1996, ... and gauging system was immediate. "There have been multiple benefits - improved product quality, product consistency, and cost reduction." The improvements are easily documented, since Adchem uses the ...
- A look at the status of UV/EB curing
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- June 30, 1996, ... viscosity; application of thinner films; improved flow and leveling; lower applied costs; and reduction/elimination of monomers and solvents. This technology is being directed toward numerous applications, ...
- Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need
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- June 30, 1996, ... transfer, eliminating adhesives and lowering operating costs. By utilizing narrower shaft widths, the Model 1002DS attains higher speeds due to a significant increase in the critical frequency of the shaft ...
- Gravure gets easier
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- April 30, 1996, Though gravure wasn't for you? Think again. With innovations in equipment and technique, costs are coming down, and the process is becoming accessible Though gravure wasn't for you? Think again. With innovations ...
- Trim system in India to be first to handle sugarcane paper.
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- March 31, 1996, ... with a 75% nesting capacity to help minimize transport and storage costs. Dioxin Emissions A recent report from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution, which reviews emissions in the U.K, shows that ...
- Innovation is a winner in FPA competition
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- March 31, 1996, ... Can, and Chris De Coster, Dial Corp. Precut Produce Problem Solved Cryovac Div. of W.R. Grace & Co., Duncan, SC, solved the respiration problems inherent in packaging precut produce by developing ...