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- August 31, 2000, ... Three-day seminars will also be offered to help sharpen the flexo press knowledge of those already involved in the industry. For more information contact Flexographic Trade School, 13500-M South Point ...
- How to Make Anilox Roll Improvements Work for You
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- August 31, 2000, ... manufacturers constantly touting high-tech improvements, it's easy to assume these developments will give you that edge. This may not happen if you neglect the basics. When to Fine-Tune? Let's clarify ...
- What's New in Narrow We
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- August 31, 2000, ... Co., Bridgewater, NJ; 800/797-4992; nationalstarch.com Duro-Tak 34-416A hot melt, p-s adhesive reportedly offers high loop tack, excellent resistance to peel and shear, and no edge ooze or bleed-through ...
- Converting Industry News
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- August 31, 2000, ... 13-15 at its Turner Falls facility. The course is designed for anyone interested in acquiring more knowledge about resin, extrusion, and converting technology. There will be hands-on learning in an analytical ...
- More New Products for the Converting Industry
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- August 31, 2000, ... difficult products run smoothly in dryer, including products with a strong tendency to curl, inferior quality films with slack edges, and bags that can be run only at high web tensions in a conventional-type ...
- Coating Operation Cleans Up Its (Trim Removal) Act
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- May 31, 2000, ... calls for coating an epoxy-type resin onto a fiberglass woven web," says Sangl, "which has a feathered edge and tends to accumulate resin. As it gets sheeted down into a cut length, we trim away this edge, ...
- Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call
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- April 30, 2000, ... that we're very growth-oriented and continually adding to upgrade equipment to meet customer needs as far as quality and service. "The edge we have when we put in new equipment is the ability to tur ...
- French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar
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- March 31, 2000, ... workhorse; our rolls are wound with consistently smooth edges." Both coating lines are supervised by Black Clawson's Integrator II Supervisory Control System. The Integrator provides operators with ...
- Cartonmarker Adds Flexo to Give Customers a Choice
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- February 29, 2000, ... in some prepress people that are very knowledgeable in flexo, offset, and cartons, and we rely on them a lot." "We've tried to bring convenience to the customer," adds Johnson. "What we're working on i ...
- 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, ...
- Curtain Coating Technology Can Mean Big Benefits
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- February 29, 2000, ... the rear curtain surface where the fluid first strikes the web. The position of the dynamic wetting line is subject to process optimization. The curtain must be guided along its edges in order to prevent ...
- Converters See Hurdles Ahead in Digital Printing
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- January 31, 2000, ... a significant concern among members of the group. The consensus was that operating and servicing digital equipment requires a different breed of employee-someone who is both knowledgeable about converting/ ...
- Converting Coverage Grows at Graphics of the Americas
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- December 31, 1999, ... PAF once again will present the Graphic Arts Teachers Conference, which debuted last year. Designed to upgrade the knowledge of graphic arts teachers, the four-day conference will include seminars, panel ...
- Vision-Based System Wins the Battle Against Defects
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- December 31, 1999, ... advanced scientific community. When Zalman Zohar, printing manager for Ultra Flex Packaging Corp., Brooklyn, NY, was looking for a print defect detection system, this cutting-edge technology caught his ...
- Need and innovation are driving digital printing.
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- November 30, 1996, ... to give a speech at a TAPPI conference in Asia on the impact of new printing technologies on the converting industry. The speech hailed digital technology but acknowledged that, so far, its impact on the ...
- NOVA and Union Carbide to build ethylene plant
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- October 31, 1996, ... edge-guide unit and dancer roll control. At the differential rewind section, the company's automatic tension profile takes over, controlling the hardness of the pancakes, which can measure up to 406 mm ...
- Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.
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- October 31, 1996, ... Foods. Founded in 1985, the company has expanded into other food packaging areas as well, utilizing the knowledge of paper and thin-gauge metallized film gained from its microwave popcorn packaging ...
- Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need
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- June 30, 1996, ... a simple thing," he explains. "Now they want that line to be exactly like the larger ones, with air knifes, scrap winders, edge-trimming systems - everything that's used to make precision film. That's because ...
- Paper characteristics: starting the job right
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- April 30, 1996, ... has tight or loose edges or baggy centers or if the edge trim weaves significantly. This can cause so much movement that even the automatic control devices prove ineffective, causing the web to vacillate ...