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- Converted Solutions Slitter/Rewinder Boosts Productivity on Laminating Line
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- March 31, 2000, ... new equipment was a highly desired attribute, along with the ability to accommodate various materials and weights with a finished "excellent presentation." Created specifically to develop technical textiles ...
- Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary
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- March 31, 2000, ... including meats, produce, and other refrigerated and frozen foods. Usually located at the perimeter of the supermarket, these foods often use high-value ($2.49/lb) oxygen barrier films. Growing 21% ...
- System Keeps Static Buildup Problems Under Control
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- February 29, 2000, ... Different styles of bars were tested, including high-speed bars and blower assisted bars. "Neither of those styles performed that well," Davis says. "The Virtual AC system works well at knocking down ...
- FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less
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- February 29, 2000, ... layer has elastic memory that allows the material to better resist bumps and dimples from hard, dry pet food. The plastic bag is highly resistant to moisture and grease, providing better protection than ...
- Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader
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- December 31, 1999, ... printed flexo and gravure material for meat, fish, cheese, dairy, and pasta applications. Most of Itap Bemis's high-barrier films are manufactured in Cambe, where Bemis (Curwood) films imported from the ...
- Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging
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- December 31, 1999, ... cups, and more. For the highest possible quality, web offset is the printing method best suited to his process, notes Jacobsen, but he adds that flexo, gravure, and rotary letterpress methods are possible ...
- Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater
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- December 31, 1999, ... poly-coated products and laminated products, such as sugar pouches, gum and ice cream bar wraps, paper ream wraps, and labels. Nowak explains, "A lot of the things we're producing aren't the highest margin ...
- Oxide-coated films are still finding their market niche
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- November 30, 1996, ... than 5 million [m.sup.2]/yr, or 188,000 lb/yr. The Tetra Pak gable top construction of PE/SiOx/PE/Paper/PE (recently withdrawn from the market) was highly touted for citrus juices and juice blends. There ...
- Flexible packaging converter treats its customers right.
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- October 31, 1996, ... food packaging, it made sure that bare roll corona treating was included as a means of increasing quality control and minimizing slowdowns. Flex-Pak Inc., a high quality printer for the snack food industry, ...
- Supreme Court throws out punitive damage award
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- August 31, 1996, ... struck down punitive damages as being "excessive" and has issued guidance on when such damages are too high. The decision will significantly aid businesses and others facing damage suits and could also ...
- New possibilities for beer packaging in PEN and LCP
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- August 31, 1996, ... These developments include improved oxygen and water barrier, higher temperature resistance, higher strength, and intrinsic ultraviolet light barrier. At present, PEN provides approximately five times ...
- Partnering launches future growth in laminations
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- August 31, 1996, ... phone lines provides around-the-clock monitoring and troubleshooting. The Siemens drive system, installed as part of the original equipment, "has a high level of sophistication and control," reports ...
- Dutch converter retakes his company
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- July 31, 1996, ... is the headquarters and plant of Bolding Verpakkingen, a $35 million flexible packaging converter. Highly regarded among Dutch packaging producers, the firm produces printed flexible substrates for a wide ...
- A look at the status of UV/EB curing
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- June 30, 1996, ... in North America. Continued growth is anticipated at a rate of about 13% for each of the next five years, as the motivators for the use of these highly productive, environmentally friendly products will ...
- Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need
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- June 30, 1996, ... high-tech systems for six-layer coextruded barrier films in widths of 32 to 130 in. The company's most recent innovation is the fully automated Varex[R] blown film extrusion line for the production of ...
- The challenge of formulating FDA compliance.
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- April 30, 1996, ... regulations of the FDA. The regulation may be as simple as 21 CFR 175,105, Adhesives, or as complex as 21 CFR 177.1630, High-temperature laminates. Specific regulations governing a particular application ...
- AIMCAL Selects Seven for Annual Honors
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- March 31, 1996, ... The Sigma film, which is the inner, or sealant, layer, is an HDPE-ethylene vinyl acetate coex film. The outside polyester layer provides heat resistance for high-speed machinability. The metallized ...
- Innovation is a winner in FPA competition
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- March 31, 1996, ... was adjusted to allow for the correct rate of oxygen and carbon dioxide transmission required to extend shelf life. Higher-respiring produce, such as broccoli, requires a film so thin that it can be difficult ...
- The 1996 Metallizing Roundup: Experts Ponder and Predict
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- February 29, 1996, ... in the industrialized countries, the trend is toward 80 inches and above." In North America, Raugei expects that squeezed profit margins and higher expectations of product quality will drive the market ...
- Emerging markets: doing business in Latin America.
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- January 31, 1996, ... A few years ago military and nationalistic governments established high customs barriers in order to protect national industry and attempt to create a strong industrial infrastructure. In some areas ...