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- Converting Industry News
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- August 31, 2000, ... is available in a pinch-bottom bag style and is said to be well-suited to a variety of uses, including pet food and bird seed. The proprietary bag design incorporates a pull-tab card that can be lifted ...
- Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch
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- July 31, 2000, ... considerations, inter-material competition, and ongoing trends such as single-serve packaging and source reduction. Converters of flexible packaging know that theirs is an exciting, complicated industry. ...
- Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact
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- May 31, 2000, ... with impact" for its contribution to everyday life during the 20th century. In a competition sponsored by the Foodservice and Packaging Institute, Arlington, VA, the P-Line machine by Peerless Machin ...
- Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray
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- April 30, 2000, ... (even if it's within an established one) is somewhat like being a paratrooper. In today's hyper-competitive and increasingly merger-and acquisition-oriented marketplace, you'd better hit the ground running ...
- Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary
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- March 31, 2000, ... flexible packaging plays an increasingly important role in many markets. Multilayer stand-up pouches have helped invigorate markets such as pet foods and agricultural chemicals. Films and pouches are providing ...
- FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less
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- February 29, 2000, ... opened new markets for flexible packaging, and delivered innovations to the consumer, office, recreation, and pet food marketplaces. John Woolford, interim president of FPA, notes, "More than ever before, ...
- Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group
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- February 29, 2000, ... quality control department. Representative packaging material structures presently produced at ISMA include BOPP (biaxially oriented polypropylene)/PE (pasta); BOPP/BOPP (cookies); PET (polyester)/polyvinylidene ...
- High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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- January 31, 2000, ... the packaging for pet food is an area in which there has been significant growth. "A big reason why flexible systems with barrier properties are emerging here is that barrier packaging helps prevent infestation. ...
- Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging
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- December 31, 1999, ... presses." That same year Jacobsen and his father formed WCG as a side, noncompeting business (with Banta) to accommodate customers with unique or unusual printing jobs/requests. "There was a lot of project ...
- Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater
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- December 31, 1999, ... products out there. They're things our competitors might want to produce in bad times but lose interest in when times are good. We decided we wanted a machine that was very efficient and wide and fast s ...
- Oxide-coated films are still finding their market niche
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- November 30, 1996, ... to date has been with polyethylene terephthalate (PET), but the technologies do not get interesting until non-PET substrates are commercialized. Uncoated PET is presently coated by plasma or evaporation, ...
- New possibilities for beer packaging in PEN and LCP
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- August 31, 1996, ... polycondensation polymers has been ongoing since the discovery of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in the 1940s; however, it is only since 1993 that serious attention has been devoted to this material. ...
- Making Lemonade in the Converting Industry
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- June 30, 1996, ... news release asks what impact these downsized engineering departments are having on packaging machinery manufacturers. C. Peter Wylie, PMMI Education Committee chairman, explains, "Downsizing, a phenomenon ...
- Canadian show highlights packaging industry up north
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- June 30, 1996, ... made by PAC on behalf of the industry toward safeguarding international competitiveness. Similar regulations in several US jurisdictions also pose potential artificial impediments to our exports. "Despite ...
- AIMCAL Selects Seven for Annual Honors
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- March 31, 1996, The Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters and Laminatots rewards outstanding packages and labels in its annual competition. The Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters and Laminatots rewards outstanding ...
- Water-based adhesives meet just-in-time demands.
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- March 31, 1996, High-performance, water-based adhesives cure in 24 to 48 hours, giving converters a competitive edge with their customers.In this era of just-in-time High-performance, water-based adhesives cure in 24 ...
- A look at the world of German Packaging today.
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- March 31, 1996, ... sensitivity. Is the outer paperboard carton necessary? How many consumers really send back the empty foil wrap and printed paperboard carton? Competitors sell unsupported, foil-wrapped cheese wedges loose ...
- A new book on packaging is recommended reading
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- February 29, 1996, ... of the machine-made paper bag more than 60 years before. Like the paper bag, cellophane was often a competitor to packaging, because it allowed individual merchants to pack unbranded products in an attractive ...
- In-house sheeting promotes growth and quality
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- February 29, 1996, ... to shorten manufacturing turnaround times. This would make Hammer Lithograph more competitive in a marketplace that is constantly demanding shorter lead times." "When we relied on the mills for sheeted ...
- Fresh produce offers converters opportunities for healthy sales
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- December 31, 1995, ... dramatic. Fresh Express's competitors include Dole, Ready-Pac Produce, Tanimura, and Anthe and MetWest Agribusiness. By far, the market leader in supplying this industry is Cypress Packaging, a Rochester, ...