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- Box Plant Rises from the Ashes to New Heights
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- May 31, 2000, ... good relationships. Good relationships with your suppliers, customers, employees, and competitors are key to your survival. The support was overwhelming." He also points out that many plant owners can ...
- When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending
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- May 31, 2000, ... not an unusual one for someone seeing Blue Ridge's paper mill for the first time) when Alan Denney pointed to the gargantuan structure as we drove toward it one morning last fall. Situated among the ...
- More Laminating Diversity Equals More Success
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- May 31, 2000, ... that runs through all of these industries. Jerry Hightower, president and founder of the company, explains: "We're very diversified from a laminating point of view." Bondtex was started by Hightower in ...
- Electrically Heated Rollers Are Top Technology Choice
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- March 31, 2000, ... that surface is the first area to reach the desired setpoint. The rollers convert 100% of the energy received into heat. For applications requiring roller temperatures up to 350 deg F continuously, ...
- Folder/Gluer Broadens Markets for Contract Converter
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- March 30, 2000, ... company converted everything from folding cartons and point-of-purchase (POP) displays to tags and labels. (Dyno Press itself no longer does any printing.) "In the beginning we took in everything we ...
- Seventy-Five Years and Counting for Bancroft Bag
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- February 29, 2000, ... and Turning Points The independent bagmaking company celebrated its 75th anniversary last September, complete with two-days' worth of activities for its 450 employees. T.O. Bancroft Jr., recently retired ...
- Cartonmarker Adds Flexo to Give Customers a Choice
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- February 29, 2000, ... It took a big push near the end, but they mustered up the resources and did a good job of getting the press to the point where it could do everything we were told it would be able to do." Colbert already ...
- Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group
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- February 29, 2000, ... they cannot place larger orders of printed material for the whole range of products. No matter what the application is--promotions, strategics, or whatever--the point is that some products in the lines ...
- Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority
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- January 31, 2000, ... the film scratch-free. We Tefloned everything. It's very good for quick changeovers." Also, Lee points out, the company owned a Moore & White sheeter (co. no longer operating) that had been idle until ...
- Vision-Based System Wins the Battle Against Defects
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- December 31, 1999, ... demands consistent high quality and lower prices. This system delivers." Making Good (and More) on Promises Zohar also points to a significant reduction in waste. "Even though we're running at faste ...
- What you should know about filled adhesives and coatings
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- October 31, 1996, ... eventually becomes dislodged, there will be a streak in the coating at the point on the web corresponding to the trapped item under the knife. Obviously, the deformation of the coating makes that portion ...
- Flexible packaging converter treats its customers right.
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- October 31, 1996, ... lamination, it comes pretreated with a dyne level between 39 and 42. For various reasons, our client might put a hold on production," Ramseur points out. "The film might lay in storage for three months ...
- Partnering launches future growth in laminations
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- August 31, 1996, ... general manager of Chase & Sons, points out that the switch from solvent-based coating systems was a customer-driven decision. First, he explains, customers are consistently demanding reduced product cost. ...
- Laminator adds metallizing to the mix
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- August 31, 1996, ... or laminated foil or film on board in widths to 58 inches in diameters to 72 inches. Our laminations range from a 15-pound tissue to a 40-point board." Three years ago things began to change. Alubec ...
- Gauging system lights the way
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- August 31, 1996, ... to the coating head. With our previous gauge, we were forced to measure at a point 35 feet downstream from the coating head, because the coating had to be dry before the snap gauge could be used. So, by ...
- Web-inspection system supports label operation
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- July 31, 1996, ... for narrow web presses that have limited mounting space available. It has a smaller camera and a more compact size that gives companies greater options in mounting and using the system, Luranc points out. ...
- A look at the status of UV/EB curing
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- June 30, 1996, ... industries comprise about one-half of the total volume. The more mature overprint coatings have captured a significant share of the market for high-gloss finishing of point-of-purchase signage, folding ...
- A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.
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- May 31, 1996, ... tension and dryer set points, and machine speed. The Vision's computerized management information system stores all critical data on job settings, production, and operation. Instantaneous retrieval and ...
- Flexo label printer grows by leaps and bounds
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- April 30, 1996, ... as he had the first with a Markem hot stamp LP375 press, making simple point-of-purchase labels. "We still have that press. When we started it was just doing foil labels, but that's a very small part of ...
- Guide to European packaging will keep converters up to date
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- April 30, 1996, ... value of approximately $100 billion. Following difficult years when the economic recession was at its worst, 1993 proved to be the turning point for the packaging industry, while 1994 and 1995 have seen ...