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- Extrusion Dies
- (Magazine)
- October 30, 2004, Due to the intense competition in today's marketplace, extrusion-coating converters face greater challenges than ever. Coating Control Applying molten polymer to a substrate often entails drawdowns of ...
- Technical Facility
- (Magazine)
- October 30, 2004, ... types, such as multilayer high-barrier and low-sealing films, as well as specialty raw materials. It is reported to be the only pilot lab facility in the world with simultaneous stretching technology. ...
- Pilot Line
- (Magazine)
- October 30, 2004, ... rents the 33-in. lines to raw material suppliers, such as silicone manufacturers, that want to run tests of their own or demonstrate potential capabilities to their own customers. Krebs says the pilot ...
- Coating Rods
- (Magazine)
- October 30, 2004, ... be coated at production speeds. Manual and motor-diven drawdown machines were introduced for the laboratory in the 1980s and 1990s. These use wire-wound rods and allow scientists and technicians to ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Archive)
- October 30, 2004, ... completes the center’s equipment offerings. Douglas sees moderate growth in new technologies and cold seal applications—even with the cost of raw materials rising—for the core business of Rohm and Haas’s ...
- Sun Chemical Raises Prices on Packaging Inks
- (Archive)
- October 28, 2004, ... The increase reflects the steady rise in raw materials and oil prices. PRESS RELEASE NORTHLAKE, IL, USA—Effective October 1, 2004, Sun Chemical increased prices three to seven percent on all packaging ...
- DuPont Teijin Films US to Up PET Films Price
- (Archive)
- October 21, 2004, ... in raw material, utilities, and transportation costs," adds the material supplier. PRESS RELEASE HOPEWELL, VA, USA — DuPont Teijin Films US reports, effective November 1, 2004, the price of all DuPont ...
- Inks, Coatings, Compliance
- (Magazine)
- September 29, 2004, ... of raw materials that can have food contact in the Code of Federal Regulation, CFR Section 21, Parts 170 — 199. Printing inks and coatings that contact food are considered food additives. There are two ...
- Products, Part 2
- (Magazine)
- September 29, 2004, ... needs. All-in-one system features an orbital washout, exposure section, three-drawer dryer, and post expose or detack section. Processes plates up to 24 × 30 in. PFFC-ASAP 443 Instant PDF Introduced ...
- Keep Your Eye on the Gold
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2004, ... Labelexpo on September 14 at 8 A.M. at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Ctr. in Rosemont, IL, and draw your own conclusions. Supplementing his outlook will be Mike Fairley's presentation (September 16 ...
- Price Fixing Cause for Alarm?
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2004, ... environment. Other raw material costs also are rising and were doing so even before the pressures introduced by oil and the cost implications of its current volatility. In this situation, it is inevitabl ...
- A Touch Above
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2004, ... end-use applications, is reliable, and is without a lot of variability.” Raflatac is able to deliver “quality, consistency, and reliability” through what it defines as a consistent supply of raw materials ...
- A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2004, ... and converting. These people range from resin and raw material suppliers to end users such as the large food package suppliers. I look forward to serving my many friends in the industry and to making many ...
- Release Liners: Challenges Ahead
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2004, ... label stock. At the 2004 AWA Global Release Liner Conference, held in Helsinki, Finland, the consequences of rising raw material costs coupled with the impossibility of passing on price increases to ...
- Converting Industry News, Part 2
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2004, ... Trade Fair for Plastics and Rubber, is slated for October 20–27 at the Düsseldorf Trade Fair Centre, where it will occupy 150,000 sq m. The event, which is held every three years, is expected to draw ...
- Battenfeld Gloucester Says MDO Provides Enhancements to PE; OEM Spotlights K Show Offerings
- (Archive)
- July 05, 2004, ... with a blown film line, has draw ratios of 3:1 and 4:1. Rather than being wound after extrusion, film is fed into the MDO unit, pre-heated, and run through drawing rolls for orientation. The set of rollers ...
- A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI
- (Magazine)
- June 29, 2004, ... session where attendees will learn from leading converters of flexible packaging who will share valuable insight on raw material improvements, converting equipment improvements, and new product development. ...
- Wal-Mart Revisited
- (Magazine)
- June 29, 2004, ... in China costs $50/mo. As a result, raw materials are cheaper. China subsidized the startup of many of these companies, so their equipment costs are also dramatically less, and therefore [there is] less ...
- The Latitudes of LEAN
- (Magazine)
- June 29, 2004, ... packaging for fast food vendors. “We produce a lot of materials with not a great number of people. … We've implemented shop-floor reporting in production so that data entry is instantaneous with our raw ...
- Weight Control
- (Magazine)
- June 29, 2004, ... — maintaining line speed, uniform drying, raw material costs, and wound roll quality — are influenced by coating weight uniformity. The control of coating weight in a web coating process often is viewed ...