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- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2000, ... According to AMI, shrink and stretch film markets have emerged as the strongest performing market sectors, and technical coextrusions reflect the increasing demand for linear grades and HDPE resins, ...
- A Glossary of Descriptive Terms, Fourth Installment
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- December 31, 2000, ... rate side to side. Lateral shifting also may be due to uneven drying and/or shrinkage forces acting on the web surface. Web steering is essential to maintain web tracking on the machine centerline when ...
- Controlling Your Web from Beginning to End, Part II
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2000, ... rolls, because the cores tend to shrink in diameter with the radial pressure of the wound wraps. But the newly mounted cores are not concentric on the mandrel because of this clearance. And, usually there ...
- What's New in Narrow We
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- December 30, 2000, ... Also suited for direct packaging, retail tags, decal signs, and banners. Co. reports ribbon is highly opaque; prints well on silver, black, blue, and clear substrates; is suitable for shrink-wrapping applications; ...
- Materials and Products for the Converting Industry
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- August 31, 2000, ... film features a polyester reinforced scrim and is said to be very strong. Part of the Trans-Banner Reinforced Vinyl product line, Yukon is a minimal shrink film, which allows for tight printing registration, ...
- Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch
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- July 31, 2000, ... shrink overwraps. Polyvinyl chloride and PP films are used in more specialized applications where higher puncture resistance is required, such as nails, thumbtacks, and other sharp objects. Demand for ...
- Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary
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- March 31, 2000, ... annually through 2002, case-ready meats are the fastest growing segment. Major materials in use will include clear, anti-fog lidding materials, high-barrier films, and high-abuse shrink films. More than ...
- 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, ...
- Label converter controls quality from the inside out
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- August 31, 1996, ... the prep and finishing costs. Finished labels are inspected, shrink-wrapped, and packed for shipment. What You See Is What You Get While Walle does little actual label design work, its prepress facilities ...
- Laminator adds metallizing to the mix
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- August 31, 1996, ... to customer-specified humidity levels, it is hermetically sealed in shrinkwrap before shipment or storage. Alubec uses water-based lacquers and adhesives. "It's more than ecology; we have to give the ...
- Gravure winners go for gold
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- July 31, 1996, ... and line colors. A special magenta helped reproduce the design's bright colors. The gravure-printed shrink-wrap label applied to a generic aerosol can enabled the customer to reduce lead time, inventory, ...
- Trim system in India to be first to handle sugarcane paper.
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- March 31, 1996, ... shrinkwrap every year from Tesco stores. An additional 50,000 tons of cardboard will be saved through the use of plastic trays that can be washed at the units, then collected by suppliers for reuse. ...
- Innovation is a winner in FPA competition
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- March 31, 1996, ... a corrugated end cap is placed on one end of the sofa; and the entire structure (tray, sofa, composite bag, and end cap) is encased in a PE shrink-film bag, which is stapled under the tray bottom. The ...
- Core selection - the difference between success and failure.
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- January 31, 1996, ... for uniform winding tensions, to prevent wrinkling, and to ensure smooth running on unwinding reel stands. * Uncontrolled core moisture during manufacturing may result in core shrinkage, which can cause ...
- Book details Japan's packaging industr
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- May 31, 1995, ... wrap, household aluminum foil wrap, paper and plastic envelope, plastic closure, plastic shrinkable label, staple, plastic net, steel strapping, steel foil and among others. In contrast to this, the data ...
- Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible
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- March 31, 1995, ... sleeve was removed, and the original single-layer stretch nonbarrier film was replaced with a shrinkable five-layer coextruded barrier film. The package was flexo printed and hermetically sealed. The ...
- State legislative action includes removal of 2 bans: 1994
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- February 28, 1995, ... or refillable or reusable containers. Other provisions could have mandated: recycled content in packaging, a ban on transport packaging, including shrink wrap, from disposal in landfills and incinerators, ...
- Slower growth, continued expansion seen in 1995
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- January 31, 1995, ... and shrinking it in some respect. It has also taken on the meaning of shrinking the labor force, substituting technology and higher productive machines for labor." Announced layoffs are going to becom ...