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- More New Products for the Converting Industry
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- August 31, 2000, ... difficult products run smoothly in dryer, including products with a strong tendency to curl, inferior quality films with slack edges, and bags that can be run only at high web tensions in a conventional-type ...
- Materials and Products for the Converting Industry
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- August 31, 2000, ... plastic bags utilized in the food industry. In addition, foil is said to adhere to other flexible packaging plastics, including both CPP and OPP, polyester, PE, and p-s stocks. Series is described as an ...
- Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch
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- July 31, 2000, ... longer shelf life for produce, meats, and other products; novel resins such as metallocenes that are stronger and more breathable than traditional films; and convenience features such as zippered bags ...
- Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact
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- May 31, 2000, ... in film bags.] Next, you place the chicken packages in corrugated boxes, and the boxes are put on a pallet. Then you send the pallet through the irradiator. The irradiation rays go through the corrugated ...
- On-Line Purchasing Saves Time, Money, and Space
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- May 31, 2000, ... gives me a lot of freedom during the day," notes Joseph Irabor, prepress manager for Arrow Industries, a Fort Worth, TX, converter of plastic food bags. "I don't have to waste time on the phone to order ...
- Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call
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- April 30, 2000, ... customer demands. "Everything we sell goes to other manufacturers. If they're out of film or out of bags, they're in trouble. And we have to respond." The fairly recent addition of a 64-in. Battenfeld ...
- French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar
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- March 31, 2000, ... product lines, says Barrett. "One is multiwall paper bags. In this area, we produce paper bags for the flour/bakery mix industry, pet and animal feed, chemicals/minerals, sugar, and rock products. The other ...
- Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group
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- February 29, 2000, ... with printed polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) bags, ISMA soon developed the oriented PP market and began producing laminations. Spritzer's background in PE and PP marketing, combined with Uruguay' ...
- Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.
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- January 31, 2000, Specialization is something that seems to be burgeoning in the converting industry. From short-run specialty bags to the season/holiday-changing colorful Specialization is something that seems to be burgeoning ...
- Bag machine adds value to customer-oriented operation.
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- November 30, 1996, ... converter of bags and printed rollstock with state-of-the-art equipment and technology. A key part of that equipment is a recently acquired servo draw bag machine from FMC. "Our formula for success is ...
- Flexible packaging converter treats its customers right.
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- October 31, 1996, ... new team had a strong background in food packaging, and we naturally grew in that direction. Although we still make some poly bags, our primary products are single-web rollstock and laminations. We are ...
- Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.
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- October 31, 1996, ... packaging, supplying 60% of the world's microwave popcorn bags. The bags are produced primarily for Hunt-Wesson's Orville Redenbacher[TM] Div. and Act II[TM] popcorn, distributed by Golden Valley Microwave ...
- Bagmaking machines adapt to conquer new markets.
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- July 31, 1996, ... to stay in-line with the extruder and flawlessly make bags at that speed as well." Baier explains that, except for refinements, bagmaking machines have changed very little over the past ten years. "The ...
- Independent Packaging: the "restart" of something grea
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- March 31, 1996, Independent Packaging arose from the ashes, but it wasn't easy. Now, after only 18 months, IP is on track to produce 1 billion bakery bags this year.Perhaps Independent Packaging arose from the ashes, but ...
- Innovation is a winner in FPA competition
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- March 31, 1996, ... The bags are antifog-treated and flexo-printed in six colors on 1.18-mil oriented polypropylene. Meat Snacks on View American National Can, Chicago, IL, also won three awards, including one for the ...
- Viscosity system saves ink and improves print quality
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- December 31, 1995, ... with the need for a new viscosity control system. Lally Pak provides printed film and bags to a variety of industries, including packaged frozen food, medical and pharmaceuticals, confectionary, and ...
- Bagmaking operation refuses to stand still
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- September 30, 1995, ... result of that insight, Shields Bag & Printing Co. today is one of the leading suppliers of plastic bags in the US and a very dominant player in the West. The company has grown consistently and will ...
- Bagmakers add a strong link to quality chain
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- July 31, 1995, ... integrated handle configurations for bags, custom perforation patterns for easy-open packages, bottom- and side-gusseted bags and bottom-seal bags. The bagmaking department consists of three 30-in.-wide ...
- Adapting flexible system in trim-recovery operations.
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- July 31, 1995, ... equipment for trim-removal operations. At present, it is the only one of three extrusion lines equipped with such capabilities. Flexibility a Necessity Line 42 makes polyethylene film used for bags ...
- Reynolds subsidiary in Spain benefits from technology transfer
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- May 31, 1995, Grafiba SA, a subsidiary of Reynolds Metals Co., started as a manual converter of paper bags and has grown into one of the first firms in Spain to use Grafiba SA, a subsidiary of Reynolds Metals Co., started ...