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Web Handling...Making a Slitter/Winder Upgrade Work for You

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March 31, 2001, ... rugged machine has better potential for high quality finished rolls. Also, you can expect lower maintenance costs and less downtime with the more rugged machine. The down side is that the initial cost ...

Cast Film Dies and Auxiliary Equipment

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February 28, 2001, ... weave in higher line speeds. A material of low cost will reduce levels of expensive materials in the recycle stream. Materials that are typically nonrecycleable can be eliminated from the recycled edge ...

Specially Designed Metallocene Copolymers for Extrusion Coating

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February 28, 2001, ... of sealant thickness might give the same ultimate hot tack strength. With the significantly lower cost of POP vs ionomers and acid copolymers, this could result in a major cost advantage to a converter. ...

Dow Expected to Enjoy Earnings Growth in 2001

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February 28, 2001, ... for 2000. Dow Plastics expects to build on the foundation of significant improvements over the past five to seven years, Parker noted, including $2.4 billion in structural cost reductions, 10%/yr productivity ...

Extrusion Coating Line Audit Can Bring Big Benefits

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January 31, 2001, ... accounting team member ideally will do his or her audit prior to the rest of the team and provide a chart of plant waste or product cost to allow the main audit team to concentrate on areas that have a ...

Materials

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November 30, 2000, ... technique. Substrate is then passed through a laminating nip on printing press where the foil transfers from carrier and adheres to adhesive. The process is said to eliminate the need for costly heated ...

Converting Industry News

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November 30, 2000, ... of UV-curable laminating adhesives for clear film laminations; developments and advantages of EB cure in laminating adhesives; and a cost comparison of EB adhesive laminations to solventless adhesive laminations. ...

What's New in Narrow We

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October 31, 2000, ... to install and use. Co. adds that it has a "Try Before You Buy" program that offers rentals as a low-cost, no-risk way to try products. Solventless Fluorosilicone System for Stable Release GE Silicones, ...

Converting Industry News

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October 31, 2000, ... reportedly will give users of both systems the resources they need to conduct e-commerce and expand into new markets, while reaping the benefits of lower transaction costs and improved supply chain efficiency. ...

Customer Satisfaction Begins and Ends with Quality

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September 30, 2000, ... for less cost. Says Stone, "In today's competitive business environment, this `help-your-customer-prosper scenario' goes a long way toward establishing `most-valuable-supplier status.'" He offers an ...

Technology Puts Converter "In-Line" for More Succes

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September 30, 2000, ... both the cost and delivery times of converting popcorn bags. The result, says company president Eric Jackson, was "high conversion costs, excessive waste, and long lead times." Phoenix brought its first ...

Synthetic Paper from Plastics

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September 30, 2000, ... low cost, and versatile processing possibilities of the polymers. Earlier work has described the process of making synthetic paper from plastics. This includes high loading with fillers. Plastic bags ...

Flexography Comes of Age and Keeps on Growing

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August 31, 2000, ... It is an outstanding example of how this industry, when pushed into new technology through cost considerations and/or regulations, not only finds ways to make that technology work but continues to improve ...

Materials and Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ...  THink 2000 Windows-based ink management system offers a multi-lingual format that supports international measurements. Designed to provide batch ticketing, job costing, and color mixing, program includes ...

Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch

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July 31, 2000, ... technological developments, and legal/regulatory issues also impact packaging demand. Efforts to reduce packaging costs and protect the environment will drive growth. Flexible packaging also has storage, ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

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May 31, 2000, ... of a lot in terms of cost base. In addition, the paper markets have improved, so our prices went up at the same time that our costs went down. That sort of double effect has increased the spread, and so ...

It's Definitely a Bull Market for High-Performance Film

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May 31, 2000, ... this is resulting in the wider acceptance of flexible circuits as an interconnect solution. In the past, cost has kept designers away from flexible circuits. However, with the increasing maturation ...

On-Line Purchasing Saves Time, Money, and Space

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May 31, 2000, ... take little room to store, such as stickyback tape for plate mounting, can increase inventory costs significantly. For example, that tape may cost a much as $300/roll. Says Marquart, "If I can have them ...

Managing Your Way Through a ''Green'' Futur

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March 31, 2000, ... a fraction of the costs that were required only a few of years ago. The cost savings achieved through use of these programs have come by replacing expensive active treatment alternatives with management ...

Electrically Heated Rollers Are Top Technology Choice

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March 31, 2000, ... compete on a cost/performance basis with induction-heated and other electrically heated rollers. The Thermalon RC100 incorporates ceramic materials thermally applied a fraction of an inch below the ...