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- High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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- January 31, 2000, ... by the package may help sell the product, but product performance keeps customers coming back. And performance is exactly what today's high-barrier plastic films deliver. High-barrier packaging can comprise ...
- Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader
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- December 31, 1999, ... and most sophisticated flexible packaging converter. Itap Bemis ($185 million) is an integral division of the huge Dixie Toga Group ($500 million). Walter Schalka, Dixie Toga's CEO, told Paper, Film ...
- Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging
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- December 31, 1999, ... final set of film, which was called a 'barrier grid,' there would be 25 different shot images that were stepped sequentially in between the lenticule on the lens. The image then did the same thing: It shot ...
- Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater
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- December 31, 1999, ... new testing equipment manufactured by Testing Machines Inc. The company works with more than 20 paper suppliers; film suppliers include AET, QPF, and Toray, which also provides metallized films. CEI ...
- Static electricity can be a very costly problem
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- August 31, 1998, ... Scott Kessler, sales engineer for Pillar Technologies, reports that static electricity can turn a roll of film into a "dust magnet," literally pulling dust particles out of the air. "Converters today ...
- Finding a simple solution to a shocking problem
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- March 31, 1998, ... for Favorite Plastics. The solution - a Tantec system - was only a phone call away. Favorite Plastics, a Brooklyn, NY, manufacturer of film for the converting industry, was experiencing problems at ...
- Pointing finger places blame but won't solve the proble
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- November 30, 1996, ... of the construction increases. These manufacturers may include suppliers of resins, inks, films, adhesives, coatings, primers, and substrates. In addition, the people who do the extruding, metallizing, ...
- EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.
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- October 31, 1996, ... on inks, the flexo industry and the Environmental Protection Agency have launched the Design for the Environment Flexography Project. Film converters around the country are actively trying to determine ...
- Flexible packaging converter treats its customers right.
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 1996, ... basically a food packaging company, but as long as an application is compatible with our equipment, we will print or laminate films for any industry." (Bagmaking equipment is a Ro-An 30-in. Polystar, Model ...
- Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.
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- October 31, 1996, Himac helps Phoenix by downgauging its susceptor film, giving greater coverage for the material.Phoenix Packaging has parlayed its expertise in microwave Himac helps Phoenix by downgauging its susceptor ...
- 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 ...
- Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process
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- August 31, 1996, ... polyethylene, and other poly-based materials have already developed (though not necessarily perfected) methods of measuring the surface energy of treated films. Coming to 'Terms' The term "surface ...
- Gauging system lights the way
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- August 31, 1996, ... process of the lamp begins with two thermoplastics polyester film substrates. One is supplied with an indium tin oxide (ITO) coating already applied by the film vendor; the other is metallized by a sputtering ...
- Dutch converter retakes his company
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- July 31, 1996, ... variety of food and other uses. During a visit by Paper, Film & Foil CONVERTER, both Daan Bolding, the third-generation head of the company, and Ruud Groote, the account manager for the Netherlands, ...
- A directory of custom slitting
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- July 31, 1996, ... ranging from small operations with just two employees and several hundred thousand dollars in annual business to some that employ thousands and generate up to $100 million in revenue. Paper, Film & ...
- Gravure winners go for gold
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- July 31, 1996, ... more information contact the GAA at 716/436-2150. Packaging Film Engraver C.N.W. Inc., Cincinnati, OH, was honored for the Tsumura Exotic Garden. The entry was reverse-printed on film with process ...
- Flexo label printer grows by leaps and bounds
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- April 30, 1996, ... and other substrates (including paper and film) come from Fasson and Green Bay Packaging. People Make the Difference Mintz proudly points out the importance of his people to his success. Employees ...
- AIMCAL Selects Seven for Annual Honors
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- March 31, 1996, ... Downes, Michigan State Univ. Peter Rigney, publisher of Paper, Film & Foil CONVERTER, served as competition moderator. The Package of the Year, Nabsico's Ritz Snack Mix stand-up pouch, was touted by ...
- Innovation is a winner in FPA competition
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- March 31, 1996, ... for James River Corp., Milford, OH, reflect a major advancement in controlled atmosphere packaging. Low-respiring produce, such as iceberg and romaine lettuce, has been packaged in films whose thickness ...
- The 1996 Metallizing Roundup: Experts Ponder and Predict
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- February 29, 1996, ... challenge, and competition, but opportunities abound in the years ahead. To assess the current - and future - state of the metallizing industry, Paper, Film & Foil CONVERTER went to the people who make ...