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- MeadWestvaco Buys Irish Pharm-Packaging Operation
- (News | New Products)
- April 16, 2002, ... and also producers packaging for consumer electronic, beverage, and food applications. "Ireland is a hub for many pharmaceutical companies operating in Europe," says Rita Foley, senior VP at MeadWestvaco ...
- Converting Industry News
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- March 31, 2002, ... coatings in three sections: Food Packaging; Troubleshooting with UV and EB; and Conversion of Presses to UV and EB. Wikoff Color's Don Duncan, co-chair of the RadTech Graphic Arts Focus Group, says, ...
- Products
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- March 31, 2002, ... films in gravure printing for food packaging. Designed for maximum performance on PET, product's reduction in retained solvents reportedly makes it ideal for use in applications such as juice pouches or ...
- What's New in Narrow We
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- January 31, 2002, ... provide outstanding durability in high-moisture envelopes and an exceptionally smooth printing surface. These new grades are FDA-compliant for food contact and complement co.'s substrate offerings for glue-applied ...
- Russian Flex-Pack Markets Holds Potential
- (News | New Products)
- January 23, 2002, ... an economy that was slated to expand in 2001 at a rate of 7%, consumer spending forecast to rise as much as 9%, and investment up to 20%. With many of the large multinational food/beverage processors ...
- World Label Shipments to Grow thru 2005, Reports Freedonia
- (News | New Products)
- December 09, 2001, ... consumer sectors increasingly able to satisfy their desire for foods, beverages, personal care items, and other packaged consumer products. Pressure sensitive (i.e., self-adhesive) labels, which surpassed ...
- Automated Sortation System Boosts Customer Satisfaction
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- November 30, 2001, Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. Lithographics, a sheet-fed offset label supplier producing $50 million worth of labels annually for the food and beverage Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. Lithographics, a sheet-fed ...
- One-Dimensional Converter Expands Its Reach
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- October 31, 2001, ... spirits, food, and pharmaceuticals. A nine-color, 39-in. rotogravure press features dual unwind and rewind splicing stations, allowing it to run two jobs simultaneously. The facility also houses slitting ...
- Reporter Clips
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- October 31, 2001, ... is also very little leverage here either. Despite these pressures, the self-adhesive label market is overall relatively buoyant in Europe.” Food labeling represents the largest volume market but with ...
- Prime Labels Are More Than a Family Affair
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- August 31, 2001, ... not just food.” To meet these diverse demands, Prestige recently upgraded its prepress department for the second time in five years. The company added more than $250,000 in prepress equipment alone, ...
- Vacumet Makes Metallizing Dreams Come True
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- August 31, 2001, ... by the multiwall bag for Ralston Purina One dog food and cat food. Vacumet provides the facestock for that bag. The silver appearance of metallized paper is not seen by the consumer, but the metal coating ...
- New Product Digest
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- August 31, 2001, ... are said to be used for packaging everything from bakery and popcorn to coffee and pet food. Machine reportedly holds its settings and adjustments precisely to ensure consistent bag formation, and servo ...
- Converting Industry News
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- June 30, 2001, ... La Rue Holographics, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K.; +44 1256-463000 Flexible Package Slider Closure Applied In-Line A joint effort between Pactiv Corp. and Sargento Foods has resulted in the commercial ...
- Trends in Flexible Packaging Markets: Two Different Views
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- May 31, 2001, ... evalute trends. Based on replies from some of its members, FPA names fresh produce the top market for growth by 2005, followed closely by drugs, medical/surgical, pet food, and snacks. Let's analyze ...
- Narrow Web People Places
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- April 30, 2001, News from FINAT and Label Graphics Manufacturing Inc. Charles Bernard has resigned as president of FINAT, the international association for the self-adhesive labeling industry, due to a career change. ...
- What's New in Narrow We
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- April 30, 2001, ... offer superior stiffness, opacity, and moisture resistance, according to co. This added stiffness is said to provide outstanding hiding power, concealing the ribs on food and beverage cans, as well as ...
- The Amcor Story Continues
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- March 31, 2001, ... PFFC that “within the food and beverage markets, our specialty is value-added confectionery packaging plus expertise in selected other market segments such as coffee, processed foods, and powdered products.” ...
- Tension Control
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- March 31, 2001, ... Bond Started as a captive carton maker for Reynolds Wrap brand aluminum foil, the plant continues to produce brand name and private label foodwrap cartons for its parent company (which concluded its merger ...
- Converting Industry News
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- March 30, 2001, ... U.K.—Rexam High Performance Flexibles produces flex-pack materials with high-barrier properties for a range of food and drink products. Recently the company incorporated NDC Infrared Engineering's on-line ...
- Materials
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- March 30, 2001, ... AET Films, New Castle, DE; 302/326-5500 MPF OPP film is designed for high-barrier food packaging, and according to mfr., it is appropriate for replacing foil and metallized polyester in applications ...