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In-Mold Labeling Makes Strides Worldwide

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December 31, 2000, ... tension control, and the ability to print a variety of substrates. A press also must have good heat management in the curing system and press design so it can handle the extensible films used for IML. ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ... heavy-caliper 0.028-in.-thick SBS paperboard sheet especially formulated by GulfStates Paperboard for heat seal forming on this canister. Production speeds are 85-90 containers/min. According to Jerry ...

Converting Industry News

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October 31, 2000, ... of the Year. Heather Davies won the award, which is sponsored by the U.K. Patent Office and the Fairplay London organization, after patenting her Reuzip packaging as a recyclable, resealable, and reusable ...

Reporter Clips

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September 30, 2000, ... awa-bv.com Sleeve Labels Are the `Icing on the Cake' FARMINGDALE, NY, USA—Seal-It has created decorative, full-sleeve labels for Betty Crocker's "Easy Flow Decorating Icing." The heat-shrink PVC label ...

What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2000, ... materials and products that transform with temperature, UV light, or pressure. New materials include ChromaZone, a thermochromic (heat-sensitive) pigment; SolarZone, a photochromic pigment, and Vinyl Flex, ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... and industrial scientists that operate and work with existing dryers." Topics included psychrometry (which he called "the guts of drying"); the drying curve; drying process measurements; heat and mass transfer ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ...  Sonoco is supplying eight different SKUs in a structure using a Toray 60-ga clear OPP (F61W), reverse printed and extrusion laminated to a Toray 60-ga metallized heat-sealable OPP (PWS). The 8-color ...

Materials and Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... dirt, noise, heat, and inconsistencies due to wear of tension systems that rely on mechanical brakes. Automatic pre-tensioning provides for smooth starts while eliminating web breaks due to splices or ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

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May 31, 2000, ... include an A&F machine winder in 1994; Eurotherm heater controls in 1995; and a Eurotherm digital drive in 1997. Denney says this line can run widths up to 86 in. at speeds to 1,000 fpm. Waynesville' ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... capabilities also include oriented polypropylene varnish application and heat seal application. A fire in December 1942 that almost destroyed the entire company left Dixie Toga extremely safety-conscious. ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ... for special inks and curing modes so the final image will set properly on the substrate and keep the heat-sensitive lenticular plastic from warping. Says Jacobsen, "Print register and alignment to the lenticules ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

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December 31, 1999, ...  it right in without costly adaptations to their lines," he says. CEI also is having some initial success with a paper/poly/heat-sealable metallized film pouch as a substitute for the traditional paper/poly/foi ...

Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.

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November 30, 1996, ... by the use of heat/cool PID auto-tune function blocks. A communication port on the PC3000 provides a link for the transfer of data between the operator and the drive system. The Microcell software is ...

A rather narrow-minded view of wide web printing.

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May 31, 1996, ... by ABB Air Preheater Inc. A semi-automatic ink pump/washup system is said to make washup neat and easy and contributes to quick changeover between jobs. Options for future expansion include outboard coating ...

Advances in prepress are making heads spin.

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May 31, 1996, ... name for Screen's TE-R1070 dry process imagesetter. The Mojave imagesetter is said to offer a consistently high image quality by eliminating the fluctuations in heat and stress inherent in chemical processing. ...

Green Bay gears up for specialty labels

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May 31, 1996, ... to film, film to polycoated paper or film to paper labels. To eliminate heat-induced distortion of film liners, the machine uses ultraviolet curing for the silicone release coating. The first coating ...

Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible

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March 31, 1995, ... retort, hermetic sealing, heating to 250 [degrees] F, and meet FDA's requirements. By designing the bottom web of this 12.5 x 13-in. package to draw to approximately 1.5-in. deep, American National Can ...

Slower growth, continued expansion seen in 1995

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January 31, 1995, ... same time, high interest rates make the economy vulnerable to something else. "In the last four recessions, something has been a supply shock: sharply higher oil prices," he said. "People paid more to heat ...