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FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

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February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... flexibles, and cartons and labels. The company began operating in 1935 when Jose Tscherkassky arrived in Brazil from Ukraine via Germany. An expert in printing, Tscherkassky started a firm dealing in the ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ... lens (0.005) that can be used in the mainstream packaging industry in such applications as blown-on, pressure-sensitive, 3-D lenticular labels for on-packs as well as consumer-packaged goods, cans, bottles, ...

Narrow web adapts to multiple applications

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November 30, 1998, ...  "If you're running a web containing two tracks of labels," says Doerr, "the press operator manually moves the camera from one track to the other from time to time to monitor the entire job. For around ...

EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.

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October 31, 1996, ... and Technology, Tag and Label Mfrs. Inst., Univ. of Tennessee, Western Michigan Univ., and individual printers and suppliers. The DfE Program welcomes the participation and input of flexographers. For ...

Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process

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August 31, 1996, ... likely you do), you should be up to date on methods for measuring the level of treatment. As a growing number of end users switch from paper to plastic substrates to package or label their products, ...

Gravure winners go for gold

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July 31, 1996, ... and line colors. A special magenta helped reproduce the design's bright colors. The gravure-printed shrink-wrap label applied to a generic aerosol can enabled the customer to reduce lead time, inventory, ...

Something new under the sun

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June 30, 1996, ... Roger Kimps. "We get our partners the work, and they perform it to our specifications...it's worked out quite well." One example of their work is frozen pizza labels. The company formed a joint venture ...

In-house sheeting promotes growth and quality

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February 29, 1996, ... of high quality food and beverage labels for a customer base located nationally and internationally. It also produces overwraps for the toy, game, and retail industries, as well as specialized printing ...

Business and education join forces, and everybody wins

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February 29, 1996, ... products, including labels. In-house converting will be part of the Graphic Communications program's plan to work more closely with Clemson's School of Packaging. The plan is to have students take more courses ...

Flexo/screen proves to be a winning combination

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January 31, 1996, ... client base. Customers ranging from Motorola and Black & Decker to Maybelline Cosmetics and the US Customs Service all, in turn, rely on Topflight for their high quality, color process labels. The company ...

Improved paper chemistry provides multiple benefits

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December 31, 1995, ... of interest only to your paper supplier. If you convert paper, what you don't know can hurt you. If you effortlessly convert packages, cartons, or labels with high recycled fiber and high ash content ...

"Partnering" helps get press up to spee

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November 30, 1995, Viking Label and Packaging faced production delays with ink foaming problems until DIP Co. stepped in and gave its partner a helping hand.When Viking Viking Label and Packaging faced production delays ...

Video web inspection: the view from the press floor.

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September 30, 1995, ... vary from elaborate forms, bright balloons and flexible packaging to process labels and coupons. Yet, they all have one thing in common: video web inspection. "It's been a savior," says Rob Bredendick ...

Tissue converter accrues benefits of AC servo drives

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September 30, 1995, ... label brands. The seven-axis Bretting equipment purchased by Wepa includes an Indramat (Woodale, IL) digital AC servo drive and plug-in CLC (computer-logic card) multiaxis coordinated motion control ...

Doctor blades are the right Rx for gravure

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September 30, 1995, ... of a spring provided by the support portion of the blade. John A. Weeks is president of Angle Blade Co. He has 20 years of print management experience in decorative and label gravure printing. He has ...

Converter combines profit with environmental concern

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May 31, 1995, ... plastic labels, extensive testing was done to assure the quality and durability of the impressions on this difficult-to-print material. The flexo press provided flexibility for handling a variety of product ...

Printer responds to tougher environmental standards

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April 30, 1995, ... companies using 1, 1, 1, TCA after May 15, 1993, must prominently display warning labels on any products manufactured with the compound. Vincent Trama, Poly-Pak's vice president for finance, figured ...

Building quality into the web printing process

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April 30, 1995, ... a video system on the press, on average about 18%. This applies to two- or three-color line work as well as four-color process jobs. A narrow web converter who prints prime labels installed a video-inspection ...

Computerized dispensing provides ink management

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March 31, 1995, ... the dispenser scale. The starting weight is verified, and the new colors are added. Before the can is transported to the press room, a bar-coded label is automatically printed. This label indicates ...