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- Wide-Ranging European Converter Keeps on Moving
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- October 31, 2000, ... solventless laminator. The company produces embossed and stretch polyethylene, cast polypropylene, and a variety of barrier materials. A superb prepress department, which is being upgraded constantly, ...
- Conference Features New Networking Opportunity
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- October 31, 2000, ... important component of making ethylene and propylene into polyethylene and polypropylene. Price trends in the energy industry are therefore critical for the supply and cost of the polymers. Unexpected ...
- Technology Puts Converter "In-Line" for More Succes
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- September 30, 2000, ... polypropylene overwrap and rigid paperboard susceptor sleeve) with a single flexible wrapper, said to result in greater ease of use by the consumer and representing significant source reduction over the ...
- Synthetic Paper from Plastics
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- September 30, 2000, ... polymers have tremendous application potential. For synthetic paper, using commodity polymers such as polyethylene, polypropylene, or polyvinyl chloride is always attractive due to the ready availability, ...
- The Vacumet Story Is a 30-Year History of Growth
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- August 31, 2000, ... polypropylene toll metallizing. Within a year and a half, we changed that to probably 10 percent. Now, our business is pretty well concentrated on food packaging, balloons, the decal and label industry, ...
- Eastern European Converter Continues Pioneering Ways
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- August 31, 2000, ... converters in Eastern/Central Europe. The first to produce oriented polypropylene (OPP) film in the former socialist bloc (1977) and a present supplier to the huge European multinationals, the firm opened ...
- Study Assesses the Future of Release Liners in Europe
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- August 31, 2000, ... and process technology are bringing real improvements in margins. Technological advances are essential for the new generation of release liner base materials—polyester, polyethylene, polypropylene, ...
- Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch
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- July 31, 2000, ... which have generated new opportunities. Polyethylene will remain the dominant film, although significantly better growth is anticipated for polypropylene. Ethylene vinyl alcohol films will exhibit the ...
- Innovation Drives Converter of Pressure-Sensitive Labels
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- June 30, 2000, ... at Sinel include "smart" labels that utilize radio frequency for transport use in luggage retrieval; see-through labels using both polypropylene and polyester films; a variety of anti-theft/anti-counterfeiting ...
- Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting
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- June 30, 2000, ... is chosen overwhelmingly. 1953 Italian chemist Giulio Natta begins intensive study of macromolecules. Later, he "obtains" polypropylenes (PP) with a highly regular molecular structure. Using Karl Ziegler' ...
- Outlook 2000 and Beyond: The State of the Trade
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- June 30, 2000, ... specialty-type products. The report notes that in each of the top four resin sections—polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, and polystyrene—there are fewer than five companies with significant ...
- Decorative Films Served by Multilayer Structure
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- May 31, 2000, Allied Converters Inc., reportedly the largest sheeter of cellophane and polypropylene in the US, has just gotten bigger. The driving force behind this Allied Converters Inc., reportedly the largest sheeter ...
- French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar
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- March 31, 2000, ... speeds to 1,500 fpm and were designed to apply polypropylene and polyethylene to natural or bleached kraft papers. Equistar, Dow, Nova, and Westlake supply the plant's resin, and Bonar buys its paper from ...
- System Keeps Static Buildup Problems Under Control
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- February 29, 2000, ... casting liner, and release liner products. The facility runs a wide variety of substrates, including biaxially oriented polypropylene, polyethylene, polyester, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene, and poly-coated ...
- 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, ...
- Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group
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- February 29, 2000, ... with printed polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) bags, ISMA soon developed the oriented PP market and began producing laminations. Spritzer's background in PE and PP marketing, combined with Uruguay' ...
- Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.
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- January 31, 2000, ... or polypropylene films to thicker vinyls to even thicker boards, the only provisos being that the materials are supplied on rolls and will run through the machines. It could be anything really." Draper ...
- High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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- January 31, 2000, ... of which the most common are EVOH and nylon resins. Those are used in conjunction with polyethylene, which is usually there to prevent moisture from entering." In addition, Gee says polypropylene and ...
- 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. ...
- Vision-Based System Wins the Battle Against Defects
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- December 31, 1999, ... has been in business for 25 years. It runs polypropylene, polyethylene, and polyester substrates on six- and eight-color presses. A complete prepress department handles inception, design, process color ...