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- Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application
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- April 30, 2000, ... especially with the large array of systems available. Understanding the basic systems, which all comprise some type of brake with an open or closed loop control, will aid in your search. Many material-processing ...
- Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary
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- March 31, 2000, With improving technologies in materials and processing, flexible packaging plays an increasingly important role in many markets. Multilayer stand-up With improving technologies in materials and processing, ...
- Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.
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- January 31, 2000, ... Explains Draper, "It's been designed totally around our requirements as we see them at present. As with all our machines, it needed to be very flexible in terms of processing capabilities, as we don't know ...
- Finding a simple solution to a shocking problem
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- March 31, 1998, ... from bagmaking to processing food packages. A lot of the specialized converting machinery is sensitive as far as the way it unwinds, and if the film we make for them is sticking together, it creates problems ...
- Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.
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- October 31, 1996, ... seven-press operation during the past ten years. It has done this by virtue of its one-pass operation, as well as through the development of its graduated demetallizing process. New processing technology ...
- Partnering launches future growth in laminations
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- August 31, 1996, ... for the industry at the time. But this technology required attention to such issues as emission controls, regulations, permits, as well as solid and liquid waste disposals. To avoid these costly processing ...
- A look at the status of UV/EB curing
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- June 30, 1996, An expert in the field assesses the current state of ultraviolet and electron beam curing.RadTech '96 North America, the fifth biennial UV/EB Processing An expert in the field assesses the current state ...
- UV/EB technology moves ahead with the times
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- June 30, 1996, ... processing, the slowest link has always been the drying stage. That's an area people look at to shorten the process," says Steven Siegal, president of UV Process Supply, Chicago, IL. Unlike conventional ...
- Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need
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- June 30, 1996, ... pressure drop, resistance, and die shear, resulting in a streamlined flow of extrudate. Newly patented design features also can be incorporated for the successful processing of ultra-sensitive polymers ...
- Congress is considering FDA reform bills
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- May 31, 1996, ... or continuing any notification requirement for a food, drug, or cosmetic that provides for disclosure of the constituents, source, or method of production or processing of the food, drug, or cosmetic, ...
- PET supplies increasing as markets expand
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- May 31, 1996, ... include limited shelf life, raw material instability, and processing difficulties. In Packaging Week (March 28, 1996), the U.K.'s leading packaging journal, Tony Holland reports that "little in the way of ...
- Advances in prepress are making heads spin.
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- May 31, 1996, ... text to the output of final imposed, color-managed, and trapped plates. Not only does TDI allow a user to output to film, proof, or plate from the same source, but processing is only done once, eliminating ...
- Green Bay gears up for specialty labels
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- May 31, 1996, ... digital drive system that can operate in either ratio or tension mode to allow processing both extensible and nonextensible substrates without distortion. Doing the Job with Paper Film liners such ...
- Plate advances bring flexo closer to offset
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- April 30, 1996, ... a considerably shorter processing time, which means less loss of detail. The result is a plate that can hold fine image detail, because the dots are physically smaller. "When you affix a thinner plate ...
- AIMCAL Selects Seven for Annual Honors
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- March 31, 1996, ... Leaf was the metallizer and did the holographic embossing, and Jefferson Smurfit supplied the initial substrate. Joe Funicelli, executive VP of Unifoil, reports environmental and processing benefits ...
- Water-based adhesives meet just-in-time demands.
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- March 31, 1996, ... is a typical snack food application involving a lamination of OPP to OPP. Table 3 indicates green bond, slit time, and further processing time of one- and two-component, high-performance PUD systems. ...
- Business and education join forces, and everybody wins
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- February 29, 1996, ... are taught design, image creation, image processing, assembly, plate production, printing, and finishing. Every student who graduates from the program will have done at least 25 press runs, including work ...
- Regulation, competition drive the adhesives industry
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- January 31, 1996, ... different from those of a decade ago. The converting industry is extremely broad, encompassing many different applications and processing a myriad of materials. And because there is no universal "one-size-fits-all" ...
- New measurement technology improves web control.
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- January 31, 1996, ... processing in the converting industry to meet modem productivity and quality requirements. And the trend toward faster, wider machinery with greater application versatility is making this function even ...
- Examining trends in drives and motors
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- December 31, 1995, ... memory and faster processing capability, software that was specific to the needs of converters could be produced. "We put mathematical models inside the controllers that allow you to precisely control torque ...