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Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... and impediments to the adoption of effective color management in a digital workflow. The study is being conducted under the direction of the NPES Market Research Subcommittee by Nima Hunter Inc. The research ...

Technology Puts Converter "In-Line" for More Succes

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September 30, 2000, ... to the packaging industry during the 1999 3M Scotchban Innovation Awards. Jackson gives a great deal of credit to Phoenix's three-person research and development staff for improvements in both microwave ...

Hot Melt Symposium Covers Many Topics

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September 30, 2000, ... Other questions dealt with current trends on ultraviolet and electron beam curing for coating of hot melt adhesives, equipment for laboratory coating for research and development characterization of new ...

Eastern European Converter Continues Pioneering Ways

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August 31, 2000, ... produce Chemosvit's range of composite structures, and 20 slitters complete the converting operation. Both the film manufacturing and converting facilities are ISO-9001 compliant. A research and development ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, News from: Adhesives Research, AIMCAL, Business Comm. Co., Centrexpo, Coast Controls, Daetwyler, Dri-Tec, Dunsirn, ExxonMobil, Freedonia, Georgia-Pacific Corp., Dr. Edgar B. Gutoff, Harris & Bruno, HDFC, ...

Label Converter's Business Is Prime Labels & Prid

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August 30, 2000, ... unit. Premiere Labels chose a three-lamp system from UV Research. The system provides curing power of 500 W/in., and the lamp housings are configured with quartz reflectors and frontal infrared cut filters ...

Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch

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July 31, 2000, ... research company. He has more than 15 years experience as a research analyst and is an active member of several industry associations. He can be reached at 440/684-9600. Visit The Freedonia Group at freedoniagroup.com. ...

Converter Preps for Digitally Printed Packages

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July 31, 2000, Darwin, with his adaptation theory of natural selection, has nothing on Stora Enso's research center in Imatra, Finland. The packaging board manufacturer Darwin, with his adaptation theory of natural selection, ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

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June 30, 2000, ... almost 100 years ago—a material that would enable the customer to see the product and protect it from moisture—the world of packaging has grown into a domain that includes high polymer research and discovery; ...

Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact

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May 31, 2000, ... to Barry Conrad, VP of Peerless Machine, "After years of research, we believe we can confirm that the Peerless P-Line was the first paperboard plate-forming line to be roll-fed. Roll feeding greatly enhanced ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

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May 31, 2000, ... percent of the requirements for all of our DairyPak plants. In addition, we have our own on-site research and development facility." Waynesville's R&D facility includes such equipment as an X-Rite color ...

Decorative Films Served by Multilayer Structure

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May 31, 2000, ... the ALUphane film took almost three years to develop and perfect so it was color-stable and cost-effective to produce. After extensive research, Allied determined that a structure with caps of K-Resin ...

System Keeps Static Buildup Problems Under Control

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February 29, 2000, ... began several years ago, when Shanks was assigned to research and secure the best possible static control solution available in an effort to improve employee safety and optimize quality control within ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, ... in use for the product. You don't want to have an overengineered film for a bag of potato chips." Dan Ward, research specialist, Equistar, agrees that economics is behind the development and innovations ...

Bringing a New Dimension to 3-D Imaged Packaging

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December 31, 1999, ... ten years of research and test runs, Jacobsen has secured two US patents (additional patents are pending) to take the 3-D process from sheet-fed to roll-fed and cut the expensive multistep process to just ...

Need and innovation are driving digital printing.

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November 30, 1996, ... are the result of enormous amounts of research and development dollars, and all are the subject of ongoing development. John Ickes, corporate VP and general manager worldwide printing, Indigo, reports ...

Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.

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November 30, 1996, Quantum Chemical Corp. assists converters with product and process improvements on its state-of-the-art extrusion coating line located at the Allen Research Quantum Chemical Corp. assists converters with ...

New possibilities for beer packaging in PEN and LCP

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August 31, 1996, ... (LCPs) as beer bottle resins. Work being done with LCPs at North Carolina State Univ. (Raleigh, NC) is making bottles less permeable than those made by PET. Researchers there successfully developed a detailed ...

Perforating tear-resistant materials takes a big step.

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August 31, 1996, ... important ecological benefit. Richard Ulvila, director of research and development at Zimmer Industries Inc., has been a recognized leader in high-technology engineering and R&D for over 30 years. At ...

Dutch converter retakes his company

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July 31, 1996, ...  Most of Bolding's research and development activities are directed toward lightweighting and attempting to effect barrier reduction by using single-ply constructions as replacements for multi-ply laminates. ...