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- Solving the Problem of Press Part Replacements
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- September 30, 2000, Clear Lam Inc., an Elk Grove Village, IL, converter of films, foils, and poly laminates, prides itself on delivering "a good quality product, excellent Clear Lam Inc., an Elk Grove Village, IL, converter ...
- Converting Industry News
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- August 31, 2000, ... Intl. BV sub. has agreed to acquire Neopac A/S, a Danish corrugated operation comprising two plants with a combined annual production capacity of 65,000 tons. Industry Studies Demand for PET Resi ...
- What Is the Role of Additives in Water-Based Inks?
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- August 31, 2000, ... printing is, to a large degree, based on additives that are incorporated into the ink to optimize specific properties. In a typical ink formula, the ink is composed of a colorant, resin binder, solvent, ...
- More New Products for the Converting Industry
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- August 31, 2000, ... edges aligned. Enhanced LLDPE Resins for Films Chevron Chemical, Houston, TX; 800/231-7575 Vytek and Dynex LLDPE resins are said to feature improved physical properties and provide an alternative, ...
- Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch
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- July 31, 2000, ... longer shelf life for produce, meats, and other products; novel resins such as metallocenes that are stronger and more breathable than traditional films; and convenience features such as zippered bags ...
- Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting
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- June 30, 2000, ... shelf space. Aluminum foil combinations in packaging increase. Ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) resins and films introduced in Japan; EVOH films offer several features suited for snack food packaging, ...
- Outlook 2000 and Beyond: The State of the Trade
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- June 30, 2000, ... the forecast for some segments of our industry. Remaining are paper and allied products; and plastics materials and resins. Paper and Allied Products The Outlook begins its discussion of this sector ...
- When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending
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- May 31, 2000, ... He notes the plant runs low-density polyethylene primarily and consumes in the neighborhood of 55 million lb of LDPE resin per year. But, he adds, the plant extrudes other resins and has substantial laminating ...
- Coating Operation Cleans Up Its (Trim Removal) Act
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- May 31, 2000, ... calls for coating an epoxy-type resin onto a fiberglass woven web," says Sangl, "which has a feathered edge and tends to accumulate resin. As it gets sheeted down into a cut length, we trim away this edge, ...
- Decorative Films Served by Multilayer Structure
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- May 31, 2000, ... of the advantages of ALUphane is that, unlike other tinted decorative wraps made from PP, the color in ALUphane film does not contaminate the food due to the use of K-Resin styrene-butadiene copolymer ...
- Globalization Is Driving Force Behind Fast-Growing NPE
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- April 30, 2000, ... companies supply primary processing and auxiliary equipment systems; machine and mold components; resins and compounds; additives, fillers, and reinforcements; and mold-making services. In a recent ...
- French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar
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- March 31, 2000, ... Labor Day that year," Barrett recalls, "and by mid-November we put the first resin and paper through the machine. We were selling commercial products off the line by Christmastime." Both lines run at ...
- Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group
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- February 29, 2000, ... adhesives. PE resin is purchased from Poliolefinas and Petroquimica Truinfo. Ink suppliers are Belcar and Castiglioni. ISMA is a major supplier to Fleischmann Uruguaya (Nabisco) and Pepsico Snacks with ...
- High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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- January 31, 2000, ... several different layers and various types of resins, which provide advanced properties for such things as extended shelf life and the ability to let in certain gases to change product coloring. The ...
- Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater
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- December 31, 1999, ... and order production costs. If it's a job that's run before, the operators go to the CMR-2000 and pull up the recipe. Major resin suppliers include Eastman, Equistar, and Huntsman. Specialty additives, ...
- Pointing finger places blame but won't solve the proble
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- November 30, 1996, ... primers, coatings, extruded resins, metallization, and a variety of substrates both treated and untreated. The number of manufacturers involved in a construction tends to increase as the complexity ...
- Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.
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- November 30, 1996, ... resins, tie-layer resins, and color concentrates, Quantum runs an extrusion coating line with a wide range of capabilities. During its operation, the line has been updated and retrofitted with the most ...
- 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 ...
- Aqueous adhesive systems: giving credit where it is due.
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- July 31, 1996, ... solvency than water. They easily dissolved the polymers, resins, plasticizers, and other additives necessary to formulate a high-demand adhesive product. Water dissolves few, if any, of these ingredients ...
- A look at the status of UV/EB curing
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- June 30, 1996, ... UV/EB-curable market. Water-Reducible Products Water-reducible, UV/EB-curable formulations have been developed for a number of markets. Water dilution of a compatible resin system provides lower ...