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- Coating and Laminating Special Report
- (Archive)
- February 28, 2002, ... the coating and laminating value chain, consolidation is occurring—though often to the detriment of the supply side, due to the increasingly dominant end-users, who are leveraging their purchasing power. ...
- Reporter Clips
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2002, ... This view was echoed by Todd O'Reilly, global business manager, labels, for UCB Films, in a conversation during one of the conference networking events: “Consolidation has stepped up the globalization ...
- Valmet Tech Center to Open for Converters Worldwide
- (News | New Products)
- January 13, 2002, ... or four years, we have seen the number of our customers getting smaller as a direct result of more and more mergers, takeovers and general consolidation of the flexible packaging industry. Our strategy ...
- Fundamentals Keep the Converting Industry Strong
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2001, ... so many supposedly promising dot.com organizations. Fortunately, this has not occurred in the converting and flexible packaging industries. While some reorganizations, consolidations, and the like have ...
- Anilox Roll Inspection: So Simple, So Important
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2001, ... characterizations. When optimized for various elements required of the printer, including solid coverage, line work, screens, process work, and combinations, the anilox roll's performance is standardized ...
- VOC-Compliant Inks: What State Are They In?
- (Magazine)
- September 30, 2001, ... and rotogravure was made convincingly. (For more on Project FOG, see PFFC, July 2001, p. 50.) Solvents Still Entrenched in Film Sector Water-based inks have a solid hold on the flexographic printing ...
- Westvaco Launches Forte for Folding Cartons, "A Mini-Flute Alternative
- (News | New Products)
- September 18, 2001, ... medium-sized packaging. According to Westvaco, Forte is a 36-pt solid fiber board that provides compression strength equal to, or greater than, F, G, and N mini-flute board. It's said to combine an extremely ...
- What's New in Narrow We
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 2001, ... liners, and coated cartons. Also said to retain all the traditional benefits of outstanding thermal stability to prevent char, reduce maintenance costs, and extend equipment service life. The 100% solids ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- July 31, 2001, ... Higher Print Quality BHS Printing Machinery Corp., Baltimore, MD; 410/666-2700 UV flexo printing press is said to offer higher print quality and more brilliant colors using 100% solid inks with no emissions. ...
- Party Defection Brings a Sea Change in the Senate
- (Magazine)
- June 30, 2001, ... been confirmed. Assistant Administrators for EPA's offices of Solid Waste and Emergency Response; Enforcement and Compliance Assurance; Environmental Information; and Research and Development have not ...
- Division Conference Offers Varied Program
- (Magazine)
- May 31, 2001, ... polymer resins covalently bonded with stable solid-state additives. The session on “UV/EB Materials For Flexible Packaging” will have a paper on “EB Curing In Flexible Packaging” by Anthony J. Bean ...
- A Proposal for Spreading Base Web During Melt Extrusion
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2001, ... of web #2)2 × (stress/strain modulus of web #2). This relationship must be true for melt extruded laminates also. When a resin is extruded onto the base web, the melt shrinks as it cools to a solid. ...
- Tension Control
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2001, ... and other consumer and industrial products. The commonality for just about everything produced here is foil, which is laminated to solid bleached sulfate or recycled board for folding cartons, or to ...
- Web Handling...Making a Slitter/Winder Upgrade Work for You
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2001, ... solid surface rolls in a vacuum chamber. Nip rolls should never be used for tension isolation unless there is no other alternative, because they can damage the web, especially clear webs. Properly designed ...
- International Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2001, ... by an earthquake in Turkey. As an indicator of continuing momentum in industry consolidation, congress delegates heard that the top ten folding carton companies are said to represent nearly 45% of total ...
- Small Inspection Light Proves to Be a Shining Star
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- February 28, 2001, ... Amgraph was an early user of 100% water-based inks and 100% solid-cured inks and adhesives. The company likes the environmental benefits these products offer, as well as the fact that they reduce odors ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2001, ... for tape manufacturing are 100% solid. Said to offer a high-performance alternative to solvent-based systems, free-flowing, nonblocking pellets are available in a convenient form for vacuum feeding. ...
- Extrusion Coating Line Audit Can Bring Big Benefits
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2001, ... have a solid working knowledge of the extrusion process and the variables involved. They also must know how the variables affect the process and determine their window of flexibility in changing those ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2000, ... from a combination of competitive market pressures and high raw material and energy costs. President and CEO Gary Hayden says profitability at the facility has been weak due to overcapacity and consolidation ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2000, ... solid state, high-voltage power supply with built-in monitoring circuit, and a controller. Power supply is designed for use inside the hazardous area; control and interface components are installed outside ...