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- Integrated Information System Can Boost Profits
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- January 31, 2000, ... and holding the line on costs and waste is the key to profitability. This is the unique challenge-and opportunity-for converters. Once you have analyzed your business and truly understand where your ...
- Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater
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- December 31, 1999, ... "but we felt that any place we went, we really compromised on cost because you went in with a lot of material handling inefficiencies and waste. We felt that completely new was the way to go to make sure ...
- Two states adopt regulations for rigid-container laws
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- January 31, 1998, ... Waste Management Board. In some respects, the regulations were responsive to industry's most significant concerns about the measure. The regulations now exempt plastic-container manufacturers from the ...
- Czech retail developments could affect converters.
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- October 31, 1996, ... large Prague stores. "(Krone) is stealing from the consumer," said Radek Svitil, spokesman for the Czech environmental association Recycling Group, which specializes in waste and packaging legislation. ...
- Tetra Pak plant in Spain is environmentally certified.
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- July 31, 1996, ... than 1.6 million metric tons/yr of ethylene and more than 2 million metric tons/yr of derivative products. Construction is expected to begin next year, and startup is scheduled for early 2000. Waste ...
- Something new under the sun
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- June 30, 1996, ... agreed upon waste factor for makeready and overruns, and give the customer one set price. That price is the maximum it's ever going to cost, and they won't lose money, because if it ever happens that we ...
- Green Bay gears up for specialty labels
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- May 31, 1996, ... Woodlands, Pinecrest Lumber Co., Bay Fibers (wastepaper procurement), and Coated Products. Growth is a tradition with the Coated Products Operations unit, which is a spin-off of the company's packaging ...
- Pollution and politics: how green will the new year be?
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- January 31, 1996, ... Oxley's bill, the Reform of Superfund Act, or "ROSA," aims to streamline Superfund cleanups by lifting some financial responsibility from parties who contributed to the toxic waste sites and setting less ...
- Pollution prevention makes good sense
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- November 30, 1995, If you generate less waste, you will have less waste to dispose of. It's common sense, and it's cost-effective, but some companies still need convincing.In If you generate less waste, you will have less ...
- Training is the key to success in '90s corporate climb.
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- August 31, 1995, ... less waste and, ultimately, increased profits. "Companies that bought into team training and employee empowerment are truly way ahead of everybody else," says Arnie Kins, president of Cook Associates, ...
- Consider film cores when analyzing costs.
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- July 31, 1995, ... recommended moving to a shorter core to reduce waste and further reduce costs. "Before Sonoco simply switched to a thinner wall core, they performed a number of tests to make sure the core would fulfil ...
- Adapting flexible system in trim-recovery operations.
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- July 31, 1995, ... between three and six rolls, so, essentially, a lot of waste can be generated if one considers that the plant runs around the clock 365 days a year. "We effectively doubled our trim-recovery capability ...
- UK packaging markets expected to show growth in plastics, paper
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- July 31, 1995, ... customer sales proceeds for board papers to increase by 38%. A vigorous demand made it possible to pass on waste-paper purchase prices, which had exploded. (In the course of the year, they had increased ...
- Building quality into the web printing process
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- April 30, 1995, ... effort, significantly reduce waste, and provide the converter with the potential for a substantial competitive advantage. Video inspection took a while to catch on for some very good reasons. The first ...
- Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible
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- March 31, 1995, Bags and pouches demonstrating innovation in reducing waste and increasing cost effectiveness were rewarded with top honors by judges for the Flexible Bags and pouches demonstrating innovation in reducing ...
- State legislative action includes removal of 2 bans: 1994
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- February 28, 1995, ... of biodegradable plastics to the maximum extent possible. The bill was signed into law by the governor. The bill also asks the California Integrated Waste Management Board to analyze the efficacy of biodegradable ...
- Plan seeks to put corrugated into recycling mainstream
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- January 31, 1995, ... significant innovation and accomplishment achieved during 1994 in four major environmental and energy areas: solid-waste management, energy management and innovation, new-product introduction and other, ...
- Traditions fall as prepress moves into electronic age
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- December 31, 1994, ... smaller job runs, less waste and "I need it now" apply as equally to the conversion to electronic prepress as they do to other parts of the business. Minton Brooks, president of Minton Brooks Associates, ...
- Direct-mail group introduces green stewardship challenge
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- December 31, 1994, A trade association serving direct marketers has embarked on a major campaign to offer a waste- and cost-management tool to its members.The Direct Marketing A trade association serving direct marketers ...