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On the Move

Published: May 01, 2001
News from: Advanced Ceramics Corp., Automatän, Brandtjen & Kluge, BST Pro Mark, CHA Industries, DuPont, Enercon Industries, Extrusion Dies Inc., International Holographic Papers, IST Metz, Nordson, NuCoat Inc., Pamarco Global Graphics, and Specialty Films & Assoc. Inc.

Win Free Registration And Airfare For Boston Conference

Published: May 01, 2001, By David J. Bentley, Jr., Editor
Attendees at the Polymers, Laminations and Coatings Conference in San Diego in August can win a free registration and round trip air transportation on

Hot Melt Committee Selects New Officers

Published: May 01, 2001, By David J. Bentley, Jr., Editor
The Hot Melt Committee of the Polymers, Laminations and Coatings Division has announced its new officers. Richard Stultz of Bostik Findley, Inc., in Warminster,

High Clarity Linear Low Density Polyethylene for Packaging Applications

Published: May 01, 2001, By Amy B. Hitchcock and Guy G. Luneau, Eastman Chemical Co.
Application: A new polyethylene combines good stiffness, clarity, and toughness for demanding applications.

Pellet Transfer: Preventative Measures Employed to Reduce Streamer Formation

Published: May 01, 2001, By Jeff P. Pro and Andrew G. Womack, Chevron Chemical Corp.
Application: Preventive equipment and procedures can eliminate or reduce the generation of streamers at several points in a resin handling process.

UV and EB: Making the Trek into Energy Curing

Published: May 01, 2001, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
Electron beam accelerator, electrodeless microwave ultraviolet bulbs… Neither of these exotic-sounding expressions figured in a conversation between Captain Kirk and Scottie or Jean Luc Picard and Jordy (though either one certainly sounds as if it could). But all three are part of the “energy curing” language that soon may become part of your operation's vernacular — as you contemplate and/or enter the radiation curing frontier.

Digital Solutions Products

Published: May 01, 2001, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
New digital products from: Barco, CreoScitex, Domino Amjet Inc., Honeywell Industrial Control, ScenicSoft Inc., and Tekra.

Converting Industry News

Published: April 30, 2001
News from: AVT, AGI/Klearfold, Bielomatik, International Paper, Mohawk Paper Mills, and Smurfit-Stone.

Converting Industry News

Published: April 30, 2001
News from: AzCoat, AzTECH Machinery, BST ProMark, Chromas, EMT, Foilmark, FPA, George O. Schroeder Assoc., Gutenberg Awards, Independent Machinery, Packaging Strategies, PCMC, Portland Paper, and Russell-Field Paper.

BST Pro Mark and Teknek Announce Marketing Alliance

Published: April 24, 2001, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
BST Pro Mark and Teknek Announce Marketing Alliance CHICAGO, IL BST Pro Mark, Elmhurst, IL, and Teknek Electronics, Renfrewshire, Scotland, have signed

Sheet Fed Lithography: Hammer Lithographic

Published: April 01, 2001, By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor

Hammer Lithographic is a company that knows how to focus for success. When it decided to tackle the difficult job of converting sheet-fed BOPP, that ability proved invaluable.

Show-Biz, E-Biz, and Taking a Break

Published: April 01, 2001, By Yolanda Simonsis, Associate Publisher/Editor
Finally! The international Converting Machinery/Materials Conference and Exposition—CMM International—is upon us, starting April 23.

CMM News

Published: April 01, 2001, By Claudia Hine, Senior Editor
Gaining valuable packaging/converting market information should be a breeze at this month's CMM Intl. Slated for April 23-25 in Chicago, IL, the show is hosting a series of seminars and special events that will explore packaging issues.

Ergonomics Rule Is Dead, Revised Clean Air Regs Live

Published: April 01, 2001, By Sheila A. Millar, Attorney-at-Law, Keller & Heckman, Washington, DC
Two significant developments occurred in February and March that illustrate the role that Congress and the courts play in dealing with challenges to final

Some Smart Ways to Face Inevitable Price Increases

Published: April 01, 2001, By David J. Bentley Jr., RBS Technologies

What action can a converter facing a price increase take that might be… palatable? In many cases, the answer is efficiency.

Water-Based Ink Adhesion and Web Temperature

Published: April 01, 2001, By Richard M. Podhajny, Ph.D. Contributing Editor

Unlike solvent-based inks where binders are dissolved in the ink solvents, water-based inks comprise several binders, none of which are soluble in water.

A Proposal for Spreading Base Web During Melt Extrusion

Published: April 01, 2001, By William E. Hawkins, Contributing Editor
Melt extruded resin polymers on cloth and other webs sometimes result in transverse direction (TD) curl of the laminate. And this curl often causes poor roll formation when the base roll is slit into large-diameter, narrow-width slit rolls.

Reporter Clips

Published: April 01, 2001, By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
Avery Dennison Medical is new organization in its Worldwide Specialty Tape Division; Dunsirn adds small-roll converting capability, "perfect for digital print market"; and Label Graphics, Whitehouse, NJ, manufacturer of high-end labels, is result of a herb/flower hobby.

Products at CMM

Published: April 01, 2001, By PFFC Edit Staff

CMM products from: Alpha Gear, American Baler, Badger Plug, Bernal, BST, Can-Am, Chesnut, CMR, Davis-Standard, DuPont, Dynaweb, EIT, Elite, Enercon, EngView, EDI, Faustel, Fife, F&K, Fusion UV, Great Northern, Independent Machinery, Laser Machining, MacDermid, Macro, Mario Cotta, Martin, Nim-Cor, Novaflex, Novaflow, Pillar, Retroflex, Roberts Poly Pro, Scapa NA, Sherman Treaters, Sterling, Tidland, Webex, W&H, and WT/Incotek.

Is Change in the Air?

Published: April 01, 2001, By John Watson Attorney-at-Law, Gardner, Carton & Douglas
Environmental Outlook 2001: A new administration and a new EPA head make the regulatory outlook hazy.

Two-Drum Slitter Packs a One-Two Punch

Published: April 01, 2001, By Deborah Donberg, Managing Editor
Start-up company W.E. Slitt is already a full-service contract slitter thanks to the versatility and efficiency of Webco Engineering equipment.

Critical Payloads to Benefit from Thermal Package

Published: April 01, 2001, By Claudia Hine, Senior Editor
A shipping container designed to transport such temperature-sensitive items as organs, tissue, and body fluids is awarded AIMCAL's Package of the Year. The film behind it takes the Technology of the Year award.

The Amcor Story Continues

Published: April 01, 2001, By Stanley Sacharow, Contributing Editor

In the second of a two-part series on Amcor Flexibles Europe, Paper Film & Foil CONVERTER visits two plants in Belgium that are on the leading edge in their markets.

PPC AWARDS

Published: April 01, 2001, By Claudia Hine, Senior Editor

The Paperboard Packaging Council's annual competition acknowledges folding cartons that meet both graphic and consumer challenges.

Tension Control

Published: April 01, 2001, By Claudia Hine, Senior Editor
Reynolds' captive carton converting operation counts on reliable components from Montalvo to maintain its high-volume operation.

Fido's Food Goes GLOSSY

Published: April 01, 2001, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
With the help of a Prime UV ultraviolet curing system, Canadian-based Bonar Packaging has given glamour to the plain pet food packaging bags of the past.

New Printing Equipment: Who? How? What? When?

Published: April 01, 2001, By Mark Piszczor, Research Analyst, Intertec Publishing
We asked converters about their plans for purchasing printing equipment. Here are the results.

How One Converter Mastered Sheet-Fed Films

Published: April 01, 2001, By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
With a supplier alliance and four years of homework, Hammer Lithographic adds sheet-fed BOPP to its operation successfully.

Flexo Inspection

Published: April 01, 2001, By John D. Thome, BST Pro Mark
As flexo continues to advance, 100% inspection systems are helping more and more converters see their way to a competitive edge.

On the Move

Published: April 01, 2001
News from: Badger Paper, Batson, Chromas Technologies, Davis-Standard, Dusenbery, Extrusion Dies Inc., Great Northern Corp., Gretag-Macbeth, Nordson Corp., Paperloop.com, Pomco Graphic Arts, Precision Southeast, Proact Converting Equipment, Valéron Strength Films, UV Research, Weyerhaeuser Fine Paper, and Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp.

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