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- Digital News for the Converting Industry
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- October 31, 2000, ... Schawk Brings CTP Flexo Capabilities to Mexico DES PLAINES, IL, USA—Schawk Inc. has completed a digital imaging prepress facility in Queretaro, Mexico. From production art and conventional photopolymer ...
- Conference Features New Networking Opportunity
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- October 31, 2000, ... they could estimate oxygen transmission rate from only the three factors of humidity, temperature, and ethylene content. In a session entitled "Tips For Troubleshooting in Flexible Packaging," Richard ...
- International Converting Industry News
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- September 30, 2000, ... flexographic printing machines for films) amounted to euro 5.5 billion for 1999, a fall of 3.6%. For more information contact VDMA, Lyoner Str. 18, D-60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; +49-69-66-03-1832; ...
- Converting Industry News
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- September 30, 2000, ... will be installed in Rigesa's consumer packaging plant in Valinhos, Brazil. According to Mark R. McMahon, president of Rigesa, "By combining Agaprint's offset printing capabilities with a flexographic press ...
- Converting Industry News
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- August 31, 2000, ... OH, USA—The High Definition Flexo Consortium (HDFC) held its first member/sponsor business meeting May 2 at the Milford headquarters of Comco International HDFC is a nonprofit trade organization that promotes ...
- More New Products for the Converting Industry
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- August 31, 2000, ... containers/min. Compact footprint and low operating cost make it ideal for in-plant container forming, co. reports. Cartoner Top Loads Flexible Pouches Dimension Industries LLC, div. of Douglas, Maple ...
- When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending
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- May 31, 2000, ... but it also includes a cut-size sheeting operation and does some specialty coating and one-color printing with a Black Clawson flexographic printer/coater. Blue Ridge also has two sheeters at Waynesville. ...
- Converter Can't Seem to Stay Out of Busines
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- April 30, 2000, ... digital technology, and perhaps getting into wider web widths. The company has even produced some flexible packaging, "but that's not something that we go out and market everyday." But, says Curran, if ...
- Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call
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- April 30, 2000, ... which really helps us maximize our uptime." "Swing Line" Means Flexibility The new Battenfeld Gloucester blown film system is a "swing line," meaning it will process both low- and high-density materials. ...
- Need and innovation are driving digital printing.
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- November 30, 1996, ... at a cost claimed to be substantially less than that required for producing short-run jobs on a flexo or screen press. The Impressa can produce continuous-tone, photo-quality labels without dithering and ...
- The role of barrier materials in packaging low-fat goods.
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- October 31, 1996, ... printing solvents used for flexible packaging and are generally the two that exist at the highest residual solvent levels in printed samples based on laboratory experience. Although MEK is not recommended ...
- Label converter controls quality from the inside out
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- August 31, 1996, ... three plants: Harahan; Winchester, KY; and Goodyear, AZ. The Winchester and Goodyear operations run flexo, and Harahan runs litho. Together, Walle's three plants employ a highly skilled workforce of nearly ...
- Perforating tear-resistant materials takes a big step.
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- August 31, 1996, How do you perforate tough materials that are constructed not to tear? New perforating technology reportedly has the answer.When we attempt to perforate How do you perforate tough materials that are constructed ...
- Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process
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- August 31, 1996, ... have primarily used dyne liquids and pens to test the level of surface treatment on flexible films. In a "dyne test," wetting tension liquids (typically mixtures of ethylene glycol monoethyl ether and formamide) ...
- Gauging system lights the way
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- August 31, 1996, ... a host of other innovative products. These thin, flexible, lightweight-yet-rugged lamps deliver a cool, soft, nonglare light in even the smallest places. Making EL lamps was once a slow, labor-intensive ...
- Web-inspection system supports label operation
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- July 31, 1996, ... systems help improve performance on Label America's narrow web flexo-graphic presses from Webtron, Mark Andy, and Aquaflex, which print up to eight colors in widths to 18 in. Label America was one of ...
- A look at the status of UV/EB curing
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- June 30, 1996, ... cartons, magazines, and pocket book covers. Nevertheless, new application techniques (flexo) and the continued growth of offset and screen printing techniques have resulted in recent expansion of about ...
- Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need
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- June 30, 1996, ... The Yellow Jacket lines are supplied complete, including extruders, reconfigurable feedblock combining adaptor, flexible lip flat die, cast film takeoff with chill roll, air/vacuum knife, edge pinning, ...
- New hot stamper does more for short runs
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- February 29, 1996, ... thrives on short runs with the help of versatile hot stamping equipment from Kensol/Franklin. Move over, silk screen and flexo! Make room for a new generation of hot stamping equipment that does a lot ...
- Pollution and politics: how green will the new year be?
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- January 31, 1996, ... What is at stake is the flexibility of a company to make minor changes in manufacturing operations without having to seek modification of its permit. EPA is also working on a one-stop emissions report ...
