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Converting Industry News

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October 31, 2000, ...  Supplier News Sonoco Wins Contract for Flexible Packaging HARTSVILLE, NC, USA—Sonoco has been awarded a five-year contract for new printed flexible packaging business valued at approximately $30 million ...

The Digital Advantage... More Than Just Printing

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October 31, 2000, ... both printed and non-printed," says Budzinski. "Our pouches are all laminations—anything from something as simple as a paper/poly up to multi-plied film/foil lamination. We do a variety of different structures." ...

What's New in Narrow We

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September 30, 2000, ... of applications, including self-adhesive labels, tickets, tags, and boards. Can be used in combination with other ink technologies. Also can be overprinted with thermal transfer ribbons (depending on type) ...

Reporter Clips

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August 31, 2000, ... program. To help convey the high-tech nature of the product to customers, Pennzoil chose a custom HoloPRISM holographic pattern created by Proma Technologies. The labels were printed by Seneca Printing ...

It's Definitely a Bull Market for High-Performance Film

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May 31, 2000, ... to the oven and then to your table without a hitch. From food packaging and novelty balloons to the membrane switches in our appliances and the printed circuit boards in our computers and electronics, ...

Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority

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January 31, 2000, ... For screen printers, Autotype supplies a range of products for prepress and stencil-making, including the ASPECT thermal imaging system for producing large-format film positives. Applications include printed ...

Web-inspection system supports label operation

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July 31, 1996, ... and hotels. Label America specializes in four-color process and data processing labels printed on a variety of papers, films, and specialty substrates and maintains an on-site raw materials inventory of ...

Canadian show highlights packaging industry up north

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June 30, 1996, ... B.C., has distributed its line of laminated printed flexible materials in North America for over ten years. Produced in two plants located in Singapore and Southeast China, Ye Ming's products are used in ...

The 1996 Metallizing Roundup: Experts Ponder and Predict

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February 29, 1996, ...  paper "are unicomponent structures," Shea says. "They are repulpable. More than 99 percent is paper itself, and in most printed, metallized labels there's less metal than ink." Today's labels, he says, ar ...

Future of video inspection systems seems bright.

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June 30, 1995, ... remove the operator from the loop. Such line-scan systems can inspect 100% of the web and 100% of the material printed. In the process, they can identify a wide variety of random and repetitive print defects ...

Buyer beware when comparing video systems

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May 31, 1995, ... unit with the frame grabber. It is the printed circuit board that digitizes and processes the image. Video inspection systems today use either 16-bit or the more expensive 24-bit boards. A 16-bit board ...

Building quality into the web printing process

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April 30, 1995, ... quality-control tools of the 21st century are already here. In it's most basic form, video inspection is a high-tech tool that stops the action and allows images printed at speeds up to 3,000 fpm to be ...

Innovative uses, creativity earn honors from AIMCAL

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March 31, 1995, ... pulses reflected off the glass mirror. Labels are screen printed with conventional inks on a semi-automatic flat-bed press. Tolerances are critical since imprecise tolerance affects timing of the laser ...