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Novel Method for Testing the Grease Resistance of Plastic-Based Dry Pet Food Packaging

(The Place)

March 30, 2004, Dry pet food packaging needing high resistance to staining from or migration of fat content requires rapid and reliable standardized tests for development and quality control purposes. New tests show high ...

Patent Pending

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2004, ... Health to seal three of the four seals at high temperatures. When the package is compressed, it fractures the weaker seal and allows the ointment or cream within the package to escape into the foam applicator ...

Less Coating, More Control

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, Coatings are getting thinner, and while there are a number of reasons for this more value added, reduced use of energy, water, and solvent, etc. the result Coatings are getting thinner, and while there ...

Journey Bound to Success

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... thinking, “This one looks especially good!” Little did I know my newfound lunchtime companion would offer me sage advice particularly appropriate for the topic of this month's editorial. The book is ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... designed to convert both self-adhesive laminates and thin unsupported films. The screen unit works by replacing the anilox roller and rubber roller used in a standard flexo inking system with the drop-in ...

Schober to Showcase In-Line and Off-Line Converting Systems at Drupa

(News | New Products)

February 23, 2004, ... as the micro-electronic industry. Schober rotary-punching machines are built to customer specifications in working widths of 15 mm to 1000 mm, for the conversion of foils as thin as 0.015 mm. Learn more ...

Learning the Lingo

(Magazine)

January 31, 2004, ... is a technical consultant in all aspects of the web coating process. His expertise is in the coating and drying of thin films, coating process development and scale-up, polyester base development, film ...

Coating and Laminating: At the Heart of the Packaging Industry

(Magazine)

January 31, 2004, ... need to meet design, technical, marketing, production, and purchasing criteria — within a global context. Today's advanced label presses can do much more than simply run self-adhesive labels and increasingly ...

G Prime A Rheological Indicator to Predict the Extrusion Coating Performance of LDPE

(The Place)

January 31, 2004, ... in understanding a wide range of polymer processing operations. In extrusion coating, a thin molten polymer film is coated on a substrate. At high extrusion coating speed, even a minor disturbance on ...

Darwin Would Approve

(Unprinted Rolls)

January 30, 2004, ... manufacturing or new product design,” says Tom Mecca, technical director for the Metallized Paper and Specialty Coating divisions. “We think the Polytype coater will be a very competitive asset in this ...

Converters' Wish Lists: Part I

(Magazine)

January 30, 2004, ... members observed the contents of the wish lists were nothing more than common sense. While this indeed was the case, obviously the converter representatives felt that educating their suppliers in common ...

Narrow Web Industry News

(Magazine)

January 30, 2004, ... 500,000 web m. The RSI rotary screen head will be integrated within the Gidue multi-process trolley, allowing it to be moved to any Flower print unit location on the Combat. The “Ready-RSI” will be available ...

Materials

(Magazine)

January 30, 2004, ... film is a nylon, LLD, coextruded flat film. When heated, the film forms deeply shaped pockets that keep product secure within the formed package. Patented, pliable structure is said to conform to vacuum-packed ...

Products

(Magazine)

January 30, 2004, ... high-performance UV curing system designed for both flexo and lithographic printing and converting. Compact system will fit most presses, says company, with lamps available from 9-27 in. Suitable for thin ...

CMYK=RGB - The Digital Color Revolution

(Technical Reports)

January 30, 2004, ... midstream with another proposition: “I'll bet you double or nothin' I can guess how many children your father had. But you've gotta be honest with me,” he urged. “If I get it right, you'll promise to pay ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

January 30, 2004, ... orienter; and winders for heavy sheet and very thin, extensible films. An EGS Gauging system will provide on-line web measurement and control. Supplier Information Davis-Standard, davis-standard.com ...

Flint Ink Launches X-Treme Dispersions Colorants for Water Inks

(Materials)

January 13, 2004, ... Dispersions enable printers and converters to create sophisticated, detailed graphics of intense color with thinner ink films at faster press speeds." Adds Flint Ink director of marketing Steve D'Angelo, ...

A Brighter Picture

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... new jobs in the US is positive, according to Fry. “The increase in employment we saw in September was probably a turning point, and I think we are going to start producing more in the US. Inventories are ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... I want to see these areas of expertise have a place where manufacturers and innovators can come to share ideas and collaborate on projects and product improvements. Primarily for this reason, I think the ...

Products and Materials

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ...  Avtron Manufacturing, Independence, OH; 216/642-4234; avtron.com M85 Thin-Line encoders/tachometers incorporate company's Wide-Gap sensor technology, said to simplify installation by eliminating alignment ...