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In-depth features targeting converting industry issues
State of the U.S. Converting Industry (Part 3)
By Brendan O'Neill, Editor-in-Chief
Faced with the higher costs due to energy and petroleum based materials, the United States converter is now investing more time and money in seeking technologies that will improve productivity and quality at the same time that they are seeking substitutes for the petroleum based products and energy consuming technology.
State of the U.S. Converting Industry (Part 2)
By Brendan O'Neill, Editor-in-Chief
One benefit, or at least, opportunity for U.S. converters is that the rising cost of fuel is having an impact on transportation, causing converters and manufacturers to reconsider the financial implications of maintaining facilities abroad.
State of the U.S. Converting Industry (Part 1)
By Brendan O'Neill, Editor-in-Chief
The converting industry in the United States is facing one of the more challenging times in recent memory thanks to a number of factors, all of which have been developing during the past 3-5 years and have spiked dramatically within the last 12-18 months.
News and information for the converting community
Graphic Packaging to Close Four Plants
Graphic Packaging's international unit said it will close four plants by early next year as part of an ongoing restructuring effort to shave $90 million in costs by 2010.
AEP Acquires Plastic Films Segment Of Atlantis Plastics
AEP Industries Inc. recently announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of the Plastic Films segment of Atlantis Plastics, Inc., an Atlanta-based company, in a cash transaction valued at approximately $87 million.
'India Can Become Global Hub for Packaging'
Despite the boom created by the retail and FMCG sectors, the packaging industry is reeling under margin pressures essentially caused by a rise in raw material prices. Industry players note that India can become the outsourcing hub for packaging if global standards are adopted.
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Converting Influence: Converter-Product Developer Relationships
By Susan Stansbury, Converting Influence, www.convertinginfluence.com
Sometimes those of us in the converting world need to re-visit the basic starting points in communicating with product developers. Frequently, they are bringing a product idea to us and don't really know where to start. They do not realize how specialized our businesses can be.
Eldridge Mount Blog: Deckling Dies
AIMCAL's Extrusion Coating Blog by Eldridge Mount
One feature of extrusion coating and lamination which impact on the use and design of equipment is the variable length and width of customer orders. In a perfect world the physical dimensions of a manufacturing process remain the same for many days at a time, giving potential efficiencies of scale and process stability.
Roisum Blog: The Profile of Spreaders
AIMCAL's Web handling & Converting Blog, by David Roisum
The profile of most spreaders that are properly applied is flat. In other words, if you slit a uniform web and then spread, each gap would be precisely the same width if the slit widths were identical and proportional to width if not.
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Miscellaneous Machinery
Here you can get a listing of Miscellaneous Machinery currently available from Lepp & Associates.
Slitting/Rewinding Machinery
Here you can get a listing of Slitting/Rewinding Machinery currently available from Lepp & Associates.
News bites, blurbs and new products
Coopbox NaturalBox PLA Fresh Food Packaging
Italian fresh food packaging company Coopbox has carved a niche with its NaturalBox line of Ingeo PLA tray packaging. Designed for fresh meats and vegetables the packaging is being used for a number of applications in Europe.
Medica Packaging Adds BOBST ACCUBRAILLE
Medica Packaging, part of the Benson Group, is the first plant in the UK to install BOBST's ACCUBRAILLE system for the Braille embossing of pharma cartons.
Asda to Introduce Cardboard Milk Bottle
The packaging is known as the 'GreenBottle', because it is easier to recycle and is biodegradable, and requires less energy to manufacture than a plastic bottle.
Smurfit Kappa Pricing Policy Helps Good Performance
Smurfit Kappa (SKG), the paper-based packaging manufacturer, has reported a good performance in the first half of 2008 in the face of rising costs and falling demand for corrugated products.
International Paper Officials to Visit Newly Purchased Plant
Executives of International Paper Co. will visit the company's just-purchased corrugated container plant in Union Gap, at 600 W. Ahtanum Road, next week.
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