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October 31, 2000, ... peristaltic pump is available for use in converting industry applications using solvent-based inks. Dual-roller technology with longer compression cycles reportedly reduces friction and tube fatigue, resulting ...

Flexography Comes of Age and Keeps on Growing

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August 31, 2000, ... to reduce solvent emissions, UV has given narrow web flexo printers the ability to compete with lithography. UV has had limited success in wide web printing, due mainly to the fact that wide web's primary ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... solvent-based inks in "press-ready" disposable containers. Pumps Are Compatible with UV Coatings Miltec UV, Stevensville, MD; 410/604-2900; 800/999-2700 Air-operated, double-diaphragm pumps are compatible ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... from Sao Paulo) include two Rotomec nine-color presses and two Schiavi (Bobst Group Inc.) presses, a nine- and a ten-color model. Other equipment includes a Rotomec solventless laminator, two wax coaters, ...

Something new under the sun

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June 30, 1996, ... Available in water-based, oil-based, and solvent-based versions, the ink can be mixed into a UV-curable solution. "The Chamelacolors formula is so stable, it's considered archival. If it were stored in ...

Plate advances bring flexo closer to offset

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April 30, 1996, ... latitude, excellent ink transfer, and increased durability. A problem with flexo plates in the past has been ink compatibility. Solvent-free inks contain monomers and photoinitiators that diffuse into ...

Hot melt applications continue to grow

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June 30, 1995, ... engineer to crawl under the machine and expose himself to a gooey adhesive heated to 400 [degrees]. In the past converters had a choice. They may have elected not to use hot melts because solvent-based ...

Clean air rules are changing & you can have a say

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May 31, 1995, ... of the three major ink technologies available to the flexographic printer of flexible packaging. This joint effort will research solvent-based, water-based, and ultraviolet-cured ink chemistries for specific ...

Holograms continue to gain in converting applications.

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February 28, 1995, ... change coatings, solvents, inks or additives that you're currently using if they don't have approval rather than attempting the time consuming and costly alternative of obtaining approval. This is an area ...

French plastic bag imports continue to outpace exports.

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January 31, 1995, ... A Swiss company has been supplying machines specially designed for production of laminated packaging materials, using solventless, 100%-solids adhesives. Polytype AG's, Fribourg, Switzerland, latest ...

Reassessing market brings growth to this converter

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December 31, 1994, ... has no solvent, so it doesn't contain any volatile-organic compounds and, thus, doesn't pollute the air. According to Neal, ultraviolet ink has no volatile-organic compounds because it's a 100%-solid system. ...