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April 29, 2008
Volume 9, Issue 18

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CONVERTING MAGAZINE
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PUBLISHER
Phil Saran

EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
John Kalkowski

EDITOR IN CHIEF
Mark Spaulding
Prestige-Pak to install Nordmeccanica laminator
WI-based flex-pack converter Prestige-Pak will install a new Super Simplex solventless laminator from Nordmeccanica N.A. at its plant in Fond du Lac. The equipment was first used at...
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Amcor sells two European flex-pack plants
Australian converting giant Amcor, Ltd., enters an agreement April 15 to sell its flexible-packaging plants located in Lund, Sweden, and Somerset, UK, to Accent Equity 2008, a Swedish private-equity group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Graphic Packaging to cease carton ops at OH facility
Marietta, GA-based Graphic Packaging Intl. will discontinue folding-carton converting operations at its plant in Middletown, OH, by the end of the third quarter of 2008. The company also plans to cease production at its paper-lamination plant in...
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Shorewood Packaging sets up Mexican carton plant
Folding-carton maker Shorewood Packaging, New York, expands into Latin America with Shorewood de Mexico, located in Aguascalientes, Mexico, a new manufacturing facility to serve multinational customers with high-end packaging...
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Smurfit-Stone to buy control of Calpine Corrugated
Chicago-based Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. signs a letter of intent to take controlling interest in Calpine Corrugated LLC, an independent corrugated-container maker located in...
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Blogs

Converting Curmudgeon:
How the "recession"
is affecting you

Whether President Bush wants to call it a recession or not, the economic slowdown by whatever name is starting to affect your business, writes chief editor Mark Spaulding.

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Substrate Secrets:
Melt disturbance onset

Several things happen which affect the potential for a melt disturbance of "the third kind" when increasing the speed
of a film line, explains
Eldridge Mount.

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Converting Magazine Previews
State of the flex-pack
industry for 2008

A sales slowdown looms, and consolidation continues. But real "value-added" flexible packaging has never been more popular for end-user customers and consumers.

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Package printing:
Fast, flexible, digital

As the demand for short-run, fast-turnaround work increases, digital package-printing technologies advance to offer speed and accuracy, writes associate editor Linda Casey.

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