The Converting Curmudgeon

Click HERE to read the Digital Edition. In the 2012 Quarter 2 Issue 2012 AIMCAL Awards 2012 FPA Achievement Awards Impact of web-product development on web handling How to upgrade your web-handling drives Guidelines for selecting idler rolls Barrier Packaging Materia...

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You’ve got only 10 days to get yourself over to Düsseldorf, Germany, for what’s left of drupa 2012. Yes, in one sense, that’s saying quite a lot because any other trade show that started on May 3 would have long since been over with by now. But drupa’s not just another s...

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With featured speakers on film technology, sustainability, packaging and nonwovens, the next meeting of Converting Influence will offer something for everyone. The spring program, set for May 17 at the Bordini Center of Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, WI, will start off with networking and...

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Today marks 30 days and counting until the opening of drupa 2012: world market print media, publishing and converting at the Fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany. The two-week trade show runs May 3-16 and fills Halls 1-17 plus outside areas on the massive site along the Rhine River. More than 1,8...

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The 2012 Flexible Packaging Assn. annual meeting held last week in Scottsdale, AZ, was not even 48 hrs long, but it was packed with informative presentations to help the nearly 300 industry professionals on hand stay flexible amid the continuing US economic recovery. A highlight of the program is al...

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The spring 2012 meeting, trade show and conference session kicks into gear this week with the Flexible Packaging Assn. annual meeting in Scottsdale, AZ. Watch for my followup report next Monday. In the meantime, follow my tweets live from the program this Thursday and Friday. Here’s what&rsquo...

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Recognizing the limitations of the US waste management system, where only about one third of all municipal solid waste is recovered by recycling or composting, GreenBlue® released a report yesterday that assesses a variety of material-recovery systems around the world to better inform US policie...

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In the course of reviewing the 65 posts I wrote this year, I came across a pretty astonishing statistic: More than 26,000 readers came to either this site or WordPress to read The Converting Quarterly Website in 2011. The fact that readers are spending an average of 2½ mins. on each post page...

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While the snow begins to fly across parts of North America, the Converting Quarterly staff is putting the finishing touches on our 2012 Quarter 1 issue, which features a Market and Technical Focus on Thin-Film Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Batteries. We appreciate your enthusiastic response to our fir...

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After nearly a decade of “blue sky” thinking and demonstrations of only laboratory prototypes, last week’s Printed Electronics USA & Photovoltaics USA 2011 conference and tradeshow in Santa Clara, CA, brought out plenty of real-world examples of working technology, some of whic...

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