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January 29, 2013   
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Freebox Produces Customized Boxes On Demand

WEST HARTFORD, CT | System Packaging, Fiorano (MO) Italy, reports that Matik Inc. will distribute Freebox, its new corrugated box machine that produces fully erected, customized cartons on demand using 48x48 in. sheets. No die-cut blanks are required. Benefits include lower raw material, transportation, and storage costs and less impact on the environment.   


SYLVANIA, OH | Innovative Handling offers overhead systems for a variety of applications from winder unload to roll sortation systems. Each system is custom designed and manufactured to customer specifications.


WAUCONDA, IL | Menges Roller Co. expands its service offerings to converters, which now include precision cylindrical grinding services, as well as chrome plating in which old chrome is ground off and new chrome plating is applied to the roller.      

 

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JEMMCO1-15-13 JemmTac Web Cleaning Sleeves have proven to be the most affordable and effective way to clean moving webs. It is now possible to improve your product quality without having to make major machine modifications or requiring a significant capital investment. Best of all, Jemm-Tac Web Cleaning Sleeves can be installed in-plant so there is no need for unnecessary downtime, spare rollers or two way shipping. To learn more   

        

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How far away can a static dissipater be mounted and still neutralize a web? Follow these 3 rules provided by our Static Beat columnist Kelly Robinson.  

 

FEATURED BLOG
Does your roll look like a soup can, i.e., with evenly spaced buckled rings running in the machine direction? This defect also is called machine direction buckles or tin-canning. Web handling expert Timothy J. Walker offers 6 tips for this strange defect. 

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INDUSTRY NEWS

               
NEENAH, WI | Webex, a manufacturer of precision engineered rolls and custom converting machinery, has been acquired by Bertram Capital, a private equity firm based in San Mateo, CA.


APPLETON, WI | Rollguard provided the solution for Japan-based Nitto Denko's international shipments of films and tapes from manufacturing facilities in Belgium. The company's recycled fiber cradles offered an alternative to the wooden block cradles Nitto Denko was using when it shipped rolls horizontally on pallets.      

      

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CRANFORD, NJ | The Newark Group reports a $25/ton price increase on all uncoated grades of recycled paperboard effective with shipments on or after February 18.       

      

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Talk To Me

Baxter Robot During the ProMat Show at McCormick Place last week, I met Baxter, a robot from Rethink Robotics. Got to admit, he was kind of adorable. Is he poised to take over your repetitive job tasks?

Write to me at chine@pffc-online.com. -- Claudia

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