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FEATURED STORY
 It's all about the barrier this year as five of the top ten new products of 2014 are high performance films. Because packages are expected to provide a host of benefits that go far beyond just holding the contents, E-Clips readers showed the most interest in materials that provide packages with ultra-high barrier properties, kill bacteria, and can be used as a replacement for foil.
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 Start your New Year off by committing to an improved maintenance program for your corona treaters. Follow the Best Practices for electrode and roll care as outlined by Enercon's Service Manager Matt Rajala. Download this free presentation and learn how to avoid the 3 most common maintenance mistakes; and how to care for your electrodes, ground rolls and exhaust system. Get Details Now.
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WHAT'S NEW
CHARLOTTE, NC | Harper Corp. of America has introduced the Anilox Surface Cleaner to its lineup of HarperScientific products. This specially formulated cleaner is ready to use and designed to remove surface stains and residue blemishes from the surface of ceramic anilox rolls.
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ST. LOUIS, MO | Rotoflex has redesigned its DSI die-cutting platform to be a smaller footprint machine, which is said to be faster and more responsive to today's changing production requirements.
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MERRILLVILLE, IN | MonoSol has expanded its film technology capability with food-friendly Vivos water-soluble films engineered to create individual pouches, sachets, or delivery systems. They are odorless, tasteless, and simply dissolve and disappear in hot or cold water or other liquids.
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May 3-6 | Nashville, TN
 Join thousands from the package printing and converting community for four days of unparalleled learning and networking with the best minds in the industry. Arm yourself with exciting ideas for revenue growth in markets previously untapped. Become proficient in global standards that pledge high-quality print. Take away key insights into process control, workforce management and even competitive printing processes. Register by Feb. 27 and save $200. Visit www.flexography.org.
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 LAKE FOREST, IL | Colbert Packaging Corp. announced the availability of MedLock EZ, its latest invention in patient compliance packaging solutions. Medlock EZ is a child-resistant, senior-friendly, and sustainable unit dose alternative to amber prescription vials.
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NEW | PFFC MESSAGE BOARD
 PFFC has launched a Message Board on our website for The Converter Community. You're invited to create a new topic, post a question, and provide advice. Trending now: Does coating cause static? Waste: What's average and how do I compare? RadTech's UV/EB West in March, and Non-contact pressure sensors. Join the discussion!
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The Elite Cameron brand has been established for over 100 years, with manufacturing facilities in the UK & USA, we have in excess of 12,000 machine installations Worldwide! We specialise in Slitting and Rewinding, Hot Melt Coating and Laminating Machines which are extremely versatile and capable of processing materials such as delicate non wovens, flexible packaging, self-adhesive tapes and laminates, papers, foils rubber and plastics.
Is your company featured in PFFC's Buyers Guide? Our Buyers Guide lists more than 1,000 suppliers of equipment, accessories, materials, and services in hundreds of categories. To list your company, click here.
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 Senior marketing and brand enthusiast Stephanie Millman shares a hilarious satire on presentations that had her in stitches. She dares you to challenge yourself when you put together your next sales presentation.
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FEATURED VIDEO
 Roll Out 2015 at America's #1 Converting Exhibition! America's Leading Event for the Conversion of Paper, Film, Foil, Nonwovens, and Other Flexible Web-Based Materials Where you will find solutions for every Converting Process! Visit ICE USA 2015.
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ON FACEBOOK
 Ginger Cushing, Rob Tolland, and Mark Snyder are in the news. Follow your industry colleagues by Liking PFFC on Facebook and take a moment to congratulate them on their recent career moves.
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 Learn more about the digital solutions for cost-efficient, high-quality, short-run label printing and how one company transitioned from flexographic to digital printing. See why "the future is inkjet, the future is digital" for printing beautiful labels.
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FORSCHHEIM, GERMANY | Huhtamaki Films has a new owner, Deutsche Beteiligungs AG (DBAG) and the DBAG Fund VI. The purchase price is 141 million euros.
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BOHEMIA, NY | The Flexographic Technical Assn. is accepting entries for its global awards program recognizing organizations and individuals for innovative technologies, processes, and services that are accelerating and transforming the flexographic print process. Submissions are open through February 13.
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Talk To Me
 Happy New Year to all. We are wishing you a very prosperous 2015. Please send us your warm wishes. Chicago is expecting a high of zero degrees tomorrow with a wind chill of 20 below. Someone remind me why I live here again. -- Claudia
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