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September 2, 2008
Vol. 9, Issue 36

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CONVERTING MAGAZINE
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PUBLISHER
Phil Saran

EDITORIAL DIRECTOR
John Kalkowski

EDITOR IN CHIEF
Mark Spaulding
Store employees strip to protest excessive packaging
How's this for source reduction? Wearing nothing but aprons reading, "Ask me why I'm naked," employees of  LUSH Cosmetics  led a cheeky protest last Wednesday urging shoppers to go "naked" by purchasing products free of packaging.
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Kollman Label acquires Dixie Printing & Packaging
Yardley, PA-based Kollman Label and Packaging Group completed its purchase Aug. 18 of an undisclosed interest in Dixie Printing and Packaging of Baltimore. Dixie prints folding cartons for food and personal-care companies such as...
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Free Flexographic Printing Troubleshooting Article

By controlling the substrate's surface energy printers can eliminate a variable from the ink to film equation. Enercon's team of application experts are equip with troubleshooting solutions. Learn how to quickly identify substrate adhesion issues and best practices for troubleshooting in Tom Gilbertson's newest technical article by
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Enercon
VLF digital print pops for P-O-P
Point-of-purchase displays and their related packaging are entering a new era of converting via super-fast, very-large-format, flatbed digital-printing systems.
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Win with 3M

Look for the "X" at LABELEXPO where 3M is introducing their newest products: 3M™ Structured Adhesive for bubble-free, hand-applied labels; 3M™ Cushion-Mount™ Plus Tapes for high speed flexographic printing with sharp process dots; and 3M™ Blood Bag Label sets that comply with Red Cross and FDA specifications. Register to win a GPS.
3M
Blogs
Substrate Secrets: Embossing during orientation
I recently received a question about the possibility of embossing a film between the MD and TD orientation steps and how it might be done. This is an interesting question which I have not considered before. 
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Converting Magazine Previews

Common Sense Flexo
Joe Flexo dishes the dirt on cleaning your anilox rolls via ultrasonics, steam, soda-jet and any or all methods.

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Eye on Sustainability
Anne Johnson reveals how converters, CPGs and retailers are getting consumers more involved in sustainability solutions.

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