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Article: Flexible packaging: while narrow web has made inroads into this lucrative print market, it still has some distance to go to catch up to the wide web converters.
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- Label & Narrow Web
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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Walk down the aisles of any store today and it becomes clear that flexible packaging is a popular packaging technique. Traditionally, wide web has been used to produce flexible packaging. One reason is the large volumes involved, because wide web can more easily provide long runs. Another is the size of the packaging, such as bags and pouches, which can be two feet across before they are formed into containers. The popularity of flexible packaging in the narrow web industry is growing, however, mainly because of the increasing demand for shorter runs, which can more easily be met on narrow web equipment.
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