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Ind  Editor’s Note


Welcome to the September issue of Converter. This last month has been full of uplifting news of sporting achievements beginning with the paralympians, all of whom have pushed


themselves to the limit and beyond despite what others might see as insurmountable challenges. More recently, tennis superstar Emma Raducanu came from virtually nowhere to win the US Open. These examples and more only prove that no matter what the challenges are that face all of us, with drive and determination, anything is achievable.


The Converting industry has had a much better couple of years than many other sectors thanks to the online shopping boom and champions of industry who have applied drive and determination to keep the industry evolving throughout.


The magazine ethos has always been to exemplify these people and companies and as such, we’ve got specialist features on Film & Foil and Flexible Packaging, new articles from the Machine Vision & Web Inspection as well as the Slitting & Rewinding spheres and we take a look at Web Tension & Guiding. I hope that you find it informative and interesting.


Lynn Sencicle Editor lsencicle@datateam.co.uk


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of seaweed to play a significant role in the purge on plastics by acting as a barrier coating to


barrier coating to replace petroleum-based packaging used to protect many foodstuffs.


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