Foil
- Extrusion Coating the Subject of Upcoming Course
- (Coating/Laminating)
- May 15, 2012, ... will include an in-depth description and potential uses and limitations of extrusion coating including foam extrusion, film lamination, anti-oxidants, flame retardants, foil laminations, and more. Bezigian ...
- KTI to Show Off Modular Line
- (Die-Cutting)
- May 15, 2012, ... IL. Features include full rotary and semi-rotary die-cutting, flexographic print/coating stations, laminating stations, hot foil/cold foil, inkjet print, folding carton die-cutting, pharmaceutical inspection, ...
- Brazilian Label Printer Buys Mark Andy P7 Press
- (Label/Tape)
- April 24, 2012, ... Mark Andy P7 presses are 250 mm (10 in.), 8-color dual servo platform machines capable of high quality combination printing effects such as cold foil, rotary screen, chilled UV curing as well as converting ...
- Ron Harper, CEO of Harper Corp. of America, Passes
- (News | New Products)
- April 14, 2012, ... Paper, Film & Foil Converter extends its sincerest condolences and sympathy to his family, especially Katherine, and recognizes Ron's philanthropic loss as a severe blow to all those who knew and worked ...
- Dion Label Printing Installs High Decoration Finishing Press
- (Label/Tape)
- April 05, 2012, ... for clients interested in hot stamp, cold foil, emboss, deboss, silk screen, and specialty prismatic effects. Hot stamping uses a heated die to apply foil to a precise area on a substrate. Cold foil ...
- Copac Prints High Quality Cartons with HP Indigo
- (Carton Box)
- April 03, 2012, ... Copac delivered a few hundred cartons on both SBS board and premium silver foil board. From concept to delivery, the job took about a week. With full color printing speeds of 130 fpm (39.6 mpm), the ...
- Flexco Installation Tool Aids Material Handling
- (News | New Products)
- April 02, 2012, ... plate sizes and make installation and virtually error proof. Tool can be used by any converter of paper, film, foil, paperboard, or nonwovens who use belt conveyors in their material handling process. ...
- Judges Announced for IMDA Awards
- (Label/Tape)
- March 26, 2012, ... & editorial director, PFFC | Paper, Film & Foil Converter The 2012 competition will recognize the industry’s best in-mold labeled packaging and in-mold decorated durable products. The winning ...
- ITW Foils Issues Guide to Metallic Effects
- (Metallizing)
- March 26, 2012, “Designed to Shine” gives benefits of metallic effects for printers and converters, including ways to use the effects without hurting the environment NEWBURYPORT, MA | ITW Foils, a global manufacturer ...
- Carton/Box | Heavyweight SBS Is Ready to Print
- (Carton Box)
- March 26, 2012, Eliminate the extra mounting step by printing or foil stamping directly on thick SBS board from vertically integrated Lamitech. With razor thin margins and fierce competition in the industry, ...
- Coating Matters | Battery Coating Technology
- (Coating/Laminating)
- March 25, 2012, ... the battery slurry throughout a coating production run is very important. So what can a battery manufacturer do to improve efficiency? Because the final structure of the battery allows for a single foil ...
- Smokin' Hot Cigarette Cartons Are Top Product of the Year
- (Coating/Laminating)
- March 08, 2012, ... Fort Mill, SC, bequeathed its Peter Rigney* Product of the Year Award on March 11th to Unifoil Corp., Fairfield, NJ, for a series of smokin’ hot cartons for Camel Menthol, Camel Bold and Camel Crush cigarettes ...
- drupa Preview | Exhibitors Launch New Products
- (Carton Box)
- March 08, 2012, ... KPS-OP, a new cold foil for sheet-fed UV offset printing. Kurz will show holographic continuous foils produced without recombination lines (seams). Previously designers were restricted to closely repeated ...
- ETITEC Adds 10-Color Press from OMET
- (News | New Products)
- March 05, 2012, ... X6 combines in-line a few additional capabilities—cold foil, delam/relam, print on reverse, and booklet—that make it competitive in the printing of short and medium runs of difficult jobs on different ...
- Gralex Unwind Stands Allow One-Person Changes
- (News | New Products)
- March 04, 2012, ... of paper, paperboard, plastic film, foil, and other roll materials from 18–to 39 in. wide to 72 in. in dia and roll weights from 3,500 lbs (for 18-in.-wide rolls) and 7,600 lbs (for 39-in.-wide rolls). ...
- Open House to Showcase Omet’s Carton Press
- (Carton Box)
- February 28, 2012, ... The main features of the Varyflex installed at Pragati are a flexographic platform machine with the facility for rotogravure, cold foil, and a silk screen cassette in every position of the press. It ...
- Flexo Printing | Colbert Packaging Installs Nine-Color Primographic Press
- (Flexography)
- February 28, 2012, ... increased format options for customers, and it can print both water-based and ultraviolet inks. It also features cold foil and HoloCure technologies for producing metallic and holographic effects on package ...
- PPC Welcomes Tap Packaging as New Member
- (Carton Box)
- February 27, 2012, ... specializes in foil stamping and provides product line management services. “We’re thrilled that Tap Packaging has joined the PPC family,” says Ben Markens, president of PPC. “With their broad range ...
- Foil Stamping | Multipress Buys Second Gietz Machine
- (Print)
- February 23, 2012, ... “In this sense," says Andrzej Rabenda, president/owner of Multipress, "the decision to invest in a Gietz foil stamping machine was the logical consequence in order to represent reliability, precision, ...
- WHQuiz Answer #4 - Load Cell Roller Advantages
- (Tim's Web Lines)
- February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 4: Tension Control – Name one advantage of using a tension load cell roller has over a dancer roller in a closed-loop tension control system? Answer... WebHandlersQuiz 4: Tension Control ...
- WHQuiz Answer #5 - Draw Control Pros/Cons
- (Tim's Web Lines)
- February 22, 2012, ... Many people believe successive draw zones require stepped increases in speed to maintain tension. This is true for viscoelastic materials, such as cookie dough, but not for most paper, film, and foil ...
- WHQuiz Answer #6 - Roller Alignment
- (Tim's Web Lines)
- February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 6: Rollers - What is a reasonable specification for roller alignment in mm/m, milli-radians, or mils/in? Answer... WebHandlersQuiz 6: Rollers - What is a reasonable specification for ...
- WHQuiz Answer #7 - Large Diameter Rollers
- (Tim's Web Lines)
- February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 7: Rollers – Which rollers in a process will likely have the largest diameters? Answer... WebHandlersQuiz 7: Rollers – Which rollers in a process will likely have the largest diameters? ...
- WHQuiz Answer #8 - Nipped Driven Rollers
- (Tim's Web Lines)
- February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 8: Traction – When is a nipped roller needed on a driven roller separating two tension zones? Answer... WebHandlersQuiz 8: Traction – When is a nipped roller needed on a driven roller ...
- WHQuiz Answer #9 - Nip Uniformity
- (Tim's Web Lines)
- February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 9: Nipped Rollers - What is a simple measurement to determine if two nip rollers are pressing together uniformly? Answer... WebHandlersQuiz 9: Nipped Rollers - What is a simple measurement ...
- WHQuiz Answer #10 - Laminate Curl
- (Tim's Web Lines)
- February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 10: Laminating – If a two-layer laminate product curls to the top layer in the machine direction, which would reduce the curl: increase or decrease the top layer pre-laminate tension? ...
- WHQuiz Answer #11 - Intermediate Guiding
- (Tim's Web Lines)
- February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 11: Guiding - For automatic guiding in the middle of a process, which is preferred – A steering type guide or a displacement type guide? Answer... WebHandlersQuiz 11: Guiding - For ...
- WHQuiz Answer #12 -Web Tracking
- (Tim's Web Lines)
- February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 12: Web Tracking – In a vertical span, which will cause the web to track off center more, a roller tram or level error? Answer... WebHandlersQuiz 12: Web Tracking – In a vertical span, ...
- WHQuiz Answer #13 - Web Wrinkling vs. Speed
- (Tim's Web Lines)
- February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 13: Wrinkling - If you see wrinkles at low speeds, but the wrinkles go away at higher speeds, what is the most likely reason? Answer... WebHandlersQuiz 13: Wrinkling - If you see wrinkles ...
- WHQuiz Answer #14 - Web Wrinkling and Deflection
- (Tim's Web Lines)
- February 22, 2012, WebHandlersQuiz 15: Wrinkling – If a roller is deflecting into a bowed shape due to gravity, which direction is it best NOT to approach that roller if you don’t want to wrinkle: vertically from above, ...
