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TLMI Awards | Girl & Dragon Wine Label Takes Best of Show

(Label/Tape)

October 14, 2014, ... TLMI for a complete list.   Best of Show Collotype Labels USA Inc., Napa, CA, earns the prestigious Best of Show award for its Girl & Dragon, 2013 Malbec Argentina wine label. This label came out ...

Static Gets Worse at Higher Line Speeds: Keys Toward Maintaining Good Static Control

(Surface Prep)

May 12, 2024, ... drag slows the roller so that it does not turn at line speed. Static charging increases because the web has intermittent sliding contact with the slowly turning roller. With low traction, the web is ...

AccuTec, Inc. Introduces the Next Generation of High-Performance Razor Slitting Blades

(News | New Products)

March 26, 2024, ... frequent blade changes and enhancing operational efficiency. Tier 1: AccuTec PRO Blades – Precision-Cut Carbon Steel Slotted Razor Blades - A heavy-duty blued blade and a low drag blade equipped with ...

Reducing Waste in the Production Line

(Surface Prep)

February 11, 2024, ... web can also become contaminated without the presence of static, when it is moving in high-speed as it drags along ambient air. This creates a boundary layer that can cause debris to become trapped within ...

Static and Static Controls in Printing

(Surface Prep)

December 05, 2023, ... on the delivery pile, when one sheet is lifted slightly at the edge and then pulled away from the pile, if there is static present, the second and third and fourth sheets will tend to drag off the pile ...

Web Handling, Proper Tensioning & Guiding

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

November 15, 2023, ... tension. The Need for Constant Tension Control — On a center unwind, web tension is applied by using a device to impart a drag on the shaft/spindle that holds the web roll. This drag force results in ...

Unwind and Rewind Guides: Design and Installation Considerations

(White Paper)

March 21, 2023, ... significantly lower coefficient of friction ranging from 0.01 to 0.08. Seal drag, lubrication viscosity and any pre-loading can increase the coefficient of friction for roller or ball bearings. Apart from ...

Signode Highlights Automation and Reliability Services at ProMat 2023

(Upcoming Conference News)

March 13, 2023, ... made to dock to end-of-line roller or drag chain transfer conveyors, facilitating easy integration of autonomous transfer pallets and gaylords in an existing facility. It also navigates autonomously without ...

Material Properties, Testing & Applications: Part 3

(Converting Expert)

September 26, 2022, ... materials require tensions that are outside of the recommended 10-25 percent rule of thumb. It is common to run nonwovens on high-speed converting lines close to the yield stress to overcome air drag and ...

Material Properties, Testing & Applications: Part 3

(Coating/Laminating)

July 17, 2022, ... air drag and pull out any bagginess. The “rule” would suggest 0.06 – 0.14 PLI for the earlier 15gsm SB example. Actual good run settings are 0.45 PLI which is 81 percent of the elastic limit. High modulus ...

Maxcess Launches Powerful 100% Vision Inspection and Workflow Automation Solutions

(News | New Products)

March 02, 2022, ... software, VisionMax is a flexible tool that can be used in both surface and print inspection applications, finding key defects like insects, gels, carbons, color problems, streaks, drags, roller marks ...

Taking Control of Static

(Surface Prep)

February 13, 2022, ... bearing drag increases static especially on low-traction roller. When rollers turn slower than the line speed, the web has sliding contact with the roller that increases static. Measure the spin down time ...

Neograf Solutions’ New Advanced Graphenes Targets Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants, and Elastomers Markets

(News | New Products)

October 26, 2021, ... chromium at lower loading levels. In marine coatings, GNPs are anti-corrosive and can improve a ship’s fuel efficiency by reducing drag due to hull biofouling. GNPs also prevent crack propagation in ...

Properly Select a Web Guide for Your Operation

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

June 30, 2021, ... modulus webs) on the other hand may require low inertia (aluminum or carbon fiber rollers) with low friction bearings to reduce any drag from the roller. Surface Roughness and Smoothness The smoothness ...

Lombardi Converting Machinery Announces Flexoworld, a Virtual Tradeshow and Multistreaming Event

(Upcoming Conference News)

May 20, 2021, ... Draghi of GrafiKontrol, an Italian manufacturer of vision systems. May 20, third and final day, will open at 2:00 p.m. CEST, 8:00 a.m. EDT, with a live demo on the Invicta i1 670 and a focus by Roberto ...

Achieving Fluid Production: Controlling Static and Contamination

(News | New Products)

February 14, 2021, ... faded or blurry, affecting the overall appearance of the product. But a web moving at speed can also become contaminated without static’s presence. This is caused by the ambient air that the web drags ...

Achieving Fluid Production: Controlling Static and Contamination

(News | New Products)

January 27, 2021, ... faded or blurry, affecting the overall appearance of the product. But a web moving at speed can also become contaminated without static’s presence. This is caused by the ambient air that the web drags ...

Hazen Paper Pioneers Two-Sided Sub-Micron Custom Holography

(News | New Products)

August 16, 2020, ... effect than lenticular printing. The front features a fire-breathing dragon with minutely detailed glittering scales. The effect of a blast of moving flames was reportedly achieved with registered, custom ...

New Coating Technology Providing Real Solutions in Flexible Packaging

(Flexpack)

June 07, 2020, ... of many production and quality issues within flexible packaging leading to: Drag / slippage / wrinkles; Web breaks; Roller surface defects created from knife cuts; Web substrate defects; and ...

The Back Page: Taking it back 54 years

(News | New Products)

April 23, 2020, ... favor in snack food packaging – sooner or later run into slip problems on packaging machines. The film drags on formers and the material tears or fails to “track.” Useful coatings are now available that ...