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Web Handling, Proper Tensioning & Guiding

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

November 15, 2023, A key requirement of every web processing line is the ability to properly handle and convey the web among the various machine sections. By Bob Pasquale, President New Era Converting Machinery A key ...

Meech to Demonstrate Static Control and Web Cleaning Expertise at ICE Europe 2023

(News | New Products)

February 27, 2023, ... (Hall A6 Stand 330) will present its latest technological developments to support smooth production in the converting industry. It’s well-established static control and web cleaning products will be on ...

Web Considerations for Today’s Flexible Packaging

(News | New Products)

May 16, 2021, Maximizing the productivity, versatility and profitability of an extrusion coating and laminating line is the goal of every flexible packaging film producer. By R. Duane Smith, Process Manager, Web ...

Comexi and Socipack Strengthen Relationship Thanks to the Acquisition of a Wide-Web Slitter-Rewinder

(News | New Products)

July 19, 2020, Comexi and Socipack have extended its strategic partnership with the acquisition by the African company of a Comexi S2 DS Comexi and Socipack have extended its strategic partnership with the acquisition ...

Meech to Display its Newest Static Control and Web Cleaning Technology Products at K 2019

(Upcoming Conference News)

September 04, 2019, ... 11 – B60, Messe Düsseldorf, 16th – 23rd October 2019), including the new CyCleanTM R web cleaner, Hyperion IonCharge50 (75W) and IonCharge30 (15W) static generators and the Hyperion 960IPS – Meech’s newest ...

Web Industries Launches Large-Format Spool

(Flexpack)

July 13, 2017, Large-scale spooler reportedly will provide hygiene product manufacturers with quick turnaround and greater yield MARLBOROUGH, MA | Web Industries announces a new, large-format spooling (LSF) resource ...

Web Lines | Action Plan for CD Buckles, Part 3

(Web Handling)

July 04, 2017, ... hot roll winding cooling, and post-polymer processing density increases.   Mechanism 5: Partial Width CD Buckles Description—Lanes of CD buckling will form in the wound roll where the web or coating ...

Web Lines | Action Plan for CD Buckles, Part 1

(Web Handling)

March 05, 2017, ... (CD) buckles are a wound roll defect featuring crossweb ridges or corrugations running widthwise across a roll. They may form throughout a roll, but are more likely to form near the core or in lanes of ...

Web Lines | The Case of the Missing Pacer

(Technical Reports)

July 07, 2014, ... force is less than the winder tensioning force, the brake will slip and the rolls and web will accelerate. So to get this two-torque rewinder up to speed, first the winder-created tension must be greater ...

Web Lines | Winding Process Fundamentals, Pt. 4

(Web Lines)

September 23, 2013, In Part 4 of this four-part series, web handling expert Tim Walker explains how TD variations in equipment or web properties affect roll structure How do transverse direction variations in equipment ...

Web Lines | Curl Mechanics Pt. 1—Machine Direction Curl

(Coating/Laminating)

July 08, 2013, In this first part of a four part series on curl, web handling expert Tim Walker discusses curl in coated and laminated products In this first part of a four part series on curl, web handling expert ...

Web Lines | Winding Process Fundamentals, Pt. 3

(Web Handling)

May 08, 2013, In Part 3 of this four-part series, web handling expert Tim Walker answers the question: How do dimensional changes within a roll (e.g., compression) change roll strains and stresses? In Part 3 of ...

Web Lines | Winding Process Fundamentals, Pt. 2

(Technical Reports)

February 18, 2013, In Part 2 of this four-part series, web handling expert Tim Walker tackles tension control from the first to the final lap of the winding roll Understanding winding, roll defects (e.g. tin-canning), ...

Web Handling Workshops from TJWA & Optimation

(News | New Products)

January 26, 2012, Wrinkling, spreading, winding, tension control, and web defects are some of the topics on the agenda in a 2012 series of web handling workshops ROCHESTER, NY | Optimation and TJWalker + Assoc. have ...

Webex Slitter/Rewinder Has Many Features

(News | New Products)

January 23, 2012, ... Webex incorporates a number of innovative, custom features designed to produce uniform, narrow width, 40-in.-dia rolls from multi-substrate films run at tensions as low as 0.5 PLI. A closed loop system ...

Web Lines | A Rant from Tim Walker

(Web Handling)

December 04, 2011, ... you send me this info for the slitter I bought In 1987? Web handling expert Tim Walker, president of TJWalker+Assoc., has 25 years of experience in web processes, education, development, and production ...

Web Lines: Take the Laminator Quiz

(Coating/Laminating)

October 16, 2011, ... and easily viewable? 3 pts. 3. Do you control pre-laminating tensions of input webs to match elastic strains? 10 pts. 4. Do you control downstream tension to a set point nearly equal to the sum of ...

Web Handling: Top 7 Causes of Wrinkles

(Web Handling)

October 09, 2011, Web wrinkling during converting can come from a variety of sources--sometimes multiple sources. Thus, pinpointing the exact cause and cure is not always easy. In fact, it is often a process of trial and ...

Web Lines: Is Wound Roll Pressure Greater Than Tire Pressure?

(Tension)

June 30, 2011, ... psi (or 3 bar or 300 kPa) since atmospheric pressure adds 14.5 psi (or about 1 bar) to every reading. This differential reading is called the gauge pressure. Pressure in wound rolls comes from web tension. ...

Web Lines: Would You Like Nips with That?

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

March 31, 2011, ... processing that quickly turn into value-subtracting wrinkling machines. Nip-related waste may be your web supplier's fault (excessive bagginess), or your equipment supplier's fault (undersized rollers ...