Static Beat: When To Use Static Blowers
Static charge on a film can cause a variety of problems, including attracting dust, generating sparks that can reset machine control logic or ignite flammable...
Static Beat: The Best Places for Static Bars
Static bars are highly effective in controlling static charge in film production, coating, and converting operations. To achieve good static control performance,...
How Static Bars Work
Static charge must be reduced on many new film products. The surfaces of multilayered webs formed by coextrusion, lamination, or coating are designed...
Static, Be Gone!
Static charge accumulates on the surface of PE, PP, or PET films as they run through a coating, lamination, or converting process. Static charge also...
Dissipating Static
Static becomes worse in the winter when the humidity decreases. What measurements are important to track static? Relative humidity (RH) is at the top...
How To Prevent Winter Static
Static becomes worse in the winter when the humidity decreases. Now is the time to do important preventive maintenance, when an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure....
How To Prevent Unwinding Roll Static
The master roll arrived at your receiving dock right on time. Now, you have the material to complete the job for that important customer. Along with the...
How To Prevent Winding Roll Sparks
Our goal is to produce and ship product with no static charge. Zero. Zip. None. Achieving this goal is difficult and costly. Realistically, we need to keep static levels low enough so our customers order more of our stuff. ...
Film Charge Causes Winding Static
Valuable product is delivered to customers in wound rolls. Unfortunately, the wound rolls often contain product defects, dust particles, and static charge. To satisfy their customers, manufacturers work hard to eliminate defects, dust, and static. ...
Stop Tribocharging Your Products
The cheapest and most reliable way to solve a static problem is to stop it before it starts. Prevention is the best cure. Most static problems start with tribocharging between two different materials that touch and separate. ...
Static Specified
Static performance should be specified and designed into new equipment, and it should be a deliverable when developing a new product....
Adchem Uses Static Control String to Eliminate Contamination
Here are some of the concerns faced by converters and suppliers that handle substrates converted on high-speed webs: Personal Safety An electrostatic...
String is Clean
Static has been an ever-present problem for converters across virtually all market segments since the invention of the high-speed web press. But depending...
Spot Less
There are several web cleaning technologies available for various converting applications, including static elimination, simple vacuum, multimodal, contact...
Shocks Can Be Deadly
An earlier column in this space on static elimination resulted in a response from a reader that is very illuminating. Following are summaries of the five main points from that response. This information shared by a reader should scare you....
Static Elimination Revisited
The February column on static elimination inspired a reader to share some experiences he had on this "shocking" subject....
What Static Can Do is Shocking
Why is static electricity a concern to converters of moving webs? It can cause four problems....
Static is Gone, Price is Right
As with any successful operation, there are challenges to meet and overcome. One such challenge Bison Bag has faced over the years is getting static electricity under control on several of its machines, especially some of the older bag machines....
Mastering RFID, Part 1
This article analyzes existing ESD control standards and interprets them for RFID label converting. In addition, available static control methods in RFID converting are examined along with a case study for static control on an RFID tag insertion module for a narrow-web press. ...
Mastering RFID, Part 2
This second of a two-part series covers development of an ESD protection program....
The Stats on Static Control
When I was a kid, my father proved himself a powerful wizard when he magically stuck a balloon to the wall just by rubbing it on his head. Of course,...
Zapping Static
Battling static buildup in its slitting process, one nonwovens converter gets results with Simco's static elimination systems....
System Keeps Static Buildup Problems Under Control
"It's not a good idea to stick your hand in the mouth of a growling dog." Yet, says Dave Shanks, senior process engineer at Avery Dennison's Lowell, IN,...
Static electricity can be a very costly problem
Static electricity is described as a nonflowing electrical charge that builds up on nonconductive or ungrounded conductive materials. The most common...
Finding a simple solution to a shocking problem
Static electricity was causing big problems for Favorite Plastics. The solution - a Tantec system - was only a phone call away.Favorite Plastics, a Brooklyn,...
