Paper, Film & Foil Converter

Web Lines: Displacement vs Steering | Battle of the Web Guides

June 01, 2011, By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor

Tim Walker Addresses Displacement Guides, Known as Offset Pivot Guides, and Steering Guides that Have Differing Uses for Providing Intermediate Corrections of Laterial Web Position

Maxcess China Facility Receives ISO Certification

January 19, 2011

Maxcess, a global leader in innovative products and services for the web handling industry, has announced that its production facility in Zhuhai, China, has achieved certification to the ISO 9001 quality system standard

Web Guiding Interface Is Flexible

December 01, 2010

The Simple Operator Interface (OI-S) for D-MAX Series web guiding systems features a compact design and icon-based interface said to be easy to learn

Compact Display Simplifies Powerful Web Guiding

September 21, 2010

Fife Corp., a leader in web guiding and inspection, unveiled a new simple operator interface for single and dual-drive D-MAX Series Web Guiding Systems at Labelexpo 2010

Laminator Has Web Guide Control

August 01, 2010

A 40-in. laminator for foil features a 24-in. product unwind and an 18-in. adhesive unwind, both with Micro 1000 electronic web guide control systems

Register Guide Cuts Waste

July 01, 2010

The Autotron 2600 with ClearLogi register guidance system is described as an integrated, flexible, cost-efficient tool for minimizing waste and improving

Web Guides Offered

June 01, 2010

Randomizing web guides to distribute gauge bands are offered to 240 in. wide. Custom designs can be added easily to existing lines, company says. Pictured

Web Lines: Do You Need an Auto Web Guide?

June 01, 2010, By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor

Does every web process need an automatic web guide? Maybe two? If I was in sales for a web guide supplier, I would say, Of course! and How about three?

Force Is Needed to Shift a Web

May 01, 2010, By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor

When your web isn't where you want it to be, you have two choices: You can be happy where it is, or you can try to move it to where you want it. If you

Web Guiding | Lateral Motion Causes

April 01, 2010, By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor

Where is your web? In the machine direction, hopefully, it is continuously running between your upstream and downstream processes. But where is it laterally?

Web Lines: Your Guide to Web Guiding | Part 1

March 01, 2010, By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor

Web guiding done right is easy to forget. The principles of web guiding are well understood. With good decisions in the design phase of a process and

Web Lines: Pitch & Catch Guiding

February 01, 2010, By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor

If you are like me, you find yourself thinking about spring as a way to cope with long winter days. For many, spring means baseball. A good way to combine

Position Web in Small Space

November 01, 2009

The Mantis web positioner features unlimited lateral correction/positioning to 120-in.-wide stable web with no lead-in distance required, using minimal

Roll Alignment Offered

November 01, 2009

The Roll Adjuster alignment tool, said to be easy to set up, is placed on the top of a master roller, drive shaft, or idler, and is held in place by a

Bagmaking Guiding: Air Solution

August 01, 2008, Edited by Claudia Hine, Managing Editor

Productivity runs at a fast pace at privately owned Duro Bag Mfg. Co

Guiding Webs to Customer Satisfaction

May 01, 2008

KANSAS CITY, MO Tension Envelope Corp. manufactures more than 12 billion envelopes a year for customers around the world, so keeping quality high and

Your Guide to the Right Web Guide

April 01, 2008, By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor

Webs are blind they don't know where they are going. With a well-aligned roller, sufficient tension, and good traction, the web has a tendency to track

Web Lines: Thinking About New Equipment?

February 01, 2008, By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor

A new year often brings new budgets and thoughts about new equipment. If you are lucky enough to be handed a project to buy new converting equipment,

Picking Up the Pace

January 01, 2008, By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor

As press manufacturers continue to introduce presses that can run faster in theory but not necessarily in practice it falls to the manufacturers of register

Upgrade the Old, Bring in the New!

September 01, 2006, By Nsenga Byrd Thompson Associate Editor

Noven Pharmaceuticals may not be a household name, but the patented creation of this 500-employee company helped revolutionize the way people receive

Print Quality Sealed!

May 31, 2006, Nsenga Byrd Thompson, Associate Editor

MFM turns to Bell-Mark to improve flexographic printing on its line of weather-resistant materials.

Stretching Boundaries

May 31, 2006, Edited by Claudia Hine, Managing Editor

Known for its prowess in stretching the limits of packaging film development, Cryovac engineers also have stretched web guide technology to support innovative applications.

New Technology Guides Web

September 30, 2005, Deborah Donberg, Associate Managing Editor

The speed and accuracy of new presses have brought all the peripheral components, web guides among them, ahead in technology. Users are demanding more flexibility, more intelligent devices that are easier to use and set up.

Detecting the Edge

March 31, 2005, Andrew Kalnajs, AccuWeb Inc.

Web guides have evolved dramatically since their first appearance on converting lines in the 1930s. Electronic edge detectors and electric motors gradually displaced pneumatics and hydraulics as demand grew for greater accuracy and reliability, and tolerance for leaky hydraulics diminished. The earliest electronic systems were far from perfect—in particular the edge detectors were sensitive to dust and temperature swings—but they were a big improvement over their predecessors

Steering Directions Made Simple

June 30, 2004, Timothy J. Walker TJWalker & Assoc. Inc.

Steering and displacement guides are the two most popular forms of intermediate guiding.

Web Guides Bring Positive Results to Negative Sleeves

October 01, 2001, Claudia Hine, Senior Editor

Crown Photo Systems manufactures film negative sleeves to very tight tolerances. Web-guiding systems from BST Pro Mark are helping to keep the converter on the cutting edge.

Teknek Offering Web Guiding and Cleaning... All in One

August 10, 2001, PFFC Staff

INCHINNAN, SCOTLAND, U.K. The Web Guide Clean Machine (WGCM) enables printers to clean and guide their webs simultaneously. Co. says cleaning and guiding

Controlling Your Web from Beginning to End, Part II

January 01, 2001, William E. Hawkins, Contributing Editor

In Part II of this two-part series, Bill Hawkins continues his analysis of the devices and designs that serve to keep your web under control.

Web-guiding systems are tailored to your applications

June 01, 1996, Mykytiuk, Andrew

There are four proven web-guiding systems available to the converter. The common denominator in each is that the web edge is monitored by a sensor that