A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

Published: October 31, 2005

Novel high performance collation shrink films for bundling and multipacks, the influence of small amounts of LDPE on surface roughness and resulting haze of LLDPE blown films, shape up your cast film extrusion process with a contour die, and new printing adhesion improvements using atmostpheric plasma glow discharge technology.

Measuring Force

Published: October 31, 2005

Learn what adhesion is, how it is measured, what a test really measures relative to the true adhesion between two surfaces, how adhesion affects the performance of the final laminated or multilayer product, an ideal adhesion test between two materials, and what the common T-peel adhesion test measure.

Pilot/Lab/Technical Facilities

Published: October 31, 2005

Is there a problem with your process? Fix it! These technical facilities stand ready to help.

Siliconizing: Challenging the Status Quo

Published: October 31, 2005

Optimized coating helps speed change the rules of the game.

Low-Cost Paper Applications

Published: October 31, 2005

Thermally cured silicones are the largest group of silicones, dominating the market with a share of almost 90%. As their name implies, they are cured by heat and use an expensive noble metal catalyst, typically platinum.

Free Trial of Coating Product

Published: October 30, 2005

Craig Adhesives and Coatings has announced a free trial program for its 1077M-3 coating product used by sheetfed offset printers running hybrid inks. (craigadhesives.com)

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

Published: September 30, 2005

Controling of aerosol contamination, heat transfer rolls, what aluminum foil has to do with hot tack in packaging, and thermal process imaging permits a real time view of your extrusion process.

Seafood is Served

Published: September 30, 2005

Covering a wide spectrum of applications from labels to lidding and from packaging to POP displays, today’s new materials deliver problem-solving technology to meet your needs.

Extrusion Coating Evolves

Published: August 31, 2005

The initial investment for extrusion coating equipment is high but could easily be recovered if the line is subject to high-production.

Without Boundaries

Published: August 31, 2005

When custom coater/laminator Lamart Corp. was chosen by NASA to develop a material for use as the “envelope” of an unmanned space vehicle, Philip Faria, manager of process engineering, and Lee Smith, project manager, recalled the philosophy of company founder Walter Hirsh: “To be truly successful, a company has to challenge itself to find the limits of its capabilities and then create processes and equipment to exceed the old boundaries.”

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

Published: August 31, 2005

New terpolymer for Al-based peel lids by extrusion coating of a mono-layer and laminating adhesives state-of-the-art and future Technologies.

Fighting Flaws

Published: August 31, 2005

A standard coating line requires different types of equipment to function effectively to produce a defect-free product. Often the main focus of defect reduction efforts is on the major equipment and on application conditions, dryer conditions, and the web transport system.

AIMCAL Blogs Launch

Published: August 26, 2005

AIMCAL launched four blogs August 1, 2005 covering web coating and laminating, vacuum web coating, web handling and converting, and specialty web coating.

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

Published: July 31, 2005

Calcium carbonates for polyolefin extrusion coating applications, rheology of glass-fiber-filled polypropylene melts, non-invasive oxygen measurement using fluorescence technology and its implacation for active packaging, and using simulations to predict coating characteristics of a slot die system.

Laboring Lean

Published: July 31, 2005

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma…they aren’t just buzzword phrases. Many converters take them very seriously. Among those believers is Dura-Fibre LLC, whose new Operon Systems’ RedHawk turnkey data gathering and analyzing tool is providing newfound manufacturing efficiencies of up to 25% over previous production standards.