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Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... 6.0 hp. While the brakes are used primarily on unwind applications, electromagnetic clutches are typically used on small rewinders, which require constant web tension on rolls that are being driven ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... The plant also has invested $22 million dollars (Canadian) in capital in the last four years. Bonar in Calgary is now the home to two Black Clawson coextrusion coating lines, two Deacro slitter/rewinders, ...

System Keeps Static Buildup Problems Under Control

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, ... team tested a variety of devices to eliminate static electricity on the web and rolls. The team found that, on the rewinders, conventional static control bars did not have the performance range needed ...

Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ... speed on the rewind is 500 fpm. The slitter is equipped with Ashe Converting winders, of which Rupp says, "They're made for a slitter, they're tension-controlled. They do a fantastic job." Autotype has ...

Finding a simple solution to a shocking problem

(Magazine)

March 31, 1998, ... the wind-up stands on its Battenfeld Gloucester extrusion equipment. It seems that operators were getting shocked every time they touched or came too close to the winders. Even worse, customers were beginning ...

Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need

(Magazine)

June 30, 1996, ... a simple thing," he explains. "Now they want that line to be exactly like the larger ones, with air knifes, scrap winders, edge-trimming systems - everything that's used to make precision film. That's because ...

Core selection - the difference between success and failure.

(Magazine)

January 31, 1996, ... diameter rolls; surface-center-drive, single-drum winders; and the elimination of metal pipes and ends. "All of these changes are aimed at increasing productivity for the pressrooms and converters - ...

French plastic bag imports continue to outpace exports.

(Magazine)

January 31, 1995, ... The Torraspapel, Sarriopapel and Inapa installations involved the design and manufacture of systems to serve Jagenberg winders and included the installation of M&Y's space-saving material-discharge units ...