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A Recipe for Scratching

(Web Handling)

April 30, 2008, ... or itself — in the winding or unwinding roll. Do the opposite: If you don't touch the web, you can't scratch it. Eliminate unnecessary rollers. Use air turns or air floatation nozzles in place of rollers. ...

Guiding Webs to Customer Satisfaction

(Narrow Web)

April 30, 2008, ... more than 12 billion envelopes a year for customers around the world, so keeping quality high and customers happy is a big job. Helping with that job are all-air web guides from Coast Controls. The ...

Elegance & Speed

(Label/Tape)

April 30, 2008, ... Fairfield, NJ: Logotech, a manufacturer of pressure-sensitive labels for health and beauty aids, vitamin/nutraceutical, wine, food, beverage, and industrial markets, and CLP Packaging Solutions, the marketing ...

Emerging Nations

(Flexpack)

April 30, 2008, ... | www.alcan-packaging.com Amcor Flexibles Europe | www.amcor.com Constantia Packaging | www.constantiapackaging.com Clondalkin Group | www.clondalkin-group.com Sealed Air | www.sealedair.com ...

AIMCAL Energizes Business Leaders

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2008, ... to the dilemma we experienced in the late '90s, when clean air initiatives threatened to shut down some converting businesses. The evening event included an awards banquet reception honoring metallized ...

Growing the Label Business

(Label/Tape)

March 31, 2008, ... began with keynote speaker Chuck Martin, chairman and CEO of NFI Research (a management research firm in Madbury, NH). He identified 12 cognitive functions: “executive skills” that everyone possesses that ...

What's New Product

(Magazine)

March 31, 2008, ... film lines. Technologies are available to fit the film and film line, including capacitance (contact and noncontact) and noncontact air cushion gap. Segmented air rings and segmented plates below the existing ...

Debating China's Effect on the Environmen

(Green Converting)

February 29, 2008, ... the Belfer Ctr. for Science and Intl. Affairs at Harvard Univ. Following are some highlights: Schell said the issue isn't whether China's rise will become an environmental catastrophe; it already has. ...

Property Control

(Coating/Laminating)

January 31, 2008, ... application process to be used in order to ensure obtaining defect-free film. If the viscosity is not in the optimum range, defects will result from chatter, ribbing, streaks, and air entrainment. Variations ...

February What's Ne

(Magazine)

January 31, 2008, ...  PFFC-ASAP 332 Coating Line Gives You Control Single-station coating line features three-roll reverse roll or direct gravure and three-zone ovens with controlled air impingement top and bottom. Each ...

February Products

(Magazine)

January 31, 2008, ... or conventional cold foil printing. Amagic Foils | 215-872-3982 | www.amagicholo.com PFFC-ASAP 401 Chuck Is Air-Operated Safety chuck features pneumatic open/close operation. Available in flange ...

Roll Winding Dynamics

(Web Handling)

January 31, 2008, ... bad enough, but in reality there are many more. For instance, the non-porous nature of films allows for easy entrapment of air between wrap layers and between web and rollers. The seemingly smooth nature ...

Products

(New Products)

December 31, 2007, ... 402 Air Knife Is Quiet, Precise The 48-in. Super Air Knife for blowoff, drying, and cooling applications provides wide surface coverage, offering an efficient way to clean webs or conveyors. Sound ...

Differential Winding Limits: Part II

(Magazine)

November 30, 2007, ... receives torque as a function of width. Most radially loading differential shafts are slip-core or core-locking. Both designs adjust air pressure within the shaft to radially pushing out on slipping ...

New Converting Products, Part 3

(Magazine)

November 30, 2007, ... accuracy and speed, company says. RheoSense | 925-866-3801 | www.rheosense.com PFFC-ASAP 420 Shifting Colors Available ChromaFlair ColorShift Glitter is a color-shifting flake that gives coatings, ...

Two-Roll Heated Laminator with Unwind/Rewind

(Archive)

November 25, 2007, ... roll. The six-station unwind section accommodates 270 mm-650 mm wide x 600 mm diameter rolls mounted on cantilevered air shafts. Individual unwind tension is controlled through an ultrasonic diameter measurement ...

Redesigned DSD Units

(Archive)

November 13, 2007, ... cfm and pressure to 217 psig, the new DSD series compressors are designed for efficiency, reliability, and minimal maintenance. The DSD units feature optimized Sigma Profile airend, patent-pending Sigma ...

Differential Winding Limits: Part I

(Web Lines)

October 31, 2007, ... differential shafts have their torque regulated by air pressure, either the air pressure that pushes laterally on a stack of slipping cores and locked spacers or that pushes radially from an internal bladder ...

A Paradise of Print

(Tapes)

October 31, 2007, ... (TLMI), Naperville, IL, announced the winners of its 2007 Awards Competition October 23 during the annual meeting at the Fairmont Orchid resort on Hawaii’s Big Island. Of the 81 total awards presented, ...

New Products, Part 1

(Magazine)

October 31, 2007, ... or air gap between the printed web and the surface of the chill roll. Increased contact between the web and chill rolls also eliminates web drift or weave after web comes out of the dryer and helps ink ...