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Winding: What We Know & What We Don't Kno

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

July 31, 2008, ... we can know the pressures and tensions within our rolls and can modify the models with the real world variables: air, dimensional changes, and profile. The effects of air are fairly well known, including ...

Company Invests in Packaging, Printing, and Coating

(News Eclips)

July 20, 2008, ... It has integrated its purchase of the former Northwest Coatings business and recently closed on its purchase of the pressure-sensitive adhesives and atmospheric-emulsions businesses from Air Products and ...

Start with Security

(Label/Tape)

June 30, 2008, ... in the packaging and label process, the better and more cost-effective the result. Talk to the brand owners and take up the challenges. Develop your markets and opportunities. Mike Fairley is the ...

Letter from the President

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ... considered an “Old Boys Club” decades ago has grown into a prominent association driven by its members and its board of directors. TLMI's volunteers who serve on and chair the association's numerous committees ...

Serving the Environment

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ... converters, suppliers, and end-users as more and more companies have a renewed focus that hasn't been seen in years on the environmental impact of waste and air pollution. The TLMI Environmental Committee ...

Annual Awards Competition

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ... screen/tone-prime) for its best of show entry. The most difficult challenge was that of uncoated stock, which required a fairly heavy laydown of black without closing in the fine type. Using a 200-line ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

May 31, 2008, ... UV LED curing units reportedly provide a shorter single-peak 365nm UV light wavelength and higher outputs in an air-cooled-only lighthead for units delivering up to 4.0W/cm2 peak irradiance. Reported benefits ...

Experience Speaks: Don Earl

(Trends/Management)

May 31, 2008, President of Overnight Labels Inc. Recommending | Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill Management Style | Laissez faire How did you get into the converting President of Overnight Labels Inc. Recommending ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Label/Tape)

April 30, 2008, ... to update medical charts, time of patient visit, drug administration, and also be immediately warned about possible drug interactions prior to drug delivery.” Lawrence Sammeroff, chairman of Frank Sammeroff ...

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 ...