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Flexible Packaging Association 2009 Award Winners

(Flexpack Main)

February 28, 2009, ... Div., Sealed Air Corp., Duncan, SC, has contributed most to the advancement of the flexible packaging industry, according to the judges. By improving the way fresh asparagus is sold in retail stores and ...

What's New Products: March 200

(Magazine)

February 28, 2009, ... Air Shaft Allows Fast Response The Model D5 differential air shaft offers a core-slip design that enables a faster response to slit recipe changes and improves efficiency and accuracy in high-volume operations, ...

Conserve Energy

(Archive)

January 31, 2009, ... configurations: Case 1 | A coating line featuring a three-zone, convection air aqueous dryer. Case 2 | A coating/laminating line featuring a three-zone, solvent convection air dryer. The chart ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

November 30, 2008, Rolls Aid Web Control Idler rolls feature hundreds of precision-machined grooves that allow air to escape from between the roll and web to provide better Rolls Aid Web Control Idler rolls feature hundreds ...

That's Show Business

(Editorial)

November 30, 2008, ... organizers to figure this out, but once they did — oh, boy, the race was on to niche our once fairly cohesive industry into many smaller vertical shows. And the exhibitors all signed up for booths at ...

Aluminum Association Celebrates 75th Anniversary

(News | New Products)

November 05, 2008, ...  Leaders in the industry will speak throughout the day include Alain Belda, Chairman, Alcoa; Stephen Demetriou, chairman and CEO, Aleris International, Martha Brooks, president and COO, Novelis Inc.; ...

Narrow Web & Label

(New Products)

October 31, 2008, ... fine-type reverses, and richer halftones. Tapes feature microchannels in the adhesive that allow air to release and eliminate bubble problems for easier, virtually air-free mounting. 3M | 800-257-0646 ...

Web Coating: Process Characterization

(Coating/Laminating)

October 31, 2008, ...  Process Variables There are three basic data classes to be characterized. Process control variables include line speed, web tension, drying air, dry-bulb temperature, coating solution temperature, ...

Ink Dispensing: Mix to Match

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

October 31, 2008, ... same look and feel for their products around the world. “All these factors have made ink preparation a very complex, precision affair, which can no longer be carried out manually,” says Flavio Campagnola, ...

Bridge the Package Innovation Gap Between InterPack and PACK EXPO

(News | New Products)

October 20, 2008, Packaging professionals seeking to bridge the gap between the technologies and innovations displayed six months ago at the triennial InterPack Fair in Germany WEST CHESTER, PA | Packaging professionals ...

Heidelberg Speedmaster XL Perfector to Debut at Graph Expo 2008

(News | New Products)

October 20, 2008, ... simply entering the sheet size and thickness during the estimating or prepress processes or directly at the press. The press can be pre-set for the amount of blast and suction air in the feeder as well ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Narrow Web)

September 30, 2008, ... commissioned, the new press will have six-color UV ink capability, movable cold foil, delam/relam and turning bar over a rail system, shock air system for window patching, and a two-layer, self-adhesive ...

Door to Door QC

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2008, ... and maintenance repair and operations (MRO) markets. It does so by utilizing an extensive array of equipment at three US facilities. Jessup's 85,000-sq-ft McHenry, IL, facility has 55 employees. It operates ...

Get a Grip

(Narrow Web)

September 30, 2008, ... increases, so does the air pressure in the yoke. Mark Olsen, technical development manager of WCC, recognized there were disadvantages to this system. Operator set-up time is very long, and the company ...

Do You Have a Need for Speed?

(Web Lines)

September 30, 2008, ... web? Air drag may create too much tension drop. Baggy webs may begin to flutter and tear apart like a flag in a hurricane. Entrained air pulled along by the moving web, roller, or winding roll will ...

What's New Product

(Magazine)

September 30, 2008, ... displayed on an analog meter to monitor web tension or used to precisely supply air to the dancer cylinder, allowing preset of actual web tension. The Montalvo Corp. | 800-226-8710 | www.montalvo.com ...

August 2008 PFFC Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Narrow Web)

July 31, 2008, ... Available FAIRFAX, VA The Specialty Graphic Imaging Assn. (SGIA) has released its Financial Outlook Survey, in which a total of 47% of respondents said 2007 was more profitable than 2006. Most of those ...

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 ...

Web Exclusive: Are Sleeves Ready for Narrow Web?

(Archive)

July 31, 2008, ... form sleeves on all machine models. However, the procedure whereby blocks are mounted on a sleeve and then fitted onto an air cylinder outside the machine so that it can be inserted into the printing unit ...

A Golden Opportunity

(Trends/Management)

June 30, 2008, ... welcomed attendees on Sunday with an association update. Chairman Dave Neiman announced that FIRST 4.0 will be available this month. It will be 50% larger, more user friendly, and updated to today's best ...