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How Much Misalignment Is Trouble?

(Web Handling)

December 31, 2008, ...  In aluminum foil, elongation from tension is lower yet, 0.01%. A 2-ft span needs only 5 mils of misalignment to loosen an edge, just 1 mil/ft for a 60-in. wide product. Unless you are running aluminum ...

Sensing Roll Combines Strain Gauge/Tube

(Tension)

December 17, 2008, The TNT-Series web tension sensing roll combines a sensitive strain gauge... The TNT-Series web tension sensing roll combines a sensitive strain gauge with a durable, high performance, lightweight aluminum ...

Reduce & Reuse

(Extrusion Coating)

November 30, 2008, ... aluminum by weight. Developed in Europe by Tetra Pak in the early 1960s, aseptic packaging has been enjoying good growth in North America since its introduction in the early 1980s. Aseptic containers ...

Web Exclusive: Slitting Film

(Archive)

November 11, 2008, ... for the development of radically new plastic film is slight; rather developments are expected to take the form of new combinations, particularly through the process of co-extrusion. Combinations with aluminum ...

Compostable and Biodegradeable Packaging

(News Eclips)

October 09, 2008, ... are printed using water-based inks. The outside layer of the colorful package is transparent cellulose, and the inside film layer is made of cellulose with one side coated with metallized aluminum that ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Narrow Web)

September 30, 2008, ... is manufacturing D/W 351, a PTFE-coated foil that combines a thin layer of PTFE with 0.005-in.-thick aluminum foil. The aluminum is coated on the other side with a p-s silicone adhesive for what is said ...

New Product Digest

(New Products)

August 31, 2008, ... coupled with a durable, high performance, lightweight aluminum tube to produce an integrated sensing roll. Company says roll fits virtually any application and features flexible mounting options. Comes ...

Predators Team with Smurfit-Stone to Go Green

(News Eclips)

August 12, 2008, ... our fans recycling at home, work and play.” New for the 2008-09 season, the Sommet Ctr. will be equipped with Smurfit-Stone recycling stations for plastics, paper and aluminum. The arena, and its concession ...

August 2008 PFFC What's New Products: Part tw

(New Products)

July 31, 2008, ... model). It is capable of printing on all customary substrates, including film, aluminum, paper, and paperboard. The smartGPS (Graphic Positioning System) allows instant job startup with no impression- ...

Dirge for a Plastic Bag?

(Editorial)

July 31, 2008, ... their undying support for the latest “Zeitgeist” movement. As you indicated, we investigated 50-year-old landfills, tried to ban plastic bags, wanted to outlaw aluminum cans, tried to outlaw the six-pack ...

Web Exclusive: Are Sleeves Ready for Narrow Web?

(Archive)

July 31, 2008, ... which allows a significant reduction of setup times; • lower costs compared to impression cylinders of steel or aluminum; • abolition of gears or bearing rings, thus doing away with wearing parts; • ...

Idler Roller Bearings: Living the Good Long Life?

(Web Lines)

June 30, 2008, ... loads may come from thermal expansion differences between high thermal expansion of aluminum shells and relative-to-low-expanding steel bearings. Twisting loads are generated from misalignment of the ...

Spear Purchases Precision Printing & Packaging

(News Eclips)

June 15, 2008, CINCINATTI, OH | Spear, a leading global supplier of beverage labels, has purchased the Precision Printing & Packaging (PPPI) unit from Anheuser-Busch Packaging Group, based in St. Louis, MO CINCINATTI, ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ... process. All-aluminum honeycomb core allows for maximum airflow, and unit is covered with thick top and bottom plates for extra strength. Vacuum motors are said to be maintenance-free and quiet. Graphic ...

Materials/Substrates: Custom Fit

(Substrates)

May 31, 2008, ... Metallized white film is said to offer economic and performance benefits compared with thin aluminum foil and sealant laminations. Employs a two-layer lamination as opposed to the typical three-layer laminate, ...

Rohm and Haas To Exhibit Solvent Free Adhesives at Drupa

(News | New Products)

May 22, 2008, ... structures containing aluminum foil used in the packaging of aggressive foodstuffs. The company's solventless Mor-Free ELM series will also be featured at Drupa as another key environmentally advanced ...

AWA Publishes North American, European Market Studies

(News | New Products)

May 05, 2008, ... North American Market Study 2008 provides full market segmentation of the extrusion coating market in North America and focuses on web materials—papers, boards, films, aluminum foils, and non-wovens—that ...

AWA Publishes North American, European Market Studies

(News | New Products)

May 01, 2008, ... market segmentation of the extrusion coating market in North America and focuses on web materials—papers, boards, films, aluminum foils, and non-wovens—that are polymer extrusion coated or laminated.  Data ...

Riding the Technology Wave

(Label/Tape)

April 30, 2008, ... environmental impact than returnable bottles and aluminum or tin cans. But to learn more on the European technology trends, see Stan's observations on p42. My friends call me… What do you see as the ...

A Recipe for Scratching

(Web Handling)

April 30, 2008, ... two rubbing surfaces. Change from steel or aluminum rollers to rubber-covered rollers, or wrap the rollers with a softer material such as masking tape, cheesecloth, fabric, or paper. In my experience, ...