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Who's Driving This Nip

(Web Lines)

November 30, 2008, ... web to overcome drag from bearings, inertia, and rubber hysteresis, not to mention whether your nips are used as part of a drag-creating process, such as calendering, embossing, or metering viscous fluids. ...

Shifty Answers to Nip-Induced Tracking

(Web Lines)

October 31, 2008, Nipping rollers are used in many value-adding processes in web converting roll coating, laminating, embossing, calendering, high-speed winding, and more. Nipping rollers are used in many value-adding processes ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

February 29, 2008, ... thermal bonding, compacting and squeezing webs, creating composite webs, web pulling or braking, and web calendering. Precision rolls are engineered for temperature-controlled nip applications and are ...

5 Steps to Green

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... is supercalendered paper. Supercalendering is a process in which uncoated paper is run through a series of chrome and fiber rollers to produce a smooth surface appearance closer in feel to that of coated ...

Baggy Webs: Part 4 Minimizing

(Archive)

July 31, 2007, ... you will almost assuredly see wrinkling at all your nipped processes. Nips are needed for many processes, such as coating, laminating, and calendering, but avoid nipped rollers for web handling only. Apply ...

Pilot/Lab/Technical Facilities

(Archive)

October 30, 2006, ... photographic/graphic arts, sanitary/disposables Service: laminating, embossing, calendering Substrates: film, foil, foam, paper, paperboard, nonwovens, tissue Annual Sales: below $20 million No. of ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

August 31, 2006, ... roll for coating, calendering, and laminating applications has mechanical accuracy of 1 µm. Jacket chambers contain a vacuum-sealed thermal medium that results in a uniform surface temperature of ±0.1 ...

New Products, Part 2

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, ... extrusion, nonwovens, calendering, and simple coating applications. Color Server is Efficient Creo Print On-Demand Solutions Group, Billerica, MA; 978/439-7212; creopod.com The Production ...

Pilot/Lab/Technical Facilities

(Magazine)

October 30, 2005, ... laminating, embossing, calendering Substrates: film, foil, foam, paper, paperboard, nonwovens, tissue Annual sales: below $20 million No. of lab employees: 1 Lab calender/embosser operates to widths ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 30, 2005, ...  VA—Klöckner Pentaplast of America is expanding rigid vinyl calendering capacity at its Rural Retreat, VA, manufacturing facility. The company will focus its investment on a film production center fo ...

Klockner Adds Vinyl and Shrink-Label Films Capacity

(Archive)

February 10, 2005, Klockner Pentaplast of America has announced two capacity expansions at its Rural Retreat, VA, manufacturing facility. The first expansion is in its core business of rigid vinyl film calendering, expected ...

On the Move...

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... VA, manufacturing facility. An expansion in the company’s core business of rigid vinyl film calendering is expected to come on-line in July 2005. An expansion of tentering capacity for full-body shrink ...

Products

(Magazine)

November 29, 2003, ... of configuration. Dryer Processes Two Webs at Once Glenro Inc., Paterson, NJ; 973/279-5900; 888/453-6761; glenro.com Electric IR dryer reduces moisture in paper and other material plies prior to calendering. ...

Opportunities in Academia

(Magazine)

November 30, 2002, ... problems associated with calendering processes. Computational activities include applying predictive performance models to printing-press design and diagnostic-tool and procedure development for the ...

Cutting to the Chase

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... capabilities include laminating, slitting, traverse winding, compounding, calendering, and saturating. Chase laminates a wide variety of substrates including plastic films, foils, papers, and fabrics. ...

Black Clawson Garners DuPont Award

(News | New Products)

April 09, 2002, ... Tyvek Homewrap) onto small-diameter cores, directly in-line with their calendering and printing operation, co. reports. "The Black Clawson ATS winder enables us to produce the larger-diameter Tyvek rolls ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

December 31, 2001, ... and development manager. The day included a visit to Dow's Valmet pilot coater, recently upgraded with in-line calendering, as well as a tour of the technology lab, featuring an impressive array of equipment. ...

European Conference Draws Large Audience

(Magazine)

September 30, 2001, ... areas such as roller design; calendering, embossing and laminating; slitting; spreading; winding and unwinding; as well as drive, nip, and draw/tension controls. I will explain the underlying mechanics ...

Cut-to-Register Sheeting Trims Time and Labor Costs

(Magazine)

May 31, 2001, ...  Tools of the Trade Total plant size: 140,000 sq ft Operation: 100 employees/3 shifts Equipment: Sheeting: Maxson Curl control: Thermo Web Systems Embossing/calendering: Verduin Slitting/rewinding: ...

Roll Cleaning Systems: Taking Advantage of Technology

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... the roll, and they want to be able to vary the intervals. All of that can be done inside the PLCs very conveniently." Today's process roll cleaning systems are capable of cleaning many types of rolls—calendering, ...