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Release Liners: A Worldwide Special Report

(Archive)

October 31, 2002, ... as caliper reduction. Success in Today's Business Climate Reardon offers advice to players in the market for release liners in this difficult environment: "To be successful, you need to improve your profitability ...

Five Questions and Answers on Lubrication

(Magazine)

September 30, 2002, ... in wrinkles; thus, lubrication reduces wrinkling sensitivity. Air entrained in winding rolls helps to fill the valleys of crossweb caliper variation. Understanding air lubrication can help you prevent ...

Materials

(Magazine)

June 30, 2002, ... offers eight inserts printed on different weights and calipers of co.'s packaging substrates. Inserts use different process techniques to demonstrate graphics that can be achieved on the substrates, including ...

Coating and Laminating Special Report

(Archive)

February 28, 2002, ... for use in no-label-look applications. Additionally, because of the film’s low caliper, more labels can be incorporated into a given roll diameter to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of a ...

Ahlstrom Starts Up Super Calender

(News | New Products)

January 13, 2002, ... smooth papers with very even caliper characteristics that are critical to the release liner market." Reports Ahlstrom: "The release-liner market is growing annually between five and six percent in Europe ...

MD Wrinkle Formation Causes and Cures

(Magazine)

October 31, 2001, ... boundary air. Rolls wound in a vacuum display MD wrinkles as they are formed. Based on years of winding development and observation, my theory for MD wrinkle formation in light-caliper film webs is ...

European Conference Draws Large Audience

(Magazine)

September 30, 2001, ... and a very sensitive measure of profile variations. The meaning of profile depends upon whom you ask. Perhaps the most common definition is the variation of gauge — caliper or thickness — across the ...

New Sausage Casing Technology Available

(Magazine)

September 30, 2001, ... standard line is capable of producing PVDC casings in calipers of 24-110 mm, which are equivalent to flat tubing of 38-172 mm wide. Typical gauges for casings are about 40µ to 50µ. Capacity of the line ...

Slitting Adhesive-Coated, Low-Strength Films

(Magazine)

September 30, 2001, ... for good operability in a slitter. And, there is a significant caliper increase at the web edges, to the point where trim must be removed prior to rewinding. Because the adhesive presents a problem ...

Slitter Savvy: Visual Roll Defects & Remedies

(Magazine)

July 31, 2001, ...  Keep cross-caliper variation to a minimum. Oscillate before slitting. Provide for proper handling and transporting of rolls. Offsets and Interweaving: Offsets are defined as an abrupt change in the ...

Over-Tensioned Webs and What to Do about Them

(Magazine)

May 31, 2001, ... web caliper near the web edges. If the wrinkle diagonal leads in orientation — i.e., the wrinkle angles toward the wound wraps as the leading edge of the wrinkle is lifted off the roll — then the web edge ...

Web Handling...Making a Slitter/Winder Upgrade Work for You

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, ... at locations where web caliper thickness is greater than the base web. Stack compression is also a function of the volume of entrapped boundary air. Normally, converters spend much effort trying to ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

March 30, 2001, ... from floor level by the braked, shafted unwind stand. The machine will slit and rewind unsupported films to 10-micron caliper and composites of films, paper, and fabrics ranging to 40 microns — all ...

Materials

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... impact and brand identity; also said to provide consistent caliper across the web and high cross-direction tensile strength. PE Films Suited for Splicing Scapa Tapes, Windsor, CT; 860/688-8000; fax: ...

Products

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... to handle plastic materials with caliper variations, allowing the machine to wind in a pure center wind mode at 1,500 fpm. Model 280 now can accommodate rolls to 32 in. in rewind diameter on film product. ...

Controlling Your Web from Beginning to End, Part II

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, ... the slitting and winding that are not involved when winding one roll per mandrel. Some of these issues are listed below: Diameter differences in rolls due to caliper differences in web Nonuniform ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

November 29, 2000, ... heavy-caliper 0.028-in.-thick SBS paperboard sheet especially formulated by GulfStates Paperboard for heat seal forming on this canister. Production speeds are 85-90 containers/min. According to Jerry ...

Customer Satisfaction Begins and Ends with Quality

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... caliper. Starch gel temperature and viscosity are checked and adjusted if needed. "Having these at the correct level allows us to set parameters and machine controls to ensure that the corrugated board ...

A Glossary of Terms to Help Avoid Failure to Communicate

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... supplied by the film web when the bowed roll is not driven by another means. Caliper variation: Thickness variation from point to point in the web. These variations may be orientated so that the thicker ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... line. Current modules are PPS; caliper; opacity; Sheffield and Bendtsen roughness; and Sheffield, Bendtsen, and Gurley porosity. Gloss and brightness modules soon will be introduced. PE Has Low Density, ...