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Converting Industry News, Part 1

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November 29, 2004, ... Group, and the sheeter is now known as the Apollo.) The Apollo TSK, installed early in 2004, converts a range of plain and coated paper and board and is said to be especially efficient on small sheet ...

New Product Digest, Part 1

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November 29, 2004, New products from: Rotatek, HCI Converting Equipment Co., Maguire Products, Sterling Toggle, Battenfeld Gloucester Engineering, NexGen Enviro Systems, Pinnacle Converting Equipment, Davis-Standard, Agfa, ...

New Product Digest, Part 2

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November 29, 2004, ... can be used with or without IR heaters and is ideal for coated and uncoated paper and paperboard; Fast-Setting 3030 is suitable for coated and uncoated papers and paperboard, as well as for foil stamping; ...

Vehicle Retention is a Drying Not a Driving Issue

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October 30, 2004, ... operation. During the time the coated web spends after it enters the oven or drying chamber until it exits at the other end, all its water or solvent must be removed. (Note that 100% solids materials that ...

The Gold Standard

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October 30, 2004, ...  This job is produced with 200-line screen registration, which is difficult for four-color printing with no border support. Water-based inks are used. Suppliers include Wausau Coated Products, Arcar, ...

Extrusion Dies

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October 30, 2004, ... material. Longer Lands for Enhanced Control Another way to save on raw material costs and to improve the quality and consistency of coated products is to increase control over coating properties as ...

Coating Rods

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October 30, 2004, ... produced heavyweight coatings at a single pass. Rods coated with Teflon, hard nickel, and titanium nitride prolonged rod life and eliminated quality problems. Heated rods allowed hot melt adhesives to ...

PFFC Worldwide Special Report on Release Liners, part 2

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October 30, 2004, ... industry scientist, Dow Corning Corp., Midland, MI, covers a release coating system with low levels of platinum. Of the nearly 27 billion sq m of release liners and films coated globally each year, more ...

What's New in Narrow We

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September 29, 2004, ... topcoated, conformable product is positioned as a lower-cost alternative for semi-squeeze p-s applications on PE or PP containers. Said to offer high printability with conventional UV and water-based flexo ...

Materials

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September 29, 2004, ... C1S and C2S Gloss Envelope Papers reportedly make graphics stand out. C1S is said to feature excellent bulk and stiffness for improved convertibility and an uncoated surface suitable for four-color printing. ...

Products, Part 1

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September 29, 2004, ... inner shoe. Film “walks” down the blade, pulling tension on the film and reportedly making a better cut. Dimpled Teflon-coated surface allows film to float better with less air volume, company says, preventing ...

St. Paul Coater Ups Release Liner Production after New Coating Line Install

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September 16, 2004, ... 48 gauge (12 micron); the new line will be running: polyester, polypropylene (PP); BOPP; PE (polyethylene); HDPE; LDPE; styrene, paper, and resin-coated paper. Learn more about Rayven at rayven.com. ...

Breakin' Bounds in Barrier Films

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August 30, 2004, ... and blown polyethylene; resin blends to replace coated films; barrier durability of metallized films; and innovative high-barrier coatings such as alumina for clear high barrier. As for the future, ...

Release Liners: Challenges Ahead

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August 30, 2004, ...  facility in Germany has been offering, on a small scale, a patented solution for recycling silicone-coated papers. Research has shown that in Japan, where the environmental legislation is more restrictiv ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

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August 30, 2004, ... one-side-coated and calendered papers for flexible packaging, wet-glue labeling, and self-adhesive. Twelve member companies with 23 manufacturing sites comprise the new association. The group’s main ...

Salem Printing Adds Second Six-Color Roland 300

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July 11, 2004, ...  Explains Kelley, "Tags and labels are very efficient on the 23-in. by 29-in. format. Long runs may justify one-pass black over four-color process plus coating on C1S litho. The pressure-sensitive coated ...

Extreme Makeovers

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June 30, 2004, ... also gave us the opportunity to run and to print coated stock and still dry it at higher speeds.” Color it Beautiful An integral component of Castle Rock's high quality printing has been its long-standing ...

Converting Industry News

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June 29, 2004, ... medium that enables any full-color digital image to be laminated directly to coated stocks from Decorated Paper. The process has three steps: The image is printed in reverse on the Mira-Jet transfer medium ...

Materials

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June 29, 2004, ...  ARclad 9519 is a red, single-faced, repulpable tape for splicing coated and uncoated papers; fine, lightweight, bond, and specialty papers; and paperboard. Said to be ideal for butt splicing, core starting, ...

Release Liner Market Research: AWA Expands Annual Market Overview with End-User Analysis

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June 03, 2004, ... trends; company profiles and value-chain analysis; and a NEW end-user analysis by market segment. States AWA: "European Release Liner Annual Outlook 2004 details silicone-coated papers and films and ...