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Coating Tech Service Presents at AIMCAL Fall Tech Conference

(Coating/Laminating News)

October 13, 2010, ... in all layers of the final product to equilibrium. Coated or laminated paper processes typically require high temperature curing which creates moisture imbalances between the paper substrate and the coating ...

Packaging Paper: Better Days Ahead?

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2010, ... the end-user's specification. Applications that involve uncoated papers of one type or another in fact represent the largest single segment at about 29% of the total packaging paper volume. The next largest ...

Pilot Coaters: Small Volume, Big Advances

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2010, ... benchtop has not changed fundamentally for many decades. Typically a 1-2-sq-ft sheet is coated using a doctor device such as a die, blade, or Mayer rod. The sample then is dried with ambient air on a benchtop, ...

Barrier Films: SiOx Barrier Benefits

(Coatings)

September 30, 2010, ... remains in the amorphous state and stays clear. When SiOx-coated films are produced, the silicon oxide is heated by the electron beam and evaporates as glass vapor. The condensate on the film forms ...

Pulse Names Graymills for Digital UV Varnishes

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

September 23, 2010, ... accept digital inks. The formulations are suited to a wide range of substrates including coated paper, board, coated thermal paper, treated and primed synthetics as well as aluminium foils. “HP Indigo ...

Flexographic Printing: 9 Shine

(Flexography)

June 30, 2010, ... Coated) category. Explains Degree of Difficulty Judge Bob Muma (National Envelope), “The flesh tones were spectacular, especially in light of the fact that the piece carried such large areas of both high ...

Special Report: Pressure-Sensitive Labels-Locked & Loaded

(Print)

June 30, 2010, ... into the label adhesive or coated above or below it. In the label face material (paper or film), a catalog of covert options might include two- or three-dimensional, customer-exclusive watermarks; nylon ...

Measure Battery Coatings Accurately

(Controls)

June 30, 2010, ... or mass of the L-Ion coating. Software accurately computes the coating mass independently of the substrate and excludes the uncoated gaps to provide a reliable control signal to the actuator for process ...

HP Explores Flexpack, Certifies Media Partners

(Yo's Yarns)

June 22, 2010, ... coated papers, films and foils in roll form; Jaime Orozco of Wausau Coated Products, VP Intl. Business Development, addressed p-s products, label materials, and custom coating technologies;Christopher ...

Blade Coatings: Prolong Blade Life

(Slit)

May 31, 2010, ... the sharpening/grinding process. The reduction of these grind lines provides a more uniform and smooth cutting surface, increasing blade life and wear resistance. Because coated slitting blades are ...

Trends in technology

(Coating/Laminating)

April 30, 2010, ... expand in the coming decade. These systems are needed to determine defects rapidly and accurately on the product as it is coated. It is a necessary technology to improve quality and reduce scrap losses. ...

A time to celebrate

(Special Reports)

April 30, 2010, ... formed, it was really about the people who supplied the coated, laminated, and metallized substrates to the flexible packaging converters. That was what the term ‘industrial’ meant back then — the material ...

A future for photovoltaics

(Metallizing)

April 30, 2010, ... years ago, there was a desire for more transparent conducting coated material, but there was a worldwide overcapacity for machines that could produce these coatings. The gap between the words and the reality ...

Narrow Web's Leverag

(Label/Tape)

March 31, 2010, ... paper face on these materials is all semi-gloss quality paper or higher. Line copy and process printing can be achieved. The only exception is sugar pack material, which is an uncoated paper. Pouching ...

Gravure Printing: Print Comes To Life

(Label/Tape)

March 31, 2010, ... Labels/Wraps-Paper-Top Coated Editorial Padilla, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, is an international winner recognized for its Holographic Presidente Light label (also see p34). It features six colors ...

Multipack Juices It Up

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2010, ... KY. A multi-dimensional Northern Lights effect is made possible from holographic material that comprises a laminated Ultracure lacquered Rainbow 80-ga OPP to the coated side of 0.024 SBS using a water-based ...

AIMCAL Awards

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2010, ... the Composipac structure. The 24-pt clay-coated solid unbleached sulfate (CCSUS) carton, designed by Bryan Schuttinger, Concord, NH, is said to eliminate the need for corrugated shippers and thereby ...

Flexible Packaging: Narrow Web's Leverag

(Flexpack)

March 21, 2010, ... is all semi-gloss quality paper or higher. Line copy and process printing can be achieved. The only exception is sugar pack material, which is an uncoated paper. Pouching of these materials will cause ...

Coating & Laminating Special Report Outlines Flex-Pack Market Opportunities

(Special Reports)

March 09, 2010, ... = Opportunity Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Robert H. Hamilton, AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. With nearly 11% of the North American market for extrusion-coated/laminated materials on a weight basis and 21.5% ...

Proof Jobs with White

(New Products)

February 28, 2010, ... flexo and gravure print jobs that require the color white. For use with a broad range of substrates, including inkjet-coated transparent and metallic films, this approach to producing the color white is ...