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Enhancing Battery Production with Advanced Cleaning and Static Control

(News | New Products)

June 24, 2024, ... react with battery materials, forming corrosive compounds that degrade performance. To prevent moisture contamination, especially during mixing and coating stages, rigorous control is necessary. Preventing ...

Faustel – Battery Energy and Fuel Cell Market Q&A

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June 24, 2024, ... fuel cell, and battery separator production equipment solutions, with over 65 years of experience in precision coating, laminating, and winding machinery.  Flexible designs with modular components are ...

Expansion of On-Site Service in the U.S. and Canada

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June 14, 2024, ... professional in the setup of Flexographic, Rotogravure and Coating equipment. Having previous career at Jagenberg, where he worked on paper converting equipment. Followed by Windmoller and Holscher Group, ...

Flint Group’s 2030 carbon reduction targets approved by SBTi

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June 10, 2024, Flint Group, a leading company in ink and coating solutions for the printing and packaging sectors, is pleased to announce that its 2030 carbon reduction targets have been approved by the Science Based ...

New Era Converting Machinery President Bob Pasquale Elected President of the Association for Roll-to-Roll Converters

(News | New Products)

May 30, 2024, ... metallizing, printing, coating and laminating industry.  Its members elected four officers and six directors at the ARC Summit (April 23–24, 2024; Golden, CO). In addition to Pasquale, the 2024–2025 board ...

ARC Elects Officers, Directors

(News | New Products)

May 29, 2024, ... global non-profit trade association serving the flexible metallizing, printing, coating and laminating industry, elected four officers and six directors at the ARC Summit (April 23–24, 2024; Golden, CO). ...

Surface Treatment: The Importance of Getting it Right

(Surface Prep)

May 19, 2024, ... and maybe a lacquer coating before it becomes the end-product in its finished form. There is normally a time delay between each of these processes — sometimes short, sometimes long, but whichever it is, ...

Drupa Cube to Feature More than 50 Sessions Global Economist Opens High-profile Program

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May 12, 2024, ... at Sun Chemical, and Alina Marm, Head of Global Sustainability & Circular Economy at Siegwerk, will discuss the crucial role of inks and coatings for recyclable packaging. Trends and Forces: Business ...

Static Gets Worse at Higher Line Speeds: Keys Toward Maintaining Good Static Control

(Surface Prep)

May 12, 2024, ... (e.g., coated with a water-based coating that retains some water), Ken Clum, my former colleague at the Eastman Kodak Company, found that line speed and the static charge distribution interact as illustrated ...

Excelitas Technologies to Showcase UV Curing and Disinfection Innovations at the 2024 RadTech UV+EB Technology and Conference

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May 07, 2024, ... and grand format digital printing systems. It is also ideal for many large single pass UV inkjet and wood coating applications. Noblelight NNiLight Lamp: Due to its higher UVC output and lower maintenance ...

Surface Tension and Wettability

(Surface Prep)

May 01, 2024, ... principles for achieving quality production in converting processes. Whether involved in film extrusion, coating, laminating, printing or metallizing, converters must understand these factors to ensure ...

Understanding Anilox Scoring: Causes, Effects, and Prevention

(Equipment/Machines - Printing)

May 01, 2024, ... where an actual gouge is present. These lines cannot be reversed, necessitating recoating of the anilox roll. Plug lines, however, can often be addressed through thorough cleaning before considering recoating. ...

SOMA set to showcase the Optima2 10-color flagship flexo press during drupa 2024

(News | New Products)

April 30, 2024, ... flexo printing presses, enables single-pass operations that dramatically increase the efficiency of package print production. This includes the application of various barrier or functional coatings, as ...

Why Cleaning is a Must in the Flexo Industry

(Equipment/Machines - Printing)

April 28, 2024, ... down to room temperature first. In the event of a damaged anilox roller coating, the cleaning agent may penetrate the metal parts, resulting in corrosion or blisters. Laser is the newest cleaning technology ...

Web Guide 101

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

April 24, 2024, ... Ideal for aligning webs before intermediate processes such as coating applications, positive displacement guides offer precise alignment and instant make-ready capabilities. They are also particularly ...

Sandon Global to bring anilox excellence and technical know-how to drupa 2024

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April 21, 2024, ... scorelines, tricky coating applications, excess anilox inventories and pinholing. These alternative engravings promise greater precision, quality, and consistency compared to standard 60° cell designs, ...

Innovation in Extrusion Barriers Can Reduce Brand Owners’ Dependence on Plastic

(Coating/Laminating)

April 17, 2024, ... set to play key roles in paving the way for a more circular packaging industry in the next decade. Extrusion coating technology applied to fiber-based materials has made significant strides in recent ...

Tension: The First Thing We Must Get Right

(Coating/Laminating)

April 14, 2024, ... induced troughs may form in open spans. Web breaks may occur during poorly controlled speed changes. High tensions will neck down delicate webs due to Poisson. Proper tension control is critical for coating, ...

Principles of Narrow Web Slitting

(Web Handling)

April 10, 2024, ... are affected by both the material and desired diameter. For example, when I was a marketer in the silicone coating marketplace, we worked with those "slippery" materials, often at less than two-inch cuts, ...

Elite Cameron, Inc. Supplies New Wide Format UV Hot Melt Coater

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April 09, 2024, Elite Cameron, Inc. manufacturer of the Elite Cameron range of slitting and rewinding Elite Cameron, Inc. manufacturer of the Elite Cameron range of slitting and rewinding, coating and laminating ...