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Coating Tech Institute Offers Slot Die Coating Course

(Coating/Laminating)

March 25, 2014, Topics in the three-day course include fluid coating technology, rheology, coating defects, business, and more   EAU CLAIRE, WI | The Coating Tech Institute is an intensive three-day slot die technology ...

Coating Matters | Under Pressure: The Damage Stress Can Do in Fluid Coating

(Coating Matters)

March 24, 2014, Where does stress come from, and what can it do to a perfectly good coating? If you'd like to hear from Mark Miller's own lips rather than read his column titled, "Coating Matters | Under Pressure: The ...

Defects in Coating

(Coating/Laminating)

March 24, 2014, Fluid coating is only as good as the quality team says it is. Once the fluid hits the substrate many things can happen... Read about how to identify, analyze and remedy coating defects. If you'd like ...

Carestream Tollcoating Expands Services

(Coating/Laminating)

February 23, 2014, Initiatives carried out in 2013 include a new coating assessment lab, more pilot coaters, and an alliance with Polaris Battery Labs   MEDFORD, OR | Carestream Tollcoating, a provider of toll coating ...

Top Five Things To Remember in Fluid Coating

(Coating/Laminating)

February 17, 2014, The development of coating, curing and converting for the fluid industry leads the individual process engineer in the direction of choices within boundaries. Do your operational choices allow for the future? ...

Coating Matters | I'm Done Coating...Now What

(Coating/Laminating)

February 17, 2014, To solve coating issues, you need to have a rudimentary understanding of curing technologies If you'd like to hear from Mark Miller's own lips rather than read his Coating Matters topic, "I'm Done Coating...Now ...

Web Lines | The Case for Shorter (and Longer) Acceleration Times

(Slit)

February 04, 2014, ... and coating variations. Wrinkling also can occur in the changes from high to low tension as the Poisson’s effect alters the web width from narrow to wide. Web handling expert Tim Walker, president ...

Online Courses for Radiation Curing Applications in NY

(EB)

January 29, 2014, ... industry practitioners to reflect current and emerging applications. The three RCP course offerings in Spring 2014 are: Introduction to Polymer Coatings (Feb. 3–April 18) Radiation Curing of Polymer ...

Coating Matters | The 3 Stages of Product Development

(Coating/Laminating)

January 07, 2014, Process development is taking a product concept through 3 stages: lab, pilot, and production If you'd like to hear from Mark Miller's own lips rather than read his Coating Matters topic, "The 3 Stages ...

Coating Matters | Intermittent Coating

(Coating/Laminating)

December 16, 2013, The world has gone patch coating crazy, but we also have to consider the technical challenges If you'd like to hear from Mark Miller's own lips rather than read his Coating Matters topic, "Intermittent ...

AIMCAL Offers Online Courses

(Metallizing)

December 02, 2013, ... and Converting • Web Winding: Machines, Mechanics, and Measurements • Web Slitting Technology • Drives in Web Handling (coming soon) • Optimizing Extrusion-Based Lamination and Coating Technology ...

Label Trends | The Future of Linerless Labels

(Label/Tape)

November 20, 2013, ... AWA Alexander Watson Associates—a global business-to-business market research, publishing, and advisory services company to the specialty packaging, coating, and converting industry—recently released its ...

How to Start-Up a Coating Business

(Mark's Coating Matters)

November 12, 2013, So, you want to run a coating company...  Do you have what it takes to found a start-up? If you'd like to hear from Mark Miller's own lips rather than read his Coating Matters blog post titled, "How to ...

Coating Matters | Hot Melt Coating Technology, Part 2

(Coating/Laminating)

November 11, 2013, In the second of this two-part series on hot melt coating, Mark Miller says the newest technology is not always the best, but the best techniques applied to good technology provide the best product outcomes. ...

Radiant Energy Adds Second Pilot Line

(Coating/Laminating News)

November 05, 2013, New coating line in company’s R&D lab uses powder or web adhesives and runs films, nonwovens, and more   HAWTHORNE, NJ | Radiant Energy Systems has recently added a second pilot line to its research ...

Acucote Adds Thinner Films to BOPP LIne

(Flexpack News)

November 02, 2013, ... mil maintains the same opacity and topcoating as the 2.6 mil. The 2.6 White Vision Gloss is a mid-gloss option between high-gloss and matte finish facestocks. In stock for the variable print market is ...

Release Liner | What’s Next?

(Label/Tape)

October 24, 2013, ... new Ultra Low Platinum Advantage release coatings on its Acti-V glassine and SCK release papers. The coating “offers a competitive formulation, plus high-speed performance, for price-sensitive bulk roll-label ...

K-Show 2013 & Upcoming Extrusion Coating Seminars

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

October 23, 2013, ... Coating Seminars I will be conducting several seminars in the coming months through Techno Biz in Bangkok.  Three 2-day seminars entitled "EXTRUSION COATING - Principles, Processing & Troubleshooting" ...

Coating Matters | Hot Melt Coating Technology, Part 1

(Coating/Laminating)

October 15, 2013, Thinner, faster, and state of the art describes the direction hot melt adhesive manufacturing companies are headed. As coating corporations work toward increasing margins, getting more out of the capital ...

SAM, NA - A New Player in the USA for Cast Film & Extrusion Coating Equipment

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

October 10, 2013, ... structures, as well as modular priming, coating and casting stations.  They are using a Nordson/EDI coextrusion adapter to achieve various coex structures as well as an EDI edge bead reduction die.  It ...