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Introduction to Roll Handling

(Magazine)

April 29, 2005, ... loosely Overhead roll handling devices | Overhead roll handling systems are very common in all types of converting applications. Generally most overhead systems will handle up to 2,000-lb rolls of ...

Double Up!

(Magazine)

April 29, 2005, ... converter. Nonwovens Converting When PFFC first interviewed Tufco Technologies in February 2003, it was at a period of significant growth and investment for the company. Time has not slowed progress ...

Retort Pouch Causes a Stir

(Flexpack)

April 29, 2005, Widely hailed as flexible packaging’s "greatest innovation," the retort pouch finally is shedding its exotic image and rapidly becoming a mainline package on the supermarket shelf. Package Converting  ...

Drawing Conclusions: Part 1

(Magazine)

April 29, 2005, ... ride. What determines draw in converting equipment? In many machines, the draw is a fixed value. The machine designers determine the draw by selecting gear ratios and roller diameters. Many slitter/rewinders ...

New Products

(Magazine)

April 29, 2005, New products from: SKF USA, Independent Machine Co., PCMC, Maxson Automatic, Convertech, PAD Peripheral Advanced Design, Bodine Electronic Co., Nireco America Corp., Zimmer Industries, Ion Industrial, ...

RFID: Emerging Policy Issues

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March 30, 2005, In a previous article we outlined some of the issues surrounding the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) and electronic product code (EPC) technology for the converting industry. As we indicated, ...

Clean Thinking

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March 30, 2005, What is your definition of clean? What people think of as "clean enough" in their home is staggeringly different. Hopefully, your definition for your converting operation is the same as that of your customers. ...

Detecting the Edge

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March 30, 2005, Web guides have evolved dramatically since their first appearance on converting lines in the 1930s. Electronic edge detectors and electric motors gradually displaced pneumatics and hydraulics as demand ...

Communication from the PLACE div. of TAPPI

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March 30, 2005, Providing practical information to the converting and packaging industries. Providing practical information to the converting and packaging industries… EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Seal Integrity In Medical Device ...

A King of Shrink Contender

(Flexpack)

March 30, 2005, ... will take Color Craft to new heights. Many in the label converting business have encountered shrinking profit margins, says Seuss, due in part to increasing material costs. Ironically, he sees shrink ...

SERCOS Organizations Display Servo Interoperability Demo

(Archive)

March 03, 2005, ... is oriented towards the packaging industry, but also is of interest in many other industries, including converting. PRESS RELEASE LAKE IN THE HILLS, IL— The SERCOS interface trade associations demonstrated ...

Notable & Flexible

(Flexpack)

February 27, 2005, For 55 years, the Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards, sponsored by the Flexible Packaging Assn., have honored packaging and converting excellence across a broad range of the flex-pack industry. This ...

Waste Trimmed Away!

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February 27, 2005, As a 30-year veteran of the printing and converting industry, Mike Felitti proudly describes Labels & Systems, his four-year-old narrow web label company, as a "lean, mean printin’ machine." And he’s got ...

Taming Plastics

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February 27, 2005, ... such incredibly diverse (and perverse) materials Converting Plastics Remember the classic scene from the movie "The Graduate," when the new graduate’s uncle provides some career advice by simply whispering ...

New Products

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... Many Features Plastisoft Corp., Toronto, ON, Canada; 905/760-0100; plastisoft.com Tori-Flex version 7 enterprise solution software for the flexible packaging and converting industries provides the ability ...

Rotary Screen Printing's Contribution to RFID, Part

(Archive)

January 30, 2005, ... environmental regulations, one must prevent solvents from entering the atmosphere. Thus the rotary screen drying units on the RFID converting line would include a second chamber to which evaporated solvents ...

Why Tension?

(Magazine)

January 30, 2005, ... more. Web Lines What is the first step of most converting processes? Tensioning the web. When a slitter operator splices in a new jumbo roll, the smart ones will back tension the newly spliced web, ...

E-Clips Top 10

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January 30, 2005, ... one of several materials that support the wood and aid in its final converting. Current maximum roll width is 58-in. usable. The length of each roll is typically 500–700 lineal ft, though rolls can be ...

On the Move...

(Magazine)

January 30, 2005, ... Orion Packaging Systems, Jetrion, Dover Flexo Electronics, and Kurz Transfer Products. People and Places in the Converting Industry At Raflatac, Fletcher, NC, Tapio Kolunsarka is named director, supply ...

How to Gain Ground

(Magazine)

January 30, 2005, ... is a small company whose primary product line is the covering of rollers and sleeves for the printing (mostly flexographic) and converting industries. We are located in east central Wisconsin with many ...