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Taming Plastics

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... react readily to heat or don’t react to heat at all; allow air to pass through them or actually prevent bullets from passing through them. You get the picture. So how do you cut, crease, and perforate ...

RFID: Beyond the Mandate

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, Today’s challenge for the converting executive is to build a business case and strategy around meeting customer requirements for automatic identification of inventory and allied assets using radio frequency ...

Film Opens New Markets

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... attachment to relatively expensive parts and components, such as foil or hot-stamped labels imprinted with consecutive serial numbers. In cases such as these, silicone adhesion is especially important, ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... on a Heidelberg 102CD six-color, 40-in. offset press and die-cuts them on a Bobst die-cutter. According to Steve Warneke, despite Forte’s thickness, it requires no additional set-up time and performs ...

E-Clips Top 10

(Magazine)

January 30, 2005, ... by a two-motor AC vector drive system, machine features full touch screen control and option to add video inspection. Die-Cut in Small Footprint TTARP Industries; Buffalo, NY; 716/894-5613; ttarp.com ...

Aniline printing - 100 Years Later

(Flexpack)

November 29, 2004, ... - has been able to cut costs over the years. The result: It is no longer automatic that flexo printing is a cheaper process for a given job. You need to do your homework and price it carefully. Worldwide, ...

WHAT'S NE

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October 30, 2004, ... dirt and contaminants off of moving webs. Able to slide over existing idler rolls, it is available in rolls 400 in. long or in cut lengths, in a wide range of sizes from 1.5–6 in. dia. Clean Webs, ...

Extrusion Dies

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October 30, 2004, ... 30:1 at line speeds of 2,000 fpm (610 mpm). To increase productivity and cut costs, converters look to run “faster and thinner,” as well as to reduce the loss of coating and substrate material in the form ...

What's New in Narrow We

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September 29, 2004, ...  Gidue S.p.A, Turate, Italy; +39 02 9668181; gidue.com The ATR automatic turret rewinder includes a dancer-operated tension controller, a slitter unit, a “Banana Roller,” a blade-cutting device, and a ...

Better Bagging

(Flexpack)

September 29, 2004, ... each month. Just Bag It Purchasing custom pre-cut poly bags of lengths varying from 24-60 in. was expensive, so Arkwright opted to purchase rolls of poly tubing and manually cut the tubing into desired ...

Lasers Beam

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September 29, 2004, ... cost per watt. Also important has been the development of lasers with an output wavelength of 10.2 microns, which delivers up to a 3x increase in cutting speed for thin biaxially oriented polypropylene ...

Products, Part 2

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September 29, 2004, ... Coat Instruments, TAKK Industries, Valco Cincinnati, and Viptronic. Machinery, Accessories, Services Cut Many Materials Benz Materials Testing Instruments, Providence, RI, USA; 401/331-5650; benztesters.com ...

Aquaflex Introduces Gearless Servo Press at Labelexpo Americas

(Archive)

September 16, 2004, ... gears, clutches, brakes, and lubrication points cuts down on maintenance requirements. The three-axis servo motor design allows operators to control registration, sheet length, and web tension individually ...

Tolerance = Tight

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ... servo drives, supplied by Industrial Belting & Transmission (IBT), has been helpful, particularly in printing consecutive numbers and bar codes and when hot stamping. The company installed its first servo ...

The Signs of Shear Wrinkle

(Magazine)

July 31, 2004, ... '04, p26). Of the many wrinkle causes, shear stress wrinkles are the most studied, due to their widespread waste and the ease of creating them in a lab. Shearing probably creates images of cutting ...

The Digital Edge

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July 31, 2004, ... print jobs, Rock-Tenn's Alliance division took a very long look at digital presses. “We saw a need for quick turnaround [and] small quantity,” explains executive VP Jim Einstein. “We do a lot of smaller-quantity, ...

Products

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July 30, 2004, ... modes — cores, coreless, or sheet stiffened. Accuracy of cut lengths is ±0.1 in. Trim Removal System Upgraded Converter Accessory Corp., Wind Gap, PA; 570/223-9867; handleyourweb.com FoxRunner portable ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Magazine)

July 30, 2004, ... and digital printing. Lampheads are available with arc lengths ranging from 0.8-12 in. Hybrid Screens Cut Moiré Wasatch Computer Technology, Salt Lake City, UT; 801/575-8043, 800/894-1544; wasatchinc.com ...

Products

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, ... of converting and finishing processes, all in-line. Die-Cut, Inline in Single Step Omet, Lecco, Italy; +39 0341 367513; omet.it The Twin-Cut offers in-line die-cutting with variable size for labels ...

New Products for the Converting Industry, PFFC, June 2004

(Magazine)

May 30, 2004, ... Interface. Doctor Blade Cuts Roll Damage Flexo Concepts, Plymouth, MA; 508/830-9606; flexoconcepts.com Company offers a 0.020-in. polyester blade material designed to replace steel containment blades ...