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Davis-Standard Offers Flex-Pack Extrusion Coating Line

(Coating/Laminating)

January 06, 2015, ... corona treaters; extrusion laminator; gravure primer coater dryer; pull roll with nip; winder; company’s electrically heated, air-cooled extruder with advanced feedscrew design; downstream, carriage, and ...

Coating Matters | Steam Remoisturizing Technology for Paper-Based Labels, Pt. 1

(Coating/Laminating)

July 21, 2014, ... techniques and providing data to assess these technologies. LOW MOISTURE AND CURL A reduction in the moisture content of coated paper, which occurs during the curing process, can cause downstream production ...

K-1 Packaging Adds Capacity with KBA Press

(News | New Products)

May 21, 2014, ... as we ramp up for our busy season, which typically starts in May,” says Tsai. “The addition of this third press will increase the output of our pressroom. This means that processes upstream and downstream ...

Appleton Mfg. Division Upgrades Core Recycler

(Nonwovens)

July 26, 2013, ... conveyor or elevator for moving waste material to downstream processes • Externally mounted operator control panel. Company says a high level of efficiency is achieved via automation of the slabbing ...

Enfocus Connect 11 Helps Creators Deliver Perfect PDFs

(News | New Products)

June 10, 2013, ... to help automate downstream processes. Secure, completely automatic delivery of PDF or any other file type to (S)FTP, HTTP, email, or directly into an Enfocus Switch automated flow. Connectors created ...

Nordson Rebrands Recent Acquisitions

(Extrusion Coating)

December 18, 2012, ... feedblocks are immediately downstream from Xaloy’s screw, barrel, melt pump, and screen changer offerings on a typical plastic extrusion line,” says Nordson senior VP Peter Lambert. “The connection to ...

RFID Tags | Help Brand Owners Combat Diversion

(Label/Tape)

October 22, 2012, ... approach for downstream trading partners. WS Packaging created a serialization-encoding scheme that consisted of a grandparent, parent, and child RFID tag relationship. The tag on the pallet is known ...

Web Lines | Why Avoid Nips?

(Web Handling)

September 24, 2012, ... edge to center), you will see the nips pull all or portions of your web, leading to shifting, troughing, and possibly wrinkles. Nips also can promote wrinkles immediately downstream of the nip point. ...

Davis-Standard Seminar Will Address Extrusion

(Extrusion Coating)

August 17, 2012, ... and properties of various polymers and the mechanics of essential downstream processes. Seminar topics include extruder components, temperature control, maintenance, and screw design. In addition to ...

Web Lines | Measure Tension Wherever Possible

(Web Handling)

August 13, 2012, ... rollers, the tension differential of upstream and downstream tension rollers will show changes in roller and bearing drag. In either case, this information can be used in a preventive maintenance program ...

Web Lines: Take the Laminator Quiz

(Coating/Laminating)

October 16, 2011, ... and easily viewable? 3 pts. 3. Do you control pre-laminating tensions of input webs to match elastic strains? 10 pts. 4. Do you control downstream tension to a set point nearly equal to the sum of ...

Web Lines: Displacement vs Steering | Battle of the Web Guides

(Web Guiding)

May 31, 2011, ... the steering guide will do what no other guide can — limit the lateral shifting upstream and put the web on centerline downstream. Web handling expert Tim Walker, president of TJWalker+Assoc., has 25 ...

Laser Levels Playing Field

(Die-Cutting)

May 31, 2011, ... carton industry in terms of both processing speed and flexibility. In turn, this puts pressure on downstream finishing processes to deliver compatible speed and automated flexibility. A new generation ...

Web Guiding | Lateral Motion Causes

(Web Lines)

March 31, 2010, Where is your web? In the machine direction, hopefully, it is continuously running between your upstream and downstream processes. But where is it laterally? Where is your web? In the machine direction, ...

Multipack Juices It Up

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2010, ... caused by roller contact and downstream processing. Among immediate suitable applications for the process are packaging, insulation, reflective displays, and flexible electronics; additional future ...

AIMCAL Awards

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2010, ... properties also can be increased as topcoating immediately after metallizing protects the metallized surface from microscratches and defects caused by roller contact and downstream processing. Among ...

Web Lines: Pitch & Catch Guiding

(Web Guiding)

January 31, 2010, ... core. The sensor usually is mounted on an arm that moves with the sidelay platform and detects the web position at the downstream end of the span between the last two fixed rollers. This position isn' ...

Crowning Benefits

(Web Handling: Main)

February 28, 2009, ... an unbalanced pull because of an unequal dwell time of the substrate in the nip. This wrinkling can be made worse by downstream pull rollers that actually pull the web as the uneven nip is holding the ...

Conserve Energy

(Archive)

January 31, 2009, ... monitors for humidity controls. In this case, not only is exhaust volume reduced, but solvent concentrations are increased, resulting in reduced energy requirements for downstream thermal oxidation equipment. ...

Creating e-Pedigrees

(Print)

December 31, 2008, ... by the downstream camera system. A camera system should read the printed codes and grade their clarity. Safeguards typically are built into the camera system to sync with the line controller to sound ...