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Picking Up the Pace

(Web Handling)

December 31, 2007, ... to speed. “In reality, we are driven by the machine builders,” explains Paul Smith, VP of FMS, a German-based manufacturer of closed-loop control systems for web tension and web guiding equipment. “We ...

Products

(New Products)

December 31, 2007, ... and easily. System is offered in web widths from 5-120 in. and runs at speeds to 2,000 fpm. Said to be effective in the most basic web-driven score cutting as well as the most advanced, external drive ...

Two-Roll Heated Laminator with Unwind/Rewind

(Archive)

November 25, 2007, ... has a cantilevered air shaft driven by an AC flux vector drive following the laminator drive speed reference. The rewind will accommodate a maximum 600 mm wide trimmed web up to 700 mm diameter. Rewind ...

New Products, Part 2

(Archive)

November 06, 2007, ... belt. Suited to running the smallest orders; variable chase can take different cutting die sizes, said to assure maximum flexibility. Menu-driven touch screen makes machine comfortable to operate, company ...

The place

(Magazine)

October 31, 2007, ... continuous flow, rod displacement pump driven by PLC controlled DC servo motors. The systems have wide ranging dispensing parameters. This paper discusses the comparative advantages of an LDP design, control ...

SHEAR Strategy

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2007, ...  The Venus II also includes an AC servo-driven brake, ultrasonic sensor-based web guiding system, and splicing table. An external trim extraction unit supplied by SOMA reportedly is able to handle a ...

Ready for Change

(Magazine)

September 30, 2007, ... next press, like many new presses on the market, will be servo driven. Does this technology in a press carry over to automatic splicing? Not necessarily, says Gintzler president Frank Nice. “Quite frankly, ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT

(Magazine)

September 30, 2007, ... equipment or part of a new line. Unwinds can be center braked, center driven, or surface driven. Company says precise tension control is achieved with a tension roll or dancer roll system. Retroflex | ...

News Clips

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... less than 2,000 had logged on to the scorecard by the meeting date. The sustainable packaging initiative in general is being driven by the triple bottom line: social, economic, and environment, reported ...

Track & Trace

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, ... mass-retail-market, fast-moving consumer goods at individual item level. This is still a number of years in the future. The downward evolution of unit cost of RFID labels will be driven by a succession ...

New Products

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... martinautomatic.com The MDR (magnetic driven roller) system is for handling light webs at lower tension levels and higher operating speeds. Technology can be applied to both web transport systems and ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Magazine)

June 29, 2007, ... cigarette packaging, and label printing markets, for both wide and narrow web applications. “With Nilpeter China as our partners, we can better meet the specific needs of the quality-driven Chinese ...

Driving R&D

(Magazine)

June 29, 2007, Improvements in web processing are driven by the need to reduce manufacturing costs and boost product quality. Playing a key role in many of these improvements are advances in web handling technology, ...

A Developing Story

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... we're not just a coating company anymore.” “We are very customer driven,” adds business development manager Mike Bierowicz. “Every construction that we put together began with a request of some kind. ...

Converter Clips

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, ... and detergent markets also are expected to see increases in plastic packaging. Robust growth in plastic is expected for single-serving plastic milk bottles, driven by conversion from half-pint gable-top ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ... is completely servo-driven and prints at speeds to 1,000 fpm. Features an in-line printhead design said to provide stability and high printing reproduction. Advanced sleeve technology is used on both the ...

Narrow Web What's Ne

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ... FPC multi-substrate press is completely servo-driven and prints at speeds to 1,000 fpm. Features an in-line printhead design said to provide stability and high printing reproduction. Advanced sleeve technology ...

Shrink Film Folding

(Archive)

December 27, 2006, ... shaftless, driven unwind. The web on leaving the unwind section enters and floats over the air-lubricated A-frame folder, where the film is flat, folded into a double ply web. The folded web now enters ...

How to Drive a Winding Roll

(Web Lines)

November 30, 2006, ... roll’s surface via a driven roller (or belt). Surface winding dominates the paper industry but is less common in the rest of the converting industry. How do you choose between center and surface winding? ...

Converting Industry News

(Archive)

September 17, 2006, ... to $4 billion in 2010, reports The Freedonia Group. Advances will be driven by specialized packaging applications in the electronic, medical, and other industries, as well as growing Internet-based sales. ...