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December 31, 2000, ... allow the addition of coating capabilities and simple integration into production lines. Electronic speed pacing, following, or ratioing available. Coating rolls are independently driven with digital servo ...

Printer Helps Customers Manage Printing Needs

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December 31, 2000, ... just-in-time." Investing in High-Speed Technology Wallace recognized early on that growth in its core forms/label business was being driven by the computer age. To stay ahead of the e-commerce wave, ...

Controlling Your Web from Beginning to End, Part II

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December 31, 2000, ... around the load cell roll for accurate tension sensing. It is important to note that the roller between the sensor roll and the rewind roll must be an idler roll and not a driven roll, or the sensor roll ...

A Glossary of Descriptive TermsThird Installment

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November 30, 2000, ...  Idler rolls : Rolls that are driven only by the surface friction of the running web. Ions : Molecules of any material that have an electrical charge. The molecules of the material have either gained ...

Products

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November 30, 2000, ... Can be used with unwind brakes (pneumatic or electric); unwind motor; surface winder; clutch winder; center winder with taper tension; and for intermediate tension requirements (between motor-driven nips). ...

Controlling Your Web from Beginning to End

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November 30, 2000, ... as an aid to help you choose which web tension sensor/brake system best fits your unwind stand needs and your budget. I prefer the driven unwind with either DC or AC flux vector motors to the passive brake ...

Polyester Film Sourcing: Tips to Improve the Bottom Line

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November 30, 2000, ... film is used. For example, to say you need a polyester film for coating is like saying you need a vehicle for driving. The best polyester film to use is application-driven by the specific end use. Many ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ... management system for data recording, automatic menu-driven press settings, self-diagnostics, and modem connection to the BHS service center. The customer's request to have two backside colors was met ...

What's New in Narrow We

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October 31, 2000, ... PE, Mylar, vinyl, PP, and tamper-evident label stock. Servo-Driven Press Runs Many Thicknesses Propheteer Intl., Palatine, IL; 847/359-8988; propheteerintl.com In-line, servo-driven press runs materials ...

Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... Launches NextPak CHICAGO, IL, USA—Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. has launched NextPak, a business-to-business company focused on providing brand-driven packaging and supply-chain solutions to Internet ...

A Glossary of Descriptive TermsSecond Installment

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September 30, 2000, ... easily when an incentive presents itself. Thus, significant static charge can occur on a dielectric material, especially one that is running over rolls in a coating and drying process. Driven rolls ...

Bringing Together the Many Benefits of Film and Paper

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September 30, 2000, ... to achieve color-to-color registration to within 100 microns. The press also is fitted with what is reported to be the first DC-driven turning bar employed on this style of machine, allowing film up ...

A Glossary of Terms to Help Avoid Failure to Communicate

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August 31, 2000, ... supplied by the film web when the bowed roll is not driven by another means. Caliper variation: Thickness variation from point to point in the web. These variations may be orientated so that the thicker ...

Materials and Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... and reduction of static electricity. Unwind Stand Is AC Vector Driven RG Engineering, Virginia Beach, VA; 757/463-3045; 800/621-3484 rgengineering.com AC vector driven unwind stand is said to eliminate ...

Press Adds Flexibility of Film to Paper Operation

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June 30, 2000, ... by repeat runs. "We put everything on this press that is available in technology today to allow us to run as thin a film as possible, including very low-inertia rollers and driven idler rollers so there' ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ...  colors; when you have a central drive shaft, all stations are driven by that shaft. This means you can't pre-set for the next run. With individual sectional drives on each color station, you can. For example ...

Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application

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April 30, 2000, ... 6.0 hp. While the brakes are used primarily on unwind applications, electromagnetic clutches are typically used on small rewinders, which require constant web tension on rolls that are being driven ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, ... nylon, PVDC [polyvinylidene chloride], EVOH [ethylene vinyl alcohol], and metallized films. But the consumer demand to have fresher, more flavorful, higher quality foods has driven the demand for more ...

Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority

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January 31, 2000, ... changes 30 times in one hour through the 21 installed Clestra hepafilters. They are all fan driven, and each one pumps 600 cfm of air into the room. Midwest Cleanroom constructed the room for Autotype. ...

Finding a simple solution to a shocking problem

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March 31, 1998, ... as it's being converted, especially if it's being laminated onto something else." For a customer-driven company, this was an unacceptable situation. Favorite Plastics already had a static control system ...