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Core Cutter a Boon to Independent Tube Company

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... options. Erdie notes that the CM 21 is easy to use: The operator simply stacks several parent tubes on the inclined feed assembly, then presses the cycle start button. One at a time, the cores drop ...

Modifying Adhesives for Superior Performance

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... is its effect on modulus. In a system where high extendibility is critical, a dropoff in adhesion can occur with increasing levels of modifier. This is due to a rather excessive modulus level in the finished ...

Cast Film Dies and Auxiliary Equipment

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... temperature and be heated appropriately to the melt temperature of the polymer they are conveying. To size a melt pipe correctly requires balancing pressure drop and residence time. A longer transfer pipe ...

New Label Press Moves Company to the Next Level

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ...  easy to wash up. You can take a whole cassette out and drop it right in the sink.” As far as new-model glitches, Schultz says there were a few, but as expected, “Mark Andy responded to everything. The ...

Flexible Packaging Committee News

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, ... and a closed package to stay closed even when dropped. The new plastic strip can be on the exterior or interior of a bag. It is inexpensive. The invention involves using one to four pre-curved plastic ...

International Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... growth, the sector recorded a drop of 6.4%. Value of the output for the core machinery business was euro 3.4 billion. The total value of equipment deliveries for plastics and rubber processing (including ...

Presses and People Make a Powerful Combination

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... benefits are reaped when customer rejects are reduced drastically and permanently. "There is a transition," says Valestrino, "but as waste and customer rejects drop to next to nothing, it becomes obvious ...

Anilox Rolls Are Key When Printing Corrugated Board

(Print)

July 31, 2000, ... shape and, consequently, a different ink volume. This influences the print quality. Another factor that influences the print quality is the hydrophobic tendency of the anilox roll, says Da Silva. "The ...

Barrier Layer Protects CDs from Skips and Scratches

(Magazine)

July 31, 2000, ... It kind of acts like a drop of water between two pieces of glass. If you touch it, you wouldn't feel any adhesion to it. It really only sticks very smooth things to each other, which is the polycarbonate ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, Imagine you're a paratrooper. Your mission: to launch yourself out of a plane, drop to the earth, hit the ground running, and go into battle. Sounds risky, Imagine you're a paratrooper. Your mission: to ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...

Curtain Coating Technology Can Mean Big Benefits

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, ... perpendicular relative to the gravity vector. However, it may be advantageous or necessary to drop the curtain onto a web with an uphill or downhill orientation, for example, if the coating machine has ...

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ... in the converting industry. From short-run specialty bags to the season/holiday-changing colorful foil and plastic packaging that encloses chocolate "drops," (hint: Kisses anyone?), converted products are ...

Static electricity can be a very costly problem

(Magazine)

August 31, 1998, ... into a moving roller, fall off a scaffold, or drop a tool into the machine. Less well known but equally or more troublesome are a host of other static-induced problems: poor sheeting and stacking; the ...

Finding a simple solution to a shocking problem

(Magazine)

March 31, 1998, ... bar and the web; any more than that and effectiveness drops dramatically. This can be a major problem, because the diameter of the roll increases as the film is wound. If the static bar is mounted conventionally, ...

Flexible packaging converter treats its customers right.

(Magazine)

October 31, 1996, ... or longer. During that period of time, the dyne level can drop to 35, which is an unacceptable level of treatment. But when the client is ready to run, we cannot afford to wait." That is why the Enercon ...

Label converter controls quality from the inside out

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ... how that would impact the color consistency of our labels for a given customer?" Sweeny also found that some proofing materials could not reliably hold dots in the 3%-5% range. "They'd simply drop out ...

Gravure winners go for gold

(Magazine)

July 31, 1996, ... The package was redesigned to reflect an updated corporate image. Four different black inks combined with a soft backdrop to produce a duotone look, and matte and gloss contrast adds appeal. Engraver: ...

Making Lemonade in the Converting Industry

(Magazine)

June 30, 1996, ... the "net profit for flexible packaging converters dropped to a five-year low of 3.5% in 1995, the smallest profit the industry has recorded since 1988." Perhaps this information could be ignored if it weren' ...

Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need

(Magazine)

June 30, 1996, ... the material becomes more viscous, and output drops dramatically. According to Wheeler, Windmoeller & Hoelscher equipment can convert the revolutionary raw material without change. In fact, says Wheeler, ...