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Darwin Would Approve

(Unprinted Rolls)

January 30, 2004, ... market. We can coat aqueous and solvent formulations in either direct, reverse, or offset gravure modes and our flotation ovens, with independent top and bottom side heating, assure controlled drying and ...

Materials

(Magazine)

January 30, 2004, ... 15%. Wet or Dry Laminate Cold Foil Amagic Holographics, Irvine, CA; 215/234-8344; gocold.com KOLDfoil MX is available in silver, blue, red, green, and three hues of gold. Can be used for wet lamination ...

Products

(Magazine)

January 30, 2004, ... heat-generating IR energy for effective UV drying across a range of printing applications and substrates. The lamphead's four-segment reflector design directs UV light around the lamp body, said to increase ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... was introduced, both inter-station dryers and overhead ovens had been required in order to dry flexo inks adequately, McGovern noted. McGovern stressed it is the ability of the inks to trap over printed ...

Converting Less Ordinary

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... lamps (EL), and thin, flexible batteries, with the former two technologies printed on a unique, custom-built, five-dryer screen press. The one-color, five-dryer, proprietary screen press is housed separately ...

Products and Materials

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... pharmaceuticals, dry and wet snacks, dessert/fruit cups, and industrial-sized applications. Coated Films Are Resealable FLEXcon Co., Spencer, MA; 508/885-8200; flexcon.com Designed for resealable ...

Omet Celebrates 40 Years

(Magazine)

November 30, 2003, ... for quick changeovers (PFFC witnessed a complete changeover in just under 5 min) and can use UV, water-based, or solvent-based inks with a combination also possible of hot air, UV, or IR drying units. ...

Sniffing Out the Sources of Packaging Odors

(Materials)

November 29, 2003, ... objectionable odor. Other printing processes — such as lithography — are less suitable, since the inks dry by an oxidative process that produces odoriferous by-products, such as volatile aldehydes.  ...

The Power of Three

(Tapes)

November 29, 2003, ... pacing module are included. Helical gears are featured throughout the press; impression rolls are driven directly by the helical gearboxes, and lineal adjustments are separate from pacing. Each dryer ...

Ko-Pack, Sun Chemical, and ESI Team Up to Demo Cutting-Edge Package Production

(News | New Products)

November 11, 2003, ... WetFlex system] was introduced [last year], both inter-station dryers and overhead ovens had been required in order to dry flexo inks adequately. Says Sun Chemical's Mike McGovern, "The integrated press ...

Doctor Blade Systems: A Cure for What Ails Your Printing Process

(Magazine)

October 31, 2003, ... small blade footprint for better metering, instead of the low contact angles and resultant large blade footprint that contribute to ink drying, score lines, and wear on the flexo anilox rollers and to ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

October 31, 2003, ... custom-built printing presses, wet and dry waxers, laminators, unwinds, rewinds, drying systems, and chamber doctor blade systems, as well as self-contained turnkey installations, consulting, retrofits, ...

Structured for Success

(Unprinted Rolls)

October 31, 2003, ... of a new coating process might start with the selection of the materials to be coated, or even their synthesis, and proceed through mixing, coating, drying, shipping, the customer's end use, and their customer' ...

Products

(Magazine)

October 30, 2003, ... sleeves need to be changed when switching repeat lengths. Units are fully equipped printing towers that can be set continuously to any repeat length between 15 and 30 in. (381 to 762 mm). UV Drying ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... S.p.A held an open house recently to demonstrate its latest high-speed laminator technology. The Duplex Combi with horizontal drying system was tested during the event using both solvent-based and solvent-free ...

Coating Success

(Unprinted Rolls)

September 30, 2003, ... applicator and the dryer. All coating applicators have an optimum set of coating conditions — line speed, viscosity, percent solids, etc. — for defect-free film that results in a solvent load to be removed ...

Meeting the Need

(Materials)

September 30, 2003, ... properties; and require no plant investment for lacquering, drying, and air purification. Easily processable sealant resins reportedly provide cost savings over conventional aluminum/lacquer lid systems. ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 31, 2003, ... modes, will be housed in a 12,000-sq-ft addition currently under construction in Martinsville. MEGTEC Systems will supply the dryer systems as well as the CleanSwitch regenerative thermal oxidizer for ...

Breaking New Ground

(Flexpack)

August 31, 2003, ... press, including multi-substrate capability; excellent registration, fast changeover; and increased drying capability thanks to its Extreme Drying technology. “We came back with what we really wanted ...

Europe: Label's Leade

(Tapes)

August 31, 2003, ... from cold and wet bottles to warm and dry — but also must allow for ease of label removal and bottle washing on the return to breweries. This is different from the majority of beer label applications ...