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Bringing Together the Many Benefits of Film and Paper

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... three 60-mm grooved feed throat extruders with the latest variable lead barrier screw technology, Wilson-North says. He adds that a dual-lip air ring is incorporated immediately after the 200-mm, three-layer ...

Eastern European Converter Continues Pioneering Ways

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... line at the Svit plant. A total of nine film slitters slit both BOPP and CPP film to the required customer dimensions. LDPE film production is handled by four extruders, including two new Varex blown ...

On-Line Purchasing Saves Time, Money, and Space

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... plastic bags. She explains, "This plant has 14 bag machines, five extruders, and four printing presses, so I buy a lot of stuff. If I'm out of my office for half an hour, there'll be 36 voice messages for ...

Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... after roll." One of the space-saving features Glenn appreciates is the 90-deg turn in the very short adapter carrying the melt from the 80 mm, 30:1 air-cooled Contracool extruder to the die. This enables ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... we need to replace our rolls, and that can mean up to four hours of missed production time." The Black Clawson Model 400 water-cooled extruders sit on an x-y-z carriage base, which enables in-and-out, ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, ... to ISMA's portfolio of laminates. Adjacent to ISMA's printing and laminating department are the extrusion facilities, featuring five extruders: two from Dolci (Milan, Italy), two from Ciola, and one from ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

(Magazine)

December 31, 1999, ... located in Votorantim (S.P.) and Natal (R.N.), contains the most modern extruders, thermoformers, and printers and produces plastic packaging for margarine, drinks, ice cream, and food service applications. ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

(Archive)

December 31, 1999, ... is adding a Graceland Engineering hole detector to the line. "We've had some issues with holes in the paper," says Nowak. "Our thinking has always been if a hole went through our extruder, it would break ...

Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.

(Magazine)

November 30, 1996, ... interface. The PC3000 controls the extruder and die temperatures, monitors melt pressures, and provides an interface to the drive system. Precise temperature control of the barrel and die zones is achieved ...

EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.

(Magazine)

October 31, 1996, ... and other workers who have the power to translate it into educated decisions and real process improvements. Partners in the DfE Flexography Project include: California Film Extruders and Converters ...

Bagmaking machines adapt to conquer new markets.

(Magazine)

July 31, 1996, ... but one thing hasn't changed: the continuous demand for ever-increasing line speeds. "Today, extruders are producing film at 300 to 350 feet per minute," says Baier, "and everybody wants bagmaking machines ...

Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need

(Magazine)

June 30, 1996, ...  The Yellow Jacket lines are supplied complete, including extruders, reconfigurable feedblock combining adaptor, flexible lip flat die, cast film takeoff with chill roll, air/vacuum knife, edge pinning, ...

Handling hazardous materials: are you up to date?

(Magazine)

May 31, 1996, ... preparations for a press or laminator. Male employees wearing dangling neckties frequently bent next to the nip rollers of an extruder that was running at 500 fpm. Other instances that come to mind include ...

KAPCO hits grand slam in pursuing custom markets

(Magazine)

November 30, 1995, ... adhesive flow from the coater extruder head is determined by the adhesive pressure applied by the adhesive supply unit pump, and the thickness and width are determined by the pattern insert located in ...

Die-cutting developments continue unabated.

(Magazine)

September 30, 1995, ... high speed, we can build machines that run at 800 feet per minute. On the other hand, an extruder will need something much slower, and we can build a machine that operates as slowly as three feet per minute. ...

Converting capabilities grow in Caribbean nations.

(Magazine)

September 30, 1995, ... -laminated PE and oriented polypropylene products. Ultima Poly Extruders also extrudes, prints and laminates PE and PP in Barbados. The Dominican Republic (pop. 8 MM) has a flex-pack industry estimated ...

Bagmaking operation refuses to stand still

(Magazine)

September 30, 1995, ... 50-lb. bags of resin went down an elevator to where the extruders were in the basement, and the film came up a stairwell. When the operation moved into a new building in the early 60s, Shields wanted to ...

Czech converter pursues new free-market direction

(Magazine)

August 31, 1995, ... plant has two BHS (Germany) flexographic presses and three rotogravure presses (Polytype from Switzerland and Techma from Italy). There is one Techna (Italy) extruder and two Polytype and Techna dry-bond ...

Consider film cores when analyzing costs.

(Magazine)

July 31, 1995, ... and polyvinyl chloride film extruder for a wide range of industries, has examined its purchasing and manufacturing processes to find ways to reduce total system costs and improve productivity. One key ...

Adapting flexible system in trim-recovery operations.

(Magazine)

July 31, 1995, ... River's New Castle, DE, plant was to increase line speed and recover more trim for reprocessing on Line 42, a 175-in. Egan five-layer coextruder. As an unexpected bonus, other benefits accrued, including ...