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Sustainability | Fossil-Free Paperboard Mill Within Reach

(Trends/Management)

September 01, 2014, ... which is Invercote extrusion coated with a thin layer of aluminum foil plus PE on top of the foil,” explained Anna Adler, who is in charge of the project for Market Communications at Iggesund Paperboard. ...

Sung An Machinery Wins Award of Excellence

(Coating/Laminating)

August 04, 2014, ... extrusion, and gravure printing equipment, has been awarded the APEX 2014 Award of Excellence in the category of Technical & Technology Writing for its work on a "Coating and Laminating Machine User Guide." ...

Show Preview | Labelexpo Americas 2014 Enhances Focus on Package Printing

(Label/Tape)

August 04, 2014, ...  Davis-Standard (Booth 1041) will display the Global Advantage of its Liquid Coating Group. The company will discuss its new curtain slide coater, five-roll silicone coater, and the dsX Flex-Pack extrusion ...

Davis-Standard to Show Capabilities at Labelexpo

(Coating/Laminating)

July 21, 2014, A new curtain slide coater, a five-roll silicone coater, and the dsX flex-pack extrusion coating line will be among the highlights   PAWCATUCK, CT | Davis-Standard will display a new curtain slide ...

NDC Infrared Engineering Merges with Beta LaserMike

(Controls)

July 12, 2014, ... partners." NDC Technologies will offer four key product groups: • Web solutions for the converting, extrusion, calendering, and nonwovens industries, delivering real-time measurement and control of ...

Cosmo Films Strengthens Exports with New SEZ Plant

(Flexpack)

June 09, 2014, ... set up in India. The plant has one BOPP and three extrusion coating lines in order to cater to global demand, which is more skewed toward coating films. The plant also will have a chemical coater and ...

Processing Tips to Prevent Gauge Bands - Part 4

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

May 12, 2014, ... guidelines that are applicable to most extrusion coating lines using modern equipment, processing low density polyethylene (LDPE).  Your equipment or materials may require special conditions not covered ...

Processing Tips to Prevent Gauge Bands - Part 3

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

May 12, 2014, Part 3 of this mini series will discuss proper shutdown procedures to minimize or eliminate gauge bands in extrusion coated and cast film products. Now that we have successfully started up the extruder, ...

Processing Tips to Prevent Gauge Bands - Part 2

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

May 12, 2014, Strategies to eliminate gauge bands in extrusion coating and cast film by using proper operating procedures. Last time I discussed ways to eliminate gauge bands in the extrusion coating process by ...

Processing Tips to Prevent Gauge Bands - Part 1

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

May 08, 2014, ... bane of the extrusion coating converter, and to a lesser extent, cast and blown film producers.  Nothing has changed in this regard. I would say more than 90% of the extrusion coating lines I see (if ...

AIMCAL and SPE Come Together for Tech Conference

(Coating/Laminating)

April 20, 2014, SPE’s FlexPackCon is added to the AIMCAL fall conference, reportedly covering the industry from resins to extrusion to converting and packaging   FORT MILL | The Assn. of International Metallizers, ...

SAM NA Open House

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

April 08, 2014, Hot off the press...SAM NA holds open house at it Phoenix, NY headquarters and Pilot Plant facilities. In a move to position itself as an alternate supplier of extrusion coating, cast film and laminating ...

Gloucester Engineering Creates Two Divisions

(Coating/Laminating)

March 11, 2014, ... OEM Division will concentrate on the company’s line of traditional complete blown film, cast film, foam and sheet extrusion, bagmaking, and extrusion coating systems and equipment.  Laurent Cros has ...

BF Consulting Is In Business

(Coating/Laminating)

March 10, 2014, ... on extrusion coating processes since about 1990. He is willing to assist with processes and product sourcing for extrusion coating and cast film processes, as well as interpretation of polymer characterization ...

Z-Flute Boxes for Kitty Litter are Purr-fect

(Coating/Laminating)

March 08, 2014, ... pouches. The pouches, which are used for long-term storage of automotive electronics and metal parts, are 48-mil PET with 3.7 optical aluminum/92-ga PET with 3.7 optical aluminum/coextrusion of PE/conductive ...

Plastics are Alive and Well in Southeast Asia

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

February 19, 2014, I had the opportunity to do some extrusion training recently in Southeast Asia, and all I can say is that plastics are alive and well there. I taught nearly 70 students over a 2-week period in Thailand, ...

Readers Choice | Top 10 New Products of 2013

(Coating/Laminating)

December 30, 2013, ... Extrusion Coating Line Davis-Standard, Pawcatuck, CT, offers the new dsX flex-pack extrusion coating line said to provide converters and package printers with the capabilities and flexibility needed ...

AIMCAL Offers Online Courses

(Metallizing)

December 02, 2013, ... and Converting • Web Winding: Machines, Mechanics, and Measurements • Web Slitting Technology • Drives in Web Handling (coming soon) • Optimizing Extrusion-Based Lamination and Coating Technology ...

MTi-Polyexe Reduces Downtime, Improves Quality

(News | New Products)

November 03, 2013, ... Goldenrod lightweight shafts and chucks in their blown film and extrusion coating production lines. MTi Polyexe Corp. is a leading producer of specialty traction, weather-resistant, and protective films; ...

Nordson Introduces Polymer Processing Systems Group

(Flexpack News)

October 28, 2013, ... dispensing, and giving shape to plastics. As the result of a series of strategic acquisitions, company now manufactures precision melt stream components starting with the screws and barrels for extrusion ...