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Coating Control, Quality, & Paperboard Packaging

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... the quality of the package. The package buyer is looking for performance: a specific gloss level (high, satin, or matte) or a particular coefficient of friction (COF). These are critical surface properties. ...

Need New Equipment or Accessories? NPD Is the Place to Look

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... Offer Quiet Operation Dover Flexo Electronics Inc., Rochester, NH; 603/332-6150;dfe.com Co. now offers patented “anti-squeal” friction pads for its pneumatic dual-disk brakes. Pads are warranted not ...

Every Trick in the Book

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... are actually injection-molded plastic with friction-fit metal lids. “We really haven't seen metallized labels in the paint aisle before,” commented one judge. Ruth Kemp, marketing programs coordinator ...

Metallizer Makes a Winning Wager

(Unprinted Rolls)

February 28, 2002, ... deposition, friction in roller bearings, and hundreds of other bits of information. If it senses an increase in bearing friction, for example, Ei3 alerts us right away and tells us which bearing it is, ...

Shaft Collar Decisions Can Be Momentous

(Magazine)

January 31, 2002, ... overcomes the surface friction between the shaft surface and the inner bore surface of the roll. If the shaft collar set screw isn't tight, or if the collar isn't snug up against the roll flange, slippage ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

December 31, 2001, ...  Enercon Lab Adds Friction/Peel Tester MENOMONEE FALLS, WI, USA—Enercon has added a friction/peel tester to its surface treating laboratory to help customers identify the effects of various levels and ...

Products

(Magazine)

November 30, 2001, ... are said to function at very low web tensions to avoid stretching thin or fragile webs. Web tracking reportedly is eliminated, because it is not moving. Also utilizes an ultra-low-friction, replaceable ...

Enercon's Surface-Treating Lab Adds A"Pee

(News | New Products)

September 30, 2001, Converters in need of surface-treatment information now may be able to get it from Enercon's surface-treating lab. Enercon Industries Corp. says it's added a Friction/Peel Tester to its laboratory to help ...

What's New in Narrow We

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September 30, 2001, ...  Peel/Release/Friction Tester Meets Industry Specs Imass Inc., Accord, MA; 781/982-8096 The TL-2200 peel/release/friction tester covers testing speeds from 6-1,500 in./min. Speed capabilities make ...

K Show Coming Attractions: Goebel Slitter/Rewinder and EREMA Booth Highlights

(News | New Products)

September 20, 2001, ... S&W will demo its Goebel optima 2000 center/surface duplex slitter/rewinder at the international plastics exhibition. With the capability of operating in either center/surface, friction, or pure center-winding ...

The Parts and Performance of WEB CONVECTION DRYERS

(Magazine)

August 31, 2001, ... under each air nozzle to support the web. Frictional drag from the rollers must be considered based on the characteristics of the webs to be processed. Tendency or direct drive methods commonly are employed ...

Belt Tracking Problems Require Careful Attention

(Magazine)

August 31, 2001, ... rollers with 90-180 deg of wrap is critical for good tracking when belts are running under high tension and tracking friction with the belt surface is high. Self-centering rollers, rollers with flat surfaces ...

Web Scratch Solution: Regulate Your Running Rolls

(Magazine)

June 30, 2001, ... between the web and its support surface. The support surface is usually a roller. The most basic scratch solution is to be sure all roll surfaces are running at web speed. Free-turning (low-friction) ...

Over-Tensioned Webs and What to Do about Them

(Magazine)

May 31, 2001, ... in some neckdown of the web width, even though there is high friction between the web and the drum. The neck-in usually occurs in the spans between the take-off point of the last tension isolation roll ...

Pellet Transfer: Preventative Measures Employed to Reduce Streamer Formation

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... and fittings. This sliding action produces frictional heat that can cause the pellet to melt and smear along the walls of the transfer pipe. The melted smear can release from the walls of the pipe creating ...

Web Handling...Making a Slitter/Winder Upgrade Work for You

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, ... sufficient to provide relief volume for storage of entrapped boundary air under smooth surface webs to keep them tracking properly through the machine. Tracking friction is broken when the boundary air ...

Controlling Your Web from Beginning to End, Part II

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, ... to promote good friction with the web, and the texturing should not interfere with web tracking. You should avoid any type of surface texturing on steering rolls that have any type of machine-direction ...

A Glossary of Descriptive TermsThird Installment

(Magazine)

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 ...

Controlling Your Web from Beginning to End

(Magazine)

November 30, 2000, ... than 500 fpm) or whenever a passive brake (friction, magnetic particle, etc.) is used for an unwind application. However, continued developments in rotational position controls for DC and AC flux vector ...

Polyester Film Sourcing: Tips to Improve the Bottom Line

(Magazine)

November 30, 2000, ... factors can influence purchasing the correct polyester film: gauge; width; core size; roll size; clarity level (haze); coefficient of friction (COF); elongation; tensile strength; shrinkage, both machine ...