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- Cast Film Dies and Auxiliary Equipment
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- February 28, 2001, ... adapter or die, the material undergoes spreading and thinning to the desired width and thickness. The goal is to produce a film of uniform gauge or thickness with minimal residual stress and minimal edge ...
- Innovative Problem-Solving: Advances in the Industry
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- January 31, 2001, ... and the light tensions they require. Web tension is maintained by strain gauges with feedback controls. "The data is fed into a CPU that controls everything," says Moody. "It processes the data, and it goes ...
- A Glossary of Descriptive Terms, Fourth Installment
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- December 31, 2000, ... air entrapped and the winding roll hardness. load cell roll: A web guide roll that has strain gauge or other type sensors that sense the amount of force (web tension) that the web is exerting on the roll. ...
- Products
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- December 31, 2000, ... webs, brittle materials, foams, and thick-gauge films. Multiple-core diameters and automatic roll-handling equipment are available; system also can be designed for overmode or undermode winding and can ...
- Impression Rolls: Their Jobs and Their Maintenance
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- November 30, 2000, ... pressure, and this pressure will cause the point to deform the roll. A gauge on the instrument measures the degree of deformation. High deformation equals a soft roll and gives a low reading for hardness. ...
- A Glossary of Descriptive TermsThird Installment
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- November 30, 2000, ... before the process can continue without this defect. Gauge : A common name for transverse-direction (TD) web thickness variation across the width of the web. There is also machine-direction (MD) web ...
- Polyester Film Sourcing: Tips to Improve the Bottom Line
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- 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 ...
- Converting Industry News
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- November 29, 2000, ... is said to produce rollstock with gauge consistency and to eliminate equipment downtime associated with uneven rolls. The precision associated with adhesive lamination also reportedly enables coffee ...
- Products
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- October 31, 2000, ... up to 1,200-line screen without damage. Off-press system cleans rolls in an enclosed chamber and is computer controlled. Gauge Thickness of Sheeted Material Thwing-Albert Instrument Co., Philadelphia, ...
- Digital News for the Converting Industry
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- October 31, 2000, ... web sites and enables print buyers and suppliers to conduct business on-line. The service can be accessed 24 hr/day, 7 days/week. Industry Studies NPES Study Gauges Digital Impact on Litho Presses ...
- Estimating the Drying Rate of Flexo Ink in the Laboratory
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- September 30, 2000, ... NPIRI grind gauge that was developed at the National Printing Ink Research Institute. This gauge is a finely, mechanically engraved tool that has two identical parallel channels, which range from 0-25 ...
- Bringing Together the Many Benefits of Film and Paper
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- September 30, 2000, ... for uniform film thickness and smoothness, with the aim of matching the standards of surface finish and gauge historically achieved in paper manufacture through processes such as calendering. "We are ...
- A Q&A on Remanufactured Equipment: Is It for You?
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- September 30, 2000, ... the old process of printing candy wrappers on wax paper—a pretty stable material—with printing on 38-gauge materials, conversely, pretty unstable. Years ago, printers could have traps that were an 11/48 ...
- What's New in Narrow We
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- August 31, 2000, ... NW narrow web transducer measures process tension on webs from 7-14 in. wide. A cantilevered idler roll with built-in dual-beam strain-gauge sensors, the transducer is available in a variety of load ratings ...
- More New Products for the Converting Industry
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- August 31, 2000, ... ceramics, advanced materials, precision surfaces, and microelectronics. Gauge-capable NT1000 includes a manual X/Y stage, coarse/fine focus, and tip/tilt adjustment with optional multi-objective turret ...
- Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch
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- July 31, 2000, ... freshness. The industry is meeting functional requirements while reducing costs by using thinner gauge materials and increasing processing speeds. Although downgauging will remain an important trend, ...
- Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray
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- April 30, 2000, ... aluminum foil, we can go down to six-gauge micron, which is extremely thin," he notes. Kapak now possesses ten registered trademarks and holds 18 patents, all of which are related to pouch applications. ...
- Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call
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- April 30, 2000, ... operators like working with it much more than older designs." The Optiflow is Apollo's first nonrotating die. Previously, gauge bands were randomized by die rotation. Glenn points to the Traversanip(r ...
- Flexible packaging converter treats its customers right.
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- October 31, 1996, ... to the laminate. "When a heavier product such as cookies is specified, a thicker-gauge metallized film is required. This thicker metallized film necessitates a higher dyne level to assure proper adhesion ...
- Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.
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- October 31, 1996, ... Foods. Founded in 1985, the company has expanded into other food packaging areas as well, utilizing the knowledge of paper and thin-gauge metallized film gained from its microwave popcorn packaging ...
