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November 30, 2008, ... and lower waste, company says. Unit is temperature controlled with water circulation into the anilox mandrel and an IR lamp on the blanket cylinder. System is said to be more reactive than an ink key control ...

Who's Driving This Nip

(Web Lines)

November 30, 2008, ... transmitted through your web. When the rubber-turning resistance is high and your product's sensitivity to shear stress is low (such as with thick adhesives or nonwovens), driving the rubber roller is a ...

Sheeter Enhances Productivity

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September 17, 2008, ... offers a dual knife rotary sheeter equipped with productivity enhancement features specifically designed for folding carton operations. The sheeter’s low inertia knife cylinders are said to allow high ...

A Wealth of Accumulators

(Web Lines)

August 31, 2008, ... have an ease of threading feature in which the bottom rollers are able to rise above (and between) the top rollers. This allows a simple manual threading, using the accumulator's motion to create the complicated ...

Web Lines: The Spin on Idler Roller Testing

(Web Lines)

May 31, 2008, ... yields. But not all converters are so lucky. If you have a low-tension process, you can't afford to give up much tension to your idler rollers. If you have rollers where the available traction is marginal, ...

A Recipe for Scratching

(Web Handling)

April 30, 2008, ... Decrease the traction demand with low drag bearing performance, reducing roller inertia, minimizing acceleration rates, and reducing tension differentials across driven rollers. Stress Concentration ...

Get a Grip: Driving Your Web

(Archive)

December 31, 2007, ... follower rollers slip, you lose tension control. As if losing speed and tension control isn't bad enough, slipping rollers of any kind lead to loss of lateral control and scratched webs. Most roll-to-roll ...

Parallel Protocol

(Web Handling)

December 31, 2007, ... software allows the customer to switch the reference roll as desired. As an example, Image 2 displays Roll ‘C’ as the new reference roll and has all the other roll's vertical and horizontal values re-calculated. ...

Differential Winding Limits: Part I

(Web Lines)

October 31, 2007, The purpose of differential winding is to apply a desired torque to two or more rolls winding on a single shaft. Differential winding allows multiple rolls to turn at differing speeds, with each roll free ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

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October 31, 2007, ... roll loading system. All controls are mounted within the equipment, allowing automatic unwinding, splicing, and tension control. Martin Automatic | martinautomatic.com | PFFC-ASAP 310 Little Things ...

AIMCAL Hosts Annual Fall Technical Conference

(Archive)

September 29, 2007, ... builders. Sessions follow the familiar two-track format—one for Coating/Laminating and one for Vacuum Web Coating—except for the opening session each morning and the final six presentations, which are ...

New Products

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... bars fit above or below other machinery and come in both horizontal and vertical configurations. PFFC-ASAP 416 Get Smooth, Uniform Slit Rolls Webco Engineering, Westborough, MA; 508/366-7384; webcoeng.com ...

AIMCAL's Technology/Innovation Winners at CMM 200

(Archive)

May 30, 2007, ... air-gas-ratio valve to insure optimized stoichiometric burner firing rates independent of process volumetric flows. Dienes Corporation (booth #2007) | QUIK-SET Automatic Slitter Positioning System  ...

New Product Digest

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, ... stroboscopic industrial inspection light helps users find defects during printing, converting, slitting, and rewinding paper, film, and foil at full production speeds. Allows personnel to get a close look ...

Leader of the Six-Pack

(Magazine)

February 27, 2007, Seven winners and one “leader of the pack” flaunt their looks and high-tech features in AIMCAL’s annual competition. To view this story as a PDF, click on the link below: AIMCAL Awards A “brewski” ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, ... begins to flow in 30 sec, company says. PFFC-ASAP 401 Pet Food Film is Flexible, Strong Alcan Packaging, Chicago, IL; 773/ 399-8000; alcanpackaging.com Bulldog high-performance pet food packaging ...

Dancer Rollers: Trust but verify

(Web Lines)

October 31, 2006, ... a tension feedback device. It doesn’t rise or fall because the tension is too high or too low. Dancers respond to errors in the speed ratio of the input and output web drives. Besides not telling you ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

September 30, 2006, ... roll are said to provide high print quality and minimize ink use. Peristaltic ink pump provides a continuous flow of ink through a closed loop ink cartridge design, maintaining ink viscosity for extended ...

MarquipWardUnited Wins Control Design 2006 Innovation Award

(Archive)

August 29, 2006, ... plastic and foil, and can cut short sheets as small as 11 inches long. The sheeter includes brushless, high-torque, knife-cylinder motors combined with low-inertia knife cylinders to reach high cutting ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

July 09, 2006, ... die and chill roll, this system allows three modes of mobility. They are vertical (orbital around the chill roll axis), radial (linear position from the chill roll surface), and angle of the air knife ...