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Menges Roller Introduces Flame Sprayed Coatings

(Web Handling News)

October 10, 2010, ... a metallic material sprayed on in a molten condition. Coatings are said to give the rollers or parts any one of hundreds of different coating dimensions, including release and non-stick, corrosion resistance, ...

Coating/Laminating: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2010, ... Since materials are a significant part of total manufacturing costs, the real payoff is the lower waste associated with the newer technology. All of Selig's products contain expensive aluminum foil. Not ...

Bobst Group to Present Latest Technologies at K 2010

(Flexpack News)

September 27, 2010, Bobst Group–Business Unit Web-fed will present its latest technologies for printing & converting plastic film and flexible materials at the K 2010 Intl. Plastics Trade Fair in Düsseldorf, Germany DUSSELDORF, ...

Web Lines: Mission-Detect Nip Variations

(First Glance)

August 31, 2010, ... of your shoe size, footprint depth, and compressibility of the ground. A web handling pathologist can estimate nip load from roller material and geometry and by measuring the contact length between nipping ...

Green Converting: Leading the Pack

(Flexography)

August 31, 2010, ... the Rochester Business Journal. Hammer Packaging's recognition focuses on its commitment to recycle, reuse, and reduce all materials, supplies, waste, and energy and to use renewable resources when economically ...

Motion Control: Drives

(Controls)

August 23, 2010, ... The substrate’s physical parameters, especially the desire to reduce material thickness, represented particular challenges to the DTS team. DTS utilized its “QC Mod Cut Series” modular web transport ...

Pressure-Sensitive Coating: Ready & Able

(Label/Tape)

July 31, 2010, ... to quality and customer service has enabled Spinnaker to establish itself as a leader in supplying label converters and its merchant customers with a wide variety of quality label materials. On March ...

Detect Small Objects

(Controls)

July 31, 2010, ... Said to be a good sensing solution in material handling applications, specifically for detecting the leading edges of pallets on palletizers. Also helpful for identifying protruding pallets. Pepperl+Fuchs ...

Slitting/Rewinding: Platinum Packaging Selects Elite Cameron

(Slit News)

July 08, 2010, ... equipped with shear and razor slitting for all types of flexible films (coated PET, coextruded PP, PE, and multilayer laminate materials) as well as many other general packaging materials such as paper. ...

Web Lines: Are You Getting the Shaft?

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

June 30, 2010, ... shaft extending out both sides of the wound roll, the roll can be removed from the machine without contacting the roll of material or using a core wider than the web. Why You Don't Want To Get the Shaft ...

Flexpack: DuPont Honors Innovation

(Flexpack)

May 31, 2010, ... is said to be the industry’s longest-running, independently judged global awards program honoring packaging materials, technology, and service innovations. “This year we focused the DuPont Awards program ...

VW Certifies Laminated Composite

(Coating/Laminating)

May 31, 2010, ...  NORShield AC puts a protective layer on metal surfaces to prevent the packaged material from corroding due to contact with oxygen or water. The product is especially suitable for the temporary protection ...

Slitting Nonwovens: A Slit Decision

(Flexpack)

May 31, 2010, ... critical feature of the production line is its needle punch component, designed specifically to handle the unique thicknesses and combined materials NWS produces. To provide the most uniform and even ...

PennPac Expands with Bobst

(Slit)

May 05, 2010, ... and flexibility its customers need and deserve. PennPac was established in 1995 and processes flexible packaging films destined for printing as well as laminating for flexible packaging materials. PennPac’s ...

Trends in technology

(Coating/Laminating)

April 30, 2010, ... methods Development of fundamental process engineering science concepts, which have been used to improve the design of equipment coating applicators and the behavior of materials during handling and ...

Martin Automatic Introduces Compact Splicer/Rewinder

(Narrow Web)

April 30, 2010, ... automatic roll diameter initiation; or by tail-grabber initiation as the web separates from the core for minimum waste/maximum material usage. The STR automatic turret rewind features an integrated ...

A time to celebrate

(Special Reports)

April 30, 2010, ... formed, it was really about the people who supplied the coated, laminated, and metallized substrates to the flexible packaging converters. That was what the term ‘industrial’ meant back then — the material ...

Splicing/Rewinding: Martin Automatic Introduces Compact Unit

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

April 15, 2010, ... from the core for minimum waste/maximum material usage. “The MBSC is not a cheaper version of our high-performance MBS splicer,” says Gavin Rittmeyer, VP of sales and marketing. “The MBSC and the MBS ...

Packaging Proofs: Athena Graphics Upgrades

(Print)

April 08, 2010, ... be changed in gradation and opacity. The white ink can be tinted to simulate any kind of white ink. These unique features allow the creation of packaging proofs using transparent materials such as PE/PET ...

Measure Static Charge

(Static-Beat)

March 31, 2010, Charges, electrons, and ions cause static problems. When chemically different materials touch and separate, one will have positive charge, and the other Charges, electrons, and ions cause static problems. ...