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ICE-ing | The Best Part

(Trends/Management)

January 31, 2011, ... coating track has 12 sessions devoted to methods, advancements and innovations, measurement and process control, as well as developments in the growing flexible electronics field. Web handling sessions ...

Technical Report: A Rheology Lesson

(Coating/Laminating)

January 31, 2011, ... information about the polymer if it is so important? You may have heard of a viscometer to measure viscosity. So, guess what? To measure rheology of a polymer, you use a rheometer. The rheometer takes ...

Nonwoven Laminations: Absorb Profit

(Controls)

January 31, 2011, ... medical cleanup, wound dressing, manufacturing, and other operations where absorbency is needed. In the lamination area at the Gelok operation, the company was experiencing inconsistent length measurements ...

Show Preview - Forecast for Orlando: ICE

(Trends/Management)

January 31, 2011, ... In-Process Coating Thickness Measurement Tools: Greg Frisby, Sensory Analytics LLC Robinson, Electrostatic Answers Industry: David LeMaistre, Crafts Technology 10:30-11:00 a.m. Film Inspection: The ...

Web Cleaning: To Contact or Not?

(Web Cleaning)

January 31, 2011, ... contamination to the web. It also can reduce the risk of recontamination caused by static attracting airborne particles from the environment. Handheld static locators can be used to measure the voltage ...

Mocon Installs Permeation Units at High-Altitude Tibetan Lab

(Controls News)

January 10, 2011, ... above sea-level location, represents Mocon’s highest altitude installation. The units will be used to measure package permeation for traditional Tibetan herbal remedies and conventional pharmaceuticals. ...

Optimism Returns

(Trends/Management)

December 31, 2010, ... in Figure 4, valuations for paper and plastic packaging stocks as measured by enterprise value to EBITDA multiples either remained steady or improved in 2010. Higher public company valuations often lead ...

Web Lines: Blow Away Your Roller

(Web Handling)

December 31, 2010, ... web and flip the bottom side up while maintaining the same process center line? How can you unwind and wind horizontally, yet run your process with the web running on end vertically? How can you measure ...

Static Beat: Conductive Antistatic Layers

(Static Elimination)

December 31, 2010, ... static, and the resistivity of the surface layer is easy to measure for quality assurance. The conductive layer also may be an internal layer. Surprisingly, good static performance is achieved even with ...

Rheometer Now Features USB Connectivity

(Controls News)

December 22, 2010, ... features of a rheometer with the yield stress measurement capability of company’s YR-1 Yield Test Rheometer. The company reports that this “all-in-one” tool is the most powerful and versatile value in ...

Sensor Helps Produce Flat Film

(Controls)

November 30, 2010, The FG710S IR optical sensor measures the thickness of clear, filled, voided, and pearlized films with a patented optical design, selection of discrete The FG710S IR optical sensor measures the thickness ...

Green Converting: Recycled Roll Coverings

(Web Handling)

November 30, 2010, ... generations will not know any other way but to use sustainable products. Going forward, I would measure sustainability like I would success: Success is very rarely one defining event but merely the piling ...

Idlers in Heat

(Web Handling)

November 30, 2010, ... web or environment. If you can measure the approximate temperature, you'll have even more specifics to share with your roller original equipment manufacturer (OEM). The OEM then can tell you if special ...

Year Finishes Upbeat

(Trends/Management)

November 30, 2010, ... 23.9%) over 2008. Number of exhibiting companies was 1,835 in 2010 — an increase of 132 companies over 2008. Net square footage of the show measured at 1,054,505 in 2010 — a decline of 29,796 ...

Using Electrostatic Voltmeters

(Static Elimination)

November 30, 2010, ... When using an electrostatic voltmeter to diagnose a static problem, or when selecting a voltmeter for a specific application, three performance measures are important: measurement range, spatial resolution, ...

Static Beat: How To Use Electrostatic Fieldmeters

(Static Elimination)

October 31, 2010, ... problem or when selecting a fieldmeter for a specific application, three performance measures are important: range, spatial resolution, and response time. Range | While the electric field formally ...

Process Troubleshooting

(Coating/Laminating)

October 31, 2010, ... discrete parts to organizational efficiency. The question is: How do you best utilize Six Sigma to reduce web defects? Utilization in the converting industry hinges on applying discrete measures to a ...

Digital Gauge Quick & Easy

(Controls)

October 31, 2010, ... simple to set up and operate. Standard features include tare, peak hold, and max-min readings, as well as user-selectable units of measure and an auto-off timer. Operators can determine where the pressure ...

Web Lines: Q&A on Roller Deflection

(Web Handling)

October 31, 2010, ... bowing, such as a curved axis spreader roller, all cause roller deflection. How is roller deflection measured? Deflection angle caused by gravity is easy to measure with a precision level. For cantilevered ...

Web Lines: Web Length per Roller Revolution=?

(Editorial)

September 30, 2010, ...  Answering this question depends on how sensitive you or your customers (and their lawyers) are to small errors in actual length and how it will be measured. Are you going to measure the web while it ...