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Gauge Meets MID Certification

(Controls)

April 30, 2011, The LS9000 Series of gauges is said to produce highly accurate non-contact length and speed measurements. Coupled with a DataPro controller, the system The LS9000 Series of gauges is said to produce highly ...

TLMI Announces Eugene Singer Award Winners

(Label/Tape News)

March 31, 2011, ... management measured and defined by an established set of growth and profitability ratios through the participation in the TLMI Management Ratio Study. The Singer Award is given annually to four narrow ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2011, ... Analytics, Greensboro, NC, for its SpecMetrix Systems coating thickness and film weight measurement technology. SpecMetrix serves as an optical interference technology to combine state-of-the-art optics, ...

INFO*FLEX Show Preview: Full Speed Ahead

(Flexography)

March 31, 2011, ... of Technology Reproducibility of Active Anilox Volume Measurement Methods — Daniel Reilly, Flint Group Flexo Printing with Ultra-Thin Plates (0.030 in.) — P.J. Fronczkiewicz, Flint Group Flexographic ...

Henkel, Nordmeccanica Host Scrap Reduction Workshop

(Adhesives)

March 27, 2011, ... measurement, analysis, improvement and control. “For the supervisors, operators and decision-makers who run flexible packaging operations, scrap is a big issue,” says Perkins. “Henkel’s philosophy is ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Coating/Laminating)

March 17, 2011, ... Technology of the Year Award is Sensory Analytics, Greensboro, NC, for its SpecMetrix Systems coating thickness and film weight measurement technology (12). SpecMetrix serves as an optical interference ...

Color Control Brings Business to 3C

(Print)

February 28, 2011, ... and transition process for an aspirin company and its various brands. The aspirin company's goal was to reach a uniform look across its full product line and to apply the same level of precise measurement ...

Checking a Security Breach

(Print)

February 28, 2011, ... pursuit of our commitments,” Gloger says. “While this incident is unfortunate, we are taking every measure possible to ensure the high degree of brand security that our vendors have come to expect when ...

Improve Coating Process Control

(Thickness Gauging)

February 28, 2011, ... thickness as low as 0.5 microns. Can monitor multiple layers of coating (including UV and adhesives) simultaneously on or across a web at up to 20 measurements/sec. System helps manufacturers identify ...

Apply Thin Coatings

(Web Handling)

February 28, 2011, Coating rolls have as little as 1 micron TIR, allowing them to apply very thin coatings. Most coating rolls are also company's ThermEx heat transfer rolls, Coating rolls have as little as 1 micron TIR, ...

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 ...