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The Scientific Approach to Coating

(Coating/Laminating)

June 12, 2012, ... material understanding is critical to success. The amount of care applied to understanding each step in the fluid coating process provides a reduction in error to the process overall. Typically process ...

Lesson from drupa 2012: Print Is Healthy

(News | New Products)

June 04, 2012, ... demonstrated that drupa is still the place to be. We reached agreements with key distribution channels, gained leads from all over the world, and secured a considerable amount of business, exceeding our ...

Maguire Hopper Lid Is Patented

(Coating/Laminating)

May 29, 2012, ... Lift, a pneumatically powered system that speeds job or color changes for gravimetric blenders that have been deployed with loaders mounted atop the hopper lid. The system is said to reduce changeover ...

Coating Matters | Discrete Coating Techniques & Equipment

(Coating/Laminating)

May 28, 2012, ... limit the amount of fluid required to produce a sample. Instead of the lack of precision produced by a hand spread, an optimized slot die allows the researcher to have high precision coating with a method ...

Management | Position Your Business to Maximize Value

(Trends/Management)

May 23, 2012, ... amount of taxes and ultimately put more money in their pocket. Again, you cannot control the M&A market, but it is as good as it has been in several years. The increased activity is due in part to an ...

Maxson Sheeter Is for HIPS Line

(News | New Products)

May 14, 2012, ... technology of the sheeter. The cutting section includes knives mounted in an upper and lower rotating cylinders. This cutting action eliminates the skive along the leading and trailing edge on thicknesses ...

DuPont Awards | Packaging that Reduces Food Waste Captures Top Prize

(Carton Box)

May 09, 2012, ... 65% less material to be used. Because 25% more packages can be shipped in the same amount of space as the original package, there is a reduction in transportation costs. This is an outstanding example ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific Offers Benchtop Extruder

(Extrusion Coating)

May 05, 2012, ... To achieve this, the benchtop Process 11 uses a minimal amount of sample material (20 g) and features a user-friendly touchscreen with integrated feeder control. Compact, standalone design is said to ...

NimCor Roll Restorer Keeps Repair in Plant

(News | New Products)

April 29, 2012, Repair crushed or damaged cores on the plant floor with the Roll Restorer from NimCor   NASHUA, NH | The Roll Restorer from NimCor is a mobile tool that repairs damaged or crushed cores on the plant ...

Static Quiz - Winding Roll - Answer

(Kelly on Static)

April 22, 2012, ... web are balanced, the web entering the winding roll has a significant amount of static. Choice A is to move SB1 so that it neutralizes the static on the top surface of the web. With SB1 in this location, ...

Static Beat | Laminators Present Static Challenges

(Coating/Laminating)

April 05, 2012, ... that is, the surface that will be inside after lamination. Static bar SB1 responds to the charge sealed within the laminate by depositing an equal amount of opposite charge on PET Web 1. However, since ...

Rainbow Technology Offers Coating Device

(Coating)

April 03, 2012, Patented Smart Coating Dispenser system offers high-performance and ensures only the optimal amount of coating is used   GLASGOW, SCOTLAND | The Panda Coater unit from Rainbow Technology Systems ...

Trautwein GmbH Invests in Domino's K600

(News | New Products)

April 02, 2012, ... by stitching heads across web machines. Print widths range from 108 mm (4.26 in.) to 782 mm (30.81 in.), with scalability being achieved by mounting print modules across a bar. Having invested in three ...

Experience Speaks | Tom Spina

(Experience Speaks)

April 02, 2012, ... industry is doing a pretty good job of advancing technology from prepress to the factory floor. We spend huge amounts of dollars on capital equipment. However, with the extreme fragmentation in the industry, ...

Carton/Box | Heavyweight SBS Is Ready to Print

(Carton Box)

March 26, 2012, Eliminate the extra mounting step by printing or foil stamping directly on thick SBS board from vertically integrated Lamitech.   With razor thin margins and fierce competition in the industry, converters ...

Flexo Printing | FTA Announces 2012 Award Winners

(Flexpack)

March 19, 2012, ... believes in the need to protect the environment. It strives to prevent pollution by reducing the amount of waste generated by its production cycle. The company raises the awareness of its workforce toward ...

Find Sources of Static Charging

(Kelly on Static)

March 18, 2012, Electrostatic fieldmeters may be used to quantitatively measure the amount of static charge on the web. Electrostatic fieldmeters are often used to make relative measurements. Is static high or low? ...

Aalborg Offers Two Flow Totalizers in One

(Controls)

March 17, 2012, The TIO Totalizer, which can be used as a monitor or a controller, is compact and has several different mount options   ORANGEBURG, NY | The TIO Totalizer from Aalborg converts analog mass flow meters ...

Controller from Davis-Standard Adds Versatility

(Controls)

March 14, 2012, The DS-eVUE mid-range controller replaces the MESA III, offering a solid state hard drive and flexible mounting options   PAWCATUCK, CT | The DS-eVUE mid-range controller from Davis-Standard is said ...

Slitting/Rewinding | Trim Loss as Low as 3%

(Slit)

March 14, 2012, ... Width Slitting Wayne Etchells, executive VP, doesn’t mind talking about the material wasted in a customer’s job. It’s so minimal. Edge loss is integral to every converter’s job but in varying amounts. ...