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Web Lines | The Case for Shorter (and Longer) Acceleration Times

(Slit)

February 04, 2014, ... and coating variations. Wrinkling also can occur in the changes from high to low tension as the Poisson’s effect alters the web width from narrow to wide. Web handling expert Tim Walker, president ...

Slitting/Rewinding | Trim Loss as Low as 3%

(Slit)

March 14, 2012, ... in tight tolerances and narrow width slitting, began in 1947 by slitting the then-fashionable metallic yarns in widths down to 0.0156 in. At that time, its in-house manufacturing required only a few notes ...

Web Handling | Russian Converter Growing Fast

(Flexography)

January 08, 2012, ... industry. In ten years, staff numbers have increased beyond 200, and the company, which is the only one in Russia to utilize the narrow and mid-web inline flexo process, now converts more than 350 tons ...

Slitting/Rewinding: Converplast To Add Two Titan Models

(News | New Products)

December 07, 2011, Expansion will provide high quality products and operating efficiency for flexible packaging converter. Atlas Converting (UK) will install two additional Titan ER610 compact slitters to Converplast ...

Slit to Narrow Widths

(Slit)

May 31, 2011, The T428 two-drum surface winder can slit and rewind most papers, nonwovens, and boards to narrow widths. Maximum speed is 2,500 fpm; web width is 72 The T428 two-drum surface winder can slit and rewind ...

Web Lines: Q&A on Roller Deflection

(Web Handling)

October 31, 2010, ... the roller to resist deflection | Larger diameter, tiffer materials, thicker cylinder walls, narrower widths. Optimize your process to reduce the effects of deflection | Avoid long rising vertical ...

Web Lines: Do You Need an Auto Web Guide?

(Web Guiding)

May 31, 2010, ... the price of 100 automatic web guides is cost-prohibitive. Luckily, when you have 100 webs, they usually are also easy to guide. The opposite of the hard-to-guide web — a web that is narrow, flexible, ...

Extreme Slitting

(Slit Main)

May 31, 2009, The ability to slit very narrow widths is all in a day's work for Metlon Corp., which converts finished rolls in widths as small as 0.0078 in. As the executive VP of Metlon Corp., Wayne Etchells certainly ...

Web Tension 101

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... which is a function of tension and web guiding. When tension is too high, webs will stretch in the machine direction and compress in the cross machine direction. This narrowing of the web width can ...

Slitting Debris: Cracking the Case

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... and equipment downtime. When you slit your product, you use knives to concentrate stress mechanically, breaking the web along a narrow line. The product splits when a crack forms. When the stress is ...

Shear Slitting Can Provide Advantages

(Archive)

July 30, 2004, ... all rolls since changes in web speed, due to undriven roll inertias, will tend to distort the web and affect the quality of the rewound rolls. This is particularly true when narrow webs of light plastic ...

Stripe Slitting: The Challenge of Staying within the Lines

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... same line constraint applies to slitting web products. Slitting a homogenous wide material into narrower rolls is relatively easy. However, slitting material with lines or stripes, where the stripe-to-slit ...

Web Handling...Making a Slitter/Winder Upgrade Work for You

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, ... web tension does not work, because the web neck-in forces will narrow the flat sections of the web, and the baggy lanes will turn into machine direction (MD) wrinkles. Sometimes it is possible to remove ...

Controlling Your Web from Beginning to End, Part II

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, ... today is slit into narrow width rolls for final processing. Because narrow width production usually involves multiple rolls that are being wound on the same mandrel, there are special issues involved with ...

ETI: Pioneering Innovation in Label Manufacturing

(Coating/Laminating)

February 12, 2024, ... this new era and experience the independence to create all kinds of labels seamlessly from start to finish, unlocking unparalleled freedom in label creation. Narrow- and Mid-Web Coating and Converting ...

Planning, Labs and Trials

(Coating/Laminating)

May 30, 2023, ... The whole effort can include: A particular substrate at a certain width and thickness. It could require a slitting company that handles narrow webs or diameters. Sometimes the trial provider has this ...

Planning, Labs and Trials

(Converting Perspectives)

May 15, 2023, ... specification. The whole effort can include: A particular substrate at a certain width and thickness. It could require a slitting company that handles narrow webs or diameters. Sometimes the trial ...

BP Solutions Moves Into Digital Labels with Mark Andy

(News | New Products)

April 18, 2023, ... and with its 77 ft/min running speed, the DPro 3 is a good all-round production tool. “It proved an eye-opener for us in many ways, coming from sheet fed offset to narrow web flexo and digital combined, ...

Quality Control Equals Margin Control

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

February 26, 2023, ... of the defect within a roll. When it comes to narrow web applications and the exacting regulatory requirements of the pharmaceutical, currency and security spaces, additional quality safeguards are required. ...

Metlon Corporation — Maintaining its Edge in the Converting Industry

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

February 06, 2023, Metlon Corporation has occupied a unique niche in the converting industry. Metlon Corporation has occupied a unique niche in the converting industry. They provide precision, narrow width slitting ...