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You Get What You Pay For, Part 2

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

July 27, 2010, ... a supplier. First and foremost is product quality. The end-user should take a long look at the converter’s lab test equipment, the personnel operating that equipment, the tests that are actually done ...

Industry Is on a Roll

(Trends/Management)

May 31, 2010, ... future of flexo printing; one that significantly reduces operating costs, advances flexo versatility, and offers printers the opportunity to take a major stride toward achieving sustainable operations.” ...

Range of UPM Raflatac Substrates Qualify for Xeikon Label Presses

(News | New Products)

May 05, 2010, ... colors and the fifth station for spot colors as well as opaque white and special security toner. Operating on the QA-I toner, the Xeikon 3300 is FDA-approved for indirect and direct food contact (dry ...

Fischer & Krecke Wins FTA Technical Innovation Award 2010

(News | New Products)

May 02, 2010, ... operating costs, advances flexo versatility, and offers printers the opportunity to take a major stride toward achieving sustainable operations.” Unlike conventional registration and impression setting ...

A future for photovoltaics

(Metallizing)

April 30, 2010, ... of material and surface area, thus reducing the radiant heat loss and achieving the same temperature at lower power. At least one system manufacturer offers an economy operating mode in which various ...

Blown Film: Measuring Melt Temps

(Controls)

February 28, 2010, ... form of capital and operating costs drive the machine configuration to be able to make multiple, high-value products on one machine. Finding the common links or “threads” between dissimilar products and ...

Nonwovens Converting: H1N1 Antidote

(Substrates)

January 31, 2010, ... the world who insist on the best protective clothing for operating theatres where contact, droplet, and airborne transmission of pathogens are a constant risk. Efforts by front-line healthcare organizations ...

Flex-Pack = Opportunity

(Extrusion Coating)

January 31, 2010, ... flexible packaging, with approximately half of them also extrusion coating or laminating. Many are small, but there are between 60 and 70 large suppliers operating in North America, among them Bemis, Rio ...

Technical Report: Thin Coating Challenges

(Coatings)

January 31, 2010, ... technical challenges that must be solved to efficiently coat thin products on a web coating line. The overall coating process, coating methods and operating variables, solution handling, drying, and web ...

2010 Year of Recovery

(Trends/Management)

December 31, 2009, ... the year. However, with the faltering economy came lower input costs and a commensurate boost to operating margins. In addition, packaging producers took a disciplined approach to mill and plant operating ...

QC for Nips

(Controls)

December 31, 2009, ... and tight spaces not accessible to conventional electronic transducers, according to the manufacturer. While recommended for tests in non-operating conditions, the sensor film can be used at temperatures ...

Reduce Blown Film Scrap

(New Products)

December 31, 2009, ... for barrier layer films used to extend shelf life of meat and cheese products or protect medical instruments from contaminants. Reportedly helps users reduce resin and scrap, lower operating costs, and ...

AIMCAL Announces Matteucci Technical Excellence Awards

(News | New Products)

October 21, 2009, ... hands dirty, and operating on a shoestring budget.” Runners up in the Vacuum Web Coating category included (in no particular order) the following: Alberto Argoitia of JDSU-Flex Products Group showed ...

Pulsed LED Lights Suited for Stroboscopic Inspection

(News Eclips)

September 16, 2009, ... rate greater than 15,000 flashes/sec. Costs are said about the same over a 3—5 year operating period, with the cost savings on the LED units being better after that. Operators can spot defects at full ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT

(New Products)

August 31, 2009, ... | 626-939-3856 | www.ndc.com Circle 407 or visit www.freeproductinfo.net/pff EB System Uses Less Energy New EZCure EB is designed on a green platform to reduce operating costs and improve sustainability ...

Pack Expo Co-Locates with CPP and Other Events for Value

(News | New Products)

August 30, 2009, ... due to defective printing, mill splices, telescoped and unevenly tensioned rolls the systems reach operating speeds up to 2500 fpm (762 mpm). Capable of single direction and reversible winding, Doctor ...

Rogers Corp. Expands the E/BAK Product Line

(News Eclips)

August 04, 2009, ... dot gain. Added benefits are said to also include reduced fluting and board crush at increased line speeds. E/bak cushions are designed to lower operating costs by reducing press adjustments and plate ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCTS: July 200

(New Products)

June 30, 2009, ...  current operating conditions to the streamlined conditions that follow trim system installation. Calculated in terms of labor, time, productivity, and product quality are the cost impact of slitter o ...

Contamination Combat

(Web Cleaning)

May 31, 2009, ... A label printer operating a shift pattern, for example, could lose up to two production hours a day and create between 50-100 m of waste material. If dust and dirt is transferred directly onto a flexo ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCTS: June 200

(New Products)

May 31, 2009, ... Wider Operating Window Single and double-sided in-line coaters for films provide reproducible perfect coating profiles in MDO and TDO direction. A wider operation window in regard to different web speed, ...