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Dancer Controller

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October 25, 2007, Montalvo Corp. announces its D-3400 dancer controller GORHAM, ME | Montalvo Corp. announces its D-3400 dancer controller, featuring range expander capabilities, web break detection, inertia compensation, ...

Support Your Rollers

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August 31, 2007, How should a roller be supported or attached to your equipment? To answer this question, let’s review your roller support needs and your options to meet these needs. Web Lines Most of us like to feel ...

Paper Roll Handling: What's Right For You

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May 30, 2007, With the potential to improve productivity, worker safety, and the bottom line dramatically, paper roll handling automation is making its way into many operations. A variety of material handling options ...

Rules of the Roll

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April 30, 2007, Industrial roll handling is a complex science. It requires equipment designers and installers to understand the best way to wind or unwind and transport Industrial roll handling is a complex science. It ...

Idler Rolls Shipped in 48 Hours

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February 26, 2007, Webex's emergency roll service delivers precision idler rolls within 48 hours, helping OEMs to complete converting machinery orders, or converters and printers to get process lines up and running again. ...

How to Drive a Winding Roll

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November 30, 2006, What is the best way to drive a winding roll? You have three choices: from the surface, from the center, or both. Web Lines What is the best way to drive a winding roll? You have three choices: from ...

Unwind Tension Controller

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November 14, 2006, Montalvos X-3400 unwind tension controller optimizes the combination of analog and digital features and reportedly provides accurate, readable tension control on all web processing machinery. PRESS RELEASE ...

Anilox Roll Book Available

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November 12, 2006, Joseph P. Trungale announced that he has obtained the last remaining inventory of the book titled "The Anilox Roll--Heart of the Flexo Press." PRESS RELEASE GENEVA, IL—Joseph P. Trungale announced that ...

Dancer Rollers: Trust but verify

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October 31, 2006, In last month’s tension quiz, I gave out five points if your process had a calibrated tension transducer roller. Those of you with dancer rollers might have wondered why you didn’t get any points. Why ...

Roll Stand System

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October 24, 2006, The pre-engineered XP Express roll stand system from Davis-Standard is equipped for the full range of sheet and packaging applications, including capabilities for laminating, solution coating, auxiliary ...

Web Spreading and Roll Handling Presentations

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October 17, 2006, ... Web Spreading," and his recently published roll handling white paper. PRESS RELEASE WIND GAP, PA—During CEMA's November 14-15, 2006, Slitting & Rewinding Seminars, Jeff DAmour, Converter Accessory Corp.' ...

Automatic Roll Change

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August 14, 2006, Web Exclusive Large converting machines may have as many as two or more unwinds besides the rewind. In such a machine, the operator will be kept quite busy just changing rolls, if operator intervention ...

Harper Donates Anilox Rolls

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June 24, 2006, Harper Corp. of America has donated four Platinum XLT anilox rolls to Centro de Investigacion Grafica Juan Gutenberg, a nonprofit education institution. PRESS RELEASE CHARLOTTE, NC—Global anilox supplier ...

Ready to Roll

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April 29, 2006, Inventive materials are serving challenging applications in both wide and narrow web markets. What's new for your product line? New Materials DocuCheck Ghost artificial watermark ...

The Pressure of Winding Rolls

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April 26, 2006, Too much pressure inside a roll means more wound roll problems. Too little pressure inside a roll has its own negative effects. Worse still is having both high and low internal pressure occuring at the ...

Deflecting Nip Roller Problems?

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March 30, 2006, What causes nip roller deflection? How can you compensate for nip roller deflection? Web Lines X ’em out! Nipped rollers are vital to many web processes, including coating, laminating, embossing, calendaring, ...

Harper Donates Anilox Rolls

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January 18, 2006, Harper Corp. of America has donated five Platinum XVR anilox rolls to Kewaunee High School in Kewaunee, WI. PRESS RELEASE CHARLOTTE, NC—Harper Corp. of America has donated five Platinum XVR anilox rolls ...

Converting Rx: Bowed Roller Dosage

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November 29, 2005, Last month we picked up our prescription for bowed roller and read the instructions and warning label. But what's in that bottle? How do we know we have the right dosage of bowed roller? Let's combine a ...

Converting Rx for Bowed Rollers

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October 30, 2005, At the top of my list of converting controlled substances: bowed rollers. Let’s read the “Directions for Use” fine print on the bowed roller bottle. Web Lines In pharmaceuticals, certain drugs are controlled ...

Concave Rollers Pros & Cons

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June 29, 2005, Got some nasty wrinkles on a roller? Some tape here, some tape there—wrinkles be gone. Adding tape collars or bands to a cylindrical roller just under each of the web’s edges turns a cylindrical roller ...