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- A Guide to Selecting the Optimal Water-Based Primer for Extrusion Coating and Extrusion Lamination Applications
- (Surface Prep)
- November 28, 2021, ... via smooth roll, gravure cylinder, Meyer rod, spray coating, or a flexographic printing press. Also, knowing whether the primer will be applied inline or offline may also play a part in your primer selection. ...
- HOW TO: Put Flexibility Into The Manufacturing Process
- (Equipment/Machines - Converting)
- November 23, 2021, ... Its functionality and the speed to execute it are crucial for the repetition rates needed in today’s manufacturing equipment. Operations include: Controlling web tension Printing multiple colors ...
- Q&A Know Your Films!
- (Surface Prep)
- November 21, 2021, ... all plastic film intended for packaging is surface treated at extrusion, but films change over a period of time, and under different storage or transport conditions, and even from roll to roll of the same ...
- HOW TO: Order Your First Spooling Machine
- (Equipment/Machines - Converting)
- November 18, 2021, ... spooler) SP18 (18-head spooler) Maximum parent roll width: 24” (or # of heads times 1.5) Maximum parent roll diameter: Slitting: Shear, score & razor Max mechanical speed: 900 ft/minute Finished ...
- HOW TO: Identify What Perforation Method is Right for Your Application
- (Slit)
- November 16, 2021, There are HOLES in many more places, performing important tasks than most of us realize. There are HOLES in many more places, performing important tasks than most of us realize. Papers, films, foils, ...
- HOW TO: Know When It’s Too Late to Buy QC Equipment
- (Web Handling)
- November 11, 2021, ... equipment with the most sophisticated sensors and controllers to ensure your product is produced with precise accuracy. We also manufacture print and surface inspection equipment, which ensures that the ...
- Rust to Tech : Part I
- (Converting Perspectives)
- October 31, 2021, ... rolls. In recent years, mills have often outsourced the “converting” aspects to manufacturers who specialize in converting. One example was the outsourcing of rewinding-slitting by Georgia-Pacific in ...
- New Digital Label Applications with Xeikon’s Panther 2.0 Series
- (News | New Products)
- October 26, 2021, ... expand their applications portfolio. Xeikon’s new robust substrate handles technology featuring a new splice table, web detection capability and cooled roller at the curing section. This makes it possible ...
- Automated Matrix Waste Removal Systems Permit On-the-Fly Job Changes Without Stopping the Presses
- (News | New Products)
- October 25, 2021, ... Lundberg Tech, Newark, Del. permit on-the-fly changes to the colors, coatings, layout, and other print specifications without stopping the press to manage roll unwinding and matrix waste collection. Designed ...
- Easy Open Application in Flexible Packaging: Snack N’ Seal
- (Flexpack)
- October 24, 2021, ... part of the top has two flange-type bits that scroll off to the sides. Those two thin strips of plastic break off as you pull the tab open to reveal the food inside, and you ca not get to the food without ...
- Q&A: NEW ERA
- (Equipment/Machines - Converting)
- October 24, 2021, ... materials in a roll-to-roll fashion. Paul Lembo, executive ...
- Enterprise Print Group Saves Labor and Reduces Waste by up to 75 Percent
- (News | New Products)
- October 24, 2021, ... materials; so, reducing waste and scrap becomes part of the formula for their success. This equipment enables us to minimize waste and the time frame to go from a raw roll of material to a happy customer,” ...
- Web Guides: The Evolution of Monitoring and The Need for Knowledge
- (Web Handling)
- October 17, 2021, When talking to people in the converting industry about web guiding, they will usually refer to web guides as “...we don’t think about them until they fail…” By Pedro P Velasco, Chief Operating Officer at Roll-2-Roll ...
- Rol-Tec Continues to Grow with Completion of Plant Expansion
- (News | New Products)
- October 07, 2021, Rol-Tec, Inc. has completed construction of a 15,700 square foot addition to its Green Bay headquarters where it manufactures rubber covered rollers Rol-Tec, Inc. has completed construction of a 15,700 ...
- Miraclon Announces Winners of the 2021 Global Flexo Innovation Awards
- (News | New Products)
- October 07, 2021, ... winners are based in Latin America, three in Europe, two in North America, and one in the Asia Pacific region. The full roll of honor is as follows: Highest Honors Winners (in alphabetical order) Bosisio ...
- ARMOR and IIMAK Join Forces
- (News | New Products)
- October 06, 2021, ... (Americas, Asia and Europe), and nearly twenty slitting sites. ARMOR purchased IIMAK from its controlling shareholder ACON Investments, L.L.C. (“ACON”). This deal has been conducted with support from ...
- Ranpak Makes Strategic Investment in Creapaper, Innovative German Leader in Environmentally-Sustainable Grasspaper
- (News | New Products)
- October 04, 2021, ... and JS Capital among our shareholders. Nine years ago, I started grasspaper with the vision to slow down the plastic avalanche rolling over our planet and to save trees from becoming toilet paper. Now ...
- Trexel and Bockatech Partner to Increase Benefits and Scope of Foamed Packaging Applications
- (News | New Products)
- October 03, 2021, ... are made by injecting a gas laden melt (typically polypropylene) into a mold quickly at high pressure. The mold is opened almost immediately after filling. Expansion is controlled by skins, formed on the ...
- Non-Contact Laser Gauges Pave the Way for Higher Accuracy Length and Speed Measurements at Converting Plants
- (Slit)
- September 29, 2021, Precision speed and length measurements are critical for controlling manufacturing production costs and improving process control. Precision speed and length measurements are critical for controlling ...
- Flexible Packaging Machinery: Solutions for Change
- (Equipment/Machines - Converting)
- September 15, 2021, ... standup / zipper pouches on-line from pre-printed rollstock. This system will enable packagers to package in-house utilizing economical rollstock as an alternative to more expensive pre-made bags. Spouted ...
