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- Coating Tech Service Presents at AIMCAL Fall Tech Conference
- (Coating/Laminating News)
- October 13, 2010, ... Based Label Manufacturers.” To remain competitive in today’s marketplace, paper based label manufacturers must be able to produce a stable, flat product. This requires controlling the moisture content ...
- Coating/Laminating: Signed, Sealed, Delivered
- (Coating/Laminating)
- September 30, 2010, ... Faustel's PerfectStart winder auto-splice technology, the elimination of idler rolls in the drying oven, controlled cooling of the sensitive foils after drying, and the improved tension control made possible ...
- Pilot Coaters: Small Volume, Big Advances
- (Coating/Laminating)
- September 30, 2010, ... process Drying is not controlled Reproducibility is poor Reformulation is needed for scaleup Need to coat many samples for one good sheet to test Costs are high and process is slow The traditional ...
- Bag Making: Strength in Numbers
- (Flexpack)
- September 30, 2010, ... But if someone wants to get into a price war, it's nice to know that you've got the staying power.” CEI prints on eight ten-color presses from Windmoeller & Hoelscher. Printed rolls are sent to Hebron ...
- Green Converting: Leading the Pack
- (Flexography)
- August 31, 2010, ... 35.5-in., nine-color variable sleeve offset presses (VSOP) from Muller Martini. With shrink sleeve and roll-fed label production being a hot market for the company, the two VSOP presses generate 20% of ...
- Motion Control: Drives
- (Controls)
- August 23, 2010, ... a recent project for one global leader in label and filmic product solutions, DTS was commissioned to develop a mid-width web roll-to-roll die-cutter with various unique substrate manipulation functions. ...
- Conference Program
- (Label/Tape)
- July 31, 2010, ... Massimo Ferrari, global market development manager, ExxonMobil Chemical; Randy Parrish, director, Rapid-Roll Products, Fasson Roll North America 2:00-3:00 P.M. HD Flexo — The New Quality Standard ...
- Special Report: Quality Protocols-Quality Assures Security
- (Label/Tape)
- June 30, 2010, ... master roll distribution of medical foams and tapes to custom die-cut components with tight tolerances. In a decade, ATL has executed more than 1,800 clinical trial runs, in more than 100 languages, ...
- Slitting Nonwovens: A Slit Decision
- (Flexpack)
- May 31, 2010, ... Frank Porto, and Steve Brown were determined to expand the supply chain in a central location. Launched in May 2007, NWS manufactures and supplies high quality nonwoven rollstock across the US for a ...
- PennPac Expands with Bobst
- (Slit)
- May 05, 2010, ... products are used in food handling, packaging, and other end-user applications and are applied as packaging for snack foods, breads, CD and box overwraps, roll labels, and more. “My first experience ...
- Trends in technology
- (Coating/Laminating)
- April 30, 2010, ... coating applicator and backup roll are critical to good coating quality and are required to optimize coating quality for thinner products. However, existing applicators and support hardware cannot maintain ...
- A time to celebrate
- (Special Reports)
- April 30, 2010, ... suppliers. Since that time, many companies have become vertically integrated; many of our members not only produce those rolls but convert them as well. So the term ‘industrial’ has become somewhat confusing. ...
- Techniques to Prevent/Minimize Die Lines
- (Tom’s Poly Ploys)
- April 28, 2010, ... controllers were not calibrated, and the actual temperature was 30?F (17?C) hotter than the readout indicated. They got the point, and changed their process conditions and maintenance procedures to my ...
- Narrow Web's Leverag
- (Label/Tape)
- March 31, 2010, ... as the inks are not absorbed but instead bond to the film surface. Higher airflow rates in the dryers will help reduce drying times. Because films demand lower heat levels, chill rolls can be used to keep ...
- Pilot Coating: Coater Clone
- (Coating/Laminating)
- March 31, 2010, ... business units. They typically sell labels made out of our material,” he says. “They'll do the printing and the die-cutting of the labels locally, but the rollstock they use in the process is manufactured ...
- Flexible Packaging: Narrow Web's Leverag
- (Flexpack)
- March 21, 2010, ... airflow rates in the dryers will help reduce drying times. Because films demand lower heat levels, chill rolls can be used to keep the web temperature low in addition to higher airflow. As with paper-faced ...
- What’s Up With Die Lines
- (Tom’s Poly Ploys)
- March 17, 2010, ... this phenomenon on the substrate. This is a carry over from “the old days” when wide gauge bands were seen on paper rolls. However, from experience, we know we don’t see them in rolls of incoming oriented ...
- Speaking of Productivity
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2010, ... UV coating in-line; a six-color, 40-in. Heidelberg CD 102 with interstation UV capabilities and UV and aqueous coating in-line; and a seven-color, 30-in. Komori Lithrone LSX-729 featuring in-line roll-to-sheet ...
- Flexible Packaging: Capital Commitments
- (Flexpack)
- February 28, 2010, ... markets, Packaging Personified offers a host of flexible packaging solutions. Roll stock constructions, printed and unprinted, include laminated and both monolayer and three-layer coextrusion single-wound ...
- 2010 Year of Recovery
- (Trends/Management)
- December 31, 2009, ... our payrolls return to the peak levels seen in 2007. As this article is written, the economy is recovering. The natural economic cycle in conjunction with global monetary and fiscal stimulus have joined ...