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The Holy Grail, Six Tips for Winding

(Web Handling)

June 29, 2011, When winding film, the Holy Grail is to achieve round, hard rolls without defects. These areas require adherence to consistently achieve success. 1. Be sure the web material is as flat as possible  ...

MPI Release Projects 20% Sales Increase

(Label/Tape)

June 07, 2011, ...  MPI’s product offerings, it also provides the security and convenience of a second climate-controlled facility. Ed Alois, president of MPI, states, “Our company’s ongoing goal is to build on it’s reputation ...

Technical Report: Up & Running

(Slit)

May 31, 2011, ... are due to innovations that greatly reduce downtime — or non-running time — at key points in the slitting process. Major downtime causes are grouped in three areas: Loading jumbos rolls Getting ready ...

Service Makes the Sale

(Flexography)

March 31, 2011, ... Bison the flexibility to economically print orders of 250-lb laminated rollstock runs and bag runs as small as 10,000 impressions. This diversity in equipment and technologies has made Bison a supplier ...

NEWS CLIPS

(News | New Products)

February 28, 2011, ... form a partnership to broaden each organization's product offerings to the nonwovens industry. Teknoweb will offer to the market Elsner-built machines for converting rolled canister wipes, and Elsner will ...

AWA Conferences Cover Hot Topics

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... panel addressed in-mold and alternative labeling, accepting questions from the audience that included among other subjects the pros and cons of IML versus shrink or roll-fed shrink labeling versus standard ...

Looking South

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... of delivering more labels per roll, less downtime for roll changes, and less weight and volume (so less transportation/energy costs and storage space). What Does the Future Hold? Price is one of the ...

TLMI Honors Best Converter & Supplier

(Yo's Yarns)

October 28, 2010, At the Tag & Label Mfrs. Inst. annual meeting held this past October 17–20 at the Boca Raton Resort, in Boca Raton, FL, two were bestowed highest honors for Converter and Supplier of the Year among many ...

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. ...