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Cinching Belt Tightening Gone Bad: Part Two

(Magazine)

February 28, 2003, ... unwinding, draw a spoke line from the core to the outside of the roll. Apply the tension and start unwinding. If the line remains in the spoke direction, the layers are not slipping relative to each other. ...

Automation and Options Spell Opportunity for Converters

(Magazine)

January 31, 2003, ... shipment to a customer. Many slitters incorporate some type of roll handling equipment to reduce operator fatigue and improve the safety of manually handling rolls.” Boyles says recent technology improvements ...

Today's Portfolio of Product Decoration Technologie

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January 31, 2003, ... prime labels — particularly sleeving and in-mold. The combination of the wraparound, heat shrink, stretch, and roll-on-shrink-on categories of sleeving continue to grow annually in double digits — a reflection ...

Differential Rewinding: Part Three

(Magazine)

December 31, 2002, ... or air pressure to vary the torque and — through the roll's radius — winding tension. One repeated theme in this column is measure your tension. A tension-sensing roller, whether used for control or measurement ...

Products

(Magazine)

November 30, 2002, ... SpA; Valmet Converting; and Webex Inc. Machinery, Accessories, Services Slitter/Sheeter Offers Shaftless Unwind Contech, Goddard, KS; 800/961-6449; contech-usa.com Roll-fed slitter/sheeter system ...

Differential Rewinding: Part One

(Magazine)

October 31, 2002, ... It would be nice to wind one roll at a time, taking care to start each roll smoothly and give it dedicated tension control. On a slitter/rewinder, however, it's common to rewind ten slit rolls (or more) ...

Self-Adhesive Labels: Past, Present, and Future

(Magazine)

October 31, 2002, ... on a roll, so specialized web-fed presses were developed that could print, die-cut, matrix-strip, and rewind in-line. Early label presses were based on the letterpress process. Multi-process printing lines ...

What's Ahead for Bagmakers

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October 31, 2002, ... bags, the packaging process will be transformed to F/F/S and stay there. Bags, sacks, and mainly carriers for secondary use are not bound directly to product consumption. They are sold as packs or on-the-roll ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2002, ...  Foam Tape Slitter Suited for Large Diameters The first ALS 700 NTA automatic roll slitter has been delivered to a major foam converter based in Scandinavia. The slitter has a capacity of 700 mm dia, ...

Thin Webs without Wrinkles

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September 30, 2002, ... material, including foil, may experience wrinkle problems. In general, there are at least two excellent solutions to wrinkle problems, but only one — expanding surface spreader rolls — is the preferred ...

What's New in Narrow We

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September 30, 2002, ... holder said to allow better adjustment for clear, sharp, and legible prints. A 4-oz disposable ink cartridge allows rollers to be inked continuously but only while the machine is printing actively. Imprinters ...

Presses Boost Productivity

(Magazine)

September 30, 2002, ... register, an ink clutch remote-control system, and remote-controlled adjustment of oscillating roller dead point. The Centralized Operator MakeReady and Control (COMRAC) system is standard. It allows operators ...

1950s

(News | New Products)

August 27, 2002, ... Memphis named Elvis introduce Rock ’n’ Roll to the masses. The Space Race gets underway as Russia launches Sputnik, and America rushes to stay a step ahead. Early 50s Stanford Engineering introduces ...

DOVIDs: Functional Beauty

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July 31, 2002, ... peaks and valleys on the plate surface, which are reproduced on the surface of a micro embossing roller using electro-forming processes. This is used to emboss directly onto polymer films or onto specialized ...

In the Bag

(Magazine)

June 30, 2002, ... to get a better sack shape once it is filled. Some modifications are implemented to the haul-off nip rolls section of the line to override problems due to excessive pressure on the edges of the gussets. ...

Digital Flexo Plates: From Pioneers to End-Users

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May 31, 2002, ... process improvement at many package printers has led to their use of digital flexo plates. According to Dalton, “The process used to produce digital flexo plates is very tight and controlled. This leads ...

The Third Wave: An Iron Tale about the Business of Print, Vol. 6

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May 31, 2002, ... controllers, oxygen scavenging, and antimicrobial additives to ensure customers [it employs] the latest security techniques and to reduce inventory costs. Another example is how a converter promoted its ...

Cutting to the Chase

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, As Chase & Sons broadens its facility and capabilities, the converter eliminates tension control problems by replacing chucks and rollers with new products from Double E Co. Expansion is a key word ...

Converters Strike Back

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... property lawyers and others — empowered to make decisions — and to create a system for controlling the flow of information both within the organization and between suppliers. The company also should look ...

Products

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... three voltages (6, 24, and 90 V), and a static torque capacity of 16-95 lb ft. Series is pre-assembled, pre-aligned, and pre-burnished at the factory for rated torque. Unwind Handles Large Parent Rolls ...