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Mokon Chillers Have New Operating Range

(Controls News)

April 13, 2013, ... control, increasing the longevity of the compressor. The chillers are also said to be environmentally friendly, utilizing R-507 refrigerant, and come with a microprocessor-based controller that ensures ...

T.W. Parkers Installs Gallus Flexo Presses

(News | New Products)

March 14, 2013, ... for ease of operation, sleeve technology on each station for the loading and unloading of print cylinders and anilox rolls. Its modular platform design concept allows for flexo and screen heads to be switched ...

Clicherlux Receives Esko HD Flexo Certification

(News | New Products)

March 10, 2013, ... is able to extend its highlights and shadows, thus controlling its color, it is now able to spend less time working on image treatments. "For example, we had worked on packaging for 44 different flavors ...

Readers Choice: Top 11 New Products of 2012

(Coatings)

January 01, 2013, ... a wide spectrum of materials and equipment necessary to produce its primary products—flexible packaging; tapes, labels, and tags; cartons and boxes; and unprinted rolls and sheets. So it came as no surprise, ...

Sigma Buys New Gloucester Film Line

(Film Mfg.)

December 19, 2012, Can produce up to nine rolls of stretch film at a time GLOUCESTER, MA | Gloucester Engineering Co. Inc. (GEC) has announced that Sigma Plastics Group of Lyndhurst, NJ, has purchased a new GEC 9-up ...

Web Lines | Why Avoid Nips?

(Web Handling)

September 24, 2012, ... here is a quick refresher on those topics. Avoid nips? Why? Nipped rollers are a top source of wrinkles and creases. Nipped rollers have the friction and pressure needed to shift, buckle, and fold ...

Winding Technology | Now Directly in the Drive

(Controls)

September 19, 2012, ... times, and also the implementation of that control scheme into the overall machine design to achieve greater efficiency. Electronically controlled AC drives offer an extremely efficient means of executing ...

Workshop on Nipped Systems & Laminating

(Web Handling)

September 04, 2012, A workshop focusing on nipped rollers offers a better understanding of the underlying engineering principles and design considerations that lead to improved profitability in your value-added web processing ...

Labelexpo Americas | Mission Possible

(Label/Tape)

July 12, 2012, ... Fuels and Channeled Resources, the waste matrix and finished rolls being generated during various live demonstrations on the show floor will be collected for conversion to fuel pellets. Visit the Ecovillage ...

Mokon Offers Low-Temperature Chillers

(Controls)

April 23, 2012, ... compressors are energy efficient and built to last. Chillers have a cylinder unloading/hot gas bypass feature used for capacity control and a microprocessor-based digital controller that is specifically ...

CTC Offers Smaller Version of Clamshell Splicer

(News | New Products)

December 05, 2011, ... it can accommodate two full 14-in.-dia rolls.   The clamshell splicer mechanism opens 90 deg into a horizontal plane, providing a flat work table on which to easier prep the splice. The two unwind shafts ...

Winding Film: How COF Properties Affect TNT

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

October 17, 2011, Your ability to apply tension/nip/torque winding principles to produce the desired roll hardness is affected by the film’s layer-to-layer coefficient of friction properties Your ability to apply tension/nip/torque ...

Web Lines: Take the Laminator Quiz

(Coating/Laminating)

October 16, 2011, ... the input tensions (allowing you to run low nip loads without slipping)? 4 pts. 5. (a) If your nip is controlled by supply pressure (either pneumatic or hydraulic), do you know the relationship of pressure ...

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 ...

BOPP Producer Needs Nine

(Slit)

May 31, 2011, ... feature a digital knife positioning system and an automated slit roll unloading system. This significant new investment represents an important diversification in business for Videolar, which has seized ...

Harper Exhibits at Info*Flex

(Flexography)

May 02, 2011, ... constant loading pressure, this unit features variable speed from 15 to 450 in./min. The proofing system options include a flexo or gravure bladed proofer, imaged transfer rolls, air and electric drive, ...

Entry Level Slitter Option

(Slit)

February 28, 2011, Starslit ECO ultra-compact double spindle machine is designed for low-volume production. At a maximum speed of 450 mpm, machine winds finished rolls up Starslit ECO ultra-compact double spindle machine ...

Splicer To Aid Training

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

October 01, 2010, ... with an STR turret rewinder to provide nonstop roll changing for FTS's new Mark Andy P5 Performance Series press. It matches the press speed to 500 fpm. The MBSC features rolling-shear splice unit, lift-and-load ...

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 ...

Stack Sheets Continuously

(Sheeting)

September 30, 2010, ... of sheet sizes of 8½ × 11 to 11 × 17 in. in counts as low as 25 and as high as 1,000. Compact design includes a count-controlled diverting gate that feeds one discharge stacker, while the other empties ...