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Show Preview | Labelexpo Americas 2014 Enhances Focus on Package Printing

(Label/Tape)

August 04, 2014, ...    AccuWeb Introducing its Smallest Web Guide AccuWeb (Booth 837) will introduce the EVO 150 web guide control, a 24 VDC controller featuring 150 watts of power with the ability to control brushed ...

Slot Die Coating Technology

(Mark's Coating Matters)

July 16, 2014, ... supply of coating fluid and variations in coat weight are controlled by regulating the pumping rate to line speed ratio. 3. Cross-web distribution control. The slot die’s manifold geometry is designed ...

Converting Headaches? Get Relief at CPP EXPO's PFFC-Sponsored Technical Session

(Trade Shows)

July 13, 2014, ... from breaks, distortion, scratching, wrinkling, mis-registration, and poor roll formation. To get tension under control you have to understand how your system works. Learn to map out your system and understand ...

Web Lines | The Case of the Missing Pacer

(Technical Reports)

July 07, 2014, How can a system with only two slipping torque elements control speed? I recently visited a converter that had a rewinder with no apparent direct-driven pacer roller. The unwind had brake torque control, ...

On Print | Are You Cured? Proper Cure Is Up to You

(On Print)

June 22, 2014, ... with only end-of-roll testing, a failure from a contamination or short-term coating upset can easily slip by, especially if it does not trigger a fault in a subsequent step in your factory. And the testing ...

Coating Matters | Everything You Wanted to Know about Coating But Were Afraid to Ask

(Coating/Laminating)

June 17, 2014, ... flow disturbances, inhomogeneities in the fluid, or uncontrolled air flow may still cause coating defects. Defect formation may be connected to raw material variation or equipment instability. Everything ...

BST and eltromat Announce Merger

(Controls)

June 17, 2014, ... and automation technology for gravure, flexo, roll-fed offset, and digital printing. Web applications include web guiding, register control, automation technology, surface inspection, thickness measurement, ...

Coating Matters | Stop Defects Before They Start

(Coating/Laminating)

May 26, 2014, ... component in the roll-to-roll coating process (coating head, fluid delivery system, web control, and roll consistency) provides an area of opportunity for improved coating performance or reduced capability. ...

Is There a Doorman at Your Winder or Do You Let Just Any Web Get In?

(Web Handling)

May 15, 2014, Web handling expert Tim Walker of TJWalker + Assoc. and author of "Web Lines" describes the function and benefits of a nipping roller at winding. I was just reviewing a lab coater line the other day. ...

FTA Hands Out Awards for Excellence

(News | New Products)

April 27, 2014, ... FIRST works, the various certification levels, and how to enroll employees. Two years later, Master Packaging has more than 350 Level I, II, and III certifications among its workers and another 116 certifications ...

Web Lines | Why Is Winding Optimization Difficult?

(Web Handling)

April 21, 2014, ... your Bachelor’s Degree is when you understand web tensioning, roller design, and guiding. Wrinkling and spreading get you your Master’s Degree program in web handling. Working with winding, winders, and ...

Faustel Tech Center Adds Yokogawa Sensors

(Controls)

April 08, 2014, ... Pilot Coater and the 600 mm Production-Level Pilot Coating Line. Both lines are capable of aqueous and solvent-based coating using a wide variety of methods including slot die, comma roll, knife-over roll, ...

Defects in Coating

(Coating/Laminating)

March 24, 2014, ... In order to understand the mechanisms for defect formation, you have to understand the fundamentals of the inputs. Substrates may have a surface energy that causes dewetting, rolls may be out of round ...

Z-Flute Boxes for Kitty Litter are Purr-fect

(Coating/Laminating)

March 08, 2014, ... minute amounts (less than 1 part/million/year). The pharmaceutical-grade elastomer/metallized PET/PET structure of the liner combines mechanical performance (more consistent sealing) with a controlled ...

Web Lines | War on Bagginess

(Web Handling)

February 26, 2014, ... struggle with. Due to many factors—including the lack of good bagginess quantified measurements, need for feedback from roll unwinding measurements/observations (usually at customer processing), and complexity ...

Para Print Joins DuPont's Plate Recycling Progra

(News | New Products)

February 04, 2014, ... rolls, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) cover sheets, Cyrel plates, and trim waste for its TR3 program participants at a modest fee. DuPont recovers, reuses, and recycles the returned materials either ...

Kodak and Xymox Report Agreement on Conductive Films

(Flexpack News)

November 10, 2013, ... utilizes Kodak’s HCF Film represents a milestone for Xymox in the scaling up and commercial roll-out of our projected capacitive sensor to meet the quality and price targets of our printed electronics ...

AIMCAL Tech Meeting Honors Excellence

(Coating/Laminating)

November 04, 2013, ... as thin as 15 microns in sheet and roll format Speeds from 1 m/min to 300 m/min are possible Performance in a high vacuum environment and without silicone is possible to provide significant yield improvements ...

Release Liner | What’s Next?

(Label/Tape)

October 24, 2013, ... Label Release Liner Seminar, AWA Alexander Watson Associates’ president and CEO, Corey Reardon, confirmed that business in the roll-label sector “continues to be optimistic.” Globally, growth in the use ...

K-Show 2013 & Upcoming Extrusion Coating Seminars

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

October 23, 2013, ... efficient and makes perforation-free "overlapped" rolls which provide one-at-a-time dispensing of bags. Their patents cover rotary heat seal technology, easy-bag-length-change features, overlapped roll ...