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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 ...

Nordenia Film Wins Packaging Award

(Flexpack)

November 27, 2012, ... on technologies that make the manufacture of intelligent, sustainable films possible.” By using a physical, controlled foaming process, the Nor®Cell technology is said to reduce the weight of flexible ...

GOEBEL Supplies 11-m-wide Slitter/Rewinder to China

(News | New Products)

November 27, 2012, ... Within three months, several thousand parts were assembled and more than 3,000 m of electric cable were laid. A particularly impressive component is the grooved roller. It has a length of 11,370 mm. The ...

Another Review of Die Streaks

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

November 25, 2012, ... papermaking, etc., whenever there is a wound roll or any significant diameter, unless the thickness profile is VERY uniform, with very little point to point variation, die streaks are an issue. Why does ...

Web Lines | Why Bigger Cores?

(Technical Reports)

November 15, 2012, Bigger cores avoid many winding defects. Fewer layers mean less near-core pressure buildup and high-pressure defects. Bigger cores avoid many winding defects. I like to joke that the ideal wound roll ...

Davis-Standard Upgrades Technical Center

(Coating/Laminating)

November 06, 2012, ... winder capable of producing rolls of various diameters; gravimetric blending stations with in-line drying; coextrusion capabilities with a coextrusion feedblock and available microlayer technology; thin-gauge ...

Appleton Core Recycler Can Be Customized

(Green)

October 21, 2012, ... Core Recycler is now available for customization by roll widths, weight, power source, and more. The recycler is a blade-free, slabbing, and core recycling solution said to safely and automatically remove ...

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 ...

Teknor Apex PVC Film Suited for Medical Uses

(Flexpack)

September 05, 2012, ... company fuses flexible vinyl compound and passes it through a series of synchronized nip rolls. “The advantages of calendering include thickness uniformity, consistent physical properties, thermal stability, ...

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 ...

Aladdin Temp-Rite Improves Sheet Process with Davis-Standard

(Flexpack)

September 04, 2012, ... in all types of foodservice products including cups, bowls, lids, and food trays. In addition to the extruder, Aladdin purchased a touchscreen Allen Bradley PLC controller from Davis-Standard. The new ...

Best Digital Installs Screen Truepress Jet Printer

(News | New Products)

August 30, 2012, UK-based POS specialist targets new markets, higher margins ROLLING MEADOWS, IL | The world’s first-installed Truepress Jet W1632UV is already at home at Best Digital and poised to take the UK-based ...

Masterpiece Graphix Offers Digital Solutions

(Substrates)

August 20, 2012, ... plus custom sheet sizes and thicknesses via a custom stocking program. The company provides roll and sheet solutions for the HP Indigo, the Xerox iGen, the Kodak Nexpress, as well as a variety of other ...

On Print | Electrophotography for Packaging

(On Print)

August 06, 2012, ... industry. The bulk of these are for electrographic (EPG) printers, i.e., machines using toner, and they were all in action. Roll-to-roll EPG presses are much better known for label printing. Labelexpo ...

Franklin Imaging Invests in Screen (USA) Inkjet Press

(News | New Products)

July 26, 2012, Truepress Jet2500UV is opening up new business opportunities ROLLING MEADOWS, IL | Franklin Imaging has been a fixture in the graphics community of Columbus, OH, for at least 80 years. Franklin Blueprint ...

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 ...

Polymer Industries Adds Davis-Standard Sheet System

(Film Mfg.)

July 09, 2012, ... features an 8-in. (200mm) Thermatic air-cooled extruder, DSB barrier screw with cavity transfer mixer, temperature control panel, screen changer package, and 165-in. (4,191mm) EX-M-PLAR III sheet rollstand ...

Maxson Sheeter Is for HIPS Line

(News | New Products)

May 14, 2012, The SDFK sheeter for HIPS extrusion line is Maxson’s answer to increased productivity and reduced waste   WESTERLY, RI | Maxson Automatic Machinery Co. offers the SDFK sheeter for a high-impact polystyrene ...

Static Beat | Control Static at the Corona Treater

(Static-Beat)

March 12, 2012, Static from corona treaters can cause several problems, including coating non-uniformities, contamination from dust attraction, and hot rolls at the winder. How can we neutralize static without affecting ...