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- Web Lines: Mission-Detect Nip Variations
- (First Glance)
- August 31, 2010, ... of crossweb position. However, our best agents have been foiled in finding an inexpensive method to infiltrate the dangerous combat zone between nip rollers. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, ...
- 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. ...
- You Get What You Pay For, Part 2
- (Tom’s Poly Ploys)
- July 27, 2010, ... in Code of Federal Regulations, 21USC351. Basically, the film supplier should know which lot of resin went into each roll of film, who made the film, conditions used to make the film, properties of that ...
- Lab Analyzes Materials for Laser Cutting
- (Die-Cutting)
- June 30, 2010, Lab Analyzes Materials for Laser Cutting ROLLING MEADOWS, IL | Spartanics has opened a Laser Cutting Applications Laboratory for Materials Research to ROLLING MEADOWS, IL | Spartanics has opened a Laser ...
- Spartanics Establishes Laser Die Cutting Applications Lab
- (Die-Cutting)
- June 24, 2010, Spartanics announces to label converters, packagers, and other converters seeking to use rapidly advancing laser die-cutting technology for pressure-sensitive labels, RFID tags ROLLING MEADOWS, IL | Spartanics ...
- 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 ...
- Driving Speed
- (Drives/Motors)
- April 30, 2010, ... the HMI (human-machine interface) and PLC (programmable logic controller), David Rand, Amgraph's production manager, can control the speed and thickness of the web precisely; turn on or off various systems, ...
- 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 future for photovoltaics
- (Metallizing)
- April 30, 2010, ... roll size for some film production lines. It will be interesting to see if anyone will take the leap to try to produce a metallizer that can use a full-width mill roll and gain the benefits of the film ...
- Techniques to Prevent/Minimize Die Lines
- (Tom’s Poly Ploys)
- April 28, 2010, ... controllers were not calibrated, and the actual temperature was 30?F (17?C) hotter than the readout indicated. They got the point, and changed their process conditions and maintenance procedures to my ...
- What’s Up With Die Lines
- (Tom’s Poly Ploys)
- March 17, 2010, ... this phenomenon on the substrate. This is a carry over from “the old days” when wide gauge bands were seen on paper rolls. However, from experience, we know we don’t see them in rolls of incoming oriented ...
- Click To Pick
- (New Products)
- February 28, 2010, ... Rotomec | www.bobstgroup.com/rotomec Circle 315 or visit www.freeproductinfo.net/pff Mark Splices & Flaws On Roll Products Formerly called Roll-Aids, “tattle-tails” are bright orange vinyl ...
- Blown Film: Measuring Melt Temps
- (Controls)
- February 28, 2010, ... focusing on critical process variables, understanding the measurements taken, and then addressing the root causes of these variations will lead to higher levels of film quality and performance. The corollary ...
- Prevent Vibration Stripes on CI Presses
- (New Products)
- February 28, 2010, ... in continuous contact with the impression cylinder or anilox roll, which causes the edges of the relief to produce resonance shocks in the print and ink unit. CFRP is said to exhibit high strength and ...
- Technical Report: Thin Coating Challenges
- (Coatings)
- January 31, 2010, ... can be placed in a final product, such as a battery, with a thinner film than with thick film, thereby giving better overall performance. Longer rolls can be wound without increasing roll weight. New ...
- Parkinson Technologies Adds Seven Layer Capability to Pilot Lab
- (News | New Products)
- November 16, 2009, ... 7-layer capability, the die also brings vacuum box pinning as an option to the existing air knife, electrostatic wire, and polishing nip roll options currently available in the pilot lab. The die is equipped ...
- Cores | The Foundation of Winding
- (Web Lines)
- October 31, 2009, ... winding roll by losing both outer and inner diameter. Excessive inner diameter loss can make a roll impossible to remove from a shaft. Core compression is especially troublesome for stiff materials ...
- Static, Be Gone!
- (Static-Beat)
- October 31, 2009, ... or PET films as they run through a coating, lamination, or converting process. Static charge also accumulates on the surfaces of insulating rollers covered with polyurethane, silicone rubber, or EPDM (ethylene-propylene-diene) ...
- Get a Grip on Your Web
- (Tension)
- October 31, 2009, Whether a converter needs to isolate tension at various zones in a web line, reduce web slippage over a roll, or pull the web at increased speeds and Whether a converter needs to isolate tension at various ...
- New Roles for Converters
- (Archive)
- September 30, 2009, ... the web converting process technology has several advantages for the development and manufacturing of these new product concepts: It is a roll-based continuous process that transports a substrate through ...