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Celplast Metallized Products, Davis-Standard Host One-Day Course

(News | New Products)

March 25, 2009, ... the causes and cures of common roll and web defects. For more information about courses like this, contact Jim Lush at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or Duane Smith at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Davis-Standard, LLC ...

Slitter Modified To Handle New Cigarette Paper

(News Eclips)

March 15, 2009, ... of the US market, this new paper is already in use. Europe will comply with the regulation in 2011. Due to the treatment, the cigarette paper loses some of its rigidity, so cutting and winding the rolls ...

Surface Winder Is Reversible

(News Eclips)

March 03, 2009, ... to its family of surface winders includes the AUTOMAX-SBG Reversible Surface Winder. A reversible winding mode allows the processor to choose whether to wind jumbo rolls with the film’s treated side in ...

Handle Unsupported Film Without Stretching

(Slit Main)

February 28, 2009, ... manager. “Stretched film distorts the printed images and also creates dispensing problems, as the eye marks used by the machine change position. But the software-controlled rewind tension measurements ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

December 31, 2008, ...  PFFC-ASAP 400 Recyclable Services Company offers what it calls “green” roll protection to help the environment and the bottom line. Line includes endboards, sleeve plugs, pallets, and H/U channels ...

Narrow Web & Label Products

(New Products)

November 30, 2008, ... and lower waste, company says. Unit is temperature controlled with water circulation into the anilox mandrel and an IR lamp on the blanket cylinder. System is said to be more reactive than an ink key control ...

Web Exclusive: Slitting Film

(Archive)

November 11, 2008, ... and dimensional stability. Tips on Film Handling Plastic films need to be handled with care if a supplier is to obtain maximum yield from the material and keep waste to the minimum. Film rolls should ...

Shifty Answers to Nip-Induced Tracking

(Web Lines)

October 31, 2008, Nipping rollers are used in many value-adding processes in web converting roll coating, laminating, embossing, calendering, high-speed winding, and more. Nipping rollers are used in many value-adding processes ...

Lab/Pilot/Technical Facilities Directory

(Archive)

October 31, 2008, ... 1-200 micron; dryer type: single-side impingement, IR; 2 zones; dryer capacity: 12 ft; solvents: water, flammable, organic Coating Technologies | gravure, reverse roll, rod, slot die Substrates | film ...

Do You Have a Need for Speed?

(Web Lines)

September 30, 2008, ... here is a checklist of what to consider as you think about moving to higher process speeds. How fast can you drive a roller or roll? Theoretically, there is no limit to how fast you can drive a roller ...

Cleaning at the Cutting Edge

(News | New Products)

August 17, 2008, ... which in turn raises dust. To further complicate matters many of these particles can become statically charged, so they cling to the slit edges and become wound with the roll(s). This surface dust or ...

Converting School Hosts Two September Courses

(News | New Products)

August 17, 2008, ... as well as converting machines such as coaters, laminators, printers, and winders. Topics include rollers, controls, nips, spreading, slitting, wrinkling and winding. This course explains the fundamental ...

Future Events

(Events)

August 11, 2008, ... America, The Blackwell, Columbus, OH (800-438-3111; www.harperimage.com). Aug. 17–19 | Roller  Performance Workshop, AIMCAL Converting School, Holiday Inn Express, Rochester, NY (803-802-7820; www.convertingschool.com/courses/class.asp?sdate=08/17&sort=14). ...

August 2008 PFFC What's New Products: Part tw

(New Products)

July 31, 2008, ... placed start/stop buttons, and more data-gathering capabilities. Interchangeable laminating, die-cutting, and punching stations allow jobs to be completed in roll, zig-zag folded, or as single product. ...

Custom Core Shafts Do the Job

(Archive)

July 31, 2008, ... products, such as appliances. Feeding this machine are four rolls, up to 98 in. long and weighing to 5,300 lbs. The core shafts for these rolls had to be precisely 100 mm dia, and the shafts had to be ...

Martin Automatic, Labelmen Machinery Announce 'Relationship

(News | New Products)

July 09, 2008, ... the benefits of reduced material waste to the narrow web market using the very best available roll changing technology.” Lo Chin-Shiung, president of Labelmen, commented: “We plan to launch a new Labelmen ...

Dr. J. Keith Good to Keynote Applied Web Handling Conference

(News | New Products)

May 11, 2008, ... troubleshooting, drying, simulation, controls, registration, noncontact measurement, rollers, and spreading. Participants also may register for a special, half-day short course, Winding: Equipment, Mechanics ...

A Recipe for Scratching

(Web Handling)

April 30, 2008, ... are five prerequisites to create a scratch or abrasive wear. All five are required to create the scratch. Let's review them. Contact The web must be touching something — roller, any nonmoving equipment, ...

Your Guide to the Right Web Guide

(Archive)

March 31, 2008, Webs are blind they don't know where they are going. With a well-aligned roller, sufficient tension, and good traction, the web has a tendency to track Webs are blind — they don't know where they are ...

Drying Part 3: Paste Inks

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

March 31, 2008, ... drying on the fountain system, press rollers, and blankets while drying quickly on the substrate, ensuring a wet-on-wet trap. Oil-based inks use a combination of three processes to dry: evaporation of ...