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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 ...

What's New Product

(Magazine)

March 31, 2008, ...  Double Plug packaging systems reportedly speed pallet loading and unloading of slit rolls and protect rolls effectively during transit or storage. Plugs interlock each roll in a stack, and divider boards ...

AIMCAL Elects New Board

(News | New Products)

March 19, 2008, ... roll coating and converting, he has authored several technical papers related to sputter deposition. A 21-year veteran of the converting industry, Roy serves as general manager of Terphane, Inc., Bloomfield, ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

February 29, 2008, Rolls Feature Tough Screen Isoten vacuum rolls feature a durable steel screen that distributes vacuum suction evenly across the roll face. Company says Rolls Feature Tough Screen Isoten vacuum rolls feature ...

Peak Performance

(Corona, Flame, Plasma)

February 29, 2008, ... 6-750 microns. The ER-WE-PA/Davis-Standard production line includes an extruder, roll stack, and winder and features a computerized control X-ray thickness measurement device automatically linked to ...

Fundamentals for Converters

(News | New Products)

February 25, 2008, ... machine alignment, coating methods, drying and dryers, roller applications, and defect control and measurement. Slitting and rewinding fundamentals will cover best practice techniques for paper, film, ...

Web Lines: Thinking About New Equipment?

(Web Handling)

January 31, 2008, ... web handling in the same order I cover the web handling process fundamentals in classes: web properties, tension control, rollers and traction, guiding, wrinkling/anti-wrinkling, winding and unwinding. ...

Slitter Meets Demands

(News Clips Archive)

January 31, 2008, ... machinery.” The slitter features a shaftless unwinding system that permits material widths between 1,000 and 1,600 mm, with a maximum outer diameter of 1,200 mm and a roll weight of almost 1,000 kg. ...

Get a Grip: Driving Your Web

(Archive)

December 31, 2007, In my October 2007 column, In Search of Tension Isolation, I myth-busted the belief that a high traction driven roller can completely isolate one tension In my October 2007 column, “In Search of Tension ...

Picking Up the Pace

(Web Handling)

December 31, 2007, ... operator contact with the web or reduces the size of the rolls coming off the press. For example, Parkinson recently developed a new winder design for the contractor and consumer roll market that produces ...

Products

(New Products)

December 31, 2007, Controller Has 60 Settings The MP2000 single-loop viscosity controller has 60 settings to accommodate solvent- or water-based products and level control. Controller Has 60 Settings The MP2000 single-loop ...

Experience Speaks: Lyle Reigel

(Experience Speaks)

December 31, 2007, ... mistake you made and how did you fix it? Not tracking every roll of paper that entered our building. Today we can pull up any roll of paper on our computer with the push of a button and review its history. ...