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Top Five Things To Remember in Fluid Coating

(Coating/Laminating)

February 17, 2014, ...  1. Evolution: Liquid coating has come a long way from painting by hand to coating with rolls to pre-metering fluid. The future of fluid coating is housed in the pre-metered enclosure presented by slot ...

Web Lines | The Case for Shorter (and Longer) Acceleration Times

(Slit)

February 04, 2014, ... as higher speeds. In the case of extremely short slit rolls on fully automated slitter/rewinders, then there is a strong correlation between accelerations times and output. However, for slitters running ...

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 ...

Slot Die DOs and DON'T

(Mark's Coating Matters)

January 30, 2014, ... systems, backing rolls, fluid delivery pumps, and curing stations to provide the end product. If only one of these items is understood and maintained, the whole system is at risk. You are only as good ...

TechCon 2014 Exhibit Registration Is Open

(News | New Products)

January 28, 2014, ... topics. SVC is offering a 25% discount on each tutorial registration for the second or more employee in a company who enrolls in the same tutorial as the first employee. (Note: this discount does not apply ...

Harper Now Servicing Europe from the US

(News | New Products)

January 25, 2014, Company is assuring European customers that discontinuation of European partnership will not affect service   CHARLOTTE, NC | Harper Corp. of America reports that, one year since the company and ...

Masterpiece Graphix Announces New Line

(Flexpack)

January 22, 2014, ... rainbow, and other metallic substrates. Rolls and sheets are available in many materials for every digital press. The line features card and board stock, papers, pressure sensitives, polyesters, BOPP, ...

BJK Flexible Packaging Expands with Blown Film Line

(Flexpack)

January 22, 2014, ... providing higher output and ultimately higher quality rolls of film. Steve DeSpain, president of Reifenhauser Inc., said that the new five-layer system sold to BJK is the first one in North America with ...

Cosmo Films Adds More Atlas Slitters

(News | New Products)

January 07, 2014, ... Both slitter/rewinders feature an unwind splice table said to produce high quality splicing, and the CW984 primary slitter is working with a slit roll conveyor system to transport the rolls to both the ...

Readers Choice | Top 10 New Products of 2013

(Coating/Laminating)

December 30, 2013, ... on flexible materials on rolls; automatic safety system that prevents printheads from coming into contact with curved parts of substrates; and automated cleaning and thermal stabilization of the ink system. ...

Anar Rub Tech Private Offers Variety of Rollers

(News | New Products)

December 15, 2013, ...  • Air shafts • Aluminum slat expanders • Bow rolls • Rubber expanders • Flexo and gravure printing rollers • Differential shafts • Air chucks Applications include laminations, packaging, ...

PrimaPak Technology Used for Holiday Packaging

(Flexpack News)

December 11, 2013, ... and reseals to the package with a light touch. The PrimaPak package is a flexible package produced from custom rollstock on a PrimaPak vertical form-fill-seal (VFFS) machine. Designed as a replacement ...

Web Lines | How the Open Loop Torque Control Sets Winding Tension

(Web Handling)

December 09, 2013, ... to measure rolling resistance of full diameter or maximum weight rolls, instead assuming rolling resistance is independent of roll weight or winding nip load. All this capability is great and quite advanced ...

Abusive Patent Litigation Bill Passes, Gets Bipartisan Support

(Yo's Yarns)

December 04, 2013, ... demonstrating its strong support for rooting out the 'patent trolls' so that printers large and small have the freedom to redefine print through technology while doing what print has always done best: creating ...

DFI's Flexo Tip of the Month: Stop Anilox Roll Scorin

(News | New Products)

December 03, 2013, Graymills official advises on how to remove score lines on anilox rolls caused by debris caught between the doctor blade and the anilox   BROADVIEW, IL | DiTrolio Flexographic Institute credits supporter ...

Label Trends | The Future of Linerless Labels

(Label/Tape)

November 20, 2013, ... you can collect them and put them into a bundle or in rolls. There is no risk of anybody stepping on them. The current system is very automated. “Additionally, linerless labels are more expensive to ...

Esko Digital Finishing Platform Aids Turnaround Times

(News | New Products)

November 11, 2013, ... 24/7 production and semi-industrial environments. Along with substantial flexibility, the new, wider format perfectly fits modern 3.2-meter-wide format printers, working with wide rolls and wide sheets.” ...

Coating Matters | Hot Melt Coating Technology, Part 2

(Coating/Laminating)

November 11, 2013, ... of rubber back-up rolls. The rubber back-up rolls, when used with a rotating rod slot die, is compliant enough to let the gels escape, therefore preventing streaks. While the rubber roll helped to solve ...

MTi-Polyexe Reduces Downtime, Improves Quality

(News | New Products)

November 03, 2013, ... continues to run today. While the line runs well, one constant issue the company had was the shafts supporting the rolls of material on the machine were extremely heavy—over 300 lb each. This made it very ...

Static Beat | Should Static Brushes Touch?

(Static-Beat)

November 03, 2013, Should static brushes or ionizing cords touch webs or rolls to neutralize static? Static brushes and ionizing cords are passive dissipators used to neutralize static charge on webs, polymer covered conveyance ...