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Flex Films Says BOPET Is Soft & Strong

(Flexpack)

April 08, 2018, ... of self-healing, toughness, and durability along with the soft texture. This effectively increases converters’ yield as they generate less scrap and have less customer rejections or other associated issues.” ...

Flexible Packaging | PPT Earns Top Prize in FPA Awards

(Flexpack)

March 05, 2018, ... for arenas and stadiums to help sports teams, venues, and leagues achieve the next level of landfill waste diversion by eliminating a pesky food scrap contaminant. The chief benefit of the new bag is that ...

Flexo Concepts Continues Green Initiatives

(News | New Products)

December 03, 2017, ... with LED lighting, a move that resulted in an annual reduction in energy use significant enough to power six homes for a year. The company also recycles about 80% of its blade material scrap along with ...

Dow Collaborates on Recycled Trash Bags

(Flexpack)

October 30, 2017, Dow, as a partner with Trash Free Seas Alliance, works with Bemis and Polykar to develop trash bags from recycled plastic scrap MIDLAND, MI | Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, a business unit of ...

Toray Films Touted as Foil Replacements

(Flexpack)

October 23, 2017, ... Increased footage also enables converters to lower the number of required roll changes, thus reducing the amount of scrap and providing even greater cost savings and another sustainability advantage. MET ...

TRESU Coater Aids Folding Carton Operation

(Coating/Laminating)

September 29, 2017, ... to be scrapped.” TRESU says the Pinta in-line flexo coater provides a layer of protection and enhances esthetic appeal. Sheets are fed to the coater automatically, from the Xerox iGen 4, immediately ...

PROTON Products Details Sensor Applications

(Controls)

August 08, 2017, ... as tissue and laminating lines, core waste losses can be reduced or eliminated. Accurate length delivery can also be beneficial for converting processes to reduce scrap for point of sale packaged products. ...

Web Lines | Action Plan for CD Buckles, Part 2

(Web Handling)

April 10, 2017, ... with a poorly design first floor. Remedies: Ensure the initial layers of the winding rolls are especially tight and free of wrinkles, misalignment, core scrap, of excessive entrained air. Use ...

Nordson Announces New Die Design

(Coating/Laminating)

March 12, 2017, ... and a reduction in machine use, energy consumption, and scrap. Additional cost savings result from control over the thickness of each layer, preventing over-use of expensive, high-functionality fluids. ...

Coating Matters | Pre-Metered Fluid Flow Analysis with Computational Methods

(Coating/Laminating)

November 27, 2016, ... coating pattern, the need to reduce scrap and control flow is still there. While no single computational algorithm has been presented to understand all the coating effects with various fluids on substrates ...

Maxcess Reports Benefits of Tidland Electronic Knifeholders

(News | New Products)

August 29, 2016, ... e-Knifeholder,” says Kristen McPherson, global product manager for Tidland. “The Control Series was designed to deliver even more value to our customers. Greater control over slit quality means less scrap ...

Show Preview | Labelexpo Americas 2016 Offers Technology in Action

(Label/Tape)

August 08, 2016, ... films address demand for a better touch-screen experience for consumers, reducing component scrap during manufacturing, and protecting new devices such as curved-edge screens. Will launch Syl-Off EM 7978 ...

Davis-Standard Offers Turret Unwind Upgrades

(Web Handling)

August 01, 2016, ... products with significantly better tension control, less scrap, and increased energy savings. For this upgrade, the modification and re-commissioning took only two weeks, enabling us to get the customer ...

HawkPoint Installs Software at Neenah Paper

(Trends/Management)

July 25, 2016, ... uses automated machine interfacing to collect real-time shop floor data on critical manufacturing processes such as setups, downtimes, run speeds, roll changes, scrap analysis, etc. Brandon Flees, converting ...

Sticking With It | Selecting the Right Adhesive for Your Self-Adhesive Graphic

(Coating/Laminating)

July 11, 2016, ... aging on vinyl. They remembered having an early test roll in the plant and found it in their scrap pile. Evaluation of the material that was over a year old showed that shrinkage and adhesive performance ...

LasX Industries to Show Carton System

(Carton Box)

May 21, 2016, ... to the integrated robotic system to remove scrap and feed the trimmed printed material to the folding and gluing system specially designed by Kluge for quick changeovers. "We are very pleased with the ...

Xaar Expands Printhead Family

(News | New Products)

March 27, 2016, ... and vertical (skyscraper) jetting modes. Ink is in constant circulation, preventing sedimentation and subsequent blocking of the nozzles when jetting. The new printhead, which is said to be is easy to ...

FTA Awards | Sunshine FPC Wins Two Best of Show Honors

(Print)

March 09, 2016, ... an initiative to decrease its carbon footprint and waste streams through reductions and recycling. All converted materials that are scrapped are baled and recycled. Accomplishments include installing sky ...

Flexo Printing | Evolution of the Chambered Doctor Blade System

(Print)

February 25, 2016, ...  Back doctoring of the containment blade, in which the containment blade scrapes off the residual ink on the anilox roll as it re-enters the chamber. Ink saving due to the reduced volume of the chamber ...

Rotoflex Releases Slitter/Rewinder

(News | New Products)

November 27, 2015, ... production volume, and scrap generation, and it compares outputs of multiple machines. Manohar Dhugga, Rotoflex director of engineering and service, says, “Designed with the proven robust construction ...