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March 31, 2001, ... said to eliminate scrap by leaving no tail on the new core that can damage the material as it winds around the core. According to co., units can be used for a wide variety of material types, thicknesses, ...

Converting Industry News

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March 30, 2001, ... scanning system to measure coat weight consistency as part of an initiative to maintain quality while reducing scrap material. The site has two IR gauges on different lamination lines. Before the gauges ...

Products

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February 28, 2001, ... It is positioned in front of the flat film die, and exchangeable feedblock inserts facilitate the production and reproducibility of multilayer structures. A scrap layer can be added on one or both sides. ...

The Need to Know Drives Pharma Labeling Market

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December 31, 2000, ... face with the American convenience store. This leads to some strange juxtapositions--parking lots and plazas, freeways and fountains, skyscrapers and shanties--but they're not hard to reconcile in the context ...

Pouchmaking Equipment Adapts as Materials Advance

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November 30, 2000, ... more people on the machine. Both are a negative on the efficiency side." Because these materials are expensive, converters have to find ways to reduce scrap, says Mike Greely, Totani product manager ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ... leave any plastic residue, says Biocorp, adding that, when composted, the products biodegrade completely into carbon dioxide, water, and biomass in 30-60 days, just like food scraps and yard trimmings. ...

Nitrocellulose, Solvents, Recycling, and Safety

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September 30, 2000, ... reaction. As an added bonus, a steep cone can be fitted with a large, free-flowing discharge gate valve at the bottom, making the removal of sludge a very routine, safe, and easy procedure. Scrapers ...

Coating Operation Cleans Up Its (Trim Removal) Act

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May 31, 2000, ... the rolls and even around the cutter blades. This would result in what we call 'a wrap.' When this occurs, we have to shut the equipment down. Scrap is incurred each time. We had an incredible amount of ...

Electrically Heated Rollers Are Top Technology Choice

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March 31, 2000, ... and RI200 electrically heated rollers enable converters to improve product uniformity and quality, while increasing production rates and reducing scrap. Judges were impressed with the widespread application ...

Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority

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January 31, 2000, ... Rupp's ingenuity eventually got the equipment up and running. "After a couple of modifications and about two months of increase in scrap on our industrial products, we were able to get the machine going," ...

Partnering launches future growth in laminations

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August 31, 1996, ... Massachusetts, to achieve proprietary colorant systems for our requirements." Other advantages to using 100% solids adhesives are the lack of odor and reduced scrap - both of which have a positive impact ...

Perforating tear-resistant materials takes a big step.

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August 31, 1996, ... various patterns of perforated edges. All of the perforations separated precisely as designed, with unwanted tearing into the stamp itself virtually eliminated - not to mention the elimination of scrap ...

Gauging system lights the way

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August 31, 1996, ... the time we discovered the problem, we had already generated at least 35 feet of scrap." Given the high cost of the materials used in EL lamps, even a small amount of scrap could be costly, notes Durante. ...

Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need

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June 30, 1996, ... a simple thing," he explains. "Now they want that line to be exactly like the larger ones, with air knifes, scrap winders, edge-trimming systems - everything that's used to make precision film. That's because ...

Gravure gets easier

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April 30, 1996, ... are eliminated, and efficiency improved, with the angle blade, according to Weeks. "The straightest line to efficiency is scrap reduction," he says. "That's what this blade does." (See Paper, Film & Foil ...

Bagmaking operation refuses to stand still

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September 30, 1995, ... current president. Bill is a plastics industry veteran, having started Rainier Plastics, also in Yakima, in 1966 to reclaim process scrap. Rainier now processes about 12 million lb. of reclaim annually, ...

Winders/Unwinders: Gettting Better Every Day

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August 31, 1995, ... on the creation of all kinds of roll defects, defects that can easily result in a roll being devalued, culled or scrapped. Take a look at a single-station unwind/rewind stand and it appears relatively ...

Consider film cores when analyzing costs.

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July 31, 1995, ... were using before," says Berndt. Scrap recover is another issue Sonoco is investigating for the Pottsville facility. Presently, Sonoco takes back scrap, processes it and reuses it in its cores. According ...

Costa Rican converter expands Latin market

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April 30, 1995, ... Rica and more than 50 tons/ month in Nicaragua. In San Jose, there are two extrusion lines for post-consumer polyethylene scrap. The film, mostly banana shrouds, is picked, up by trucks and pelletized ...

Vinyl film eliminates layer of polyethylene

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February 28, 1995, ... less scrap and up to 25% more linear feet for a given outside roll diameter. Longer rolls can lead to faster, more efficient production as film changeovers and the down-time they require are reduced, according ...