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Winding & Unwinding | An Inspection Schedule Will Go a Long Way

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

September 23, 2018, ... a lot of times you’ll hear a bearing fail before you see it. A clear scraping sound will indicate a worn out or completely failed bearing. To keep a bearing in good working order be sure to top off the ...

Q&A Roundtable | How The Pouch/Bag Making Market Is Evolving

(Bag Pouch)

May 10, 2018, ... allow virtually anyone with a HP digital press to enter into the stand-up pouch market. This innovation will allow for less process scrap and the fastest turnaround times from print to finished product. ...

Pouch Making | Ensuring Quality Pouches

(Bag Pouch)

May 07, 2018, ... pouch in a single stroke regardless of the complexity of the shape. It also can be equipped with a matrix scrap winder and can operate at 200 cycles per minute.”  This Box Pouch® sample was produced ...

Cortec Celebrates Expansion of Facility

(Flexpack)

April 10, 2018, ... waste by recycling VpCI film scrap and used VpCI film from its customers and adding it back into new film at a rate that ensures the corrosion inhibiting quality of the product. The new plastic recycling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CPP EXPO Conference Agenda Covers the Industry

(News | New Products)

June 06, 2015, ... reduced scrap, faster changeovers, and high reliability. Product directly off the press is dry and ready for converting, usually with excellent print quality. Additionally the inks are insensitive to water ...

CPP EXPO Reports on Conference Agenda

(News | New Products)

May 29, 2015, ... than printing. Maximizing printer efficiency will allow the operation to fully utilize converting. Ultraviolet or electron beam (UV/EB) ink curing supports this through reduced scrap, faster changeovers, ...

Giving Adhesive Coating Its Due Respect

(Coating/Laminating)

May 02, 2015, ... material costs, a process engineer looks at reduced scrap and reduced incoming raw material usage. Utilizing less adhesive for the same effect is a common approach. However, thinner coatings can run into ...

Flexible Packaging | Coveris, Cryovac Big Winners at FPA Awards

(Flexpack)

March 03, 2015, ... to the processor via film reduction of up to 40% with no material scrap, unequaled merchandising opportunities to the retailer using vertical display capability, and provides a freezer ready protective ...

Acucote Adds to Instant Redeemable Coupon Line

(Materials)

February 09, 2015, ... roll changes, faster setup times, improved run speeds, less scrap, and it can be produced on a digital press or flexo press. All products are offered with AT4505, a permanent all-temperature acrylic ...

Barrier Resins | Properties, Processing & Handling of EVOH, Pt. 1

(Flexpack)

February 01, 2015, ... processing conditions. The scrap generated in polyolefin/EVOH coextrusion is commonly recycled as a regrind layer in sheet and bottle applications. Coextruded packages with EVOH can also be recycled post-consumer. ...