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PLGA Seeks Entries for Achievement Awards

(Archive)

May 31, 2006, ... must include a photo or graphic representation along with a 50-500 word description of the product. Information about features and benefits to the user—such as ROI, percent improvement, percent scrap reduction, ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, ... of scrap although this is unavoidable during product start-ups, transitions, or shut downs. Another possibility is to increase plant capacity, but most converters have probably already exhausted their ...

Can This Coater Be Saved?

(Archive)

January 30, 2006, ... ft. $3,931,200   Thinner coating wt 60.0 M sq. ft. $12,000,000 New business Availability loss 65.5 M sq. ft. $7,862,400 Operational *Scrap material savings=$0.10/sq. ft., ...

PLGA Request Entries for 2005 Technical Achievement Awards

(Archive)

July 06, 2005, ... and its features and benefits no less than 50 and no more than 500 words. Each entry application must provide information about the benefits to the user (i.e. ROI, percent quality improvement, scrap reduction, ...

18 Ways to Cut Coating Costs

(Magazine)

June 29, 2005, ... requirements and capabilities. Can you loosen up some of your specifications to reduce the vendors’ scrap losses (and your material costs) by testing some of the "off-grade materials?" Fluid Mixing ...

Advances in Coating

(Magazine)

March 30, 2005, ... types and defects. Adding them to a web coating line will provide rapid defect detection and the ability to initiate troubleshooting procedures rapidly, thereby reducing the amount of scrap material produced. ...

Technology - The Great Equalizer

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... cost obviously enhances a competitive position both domestically and, eventually, internationally. Reducing Waste Reduces Cost Waste is not always scrap even though for years, "waste" has been used ...

The Word on Winding

(Magazine)

July 30, 2004, ... of roll-to-roll processes and sub-processes.” Bailey echoes Thompson’s waste-reduction concerns, hoping for truly scrapless winding in future trends. He says other develoments to look for include 100% ...

Products

(Magazine)

April 29, 2004, ... on One Line or Many JTW International, Lawrenceville, GA, USA; 678/442-0633; jtwinternational.com Trim/scrap conveying equipment includes off-the-shelf models for quick installation; optional mobile ...

6 Sigma Success

(Tapes)

December 30, 2003, Improved production techniques result in reduced scrap and increased yields for one electronic label converter. Improved production techniques result in reduced scrap and increased yields for one electronic ...

Coex for Success

(Magazine)

June 29, 2003, ... sacrificing performance, a reduction in setup and trim scrap, and the potential for use of a recycle layer. Scott B. Marks, senior technical specialist at E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co., Packaging & Industrial ...

May 1993 - 1994

(News | New Products)

September 19, 2002, ... new. Better extrusion technology leads to better film and offers several related benefits: easier, faster converting; better cost-performance ratios; better barrier properties; and lower scrap rates and ...

Web Guides Bring Positive Results to Negative Sleeves

(Magazine)

September 30, 2001, ... us to cut scrap in the extrusion department by two-thirds, we have also tracked a 10 percent reduction in pressroom waste. We clearly saw that not all web guides are the same, and that a higher quality, ...

Products at CMM

(Magazine)

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, ...

Coating Operation Cleans Up Its (Trim Removal) Act

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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 ...

Perforating tear-resistant materials takes a big step.

(Magazine)

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 ...

Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need

(Magazine)

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

(Magazine)

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 ...

Consider film cores when analyzing costs.

(Magazine)

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 ...