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Directory of Pilot Lines/Labs A-L

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ...  Coating techniques: Doctor blade, meyer rod Annual sales: Between $20 million and $35 million ISO certified: Pending No. of employees: 100 (6 lab) Offers coating, laminating, slitting, and sheeting ...

Directory of Pilot Lines/Labs M-Z

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... (9-18 mil), corrugated sheets (1-10 mm) Coating processes: Flexo Coating techniques: Doctor blade Annual sales: Less than $20 million No. of lab employees: 2 Deals primarily with the printing aspect ...

What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2000, ... with any form of roll-to-roll label printing, including flexo, offset, silk screen, or thermal transfer. Uses what co. calls inexpensive flatbed rule die-cutters. In-line slitters and a sheeter are available. ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... for both large presses printing high-end graphics or for small-format, sheet-fed presses, inks are said to offer the "widest window of water tolerance" available. Product's strong lithographic tolerance ...

Drupa 2000A Big Success Any Way You Count It

(Magazine)

June 30, 2000, ... proofing systems. "Prediction" is a two-up system that was developed using the company's Laser Ablation Transfer (LAT) technology. Xeikon debuted its first sheet-fed digital color press, the Xeikon CSP ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

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May 31, 2000, ... but it also includes a cut-size sheeting operation and does some specialty coating and one-color printing with a Black Clawson flexographic printer/coater. Blue Ridge also has two sheeters at Waynesville. ...

Coating Operation Cleans Up Its (Trim Removal) Act

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May 31, 2000, ... calls for coating an epoxy-type resin onto a fiberglass woven web," says Sangl, "which has a feathered edge and tends to accumulate resin. As it gets sheeted down into a cut length, we trim away this edge, ...

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

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January 31, 2000, ... conversion processes of slitting, reeling, and sheeting. We are not only a contract coating operation, but, increasingly, we are customizing products." To meet these expanding customization requirements, ...

Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ... receives coated jumbo rolls from its U.K. parent at the 67,000-sq-ft Schaumburg facility. It converts the rolls into sheets and smaller rolls and ships to customers in the US, Canada, and Latin America. ...

Narrow web adapts to multiple applications

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November 30, 1998, ... in addition to multiple print stations, you can add stations for laminating, hot foil stamping, rotary die-cutting, flatbed die-cutting, sheeting, perforating, or ink jet printing. Practically anything ...

Label converter controls quality from the inside out

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August 31, 1996, ... (Soloflex) and Comco equipment, the firm runs 22 flexo presses, up to nine colors each, at widths to 25 in. Walle's headquarters in Harahan is a sheet-fed offset label printing facility. Two Mitsubishi ...

Laminator adds metallizing to the mix

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ... laminated substrates to customers throughout the US and Canada. "We are a primary supplier," says CEO Ralph Goldman. "We don't do any printing. We supply either sheets or rolls of laminated foil on paper ...

Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need

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June 30, 1996, ... which has produced coextruded sheet film lines for much of its 38-year history, reports that its customers have recently seen a need for smaller, test-run-sized equipment for cast films as well. Now, says ...

Gravure gets easier

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April 30, 1996, ... options such as rotary die-cutting, sheeting, perforating, and embossing. In addition, the company has introduced the "polymetric Rotogravure Image Carrier," a plastic-coated, ready-to-engrave rotogravure ...

New hot stamper does more for short runs

(Magazine)

February 29, 1996, ... then stripped away, followed by sheeting down to individual 7x5-in. sheets of labels. All processes are completed in one pass. The next hurdle for Stearns involved the production of the header card, ...

Bagmakers add a strong link to quality chain

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July 31, 1995, ... but was not happy with the quality of printing that resulted. Deficiencies in the film made registration difficult, especially in the area of gauge control. "Gravure printing requires a very flat sheet," ...

Future of video inspection systems seems bright.

(Magazine)

June 30, 1995, ... tool in the converting industry primarily because of the cost value. One application where they are used sporadically is roll-to-sheet gravure operations in which the $200,000 to $500,000 expenditure is ...

Film offers food packagers green marketing opportunity

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April 30, 1995, ... the film with a light green tint to further promote environmental awareness. Individual sheets, however, will still appear clear. A perfect substitute for Melinex 81 3, but with an environmental advantage ...

Holograms continue to gain in converting applications.

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February 28, 1995, ...  can be used for optical sheeting or optical registration for web printing. If the clarity of the registration mark isn't consistent, registration in printing or sheeting can suffer." The effects of printin ...