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No-Wait Welding

(Coating/Laminating)

February 29, 2008, ... offers superior elongation and stretch characteristics too. Consequently, hot air welders are used to produce the vast majority of covers and liners. However, since extrusion welding can be five times ...

The Market Matures

(Label/Tape)

February 29, 2008, The sleeve label in all its forms shrink, stretch, and roll-on-shrink-on/machine direction (ROSO/MD) has changed the face of the packaging market in just The sleeve label in all its forms — shrink, stretch, ...

Web Lines: Thinking About New Equipment?

(Web Handling)

January 31, 2008, ...  Step 2 | Tensioning What are the mechanical properties of your webs? Think about the extreme cases of high tension (wide, thick, stiff) and low tension (narrow, thin, stretchy). A good starting point ...

Coating & Laminating Services Directory 2008

(Archive)

January 31, 2008, ... Stretch USA Shelbyville, TN; M Leonard; www.manulistretchusa.com 4, 6, 17, 22 (105 in), 30 (105 in) View the Key Metallized Engineering (MEI in) Suffield, CT; L Skodis; www.mtzeng.com 4, 6, 14, ...

Roll Winding Dynamics

(Web Handling)

January 31, 2008, ... share of nip pressure, which may damage delicate materials; diametrical variations can result in an uneven stretching of the web around the roll so that the appearance of bagginess becomes a cause for ...

Products

(New Products)

December 31, 2007, ... technology features hands-free operation and a rise-and-fall plate bed. Said to offer significant advances in shorter makeready time, less risk of stretch damage, and greater ease of operation. Adjusts ...

Baggy Webs: Part 4 Minimizing

(Archive)

July 31, 2007, ... much, but some film bagginess can be greatly reduced with a heat, stretch, cool process. Why is this dangerous? You may change the characteristics of your film, such as heat stability or stiffness. I ...

Up to the Task

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... and overwrap. Toray Plastics (America)—PFFC-ASAP 316. torayfilms.com FlexSure Elastic Film nestles between layers of nonwoven material and is used for products with stretchy materials on the sides, ...

Going Thin

(Slit)

June 29, 2007, ... if the winder is presented with variations in calliper, the web can become stretched and baggy over gauge band variations. Surface winders, particularly those that bear the weight of the roll on a drum, ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... film industry want improved optical and physical properties including shrink films, overwrap films, lamination films, food packaging, greenhouse films, and stretch films. Nucleation improves shelf appeal ...

Sweets Success

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, ...  bustling capital city, Ukrplastic is the nation's largest flexible packaging converter. The city's art and architecture are world treasures; however, the newer sections stretch out on the flat left bank ...

Converter Clips

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, ... including specialty products such as “stretch pak” film cards, blister cards, and gable-top cartons. Knight's other business unit is Knight Paper Box Co., Chicago. The acquisition is said to give the company ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

January 31, 2007, EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Stretch Film Production Control Of Extrusion And Casting Variables by Mark A. Jones, Battenfeld Gloucester Europe APPLICATION: Using EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Stretch Film Production — Control ...

Outlook: Challenging

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, ... applied’s 2%. (The fastest growing product decoration technologies currently are in-mold at 14%/yr and stretch sleeving at 8%–10%/yr.) In market application areas such as the beverage market, p-s labeling ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, ... 418 Stretch Film for Many Properties Kiefel, Wrentham, MA; 508/384-1200; kiefel-extrusion.com The Kirion MDO production line stretches film monoaxially to reduce thickness and enhance film properties. ...

Two's Better than On

(Materials)

November 07, 2006, ... of 2007 in the company's Mankato, MN, plant. Atlantis Plastics manufactures polyethylene custom films, stretch films, and molded plastic products used in a variety of consumer and industrial applications. ...

New Products, Part 1

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, ... precisionairconvey.com Model 52 and Model 62 roll splitters automatically remove defective and/or out-of-spec stretch film, paper, foil, and other materials from their cardboard cores. In less than 1 ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, ... properties of machine direction oriented film. Machine direction orientation is a process where a film is uniaxially stretched in the machine direction to enhance physical properties. Past work showed ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

April 29, 2006, ... Lengerich, Germany. The Filmex line is W&H’s modular cast film line for PP, barrier, stretch, and specialty film. The nine-layer line features eight extruders; newly designed barrier screws; a chill ...

Trends & Technical Solutions

(Archive)

December 30, 2005, ... shrinkage and tensile strength at the conversion temperature to ensure that the substrate can be processed at the required tension levels without unacceptable levels of shrinkage or permanent film stretching. ...