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Coating and Laminating: At the Heart of the Packaging Industry

(Magazine)

January 31, 2004, ... stretch, and shrink sleeve) and in-mold labels — as well as direct-printed flexible packaging (e.g., pouches and sachets), where the label is integral to the package. Different technologies may ...

Products and Materials

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... flat and of optimum converter quality. There is no film contact on the turning bars, minimizing tendency to form stretch wrinkles. Gearmotor Line Has Options Baldor Electric Co., Fort Smith, AR; 479/646-4711; ...

Brckner Enters Growing Russian Film Market with Novatek Install

(News | New Products)

September 09, 2003, ... of a "state-of-the art, complete BOPP stretching line with a working width of 8.2 m and an annual nominal output of 25,500 tons. [It was also equipped] with the widest thickness, product, and application ...

Pay Attention to Tension

(Archive)

August 31, 2003, ... quality? A: To have a consistent slitting process, the tension should be constant. This is especially true for stretchy and thin materials. Stiffer products (thicker, high modulus) will be less sensitive ...

Active Packaging

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2003, ... buyer. Stretch and wraparound sleeves are a good example — and a particularly popular choice on PET bottles. In-mold labeling (IML) continues to grow — particularly in North America and now increasingly ...

Coex for Success

(Magazine)

June 29, 2003, ... and predictive control systems. Timm feels film orientation is coming. “Although simple in concept, making machine direction or cross-machine direction stretching viable requires considerable technological ...

Winding Better Rolls

(Archive)

May 31, 2003, ... the stretched rug. The elongated material is pushed ahead of the cart, forming a bulge in the carpet. If you held the rug at both ends while you rolled the cart, you would find the rug behind the cart ...

Fit for Use

(Materials)

April 30, 2003, ... a load. Clamp a film sample and hang a weight from it and it may not stretch right now, but wait long enough and the film will stretch and elongate (low strain rate). If you need to have it stretch ...

Products

(Magazine)

February 28, 2003, ... to be especially effective with thin, stretchy PE cling films. Anilox Roll Cleaning System Saves Time HarperScientific, Charlotte, NC; 704/588-3371; 866/588-8686; harperscientific.com Poulsonator ...

Brckner at BrasilPlast 2003 Brazil's Plastic Sector's Biggest Showca

(News | New Products)

February 02, 2003, ... stretched films. Latin America, in particular, has notable market potential for film producers. As the world's leading supplier of film-stretching lines (with a market share of more than 50 percent), Brückner ...

Products

(Magazine)

January 31, 2003, ... North America. Printers or trade service organizations can stretch purchase over 36 months and then buy out the lease for $1 at the end of the lease term. Dual-Web System Is Slitter Option Jennerjahn ...

Today's Portfolio of Product Decoration Technologie

(Magazine)

January 31, 2003, ... prime labels — particularly sleeving and in-mold. The combination of the wraparound, heat shrink, stretch, and roll-on-shrink-on categories of sleeving continue to grow annually in double digits — a reflection ...

Neither Boom Nor Bust

(Magazine)

December 31, 2002, ... stretches on the road to economic recovery. Fry and Lowney believe the economy will continue to grow, albeit sluggishly. US real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at an annual rate of more than 3% in ...

Thin Webs without Wrinkles

(Magazine)

September 30, 2002, ... to expanding surface spreader rolls, is the potential web-distorting effect built into the design. (See Figures 1 and 2.) The arc itself, the core of the design principle, has the potential of stretching ...

Dead On Slit Rolls

(Unprinted Rolls)

July 31, 2002, ... acquired the US and Canadian distributorship for the Sollas line of machinery,” notes Cheatle. “Headquartered in the Netherlands, Sollas supplies overwrappers, stretch banders, and banders, which all require ...

Cutting to the Chase

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... process of changing chucks. Beyond the chucking problems on the unwind and rewind, Chase also was having dragging, floating, and stretching issues all the way down the line. The laminator's aluminum ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

February 28, 2002, ... cores of the Korad film rolls. After banding, the entire unit is wrapped in a poly stretch wrap to seal it from moisture during its ocean voyage. “The Pak-Line solution initially cost the same as our ...

Russian Flex-Pack Markets Holds Potential

(News | New Products)

January 23, 2002, ... stretching from its borders on Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Turkey in the west, passing Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and China, to reach the Pacific ocean some 6,000 km later. The landscape is predomdinatly ...

Products

(Magazine)

November 30, 2001, ... are said to function at very low web tensions to avoid stretching thin or fragile webs. Web tracking reportedly is eliminated, because it is not moving. Also utilizes an ultra-low-friction, replaceable ...

Materials

(Magazine)

November 29, 2001, ... to tearing and stretching, co. notes. Said to provide a distinctive edge for design applications. In addition to superior toughness, paper reportedly exhibits excellent finishing properties and is extremely ...