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Support Your Rollers

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... alignability. When you don’t have bored side frames, there are two other options to connect rollers to any horizontal or vertical surface: flange mounts (where the shaft holder bolts to the side frames ...

Baggy Webs: Part 4 Minimizing

(Archive)

July 31, 2007, ... Spreader Rollers—Use spreaders judiciously, such as just upstream of nipped processes, slitting, and winding. The best spreaders for baggy webs are bowed rollers, expanding surface rollers, edge nips, ...

WHAT'S NE

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, ... Products, Madison, NJ; 973/884-1755; sensorprod.com The Sigma-Nip second-generation electronic sensor and software diagnostic maintenance tool for measuring nip width has sensors deployed on the nip surface, ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, ... of roll stock for flexible packaging, good adhesion consists of two components—sufficient intimate contact between the substrate and extrudate and subsequent chemical bond formation between the two surfaces. ...

New Products

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... the rolls. Non-stick surface makes it easy to clean, company says. Both the skived PTFE and adhesive system can take heat to 500 deg F, and system works equally well in a cold process. PFFC-ASAP 418  ...

Driving R&D

(Magazine)

June 29, 2007, ... these demands, the new drive system needed to be capable of providing precise torque control over a wide range of machine surface speeds. Also key was the ability to control the many optional modes for ...

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, ...

Cause & Defect

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, ...  In addition, since many coating defects can have a variety of causes, characterization will help determine the true cause. For example, mottle is an irregular pattern on the surface of a coating. It ...

New Product Digest

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, ... 408 Eliminate Backside Treatment Enercon Industries, Menomonee Falls, WI; 262/255-6070; www.enerconind.com New Plasma3 atmospheric plasma system has the ability to modify surfaces unresponsive to ...

Booth Listings & Product Highlights

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ...  ST Converting; Booth 631 Stagnito Communications; Booth 3053 Standex Engraving; Booth 2414 Stanford Products; Booth 407 Sterling; Booth 1048; www.sterlco.com Sterling Surface Technologies; Booth ...

Reader's Choic

(Magazine)

February 28, 2007, ... normally range from 0.1–0.5 RA and are considered flawless. Surface finishes are specified to meet specific applications such as a mirror pocket finish for a high-performance release surface or a matte ...

Lessons in Laminating

(Magazine)

January 31, 2007, ... flat coating, the elimination of Benard cells, driven by thermal effects on surface tension, was critical. The key to this was the reduction in the thermal gradient across the coatings as they dried.  ...

WHAT'S NE

(Magazine)

January 31, 2007, ... Services Control Quality on Webs Erhardt + Leimer, Spartanburg, SC; 864/486-3000; erhardt-leimer-us.com The ELSIS surface inspection system performs quality control on all ...

Adding Up Additives

(Tech Reports)

December 31, 2006, ... that help packaging do its job. Keeping Friction in Bounds Slips let films slide over themselves and move smoothly through converting equipment. When added to a film, they migrate to its surface and ...

Shrink Film Folding

(Archive)

December 27, 2006, ... packaging of CDs, greeting cards, foodstuffs, and more. Features include rewind tension control profiling, shaftless unwind, multiple tension zones, air-lubricated A-frame, center surface winding, shaftless ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

December 13, 2006, ... point where applying inks onto virtually any surface is not only possible but is an increasingly precise, efficient, and productive process.” ‘Science’ Spoken Here By Yolanda Simonsis, Assoc. Publisher/Editor ...

How to Drive a Winding Roll

(Web Lines)

November 30, 2006, What is the best way to drive a winding roll? You have three choices: from the surface, from the center, or both. Web Lines What is the best way to drive a winding roll? You have three choices: from ...

CONVERTER CLIPS

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, ... inkjet technologies have reached the point where applying inks onto virtually any surface is not only possible but is an increasingly precise, efficient, and productive process.” ‘Science’ Spoken Here ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, ... coated film. Reportedly allows for rapid static dissipation on machine and a high level of conductivity in the residual dried surface of the coated substrate. PFFC-ASAP 424 Ink is Economical Option ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, ... investigated as frequency selective surfaces, photonic band gap structures, and negative index materials. Only since 2000 have patterning processes such as lithography, nanoparticle assembly, and nanofabrication ...