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AstroNova Launches Label Presses

(News | New Products)

October 01, 2017, ... and registration and is optimized with automatic tension control and a built-in web guide. The intuitive TrojanControl touch panel user interface is said to be easy to use and facilitates a quick startup. ...

Protective Packaging | Add Value with Vapor Corrosion Inhibitors

(Flexpack)

September 26, 2017, ... costs, hassle, and tension with customers who might otherwise receive their shipments corroded. When based on organic VCI chemistry and combined with recyclable material, these materials offer safer, more ...

Maxcess to Announce New Sensors

(News | New Products)

September 19, 2017, ... excited to showcase to our customers at Labelexpo our comprehensive product range covering all their web handling requirements, with winding, guiding, slitting, tension control, and roller solutions to ...

FPA Issues Graphic on Fighting Food Waste

(Flexpack)

September 05, 2017, ... vegetables purchased. The FPA says when packaged in flexible packaging, the shelf life of green beans extends from 7 days to 19 days. Some other examples of shelf life extension for food, when packaged ...

Telstar Press Allows Many Tests

(News | New Products)

August 22, 2017, ... provides precise, constant tension from 4–60 lbs. This isolates the unwind tension creating a controlled process zone minimizing waste while contributing to re-registration accuracy. Unwind stand with ...

Catbridge Slitter/Rewinder Suited for Nonwovens

(Slit)

August 19, 2017, ... helps maintain proper tension and minimize web displacement, even for fragile materials, and a special cutoff and transfer system squarely cuts the web, creates very short tails, and places these tails ...

RadTech Says EPA Delays Ozone Standard

(Trends/Management)

August 13, 2017, ... the US Environmental Protection Agency has announced a one-year extension for promulgation of initial area designations for the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone. The information ...

Web Industries Launches Large-Format Spool

(Flexpack)

July 13, 2017, Large-scale spooler reportedly will provide hygiene product manufacturers with quick turnaround and greater yield MARLBOROUGH, MA | Web Industries announces a new, large-format spooling (LSF) resource ...

Dover Flexo Expands Production Capability

(News | New Products)

July 12, 2017, A new automated lathe and a new milling machine will enable the company to expand production of idler rolls and tension roll transducers ROCHESTER, NH | Dover Flexo Electronics (DFE), supplier of tension ...

Self-Locking Core Chuck Patented by Mechanical Specialties

(News | New Products)

July 05, 2017, Chucks have either one or three locking rollers WYOMING, RI | Mechanical Specialties Inc. produces a self-locking core chuck in both steel and aluminum. Chucks have either one or three locking rollers ...

Web Lines | Action Plan for CD Buckles, Part 3

(Web Handling)

July 04, 2017, ... CD Buckles Description—In winding with low tension and strains, core shrinkage, escaping wound-in air, or other radial dimensional losses can shift the entire roll into MD compression and CD buckles. ...

Martin Automatic to Display Web Handling Units

(News | New Products)

July 02, 2017, ... 25–28, at the Brussels Expo in Brussels, Belgium. The company, known for its line of automatic splicing unwinds, automatic transfer rewinds, and tension control systems, will run demonstrations of the ...

Maxcess Announces New MAGPOWR Products

(News | New Products)

June 21, 2017, New tension control solutions include the CSR Cantilevered Tension Sensing Roller, the ISR Integrated Sensing Roller, and a larger Thin Load Cell OKLAHOMA CITY, OK | Maxcess, a global supplier of products ...

Roller Geometry | What Is Your Roller’s True Shape?

(Web Handling)

June 21, 2017, ... If the geometric variances are too great, then web handling problems, such as wrinkling, stretching, bagging, repeating patterns, poor steering, and tension variation, can occur. Most of the time there ...

Sticking With It | Overview of Radiation Curable Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives

(Coating/Laminating)

June 14, 2017, ... use chelates to develop cross-linking and cohesive strength, these systems build cohesion through the UV process, which cross-links and builds the molecular weight of the polymers by chain extension. The ...

CTC Splicer Is Semi-Automatic

(News | New Products)

May 19, 2017, ... can do all roll loading and splice prep, and machine can be application-engineered for a wide range of roll sizes, web tensions, and web dynamics. A CE-compliant version is also available. Company says ...

Grafotronic Upgrades Tabletop Rewinder

(News | New Products)

May 15, 2017, ... a counter in meter or feet as standard; and a motorized table for perfect tension. Other reported features are as follows: 1-in. air shafts as standard and optional quick-change adaptors for any ...

AWA M&A Forum Spotlights Innovative Packaging

(Innovation Station)

May 04, 2017, ... have a good percentage of growth opportunity from product line extensions. He suggested people should always be looking for capabilities that can be leveraged into new markets. Jason Karl, Advent Intl. ...

Web Lines | Action Plan for CD Buckles, Part 2

(Web Handling)

April 10, 2017, ... land. Remedies: Wind on a core with high stiffness (resistance to compression from buildup of roll core pressure). Reduce the pressure exerted on the core with low starting tension, more taper ...

Martin Automatic Installs Unwind Roll Changer

(News | New Products)

April 05, 2017, ... and tension control systems, reports it has commissioned a custom automatic butt splicing unwind on a new line for coating heavy fabric materials. The MTB is designed to unwind and splice a variety of ...