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Coating & Laminating Special Report, Part 6

(Archive)

December 30, 2004, ...  A few manufacturers calculated process capability by selecting a single roll of product that had been run at "steady state" and testing virtually 100% of the roll. Each of the these techniques has ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, ... nozzle drops and to achieve full cure at high speeds. While the press is a prototype for testing the reliability of the technology in an industrial environment, it will be used immediately for regular ...

RK's FlexiProof Serves as a Flexo Training Too

(Archive)

December 07, 2004, ... in-plant ink departments, and others engaged in using or manufacturing flexo inks. Others use the system for quality control and printability testing, research and development, and determining performance ...

Chemicals & Responsibility

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... He already knew the approximate answer and simply was attempting to learn if they actually practiced patient responsibility. Nobody associated with such testing could give him a correct answer. After repeated ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... technology; machine maintenance; and new products and testing. One lunchtime tutorial tackled the soon-to-be-published AIMCAL Defects Lexicon; a second tutorial addressed growing your business in a ...

New Product Digest, Part 1

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, New products from: Rotatek, HCI Converting Equipment Co., Maguire Products, Sterling Toggle, Battenfeld Gloucester Engineering, NexGen Enviro Systems, Pinnacle Converting Equipment, Davis-Standard, Agfa, ...

Vehicle Retention is a Drying Not a Driving Issue

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ...  Thus, whenever a converter uses an adhesive, coating, or ink supplied in a liquid vehicle, drying to evaporate all solvent or water is an extremely important operation. Testing of the final construction ...

Technical Facility

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... is an equipment manufacturer, a significant portion of its pilot lab is dedicated to conducting materials testing. Its Chemical and Film Laboratory is fully equipped for all mechanical, optical, and electrical ...

PFFC Worldwide Special Report on Release Liners, part 2

(Archive)

October 30, 2004, ...  Adrian deKrom, R&D manager at Chemsultants Intl., Mentor, OH, discusses the use of a calibration tape to detect testing errors. The need for certified standards for physical and chemical testing and ...

Cal-Poly Launches Fund-Raising Drive to Commemorate 60 Years of Graphic Communication Education

(Archive)

October 26, 2004, ... Levenson. "The department also has offered ongoing educational services to those already in the industry. Those educational opportunities have included research, testing, product evaluations, consulting, ...

Sun Chemical Acquires Brand Protection Assets of Veritec

(Archive)

October 07, 2004, ... to protect product integrity and brand security, including covert on-package verification systems, portable field units for forensic "on-site" authenticity testing, high-speed robot authenticity testing ...

East Meets West - Again

(Flexpack)

September 29, 2004, ... drives, a GE Fanuc programmable logic controller (PLC), and a European-built CI cylinder. Currie and McGehee spent a week in Taiwan testing and providing final approval for the Neoflex. “The new press ...

Superfund Exempt Liability

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September 29, 2004, ... standard has emerged — the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Standard 1527 — which is recognized by real estate developers, banks, and regulators alike as defining a parties' CERCLA statutory ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

September 29, 2004, ... Non-UL, high-temperature tapes are said to feature a durable, high quality, low-cost polyimide film combined with a no-residue, fully cross-linked silicone adhesive. SATO Completes Hardware Testing ...

Products, Part 2

(Magazine)

September 29, 2004, New products from: Advanced Vision Technology (AVT), Anderson & Vreeland, Benz Materials Testing Instruments, Capitol Converting Equipment, Creo, Elsner Engineering, Eltex-Elektrostatik, Enfocus Software, ...

Whitlam Label Boosts Variable Printing Skills with Jetrion System

(Archive)

September 21, 2004, ... Kevin Hayes, "We ran many different label materials through the system during our testing, especially harsh-environment substrates that we produce for our automotive customers that need variable data labels. ...

The 411 on RFID, Part 2

(Archive)

August 30, 2004, ... goods manufacturer, a North American customer of its ADT Security Services Inc. (adt.com) unit. The RFID product-compliance testing process is one of the services offered by Tyco Fire & Security' ...

New Product Digest

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August 30, 2004, New products from: Action Rotary Die, Amagic Holographics, DiMS!, ETI Converting Equipment, Graymills, Prime UV, RK Print Coat Instruments, Simco Industrial Static Control, Testing Machines, and Water ...

Ghent PDF Workgroup Releases Base Line Format for Packaging PDF

(Flexpack)

August 03, 2004, ... Plus specific workflows for newspaper and magazine ads as well as for sheet-fed and web offset printing for cold set, heat set, CMYK, or spot color printing. GWG explains, after almost a year of testing, ...

Roots & Realized Dreams

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July 30, 2004, ...  Installed over this summer, the press already had gone through some testing by Burrows before it came to America. “A group of us traveled to Bielefeld, Germany, and actually witnessed our press run,” ...