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- New Roles for Converters
- (Archive)
- September 30, 2009, ... and have the potential for very high productivity. A wide variety of flexible substrates — foils, paper, and plastic — with a range of substrate thicknesses can be processed. A wide selection of substrates ...
- WHAT'S NEW PRODUCTS: July 200
- (New Products)
- June 30, 2009, ... quality print and increased productivity. Plates work well with a variety of substrates and inks and are available in thicknesses from 0.045-0.112 in. in format sizes to 52 × 80 in. MacDermid Printing ...
- Stress & Strain
- (Archive)
- May 31, 2009, ... them requires force proportional to how much you stretch them and their spring constant. A web's spring constant is the product of Young's modulus of elasticity†, web thickness, and width. In a draw zone, ...
- Web Coating: Process Characterization
- (Coating/Laminating)
- October 31, 2008, ... Uniform thickness in machine direction (MD) and transverse direction (TD), which is particularly important in a doctoring process in which the distance from blade to substrate determines final coating ...
- February Products
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2008, ... used in flexo printing. Tapes feature a unique thickness color differentiation said to allow for easy cylinder ID. Flexible drape and construction enable easy-to-cut, simple-to-apply mounting, company ...
- WHAT'S NE
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 2007, ... 421 Get High Peel, Shear Properties ADMTack PSAs for low-weight coating applications provide exceptional peel and shear properties, company reports, and can be used at film thicknesses as low as ...
- Driving R&D
- (Magazine)
- June 29, 2007, ... are not uniform in thickness or in length, it can create pressure points throughout the rolls that can ultimately result in costly product defects,” says Dr. Keith Good, professor of mechanical engineering, ...
- Can This Coater Be Saved?
- (Archive)
- January 30, 2006, ... weight (thickness) measurement Viscometers to continuously coating solutions Substrate surface treatment Flame Corona Atmospheric plasma, flame, corona Static control Surface contamination ...
- Measuring Force
- (Magazine)
- October 30, 2005, ... materials, with only one backing tape, or with no backing tape, using different lamination adhesives or different adhesive thicknesses, or pull the test at a different speed. What you will find is that ...
- A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI
- (Magazine)
- July 30, 2005, ... offsets and at greater wet coating thicknesses, the software was accurate for predicting which defects an improperly positioned slot die would create. When used with accurate rheological, surface tension, ...
- Advances in Coating
- (Magazine)
- March 30, 2005, ... off-line in the laboratory. As coating speeds increased, this method could result in a large amount of defective material being produced before testing was complete. Coating weight and thickness is ...
- Communication from the PLACE div. of TAPPI
- (Magazine)
- March 30, 2005, ... styles of dies. One common style is the coat-hanger die. This type of die has wide acceptance in industry because of its relatively simple geometry and its ability to produce uniform thickness products. ...
- New Product Digest, Part 1
- (Magazine)
- December 30, 2004, ... NDC Infrared Engineering, Irwindale, CA; 626/226-8319; ndcinfrared.com The FG710 IR gauge performs what is said to be highly accurate on-line basis weight and thickness measurement of single- or multilayer ...
- The Harms of Harmony
- (Magazine)
- November 29, 2004, ... extrusion, slitting, or winding operations, they may lead to waste. Harmonics in web speed or tension are one source of chatter (crossweb stripes in coating or extrusion thickness). Speed variations ...
- The Signs of Shear Wrinkle
- (Magazine)
- July 31, 2004, ... thickness, modulus, and uniformity) is a complex engineering problem, but it is predictable with advanced web wrinkling models. If you see clockwise-angled troughs or wrinkles in your process, understand ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- March 30, 2004, ... scalartechnologies.com ScalarGauge F is a complete control and management system designed to measure the thickness of very thin coatings applied to plastic film. Noncontact system uses the latest optical ...
- Reduce Web Nip Problems
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2004, ... to meter material uniformity. In extrusion or coating, the nip is expected to redirect and smooth out the fluid polymer or solution to a uniform cross-web thickness and flow rate. This assumes uniform ...
- Darwin Would Approve
- (Unprinted Rolls)
- January 30, 2004, ... monitoring system will be used in the Austell facility to measure the thickness and uniformity of the aluminum coating deposited on plastic substrates. It was the winner of the Technology of the Year Award ...
- Dual-Deckle System for Trouble-Free Web Width Variation
- (The Place)
- November 30, 2003, ... but dual deckle systems can run leak-free for several weeks. Edge Profile Control A chief goal in extrusion coating is to maintain a uniform coating thickness across the entire application width. This ...
- Producing Coextruded High Barrier Heat-Shrinkable Packaging Films
- (The Place)
- September 30, 2003, ... be adversely affected. The thick quenched tube-typical thickness of approximately 0.4-1.0 mm at a temperature of approximately 30°C has little or no orientation at this stage. It is then fed into a ...
