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AIMCAL Winners Pulsate with Panache

(Corrugated)

March 31, 2003, ... board for the top and bottom rims. The rims are folded over to achieve a 24-pt thickness and provide a seamless rim with a duplex effect. To maintain maximum strength and ensure smooth and crack-free folds, ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

November 30, 2002, ... a state-of-the-art, wide-width, high-speed sputtering machine at the Martinsville site. The new machine will enable metallic and reactive deposition and multilayer stacking on films from thicknesses of ...

Differential Rewinding: Part One

(Magazine)

October 31, 2002, ... winding comes from either web bagginess (from cross-web length variations) or roll-to-roll diameter variations (from cross-web thickness variations). Even before the onset of slackness, these variations ...

Products

(Magazine)

July 31, 2002, ... roll. The EchoKote Junior is designed for gravure or direct application of materials from the laser-engraved ceramic roll. Coating thickness is to 13 microns or 8.7 lb/3k sq ft at 100% solids. Crossfolder ...

Need New Equipment or Accessories? NPD Is the Place to Look

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... of applications. Reportedly provide maintenance-free operation, consistent measurement, exceptional stiffness, and long service life. Die Adjusts Thickness with Temperature Reifenhauser Inc., Ipswich, ...

Coating and Laminating Special Report

(Archive)

February 28, 2002, ... tensions can cause excessive elongation, as can excessive tension at lower temperatures. Also, HDPE film does not have the level of thickness uniformity required for precise coating applications. Thicker ...

Products

(Magazine)

May 31, 2001, ... 0.020-0.200 in. (0.05-5 mm). According to co., with precision manufacturing, knife thickness is held to 40 millions of an in., and eight or more slits can be cut simultaneously. Jogger-Aerator Is ...

A Primer on How to Put Substrates Together

(Unprinted Rolls)

February 28, 2001, ... polymers into a single extrudate. It offers many advantages, including the possibility of decreasing the amount of expensive polymer used, using recycled materials, minimizing thickness, etc. One big ...

Cast Film Dies and Auxiliary Equipment

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... adapter or die, the material undergoes spreading and thinning to the desired width and thickness. The goal is to produce a film of uniform gauge or thickness with minimal residual stress and minimal edge ...

Bringing Together the Many Benefits of Film and Paper

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... for uniform film thickness and smoothness, with the aim of matching the standards of surface finish and gauge historically achieved in paper manufacture through processes such as calendering. "We are ...

Curtain Coating Technology Can Mean Big Benefits

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, ... head, leads to significant advantages in terms of operational procedures and product quality when compared to other coating methods. In particular, the web film thickness in the machine direction (MD), ...

Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ... tip applicator to establish a uniform thickness of wetting tension solution on the polyolefin sample. An Alternative Emerges The emergence of a new ASTM-certified method of measuring surface energy, ...

Gauging system lights the way

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ... industry. BKL uses a continuous process to apply luminescent coatings - to exacting tolerances - to the plastic alloy substrate used in the production of EL lamps. In this process, the thickness and ...

Paper characteristics: starting the job right

(Magazine)

April 30, 1996, ... says Riddell, can be affected by a number of variables, including moisture content, tensile strength, the type of coating, the paper's thickness and orientation, among others. Base Sheet Uniformity  ...

Consortium proves quality growth of flexo printing

(Magazine)

April 30, 1995, ... experimental design. Photopolymer plates were selected over rubber plates since more than 60% of all flexo plates in the US are photopolymer. Experimenters also chose plate thickness of .107 in. over ...