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DMS Offers Unwind/Rewind

(News | New Products)

May 30, 2015, System is said to deliver smooth, vibration-free operation to handle tension-sensitive thin films or foils LAKE ZURICH, IL | DMS, a supplier of products and services for rotary hot stamping, embossing, ...

CPP EXPO Reports on Conference Agenda

(News | New Products)

May 29, 2015, ... print engine—they know the material handling, the industry, and the applications. Additionally, some of the vendors for thin films also know how to dry water-based inks and coatings on typical flexible ...

Looking Behind the Curtain of Coating

(Coating/Laminating)

May 29, 2015, ... (typically the bottleneck of the process). Once you properly size the oven for the application, you need to consider the fluid flow dynamics within the coating system. As the fluid is coated faster and ...

DuPont Awards | Salsa Container Blends Rigid and Flexible To Earn 2015 Highest Honor

(Flexpack)

May 26, 2015, ... highest honor, for SkinnyPack Technology. This mono-material package marries flexible and rigid packaging to create a thin, light, strong structure that uses less material, enables recycling, and allows ...

Coating Matters | The Effects of Viscoelastic Behavior, Pt. 1

(Coating/Laminating)

May 25, 2015, ... data. What does this viscoelastic nature look like? If you study a fluid that has shear thinning characteristics, but not elastic characteristics, then the viscosity curve has no hysteresis—the curve ...

Maxpro Benefits from New Era Machinery, Support

(Coating/Laminating)

May 12, 2015, ... support, however, was what really stood out to its happy customer. “Beyond producing this great machinery, New Era also acted as the contractor for this project and managed everything from installation ...

On Print | UV/EB Inkjet for Food Packaging

(On Print)

May 11, 2015, ...  The first thought that comes to mind when discussing EB cure is that the capital cost is too high. However, when a process permits doing something that couldn’t be done before, the economics are different. ...

Spring 2015 Travels: Nordmeccanica (Long Island), Malaysia (Part 3)

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

May 04, 2015, ... What I can say though is that it is very, very rare for a plastics production facility in Malaysia to have even one engineer on location.  This is an unthinkable situation in the USA and Europe. The ...

Web Lines | Unwritten Rules, Now Written

(Technical Reports)

April 27, 2015, Here are 3 web handling rules Tim Walker keeps forgetting to tell you Here are 3 web handling rules Tim Walker keeps forgetting to tell you. There are a few things that I almost always forget to ...

Open House Showcases Nilpeter Equipment

(News | New Products)

April 26, 2015, ... Esagraf director Eduardo Sa, “and the demos impressed the customers, so we were nothing but satisfied.” The demonstration of the sleeve-based FA-4* for producing high quality labels and flexible packaging ...

PACK PRINT INTERNATIONAL Coming in August

(News | New Products)

April 25, 2015, ... will transform Southeast Asia into a region with free movement of goods, services, investment, skilled labor, and freer flow of capital. “With the launch of AEC this year, businesses within the region ...

Coating Matters | Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Coating

(Coating/Laminating)

April 20, 2015, ... caveats, with the range of coating chemically spanning low solids content within a solvent to 100% solids hot melt adhesive coating. With these changing chemistries comes many decisions, from pump type ...

NPE 2015 Wrap-up

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

March 31, 2015, ... show quickly on Monday if you were looking for something specific in the flexible area only.  Monday seemed to be a slow day, and the bulk of the show was injection molding, blow molding, and overseas ...

Allied Plastics Holdings Launches Synthetic Paper

(Materials)

March 27, 2015, ... processes (with the exception of laser) presently being used by printers within the NAFTA region. Company says product is a lower cost, high quality alternative to many of the present day synthetic paper ...

Should Unwind Tension Be Lower Than Winding Tension?

(Web Handling)

March 26, 2015, ... is initiated by machine direction slippage (a.k.a. cinching) within the unwinding roll. Usually this is avoided with the first rule of winding and unwinding: “A roll’s unwinding tension should be lower ...

Durst Digital Label Press Handles Jumbo Rolls

(News | New Products)

March 24, 2015, ... 330, or with the Tau’s Low Migration System for printing on foils and thin films. It handles a range of materials as thick as 20-pt paperboard. Reportedly, users will have up to two hours of continuous ...

Barrier Resins | Properties, Processing & Handling of EVOH, Pt. 2

(Flexpack)

March 23, 2015, ... and combination of many alternating layers from as few as two extrusion melt streams. This equipment allows production of structures with multiple thinner EVOH layers, which achieve the target gas barrier ...

AIMCAL Awards | Golf Balls & Ceramic Balls Are Game Winners

(Coating/Laminating)

March 18, 2015, ... system during the March 19 Awards Dinner. Credited among the innovative features that captured the judges attention was a ceramic ball inside the slot die cavity that ensures a thin, uniform coating ...

Coating Matters | Construction Materials for Coating Equipment

(Coating/Laminating)

March 18, 2015, ... precision coating applications including thin film photo voltaic, Li-Ion battery, and optical systems technology. Mark has been integral to new developments and technology that minimize product waste and ...

Coating Matters | Membrane Process Technology

(Coating/Laminating)

March 10, 2015, Here are a few theories to guide your decision making for achieving the thin coatings needed for filtration If you'd like to hear from Mark Miller's own lips rather than read his column, titled "Coating ...