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Slitting Adhesive-Coated, Low-Strength Films

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September 30, 2001, ... for good operability in a slitter. And, there is a significant caliper increase at the web edges, to the point where trim must be removed prior to rewinding. Because the adhesive presents a problem ...

CPSC: The Other Packaging Regulatory Agency to Watch

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August 31, 2001, ... young children. The CPSC formally proposed a rule to require buckets to be redesigned but abandoned the rule when Congressional critics noted that the changes actually would be detrimental to the safety ...

New Product Digest

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August 31, 2001, ... or “bleeding” air to the output to correct any error conditions. Features include auxiliary control valve capability for increased flow requirements; no trim pots or other analog set-up adjustments; microprocessor ...

Slitter Savvy: Visual Roll Defects & Remedies

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July 31, 2001, ... retain cores and fasten webs securely to the cores. Trim wound in rolls: This is caused when the winder trim is not collected into the trim removal system and follows the web into the winding roll.  ...

Polymers/Laminations/Adhesives/Coatings/Extrusions

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July 31, 2001, ... therefore enhances the ability of the coating to stretch without detriment to the finished product. Achieving a 10 to 1 film stretch with this arrangement is possible. The technique has use where the lowest ...

Products

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June 30, 2001, ... cut. Available in basic version 240 AS and in fully automatic versions 150A, 240A, and 550A. Offers quick size chanegovers; automatic waste trim selection; programmable cutting lengths and number of cuts; ...

What Is Converting? It Helps to Ask That Simple Question

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May 31, 2001, ... If the coating has more than one component, make certain the proper ingredients were mixed in the correct levels. Is the coating operation generating foam? Foam is usually detrimental to a coating operation. ...

Over-Tensioned Webs and What to Do about Them

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May 31, 2001, ... be trimmed prior to processing through the metallizer. William E. Hawkins has 30-plus years of process and equipment development in web handling, including experience on all types of converting equipment. ...

Products

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May 31, 2001, ... are running at speeds of 200-500 fpm. Co. reports dryer has many applications in operations utilizing high-speed ink jet print systems, including direct mail and package marking. Trim Winders Are ...

Division Conference Offers Varied Program

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May 31, 2001, ... increased line speeds and the drive to increase production coupled with the effect of down gauging polymer coating to decrease costs is the detrimental effect on final coating adhesion. By increasing line ...

What's New in Narrow We

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April 30, 2001, ... and exit “S” wrap pull rolls with adjustable “draw” control; IMC interchangeable slitting assemblies for shear, score, and razor slitting; vacuum edge trim removal; and auxiliary winder to take up extra-width ...

Products

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April 30, 2001, ... unwind and rewind. It can handle web widths to 1,600 mm (63 in.) and diameters to 1,000 mm (40 in.). Options include in-line slitting reverse facilities, various core sizes, trim extraction, and more. ...

Pellet Transfer: Preventative Measures Employed to Reduce Streamer Formation

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April 30, 2001, ... of polyethylene pellets is a key component of product quality for resin suppliers and resin consumers. The presence of resin imperfections such as streamers, fluff, and fines can be detrimental to the ...

A Proposal for Spreading Base Web During Melt Extrusion

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March 31, 2001, ... One negative with this concept is that more non-coated base edge is needed (about 1 in. each side) to provide a working surface for the TD spreading rolls. This requirement would result in more trim waste ...

Two-Drum Slitter Packs a One-Two Punch

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March 31, 2001, ... a contract converter, I knew that, potentially, we would be dealing with many different products with an equal number of trim widths and slit changes on a daily, even hourly, basis. In this scenario, increasing ...

Web Handling...Making a Slitter/Winder Upgrade Work for You

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March 31, 2001, ... in the rewind rolls is prohibitive because of the amount of trim that must be discarded. The period length of windup oscillation required for optimum gauge band distribution has been found to be three-quarters ...

Converting Industry News

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February 28, 2001, ... Alignment System from ADI Intl., Matthews, NC. The AKU-Guide is manufactured under license from Dücker Fördertechnik GmbH and is designed to reduce edge trim while maintaining constant web tension and ...

Core Cutter a Boon to Independent Tube Company

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February 28, 2001, ... less than 10 min. The CM 21, Erdie says, is highly automated, featuring automatic positive trim separation while it cuts, automatic parent core loading from a core cart, and automatic off-loading conveyor ...

Modifying Adhesives for Superior Performance

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February 28, 2001, ... adhesives are even versatile enough to create vinyl/foam laminates used in automotive interior trim applications. All of these liquid applications use a high-molecular-weight copolyester resin that ...

Cast Film Dies and Auxiliary Equipment

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February 28, 2001, ... trim. The design of most commercial dies produced today uses control volume methods. Such design breaks areas of the die into small segments and calculates flow in the combination of these segments to ...