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Atlas Sells Titan Compact Slitter to Mexico-Based Plemsa

(Slit News)

April 19, 2011, ... of the unwind reel to+2 in.Slitting systems available include shear knives, rotary razor (burst), or razor slitting in air or groove. Optional features on the Plemsa machine include a static electricity ...

Static Beat: Charge Control Antistatic Layers

(Static Elimination)

January 31, 2011, ... at an acceptable cost. Static charge is a problem when there is too much. Charge control layers minimize charging between surfaces. High levels of static often occur on the unwinding rolls for slitting ...

Mondi Upgrades

(Extrusion Coating)

January 31, 2011, ... industry, successfully continued the upgrade of its extrusion coating lines, investing in a new unwinder and an improved inline gauging system. What's happening at your company? Send your news to yolanda.simonsis@penton.com. ...

Web Cleaning: To Contact or Not?

(Web Cleaning)

January 31, 2011, ...  Resistive coupling of the emitter pins, which makes the units safe to touch, is an important factor in operator safety. Often, excess voltage is found on unwinds and rewinds. The cumulative effect of ...

EDI's New Technology Center Features Multi-Process La

(Extrusion Coating)

January 06, 2011, ... innovative structures, produced with EDI’s layer multiplier tooling, that can range from a few dozen to over a thousand microlayers. The line also includes two unwind stations for converting film made ...

Core Savings

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

December 31, 2010, ... roll-fed processes start: the unwinding roll. Nonstop Roll Change Each time a roll-fed press or process press stops, it creates waste. Automatic splicing will eliminate material waste, but one factor ...

Web Lines: Blow Away Your Roller

(Web Handling)

December 31, 2010, ... web and flip the bottom side up while maintaining the same process center line? How can you unwind and wind horizontally, yet run your process with the web running on end vertically? How can you measure ...

GAF-Elk Adds Slitter/Rewinder

(Slit)

December 31, 2010, ... roofing applications. Roger Jiao, project manager at GAF-Elk, is pleased with the user-friendly rewinder with recipe setup and winding curves. Other advantages include the shaftless floor pickup unwind, ...

Winder Provides Fast Setups

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

December 31, 2010, Model 902 cantilevered duplex center winder winds to 31.5-in. dia on both shafts. Also will unwind, trim, and rewind to diameters exceeding the maximum Model 902 cantilevered duplex center winder winds ...

Inspect Security Labels

(Inspection/Defect Detection)

December 31, 2010, The RSP single-pass 100% security inspection machine is designed for compliance with security label inspection and finishing applications. Machine features The RSP single-pass 100% security inspection ...

Mondi Plants Boost Coating Capabilities for Food Packaging

(Extrusion Coating)

December 01, 2010, ... for the food and pharmaceuticals industry, continued the extensive upgrade of its extrusion coating lines. The plant also invested in a new unwinder and the improvement of its inline gauging system.  ...

Films Meet VOC Directives

(Label/Tape)

November 30, 2010, ... low static in unwinding operations to help rollstock laminators and label printers achieve high productivity, low scrap, and reduced machine adjustments. Print surface is compatible with hot and cold foil ...

Winder Offers Easy Change

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

November 30, 2010, The modular design of the Atlas CW800 center winder for both plain and metallized films is said to enable easy change of unwind options, slitting systems, The modular design of the Atlas CW800 center winder ...

Treat Web Curl

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

October 31, 2010, A penetrating breaker roll decurl unit is programmed to treat web curl automatically as the roll unwinds. In mode, decurl movement is programmed from A penetrating breaker roll decurl unit is programmed ...

Montalvo Website Features Tension Upgrade

(Tension)

October 12, 2010, ... dual disc brakes in situations where significant unwind friction and torque are occurring in the original brake installation. According to Montalvo, the benefits to Mark Andy press users include being ...

Sitting/Rewinding: A Grand View

(Slit)

September 30, 2010, ... in Indiana. The extensive upgrade included the software and rewind and unwind sections. The Jennerjahn slitter replaced an older 54-in. machine. “With the Jennerjahn machine, we can offer our customer ...

C-P Adds Lamination Capacity

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2010, ... unwind splicer. It produces laminated structures comprising extruded PE between two films, including OPP and PET. The films can be clear, printed, or metallized. “Over half of our business is in extrusion ...

Coating/Laminating: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2010, ... shared its wish list for a coating and solvent laminating line with Faustel. After much collaboration, the team came up with many advanced designs and the perfect solution for its needs: turret unwinds ...

Pilot Coaters: Small Volume, Big Advances

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2010, ... manufacturers. These are narrow, miniature coaters that consist of a scaled-down unwind, coater, dryer, control systems, web transport, and rewind. These coaters use narrow webs (3-12 in.) and run at ...

Flexographic Printing: Super Setup

(Inspection/Defect Detection)

September 30, 2010, ... press runs all solvent-based inks and has BST web guiding systems on the unwind and the rewind. It features Rossini sleeves and Praxair anilox rolls and recently was retrofitted with a new BST Pro Mark ...