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AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Coating/Laminating)

March 17, 2011, Winning entries are recognized for excellence in AIMCAL's annual Vacuum Metallized or Coated Product, Sustainability, and Technology of the Year Competitions During the Assn. of Intl. Metallizers, Coaters ...

Green Converting: Is IML Sustainable?

(Label/Tape)

February 28, 2011, ... where they are held in position against the mold wall by either static electricity or vacuum ports. The mold closes, and the container resin is blown or injected into the mold. The hot resin fuses and ...

Surface Treating: Promoting Adhesion

(Surface Prep)

February 28, 2011, ... over this period because of their technical significance in eliminating the need for batch-processing vacuum chambers to ensure the maintenance of a negative pressure, while in practice delivering very ...

Events

(News Clips Archive)

February 28, 2011, ... Society of Vacuum Coaters, Hyatt Regency Chicago on the River Walk, Chicago, IL; www.svc.org MAY 1-4 | FFTA Forum & INFO*FLEX 2011, Foundation of the Flexographic Technical Assn., JW Marriott & Indiana ...

Show Preview - Forecast for Orlando: ICE

(Trends/Management)

January 31, 2011, ... Pressure-to-Vacuum (ATV) Modules for Web Processing: Vincent Cannella, Energy Conversion Devices Improved Web Handling Through Precise Tension Control & Splicing Accuracy (or The Perfect Butt): Joseph ...

AIMCAL Honors Technical Papers

(Trends/Management)

November 30, 2010, ... Track, the award went to Steve Zagar, Jeff Quass, and Dan Bemi of MEGTEC Systems for “Drying Laboratory Methods for the Development of Complex Empirical Drying Data.” In the Vacuum Web Coating Track, ...

Pilot Coaters: Small Volume, Big Advances

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2010, Until recently, development of laboratory and pilot coater technology has been relatively stagnant. The many improvements increased coating speeds, improved Until recently, development of laboratory ...

Bobst Group to Present Latest Technologies at K 2010

(Flexpack News)

September 27, 2010, ... from October 27 to November 3, on Stand 3–D52 in Hall 3. This will include both primary and secondary slitting and rewinding from Atlas & Titan (UK) solutions in vacuum web coating & metallizing from ...

40th Anniversary AIMCAL

(Special Reports)

April 30, 2010, ... for the “AIMCAL Turns 30” Special Report 2000 — Establishes a Technical Advisory Panel 2001 — Merges Fall Technical Conference with the Bakish Intl. Vacuum Web Coating Conference 2001 — Publishes ...

AIMCAL turns 40!

(Trends/Management)

April 30, 2010, I have been fortunate to have participated in AIMCAL for much of its lifetime. As an active board member for the past ten years, I have had the privilege I have been fortunate to have participated ...

A time to celebrate

(Special Reports)

April 30, 2010, ... the industry. Each blog features an expert in that area. www.WebCoatingBlog.com — Dr. Ed Cohen www.VacuumCoatingBlog.com — Dr. Charles Bishop www.WebHandlingBlog.com — Dr. David Roisum www.SpecialtyWebCoatingBlog.com ...

A future for photovoltaics

(Metallizing)

April 30, 2010, Some areas of vacuum web coating have progressed in the past decade, others have lagged behind. A hot topic 20 years ago was transparent barrier coatings. Some areas of vacuum web coating have progressed ...

Events

(News Clips Archive)

March 31, 2010, APRIL 14 | AIMCAL-PFFC-EMA Webinar on Vacuum Deposit Barrier Coatings, Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators/Paper, Film & Foil Converter/European APRIL 14 | AIMCAL-PFFC-EMA Webinar on ...

AIMCAL Announces Matteucci Awards

(News Clips Archive)

November 30, 2009, ... Vacuum Web Coating award went to Peter Saur of Applied Materials for his presentation on “Advanced TCO Layers for Flexible Electronic Applications.” He was credited for excellent technical content and ...

A Converting Renaissance?

(Editorial)

October 31, 2009, ... for Vacuum Web Coating for his presentation on “Advanced TCO Layers for Flexible Electronic Applications.” Gary Samuels of Dunmore Corp. won in the category for Web Coating/Laminating for his presentation ...

AIMCAL Announces Matteucci Technical Excellence Awards

(News | New Products)

October 21, 2009, ... of the John Matteucci Technical Excellence Awards. Winner of the Vacuum Web Coating award went to Peter Saur of Applied Materials for his presentation on “Advanced TCO Layers for Flexible Electronic ...

New Roles for Converters

(Archive)

September 30, 2009, ...  The second-generation products had reduced production costs and improved performance. This process used vacuum deposition to deposit a variety of materials, i.e., cadmium telluride and amorphous silicon, ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT

(New Products)

September 30, 2009, ... Web Inside a Vacuum The HFV Series linear actuator is said to provide a simplified solution for guiding the web inside a vacuum chamber. Designed to retrofit easily with customer's existing vacuum chamber, ...

EVENTS

(Events)

August 31, 2009, ... Crowne Plaza, Dallas, TX; www.convertingschool.com 18-21 AIMCAL Vacuum Web Coating & Coating/Laminating Fall Technical Conference, Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators, Amelia Island ...

Print 09 Preview of Exhibits

(Print Main)

August 16, 2009, A description of some of the exhibits that will be at PRINT 09 Heidelberg (Booth 1200), Kennesaw, GA, will debut the Easygluer 100 folding carton gluer and the KAMA ProCut 74 automatic finishing die-cutter ...