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Roll Winding Dynamics

(Web Handling)

January 31, 2008, ... control on slitting and rewinding machines. In addition, a vacuum drum can be used as the main pull roller in place of nip, preventing creasing due to web slackness. Selecting the optimum winding mode ...

Parallel Protocol

(Web Handling)

December 31, 2007, ... for industrial use, a variety of industries have been able to take advantage of the technology. Vacumet Corp. Plastics Div. in Austell, GA, used this service to check the roll alignment of its vacuum metallizer. ...

PFFC Pilot/Lab/Technical Facilities Directory

(Magazine)

November 30, 2007, ... type: single-side impingement; 2 zones; dryer capacity: 15 ft; UV and thermal curing; solvents: water, organic; QC capability: ISO 9001 Coating Techniques | gravure, slot die, two-sided, vacuum metallizing ...

SVC Plans TechCon 2008

(Archive)

November 18, 2007, The 2008 of the Society of Vacuum Cleaners' (SVC) 51st TechCon will take place April 21-22, in Chicago. The program will address a number of technological breakthroughs and point to the most important, ...

Conferences, Seminars & Expos du Jour

(Editorial)

October 31, 2007, ... at the next conference, sponsored by the Assn. of Industrial Metallizers Coaters & Laminators (AIMCAL), an appetizer selection of short courses was served on “Vacuum Coating for High Barrier Performance” ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

September 30, 2007, ... a task that a person cannot perform in a vacuum. A troubleshooter must question, question again, and question a third time without offending until he uncovers all possible information about the task and ...

AIMCAL Hosts Annual Fall Technical Conference

(Archive)

September 29, 2007, ... builders. Sessions follow the familiar two-track format—one for Coating/Laminating and one for Vacuum Web Coating—except for the opening session each morning and the final six presentations, which are ...

Three of a Kind

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... Process. Predictive Maintenance: A New Tool for the Converting Industry. A New Level of Productivity with High Vacuum R2R Coaters for Packaging Film. Tuesday, October 16 | Upgrading and Modernizing ...

News Clips

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators, Fort Mill, SC, and the Society of Vacuum Coaters, Albuquerque, NM, have established a scholarship in the name of Dr. Bernard Henry of Oxford Univ., who passed away ...

4th Ed. AIMCAL Metallizing Technical Reference Goes to Print

(Archive)

August 01, 2007, ... with new chapters with information on the vacuum web coating processes. PRESS RELEASE The 4th edition of the AIMCAL Metallizing Technical Reference will go to print shortly. In addition to updates in ...

Converter Clips

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, ... is that of McCormick Place. We regret the error. Isoten Products Now Part of Webex NEENAH, WI — Webex has acquired the Isoten vacuum roll product line from Coating and Converting Resources (CCR), Sussex, ...

Cause & Defect

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, ... temperature Viscosity Surface tension pH, particle size Coating Applicator Gap between applicator and substrate Roll speeds Vacuum levels for die coating Flow rates to applicators ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

February 28, 2007, ... mm. Splicing procedure occurs independently of machine operation via a vacuum embossing shaft. Makes additional materials such as glue and tape unnecessary and is said to increase productivity. PFFC-ASAP ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

February 28, 2007, ... includes three primary and four secondary Atlas slitter/rewinders with roll handling systems and a General K5000 high-performance, 2,450-mm-wide vacuum metallizer for converting BOPET film. Reportedly, ...

Metallizing Matures

(Magazine)

January 31, 2007, ... current vogue for barrier-coated pouches and other packaging has been central to making the vacuum coating and metallizing processes such dynamic niche converting markets in recent years. Today, metallized ...

Contract Services Directory

(Coating/Laminating)

January 31, 2007, ... Pilot Coating, Slitting, Surface Treatment Available Coating Processes: Vacuum, 85 inches Chemsultants Intl. Mentor, OH; chemsultants.com Web Type: Foils, Plastic Films, Paper, Nonwovens Coating ...

WHAT'S NE

(Magazine)

January 31, 2007, ... noise immunity for precise tension measurement on web processes, company reports. Said to offer an ideal solution for demanding vacuum environments such as the production of solar cells, metallized films ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ... wide variety of products. With business on the increase, the company purchased an EHF vacuum web coater from General Vacuum Equipment (GVE). Joe Departo, general manager at the Rahway facility, says, ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ... adhesives and coatings designed to meet such goals. The initial goal of the laboratory work was to improve the adhesion of vacuum metallized aluminum layers to biaxially oriented polypropylene and polyester ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

December 13, 2006, ... is not for scientifically faint of heart; for those looking for a broad education on vacuum web coating or web coating/laminating, it’s difficult to find a better technical program in the industry. William ...