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Flint Acquires American Inks and Coatings

(News | New Products)

May 21, 2016, ... packaging segment and an enhanced position in the flexible packaging segment. Doug Aldred, president of Flint Group Packaging & Narrow Web, says, “By combining the technical innovations and product expertise ...

Coating Matters | The Effects of Viscoelastic Behavior, Pt. 2

(Coating/Laminating)

April 25, 2016, ... can develop ribbing defects. Ribbing is a downweb pattern that appears as evenly spaced defects in the coating. In an extreme case, ribbing will present as filaments and fail to relax into a full web coating. ...

Universal Converting Equipment Expands Coating Range

(Coating/Laminating)

April 16, 2016, Hot melt coating equipment uses technology from X6 slitter for expanded capability SUFFOLK, UK | Universal Converting Equipment is utilizing its high-speed web handling technology from the company’s ...

Coating | Solution Delivery for High-Precision Coating, Pt. 2

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2016, ... in crossweb position. In that case, the mixer’s power or speed may need to be increased. It’s a good idea to review the data provided by the mixer manufacturer as guidelines; usually you will have to experiment ...

Coating Matters | Clean Coating and Fluid Preparation

(Coating/Laminating)

February 15, 2016, ... Univ. and a Juris Doctor from Hamline Univ. Mark is a technical consultant and CEO of Coating Tech Service LLC. He has worked in web coating technologies and chemical manufacturing operations and is a ...

Coating | Solution Delivery for High-Precision Coating, Pt. 1

(Coating/Laminating)

February 08, 2016, ... across a conveying web and control of coating thickness in the down-web direction. Uniform coatings require precise fluid metering, precision coating heads, and tight conveyance speed and tension controls. ...

Coating Matters | Considerations for Good Manufacturing Practice

(Coating/Laminating)

January 26, 2016, ... coating or converting medical tapes, pharmaceutical products, or any converted web product regulated by the FDA. Now, I am not a regulatory expert, but the details of GMP are helpful in making equipment ...

Coating Tech Institute 2016 Registration Now Open

(Coating/Laminating)

January 05, 2016, User conference for the slot die coating industry to be held August 16-18, 2016 in Mentor, Ohio   EAU CLAIRE, WI | Coating Tech Institute 2016, a user conference for the slot die coating industry, ...

ProAmpac Acquires Coating Excellence International

(Coating/Laminating)

December 26, 2015, ... global packaging company, CEI is a flexible packaging and technical products specializing in wide web extrusion coating and laminating of film, foil, paper, board, and nonwovens. Financial terms were not ...

Coating Matters | Optical Films Require Multiple Layers

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2015, ... and CEO of Coating Tech Service LLC. He has worked in web coating technologies and chemical manufacturing operations and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt trained in both DMAIC and DFSS disciplines. ...

Foil Substrates: Handling, Web Control & Substrate Interaction

(Coating/Laminating)

September 21, 2015, What makes coating foils different than coating plastic or paper substrates? Handling and web control are definitely different for foils than films or paper, but the fluid substrate interaction is also ...

Web Lines | Air Bubbles in Your Laminate

(Web Handling)

August 31, 2015, ... exceeds the bond strength of the adhesive to one of the webs (usually a liner). Where do bubbles accumulate and delaminate? In a lamination process where two webs start running with no bonding coating ...

Coating Matters | Energy Storage Devices

(Coating/Laminating)

August 10, 2015, ... to coat the product intermittently on a continuous web. Keeping the fluid in constant movement helps reduce the issues associated with the start and stop phenomena related to coating patches. To properly ...

Static Beat | Control Static on Insulating Webs in Dryers

(Static-Beat)

July 22, 2015, How to protect solvent dryers/ovens from sparks caused by static on insulating webs. How to protect solvent dryers/ovens from sparks caused by static on insulating webs. Sparks are bad. Static sparks ...

Coating Matters | Film Split Defects

(Coating/Laminating)

June 28, 2015, ... of the web path). The inlet side of this nip point develops increased pressures. As the substrate and fluid exit the nip point, the diverging rolls develop low pressures. At this point of divergence between ...

Web Lines | Unwritten Rules, Part 2

(Technical Reports)

June 08, 2015, Here are a couple more web handling rules Tim Walker keeps forgetting to tell you Here are a couple more web handling rules Tim Walker keeps forgetting to tell you. There are a few things that I ...

Static Problems with Metallized Webs

(Static-Beat)

May 31, 2015, Metallized webs have static problems, too! Recently, I have helped investigate several static problems with webs having conductive layers. My "old school," conventional thinking was that structures ...

Looking Behind the Curtain of Coating

(Coating/Laminating)

May 29, 2015, ... behind the success of a falling curtain of fluid is the dimensionless Weber number- We = ρQV/σ We = Weber number ρ = density Q = volumetric flow rate V = impingement velocity σ = surface ...

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

(Coating/Laminating)

May 25, 2015, ... considerations with viscoelastic fluids. Roll coating techniques need to consider the film split of the fluid as rotational forces interact with tensioned web movement. Premetered coating techniques (like ...

Coating Matters | Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Coating

(Coating/Laminating)

April 20, 2015, ... Polymer Science & Engineering from Lehigh Univ. and a Juris Doctor from Hamline Univ. Mark is a technical consultant and CEO of Coating Tech Service LLC. He has worked in web coating technologies and chemical ...