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Products: Edited by Deborah Donberg

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May 31, 2002, ... provides a no-foldover cut and transfer. Unique knife design is said to make it ideal for difficult-to-cut materials. Equipment is available for web widths to 100 in. and is suitable for clean room operation. ...

Inevitable Ergonomics: Standard Smarts

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April 30, 2002, ... ETC's web-based software "Ergotivity." SUPPLIER INFO Paper Converting Machine Co., Green Bay, WI; 920/491-6637; pcmc.com Ergonomic Technologies Corp., Syosset, NY; 516/682-8558; ergoworld.com Schlumpf ...

Dive in the Ipex "SEE" of Technolog

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April 11, 2002, ... as needed. Full JDF-compliancy integrates MIS/IT into the workflow for automatic job-ticket generation and end-to-end workflow management. A web-approval tool enables authorized users to approve pages ...

Products

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March 31, 2002, ... AC vector control; controlled tension unwinding from roll start to roll finish; air loaded dancer or accumulator systems; standard converting speeds to 400 fpm (122 mpm); standard web widths to 80 in.; ...

The Unwinding Story

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March 31, 2002, ... features are required, specifically, whether or not automatic splicing is justifiable,” says Jim Ward, VP of light web products at Martin Automatic Inc., Rockford, IL. “Most processes generate a significant ...

Converting Industry News

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February 28, 2002, ... Futec's line scan systems are complementary to BST's web control and web viewing technologies. Industry Studies FTA Poll Looks at Towel, Tissue, Napkin Niches RONKONKOMA, NY, USA—Flexographic Technical ...

Technology Raid Ipex-Style

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February 28, 2002, ... on Valmet, visit the company's Web site (listed in supplier information). A Prepress Perusal Prepress technologies also will be highlighted at Ipex. Creo Products Inc. (formerly known as CreoScitex) ...

Through Thick and Thin, Gauging Controls Perform for You

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February 28, 2002, ... it's on both sides of the web.” Hector Marchand, VP of marketing at NDC Infrared Engineering, Irwindale, CA, adds, “From the standpoint of trouble-free, predictable performance, the most frequently used ...

Difficult Jobs? Combo Printing Can Tighten Screwy Requests

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January 31, 2002, ... tool usage. From robotics to digital to web inspection technologies, suppliers and converters are committed to proper tool usage and — even more ardently — to getting the most out of that usage. One ...

Demand for Details and Innovation: FTA Surveys Towel and Tissue Manufacturers

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January 06, 2002, A non-scientific poll of Flexographic Technical Association (FTA) members engaged in the printing of towel, tissue, and napkin products (nonwovens and disposables) found this type of plant typically employs ...

What You Can Do: The ''Dos'' of Energy Conservatio

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December 31, 2001, ... The Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) offers the IAC (Industrial Assessment Center) program. Says the IAC web site (oit.doe.gov/iac/), “[This] program enables eligible small and medium-sized manufacturers ...

The Third Wave: An Iron Tale about the Business of Print, Vol. 1

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December 31, 2001, ... series web articles in 2002, we hope to provide critical insights, specific industry examples, and thought-provoking ideas about how technology is impacting converters today. Raine's whitepaper The Third ...

Products

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November 30, 2001, ... and Hoelscher. Spreaders Function at Low Web Tension Pearl Technologies, Savannah, NY; 315/365-3742; fax: 315/365-3433. Spreader bars are used in broad applications to remove wrinkles from webs. Spreaders ...

Product Develpment Help Is Here, There, Everywhere

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October 31, 2001, ...  [We] do it; we're just not allowed to talk about it.” Bill Farria, Lamart's manager of process engineering, explains many of its pilot lab customers are large converters that run wide web production equipmen ...

FREE Mark Andy/Comco Flexo FeastWhere Flexo Printers Can Gobble Up Ideas

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September 30, 2001, ... Cincinnati, the two-day "Flexo Feast" will educate packaging buyers, printers, and converters about the diverse range of narrow web flexo applications. MILFORD, OH, USA—The recently acquired Comco div. ...

New Product Digest

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August 31, 2001, ... co. reports. POUCH EQUIPMENT ADDS SLIDER HCI/Karlville Development USA, Miami, FL; 305/533-1051 The HCI single-web pouch machine can produce bags using the new Minigrip/Zip-Pak® Slider as well as ...

Belt Tracking Problems Require Careful Attention

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August 31, 2001, ... the new and old seam form an X at the exact center of the belt. William E. Hawkins has 30-plus years of process and equipment development in web handling, including experience on all types of converting ...

Hot Melt Symposium Offers Varied Program

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August 31, 2001, ... (Other). For information about the Polymers, Laminations and Coatings Division of TAPPI, see the web page at tappi.org/public/divisions/polymers_laminations_coatings.asp or access the TAPPI web site ...

Delivering Digital: CTP Carries Flexo Printing to Competitive Quality

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August 31, 2001, ... imaging plates directly onto a compressible sleeve provides a web flexo printer the best platform he or she could want — durable plate cylinder activity with an excellently imaged plate.” Digital imaging ...

Slitting Survey

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July 31, 2001, ... in the next 12 months. In other areas: Respondents use shear cut, razor blade, and score cut systems about equally; 71% indicate running roll web widths of greater than 36 in.; production/engineering ...