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The Digital Advantage... More Than Just Printing

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October 31, 2000, ... does, and it does it with the "arsenal" of equipment to which Budzinski refers. The operation houses a brand new nine-color Aquaflex flexo press capable of running web widths to 26 in. at 550 fpm, and a ...

Directory of Pilot Lines/Labs A-L

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October 31, 2000, ... Acumeter 89 Doug Brown Way, Holliston, MA 01746-1378 Ph: 508/429-8750 Fax: 508/429-8553 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Web site: acumeter.com Markets: Sanitary/disposable, coating/ laminating  ...

Directory of Pilot Lines/Labs M-Z

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October 31, 2000, ...  Fax: 920/339-2794 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Web site: megtec.com Markets: Magnetic media, photographic/graphic arts, PSA/release coatings, label stock Services: Coating (adhesive, solvent- and water-based), ...

International Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... be viewed as it flows into the outer bag, without the need to fill another container. Industry Studies Packaging Fuels Growth of Presses in China CHINA—The number of new web- and sheet-fed printing ...

Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... see the May 2000 issue of PFFC, p52. Supplier News Coast to Build Web Guides in Europe SARASOTA, FL, USA—Coast Controls, manufacturer of all-air automatic web guiding systems that operate entirely ...

Presses and People Make a Powerful Combination

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September 30, 2000, Doing what it says "no one else can do" is the stock in trade of Los Angeles Label Co. Helping the cause are Webtron presses and some well-trained employees. Doing what it says "no one else can do" is the ...

Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

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September 30, 2000, ... and the company holds regularly scheduled training sessions, during which operators might spend a day practicing setting impressions. The training and experience has paid off for the narrow web converter; ...

Hologram in 3-D Makes Postage Stamp a Keeper

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August 31, 2000, ... stamp the hologram stamps three across, so Crown delivered three separate 4-in., 2,500-ft-long webs to Gravure Choquet. When the accuracy slipped slightly over the separate webs, Crown produced a single ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... TLC Motel, Waltham, near Boston. The Coating and Drying Technology Seminar, which will cover the technology of coating continuous webs, will be held October 30-November 2 until noon. That seminar will ...

Materials and Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... with the stand via load cell and ultrasonic diameter sensors. Arms are arranged so stand will handle down to a minimum web width of 400 mm (16 in.). Sheeter Cuts Variety of Material Contech, Goddard, ...

More Laminating Diversity Equals More Success

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May 31, 2000, ...  He adds that the system can handle web widths up to 96 in. and foam thicknesses from 1/16 to 11 /2 in., and it can run at speeds to 80 yd/min. Hightower describes the textile-to-foam laminating process: ...

Golden Cylinders Go to Gravure's Very Bes

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April 30, 2000, ... The printer had to flood coat the front side of a noncompressible substrate, then trap a fine vignette over the top with no hard break, and the vignette was cross directional to the web travel. Four inks ...

Globalization Is Driving Force Behind Fast-Growing NPE

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April 30, 2000, ... while 32% selected flexible packaging. Vincent L. Witherup, chairman of the exposition, says, "Besides providing processors and web converters with opportunities to improve quality or reduce costs, the ...

Curtain Coating Technology Can Mean Big Benefits

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February 29, 2000, ... coating methods. The term "premetered" indicates that only the exact amount of fluid to be coated onto the web is fed to the coating head. This feature, and the associated lack of excess fluid at the coating ...

Static electricity can be a very costly problem

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August 31, 1998, ... attraction of dust and debris; disruptive effects on sensitive electronic equipment; webs that slip and slide out of register; webs that cling to rolls or jam the machine; the reduction of line speeds ...

Finding a simple solution to a shocking problem

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March 31, 1998, ... bar and the web; any more than that and effectiveness drops dramatically. This can be a major problem, because the diameter of the roll increases as the film is wound. If the static bar is mounted conventionally, ...

NOVA and Union Carbide to build ethylene plant

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October 31, 1996, ...  Dusenbery Europe, Bedford, U.K., has exported the first audio tape slitter to Videolar in Brazil. The Model 809 for audio cassette tapes slits up to a 350-mm web into 84 tapes of 3.81 mm in width at ...

Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process

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August 31, 1996, ... of surface energy. Surface tension is expressed in units of force per unit of width, similar to web tension. However, since surface tension forces are so much smaller, it is more convenient to express ...

A directory of custom slitting

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July 31, 1996, ...  Annual sales: More than $5 million Web Converting Inc. 1700 W. Park Dr. Westborough, MA 01581 Ph: 508/898-2988; Fax: 508/898-3329 Slitting capabilities: Razor, score, shear, on-line adjustment ...

Custom coating operation is a clean winner

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February 29, 1996, ... of unwind and rewind sections, two in-line tension controls, three web cleaners, one corona treater for enhanced laydown, and five ovens for precise drying. The system is capable of combining two web paths ...