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Visualization for Improved Coating Performance

(Mark's Coating Matters)

October 17, 2013, ... coating defect that the team was trying to eliminate was apparent on the web, but where the defect originated was not known. This leads the process and product team down different paths of experimentation ...

AVT & Nilpeter Collaborate on Integrated Technology

(Controls News)

October 08, 2013, ... Shamri, VP of corporate business development at AVT, says, "Following the growing demand of the label and narrow web market for faster changeover and shorter make-ready time, AVT and Nilpeter have collaborated, ...

Menges Roller Expands Design & Engineering Capacity

(News | New Products)

September 30, 2013, ... engineers now can see and predict the exact temperature a roller will achieve and how that temperature will affect the web—all before the roller is built. Heat transfer rollers are a flagship product ...

Rheology, Math, and Coating Equipment Design

(Coating/Laminating)

August 30, 2013, ... In our case we are interested in fluid flow of materials between 1-100,000 cP for most coated products in the roll-to-roll web industry. The math behind rheology is explaining the function of applied stress ...

Zircon Expands with Omet Varyflex

(Label/Tape News)

August 27, 2013, ... flexo, and proprietary web paths desired and decided by Sanjeev Sondhi after he had tested his innovative requirements on diverse label presses. It took him almost two years to finalize the exact configurations ...

Show Preview | CPP EXPO and PRINT 13 Share a Stage

(Print)

August 07, 2013, ... including flexible packaging, folding carton/boxmaking, corrugated converting, tissue converting, and narrow web tags and labels. Although the PRINT show focuses on commercial printing, it offers exhibits ...

Atlas to Present New-Generation Slitters at K 2013

(News | New Products)

August 05, 2013, ... The latest technology features wireless rewind arm positioning, automatic knife positioning, and direct drive web path rollers, reportedly ensuring optimum web tension for films as thin as 6 microns to ...

Show Preview | What’s Behind the Curtain at Labelexpo Europe 2013

(Label/Tape)

July 29, 2013, ... (Booth 6J130), a designer and manufacturer of specialty web converting and packaging equipment, will run a challenging polyurethane film on a Delta Mod-Tech custom converter. The system will feature ...

ROI for Fluid Coating Technology

(Coating/Laminating)

July 28, 2013, ... operates as a closed system. This necessitates that the fluid being pumped to the coating head is placed on the web. While there are start-up losses, these are relatively the same with slot die or Meyer ...

German Label Converter Opts for Gallus

(Label/Tape News)

July 23, 2013, ... times dramatically. The extremely short web path also ensures minimal waste. All in all, the Gallus ECS 340 is proof that top print quality and efficient, cost-effective production are not mutually exclusive.” ...

Eliminating Boundary Layer Air During Winding

(Web Handling)

July 15, 2013, ... weak effects in web winding. Positioning What's my experience and advice with durometer and positioning? Positioning is the easier of these two. The first choice is to have the winding nip control ...

MACtac Expands Line of Sustainable Products

(Label/Tape News)

July 14, 2013, ... beauty, pharmaceutical, and food packaging. The PET liner's strength allows for wide web converting and high-speed dispensing onto containers without worry of liner break-related downtime. Combined with ...

Kingsway Printers Installs Mark Andy P3 Press

(Label/Tape News)

June 10, 2013, ... Labelexpo Europe in Brussels, Kingsway decided to return to the Mark Andy stable by ordering a 330-mm six-color 2200 line, that was later to have two additional print stations fitted, and a Web Translator ...

Flexo Printing | Middle East Label Converter Adds Gallus ECS 340

(Label/Tape)

May 28, 2013, ... narrow web label presses installed in the Middle East, where the Swiss manufacturer is represented by Heidelberg ME. It was also the first of its type in the region, according to Kimoha’s managing director, ...

The Future of Fluid Coating Technology

(Coating/Laminating)

April 30, 2013, ... the coating to the size and shape required in the final product has led to many developments in discrete coating onto continuous webs. This requirement has developed into many mechanical, electrical, and ...

Davis-Standard Launches Extrusion Coating Line

(Coating)

March 22, 2013, ... unwinder placed close to the floor; or one that raises the auxiliary unwinder to a position just atop the winder to shorten both the line length and the path of the auxiliary web to the laminator. Advanced ...

Static Beat | How Do Passive Dissipaters Neutralize Static?

(Static-Beat)

February 24, 2013, ... them along a web conveyance path. Early passive static dissipaters were simply a row of grounded needles. The needle located near the web in Figure 1 is one needle in a dissipater. Electric fields flow ...

Davis-Standard Upgrades Coating & Pelletizing Lab

(Coating)

February 22, 2013, ... Pro SCADA system to support data collection, trending, and coordinated operation over a broad tension range with numerous web path selections. On the production line, the unwind has been replaced with ...

Show Preview | ICE USA 2013

(Trends/Management)

February 04, 2013, ... by AIMCAL–the Assn. of International Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators. The conference sessions are held from 10:00 a.m. to noon. It features three tracks—Web Coating, Web Handling, and Adhesives/Adhesion—and ...

Management | So, Should We Patent That?

(Trends/Management)

January 08, 2013, ... set-points for a dryer, to “easy to see,” such as the number of layers in a laminated web. A good way to think about detectability is to imagine that you are standing outside your competitor’s facility. ...