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Maintaining Static Control Three Ways to Lock in Good Performance

(Surface Prep)

January 01, 2023, ... even when a system component fails. For example, just upstream of the winding roll in Figure 1 is a tension control nip and a tacky roller web cleaner. In this section of the machine, there are four static-charging ...

Taking Control of Static

(Surface Prep)

February 13, 2022, ... higher on the list charges positively after it touches and separates from a material lower on the list. For example, when a polypropylene web touches an aluminum idler roller, which is typically covered ...

Martin Automatic – Essential Efficiency for Web Fed Applications

(Coating/Laminating)

January 11, 2022, ... in roll form has been processed by Martin equipment at some stage. In label converting, Martin is well known for its range of narrow-web automatic butt splicers and transfer rewinders, but the company ...

Roundtable Q&A: Static Control

(Static Elimination)

August 08, 2021, ... and printers. Higher web speeds increase the charge on a substrate which then traps contaminate and leads to printing and packaging defects.  Field lines coming from the charged surface interfere with ...

Web Considerations for Today’s Flexible Packaging

(News | New Products)

May 16, 2021, Maximizing the productivity, versatility and profitability of an extrusion coating and laminating line is the goal of every flexible packaging film producer. By R. Duane Smith, Process Manager, Web ...

Your Single-Source Web Handling Provider

(Web Handling)

March 05, 2020, ... web handling needs. With manufacturing and sales locations throughout North America, Europe, India and China, Maxcess offers an unrivaled presence worldwide. We are there where you need us, when you ...

Jemmco, LLC Launches New Website

(News | New Products)

January 06, 2019, Jemmco, LLC is pleased to announce the launching of their new website at www.jemmco.com. Mequon, WI • www.jemmco.com: Jemmco, LLC is pleased to announce the launching of their new website at www.jemmco.com. ...

Static Beat | Static Control for Nip Rollers

(Static-Beat)

December 03, 2018, A nip roller can deposit a lot of static. Put a static dissipator exiting a nip facing the web surface that touched the polymer nip roller. By Kelly Robinson Nip rollers are common because they provide ...

High-End Paper Production: Coating System Uses Pneumatic Control

(Print)

November 04, 2018, ... the paper web. The AV03 controls not only cylinders and pumps, but also single solenoid axial valves to open and close the respective channels on the ink containers. Furthermore, shut-off valves and pressure ...

Oklahoma State University Offers Web Handling Seminar

(News | New Products)

July 31, 2018, Major topics to be presented include measurements, tensioning, speed and tension control, web-roller traction, converting, tracking, wrinkling and winding. STILLWATER, OK | The Web Handling Research ...

Web Industries Expands Indiana Facility

(Flexpack)

June 04, 2018, An $8 MM+ investment brings flexo printing, OD web spooling, and slitting into one facility MARLBOROUGH, MA | Web Industries has announced the completion of an $8 MM+ investment that puts eight-color ...

Static Beat | Static Control for Films with Conductive Layers

(Surface Prep)

February 26, 2018, Sparks from metallized webs and films with conducting traces are difficult to suppress because static control devices are ineffective. Sparks from metallized webs and films with conducting traces are ...

DFE Offers Total Tension Indicator

(News | New Products)

December 10, 2017, ... tension indicator (Model Ti31) that displays web tension on a large, bright LCD touch screen. Total tension is continuously displayed digitally and on a simulated analog scale readout. By tapping the ...

Maxson Web Splicer Is Automatic

(Carton Box)

November 14, 2017, The splicer is said to increase sheeter productivity and reliability while reducing waste WESTERLY, RI | Maxson Automatic Machinery Company offers an automatic web splicer engineered for increased ...

Static Beat | Control Static on a Winding Roll

(Static-Beat)

November 07, 2017, ... of labels to block. To suppress sparks on the winding roll and to have low static when the roll is unwound in the next operation, make certain that the web entering the winding roll is as charge-free as ...

Web Industries Launches Large-Format Spool

(Flexpack)

July 13, 2017, Large-scale spooler reportedly will provide hygiene product manufacturers with quick turnaround and greater yield MARLBOROUGH, MA | Web Industries announces a new, large-format spooling (LSF) resource ...

Martin Automatic to Display Web Handling Units

(News | New Products)

July 02, 2017, ... additional roll handling equipment. The unit at the Brussels show will include a web guide and slitter package for in-line slitting; a portability package for easy relocation between press lines; and an ...

Web Lines | Action Plan for CD Buckles, Part 2

(Web Handling)

April 10, 2017, ... Part 3 of this series, we’ll look at more remedies for these CD buckling defects, moving outward from the core. Web handling expert Tim Walker, president of TJWalker+Assoc., has 25 years of experience ...

Web Handling Conference Seeks Papers

(News | New Products)

February 22, 2017, Oklahoma State University’s IWEB conference is calling for papers on a number of topics in the area of web handling STILLWATER, OK | IWEB 2017, The International Forum for Web Handling, sponsored by ...

Web Lines | Unwind Splice Reliability

(Web Handling)

October 24, 2016, ... space between bump roller and new roll, and 2) determine the initial RPMs to speed match the new roll to the web speed. NOTE: Errors in diameter measurement can create errors in both of these critical ...