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AIMCAL Awards

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2010, ... step toward a fully compostable package. Bryce adjusted printing inks along with web tensions, process temperatures, and bonding processes to deliver a lamination that would provide adequate snack food ...

What Is the Right Tension?

(Web Lines)

November 30, 2009, Of all the questions about web handling, the most-asked question has to be: What is the right web handling tension for my product? This is a great question Of all the questions about web handling, the ...

Time for Unwinding Upgrade?

(Archive)

August 31, 2009, ... from a driven unwind is whether your web loses most or all of its tension during deceleration — something that commonly occurs on braked unwinds of a slitter/rewinder. Stopping a large diameter unwinding ...

How To Prevent Winter Static

(Static Elimination)

August 31, 2009, ... when the film slips and slides over low-wrap rollers. Check the bearing drag using a simple spin-down test as described in “Web Lines: The Spin on Idler Roller Testing,” by Timothy J. Walker, PFFC June ...

Winding Doesn't Add U

(Archive)

July 31, 2009, ... other big non-linear effect in winding is air entrainment. You folks with a porous web, such as tissue and nonwoven, won't see this, but everyone else will. Large diameter, higher speed, lower tensions, ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCTS: July 200

(New Products)

June 30, 2009, ... 360 flexible plate rotary die-cutting system provides cost reductions to 50% compared to solid dies. Replacement plates are approximately 20% of solid dies. Web widths available to 60 in. and repeats to ...

Who's Driving This Nip

(Web Lines)

November 30, 2008, ... web to overcome drag from bearings, inertia, and rubber hysteresis, not to mention whether your nips are used as part of a drag-creating process, such as calendering, embossing, or metering viscous fluids. ...

Get a Grip

(Narrow Web)

September 30, 2008, One of WebCut Converting's customers is among the world's most well-known and respected companies, with facilities in 60 countries and more than $21 billion One of WebCut Converting's customers is among the ...

COF Testing: Why Does it Matter?

(Process Management)

July 31, 2008, ... pulling materials through automatic processing machinery. If kinetic COF is too high, this can cause hangups along packaging lines, undue folds, erratic web tension, and a buildup of static electricity. ...

Winding: What We Know & What We Don't Kno

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

July 31, 2008, ... from web and core properties, tensioning profile, and roll geometry. Though a winding roll is a continuous spiral, almost all models treat a wound roll as a series of pre-tensioned elastic rings or hoops. ...

Coater Joins Tech Center

(News Clips Archive)

July 31, 2008, ... the converting industry as well as a wide variety of coating, laminating, and winding methods. The line is geared for speeds of 10-2,000 fpm. Web width ranges from 6-24 in. and tensions from 0.18-6 PLI. ...

In Search of Tension Isolation

(Magazine)

September 30, 2007, In web handling, one of the myths told most frequently is that of the independent tension zone, protected from other tension zones by the protective powers of the tension isolation. Like most myths, we ...

A Developing Story

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ...  Guzzo says he had been considering adding a wider web coater for some time, but “knowing that we were in a rented facility, I was somewhat hesitant to put in this large capital investment. We had already ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, ... relative melt strengths of HMW-HDPE resins and would be useful in making resin selections. For information about the PLACE Division of TAPPI, access the TAPPI web page at tappi.org. To obtain ...

Flexo is on Track

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, ... flexible packaging, converting, folding cartons, tag and label/narrow web, flexographic printing, digital printing, and components/computerization. PackPrint, managed by the Graphic Arts Show Co., is endorsed ...

New Products

(Magazine)

August 30, 2005, ... web widths of 31.5, 43, and 53 in. Company says machine offers fast changeover, and the short web path between adhesive application and laminating brings increased resistance to contamination from dust ...

Concave Rollers Pros & Cons

(Magazine)

June 29, 2005, Got some nasty wrinkles on a roller? Some tape here, some tape there—wrinkles be gone. Adding tape collars or bands to a cylindrical roller just under each of the web’s edges turns a cylindrical roller ...

The Design Supply Chain

(Magazine)

May 30, 2005, ... databases through easy-to-use Web interfaces. Asset management systems let them view existing and in-process work. By providing everyone with correct information, the risk for mistakes is minimized.  ...

Get Out of the Scroll Business

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, Curl will kill your product. How do webs end up curly? Let’s go over the top causes and consider how to eliminate them. Web Lines Whatever happened to scrolls? Scrolls were good business until about ...

Why Tension?

(Magazine)

January 30, 2005, Why is tensioning such a crucial first step? What are the benefits of a well-tensioned web? What is the right amount of tension for your product? Don’t slack off now...keep reading for these answers and ...