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AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Coating/Laminating)

March 17, 2011, ... Inst., Broadview, IL; Travis Funk, senior packaging engineer, Diageo, Norwalk, CT; Jeffrey T. Weber, research principal, Kraft Foods, Glenview, IL; Stan Kopecky, principal, SJK Packaging Assoc., Prospect ...

Improve Coating Process Control

(Thickness Gauging)

February 28, 2011, ... thickness as low as 0.5 microns. Can monitor multiple layers of coating (including UV and adhesives) simultaneously on or across a web at up to 20 measurements/sec. System helps manufacturers identify ...

Nonwoven Laminations: Absorb Profit

(Controls)

January 31, 2011, ... rollers. The standoff distance of the LS4000 encoder to the web material is set at 12 in. At this position, the LS4000 produces a 1.4-in. depth of field or “measurement zone” to detect product movement ...

Show Preview - Forecast for Orlando: ICE

(Trends/Management)

January 31, 2011, ... $20, which will cost $40 at the door. There also will be a host of conferences and events taking place alongside the exhibition. Learning Opportunities Abound A three-track conference program - Web ...

EDI's New Technology Center Features Multi-Process La

(Extrusion Coating)

January 06, 2011, ... or multilayer production and web converting. The Center also includes a slot die or fluid coating line, a sheet line with six extruders, and other product/process development capabilities. Besides making ...

Core Savings

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

December 31, 2010, ... the splicer makes the transfer while the accumulator pays out web to the press at full speed. The amount of core waste resulting from this typical method of splice initiation depends upon three factors: ...

AIMCAL Honors Technical Papers

(Trends/Management)

November 30, 2010, ... Track, the award went to Steve Zagar, Jeff Quass, and Dan Bemi of MEGTEC Systems for “Drying Laboratory Methods for the Development of Complex Empirical Drying Data.” In the Vacuum Web Coating Track, ...

Pilot Coaters: Small Volume, Big Advances

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2010, ... and web transport that are required to coat new products or to optimize exciting products. Often no pilot coaters are available. As a result, this step often is bypassed and experiments run on manufacturing ...

Motion Control: Drives

(Controls)

August 23, 2010, ... builder, he founded Drilling Technical Services (DTS) in Milford, OH, a virtual engineering company specializing in the mechanical, electrical, and process engineering of mid-width and narrow web printing, ...

Slitting Nonwovens: A Slit Decision

(Flexpack)

May 31, 2010, ... fabrics across the full production width, NWS also has installed the latest technology in web forming, web delivery, and web and batt profiling. Webs are produced on Asselin-Thibeau's Excelle card system. ...

Range of UPM Raflatac Substrates Qualify for Xeikon Label Presses

(News | New Products)

May 05, 2010, ... label substrates on its Xeikon 3300 digital press. The qualified substrates represent some of the most commonly utilized conventional label stocks in narrow web label printing. Qualified substrates ...

Driving Speed

(Drives/Motors)

April 30, 2010, ... expenditures, and improve throughput, while boosting productivity. Improved Web Tension Initially, the machine had four different motors with analog drives and controls, each with their own wiring ...

Trends in technology

(Coating/Laminating)

April 30, 2010, ... calculate and optimize energy consumption, model dryers, and web transport systems. This should improve quality at a low cost, but in order to successfully achieve this goal, all personnel will have ...

A future for photovoltaics

(Metallizing)

April 30, 2010, Some areas of vacuum web coating have progressed in the past decade, others have lagged behind. A hot topic 20 years ago was transparent barrier coatings. Some areas of vacuum web coating have progressed ...

What’s Up With Die Lines

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

March 17, 2010, ... due to damaged or dirty die. In a perfect world, there would be no die lines. But, as we all know, nothing is perfect in manufacturing. When we stop momentarily to change orders or when the web breaks ...

Click To Pick

(New Products)

February 28, 2010, ... only a few minutes to read a dedicated pattern printed on the web and phase each cylinder accordingly, all completely error-free, according to the company. Said to guarantee repeatability for minimum startup ...

Technical Report: Thin Coating Challenges

(Coatings)

January 31, 2010, A major trend in the development of new web coated products is the requirement to coat thin, functional coatings on a thin substrate. The advantages of A major trend in the development of new web coated ...

Cores | The Foundation of Winding

(Web Lines)

October 31, 2009, ... in the roll. In many film and foil products, high core pressure will create more waste near the core. Any imperfection of the roll start, even a single piece of tape used to attach the web to the core, ...

New Roles for Converters

(Archive)

September 30, 2009, ... success of these products considerably because of high costs, product usage limitations, and inability to meet the anticipated demand. However, the web converting process produces a wide variety of products ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT

(New Products)

September 30, 2009, ... with simple and intuitive menu-driven operator controls. Embedded web pages allow managers to monitor and access operations remotely, including interactive test parameter updates. Offers real-time display ...