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- Under Pressure (Revisited...and Revised)
- (Archive)
- February 28, 2007, If I have any repeating theme to understanding web handling, it is to follow the stresses and strains. In nipped processes, you need to follow the compressive stress (aka pressure). Web Lines (Corrected ...
- What's Ne
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2007, ... real-time data and analysis using electronic alerts plus Web-based access and streaming display boards. Allows immediate ID and correction of production problems or bottlenecks. Data includes production ...
- Idler Rolls Shipped in 48 Hours
- (Archive)
- February 26, 2007, Webex's emergency roll service delivers precision idler rolls within 48 hours, helping OEMs to complete converting machinery orders, or converters and printers to get process lines up and running again. ...
- Lessons in Laminating
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2007, ... in business), consists of several coated layers on two webs. The layers are each generally less than 1 micron in dry thickness, with allowable coverage variations less than ±20 nanometers. The coatings ...
- Converting Industry News
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- December 31, 2006, ... wide variety of products. With business on the increase, the company purchased an EHF vacuum web coater from General Vacuum Equipment (GVE). Joe Departo, general manager at the Rahway facility, says, ...
- What's Ne
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- December 31, 2006, ... Double E Co., Badger Plug Co., MKS, Dienes, and Inca Digital Printers. Machinery, Accessories, Services Web Guide for Dynamic Control FMS USA, Arlington Hts., IL; 847/392-7872; fms-technology.com ...
- What's Ne
- (Magazine)
- November 30, 2006, ... PFFC-ASAP 403 Customizable Web Sensing Roll Montalvo Corp., Gorham, ME; 800/226-8710; montalvo.com The TNT Series web tension sensing roll features a highly sensitive strain gauge system and a ...
- Challengers Press On
- (Tapes)
- October 31, 2006, ... the web with a spot varnish, the solar flare utilized a 300-line screen. Suppliers include RotoMetrics dies and Fasson matte litho label stock. Energizer Beer In the category of Roll to Roll (line ...
- Pilot/Lab/Technical Facilities
- (Archive)
- October 30, 2006, ... operated independently or as a tandem coater. Handle web widths of 18 or 36 in. to 3,000 fpm with tension range of 0.25–200 PLI. Can laminate in the wet or dry bond configuration. Film trials to 60 in. ...
- What's Ne
- (Magazine)
- September 30, 2006, ... the bottom. Holes are punched in the web prior to folding to form the bottom of the bag. Folding is done from single web using dual folding boards, resulting in less trim/slitting than conventional, multiweb ...
- Converting Industry News
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- September 30, 2006, ... AF SEA, who has served as a sales representative for Applied Films' Solar/Web Div. for more than 11 years. The company reports this office positions it to better address the increasing demand for web, ...
- What's Ne
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 2006, ... Fischer & Krecke, Fairfield, NJ; 973/882-9465; www.fischer-krecke.de The Flexpress 6S is a smaller addition to the mid- and wide web Flexpress Series of gearless, sleeve-based, servo-driven CI flexo ...
- The Place
- (The Place)
- August 31, 2006, ... often develop cracks and holes and may completely lose barrier characteristics in some cases. Reducing Variability In Dart Measurement Associated With Dart Head Wear by Mark Weber, Gil Arnould, and ...
- Automatic Roll Change
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- August 14, 2006, Web Exclusive Large converting machines may have as many as two or more unwinds besides the rewind. In such a machine, the operator will be kept quite busy just changing rolls, if operator intervention ...
- LabelExpo
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- July 31, 2006, ... Engrave Plates and Sleeves Carey Color, Sharon Center, OH; 330/239-1835; www.careyweb.com Offers direct digital laser engraving of flexo and embossing (2D and 3D) plates and continuous sleeves, dry ...
- What Makes Winding Difficult?
- (Archive)
- July 31, 2006, ... larger rolls mean more pressure, more stress, and more diameter differential from crossweb thickness variations. On the good side, when Et/Er is high, roll compression reduces diameter variations and ...
- Labelexpo What's Ne
- (Archive)
- July 30, 2006, ... Center, OH; 330/239-1835; careyweb.com Offers direct digital laser engraving of flexo and embossing (2D and 3D) plates and continuous sleeves, dry offset, and rotary letterpress plates. Visit booth 3600. ...
- Films Face Off
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- June 29, 2006, ... this thickness, because of the extensional properties of OPP, problems with web breaks during processing commonly are encountered. As a result, it is difficult to imagine downgauging OPP much below 40 ...
- New Products, Part 2
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- May 30, 2006, ... running plastics extrusion lines winds product rolls to 2 m dia. Requires very little operator involvement and is said to offer material savings due to fewer stops and web tails. Reportedly, system also ...
- Holding the Dot
- (Magazine)
- May 30, 2006, ... variables, some of which are listed above. For narrow web, the industry standard for combination plates averages 120 LPI to as high as 175 LPI. The flexible packaging industry average is 85–133 LPI, and ...