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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 ...

Print with Quick Change Features

(New Products)

December 31, 2009, ... ink density control. manroland | 630-920-3976 | www.manroland.us.com Circle 412 or visit www.freeproductinfo.net/pff PFFC ON THE WEB For more products subscribe to our FREE e-newsletters. ...

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 ...

Double-Duty Packages

(Substrates)

June 30, 2009, ... F. Weber, VP and general manager for DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers, requires that the industry works “together to achieve these kinds of innovations, which is why DuPont sponsors the independently ...

Digital Detection

(Archive)

June 30, 2009, ... services that are multiplying in public areas and shopping malls. Connected SOHO (Small Office, Home Office) businesses are multiplying, equipped with webcams or flatbed scanners and other low-cost peripherals. ...

The Great Span Length Debate | Part 2

(Web Lines)

March 31, 2009, Last month, we debated roller spacing (a.k.a. web span length) relative to cost, safety, out-of-plane deviations from gravity, bagginess, and misalignment. Let's continue the debate. Here a roller, there ...

Celplast Metallized Products, Davis-Standard Host One-Day Course

(News | New Products)

March 25, 2009, Celplast Metallized Products, in cooperation with Davis-Standard, LLC, recently hosted a one-day course called “Challenges of Web Handling and Winding” for 15 companies and over 60 attendees. FULTON, ...

The Great Span Length Debate | Part 1

(Web Lines)

February 28, 2009, ... apart should rollers be? Is there a good rule of thumb on span length, such as “span lengths should be less than one (or one and a half) web widths?” Whether this rule sounds good to you will depend ...

Green Is Global

(Archive)

January 31, 2009, ... holding. The narrow web converting industry also is experiencing a move toward in-line and off-line adhesive coating of substrates as an alternative to purchasing label stock from the laminate suppliers. ...

Label Press Offers Flexibility

(News Eclips)

November 18, 2008, The Gallus EM 280 label press has a new web transport to complement the new substrate thickness compensation by servo drive PHILADELPHIA, PA | The Gallus EM 280 label press has a new web transport to complement ...

Do You Have a Need for Speed?

(Web Lines)

September 30, 2008, ... components to handle the speed increase. Just as an automobile can be designed to set land-speed records, a web line can be beefed up to meet just about any challenge. However, you likely already have ...

What's New Product

(Magazine)

September 30, 2008, ...  PFFC-ASAP 402 Manage Static at Many Stations Ion Power, the next generation of company's Virtual AC static neutralizer, neutralizes over a range of 30 in. at web/material speeds of more than 3,000 fpm. ...

Weight Reduction

(Archive)

August 31, 2008, ... CEI's extensive sustainability program. The company's website highlights more than nearly two dozen aspects of that program involving its products, production, process chemicals, recycling efforts, and shipping. ...

A Golden Opportunity

(Trends/Management)

June 30, 2008, ...  Entry | Whoppers Sno-Balls 10 oz bag Category | Wide Web Winner | Coating Excellence Intl. Entry | Malta Cleyton Triple Corona New Generation bag Category | Combined Corrugated Winner | Allpak Container ...

Trail Blazing

(Green Converting)

March 31, 2008, Curtis Packaging, a converter of premium folding cartons, proves that going green and making green don't have to be mutually exclusive. Not only is the Curtis Packaging, a converter of premium folding ...

Drupa '08

(Trends/Management)

March 31, 2008, ... and neighboring cities on show days. As a cooperating media partner, PFFC has been reporting on Drupa 2008 for almost a year in our print edition, on our website (www.pffc-online.com), and in our semi-monthly ...

Metal Is in the Mix

(Metallizing)

February 29, 2008, ... laminated to 50-micron blown LDPE. Pouchmaking entails the marriage of five webs in register to create a stand-up pouch with one bottom and two side gussets. Differentiating the tea from its competition ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

February 29, 2008, ... a durable steel screen that distributes vacuum suction evenly across the roll face. Company says fine mesh creates a smooth surface for mark-free web handling, while providing better control in transporting ...

New Products, Part 2

(Archive)

November 06, 2007, ...  Part 1 | Part 2 Machinery, Accessories, Services Die-Cut Thin Materials The DLI eDrive reportedly allows die-cutting at higher speeds on thin p-s materials and laminates. Using advanced web transport ...

Release Liner Special Report, Part 1

(Tapes)

October 31, 2007, ... a new business platform. With brand manufacturers continuing to proliferate variants of the same basic brand in terms of flavor, scent, etc., print runs are becoming shorter. The narrow web label converter ...