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Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Narrow Web)

December 31, 2008, ... skin applications, including wound care, consumer dressings, and medical device attachment. The tape comprises thin (0.43-mm) tan PU foam coated on one side with a high-tack, medical-grade acrylic adhesive ...

Wrinkle Removers

(Tension)

November 30, 2008, ... not properly controlled, wrinkles in the material can occur and cause product defects. If the roll of material is improperly rewound, the outer layers can crush the inner layers of material or the rolls ...

Web Exclusive: Slitting Film

(Archive)

November 11, 2008, ... this wasn’t enough, care must be taken on machine, when slitting and rewinding, etc. Film must be unwound and fed into the processing zone, then rewound with tension appropriate to the zone, taking into ...

Cleaning at the Cutting Edge

(News | New Products)

August 17, 2008, ... which in turn raises dust. To further complicate matters many of these particles can become statically charged, so they cling to the slit edges and become wound with the roll(s). This surface dust or ...

Your Guide to the Right Web Guide

(Archive)

March 31, 2008, ... No automatic web guide will ever beat the exactness of the web's edge position immediately after slitting. When the side of a wound roll looks like a phonograph record, it is almost certainly from winding ...

Roll Winding Dynamics

(Web Handling)

January 31, 2008, ... So no matter how challenging the material, rolls must be wound with the right degree of hardness, rolls must look good, and they must be of the right shape and consistency. Slit width, winding tension, ...

The 7 Deadly (Converting) Sins

(Magazine)

November 30, 2007, ... roller settings and dew point often are overlooked, and the web is rewound with condensate on the ink surface. Blocking and sticking can occur, particularly on treated films. Film Treatment Corona ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... ball seating on a ceramic nozzle tip. PFFC-ASAP 417 Film Unwinds Smoothly Acpo, Oak Harbor, OH; 877/412-8273; www.acpo.com Easy-release polyester self-wound overlaminate film is designated 891. ...

Ready to Roll

(Magazine)

April 29, 2006, ... and wound dressings due to its ability to be sterilized using ETO or gamma methods prior to use, as well as to provide maximum comfort and a complete viral barrier during use. Available in thicknesses ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

March 30, 2006, ... etc. Supreme Joins Sekisui Family BREA, CA—Sekisui TA Industries (STA), a supplier of self-wound overlaminating films to the flexographic printing industry, reports the successful completion of the ...

2004 RFID What's New

(Archive)

February 26, 2006, ... tested ScenPro’s RFID-based Tactical Medical Coordination System (TacMedCS) to track the status and location of wounded soldiers and others arriving for treatment at Fleet Hospital Three in Iraq, plans ...

Linerless: The Compromise for VDP Labels?

(Magazine)

October 30, 2005, ... also has announced a low-caliper UV silicone-coated thermal paper for the manufacture of self-wound, i.e., linerless, labels. However, for long runs (e.g., legislation-driven contents and sell-by dates ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

September 29, 2005, ... medical-grade p-s PU foam tape for direct skin applications, including dressing, wound care, and medical device attachment. Formulated for use on highly sensitive skin (including neonatal applications), ...

A King of Shrink Contender

(Flexpack)

March 30, 2005, ... attractive for film webs, says Seuss, as it allows Color Craft to compensate for caliper variations or gauge bands due to print buildup or laminations in the product since each web is being wound at its ...

Rotary Screen Printings Contribution to RFID

(Archive)

January 30, 2005, ... high frequency RFID; LF antennae are made of wound copper and have between 200 and 250 coil loops. HF ones have just four to six and can be made out of wound copper wire, etched copper or aluminium, plated ...

Finding Our Footing

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... I did a research paper at the 42nd St. library in NYC and found references to wire- wound rods in Germany in the 1880s. Because of that, I’ve always referred to Charles Mayer as the person who popularized ...

Shear Slitting Can Provide Advantages

(Archive)

July 30, 2004, ... all rolls since changes in web speed, due to undriven roll inertias, will tend to distort the web and affect the quality of the rewound rolls. This is particularly true when narrow webs of light plastic ...

Products and Materials

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... with enhanced performance features is said to improve soft film processing. Reportedly, H-nip can randomize even the most minor die, air ring, and tower film gauge effects, assuring wound rolls will be ...

Pay Attention to Tension

(Archive)

August 31, 2003, ... web tightness, slit quality, and wound-roll hardness. Calibration of slitter/rewinder torques and draws will ensure the set points—found through years of experience—will create the same process from shift ...

Opportunities in Medical Packaging

(Magazine)

January 31, 2003, ... or irradiation. Single-use products, as the name implies, are sterilized on-site by the medical device packer. While it is logical to assume supplies such as gloves, wound care products, and syringes would ...