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- Is There a Doorman at Your Winder or Do You Let Just Any Web Get In?
- (Web Handling)
- May 15, 2014, ... before winding can help. Damage–Some materials are sensitive to pressure and just can’t be nipped. Luckily, many of these products are rough or porous and can get by without the air squeegee benefit. ...
- Inometa Offers New Plate Mounting Sleeve
- (News | New Products)
- May 13, 2014, ... flexo plate mounting sleeve, said to offer increased accuracy and productivity. The sleeve, named for its red, white, and blue layers, features a core comprised of a specialized glass material with clamping ...
- Sudpack Resealable Film Provides Easy Opening
- (Flexpack)
- May 06, 2014, ... director at Südpack USA Inc. “That is crucial for our customers, as any variation in the material could cause a disruption in the production process and lead to machinery downtime.” Convenience for ...
- Printing Trends | Emerging Technologies and Applications
- (Trends/Management)
- May 01, 2014, ... fairly new, this sector of the material manufacturing industry has already created a multibillion-dollar U.S. market. Nano matter is characterized by high-tensile strength, low weight, high electrical ...
- Freedonia Issues Study on Protective Packaging
- (News | New Products)
- May 01, 2014, ... air pillows, and bubble packaging. Air pillows will be among the fastest growing protective packaging products, with gains benefiting from advantages over other void-fill materials in terms of cost-effectiveness ...
- Web Lines | Why Is Winding Optimization Difficult?
- (Web Handling)
- April 21, 2014, ... Winding is time-consuming. Roll quality is time-delayed. Winder replacements or upgrades are big, expensive, time-consulting projects. Each data point is costly in terms of time, material, and customer ...
- Zero-Max Linear Actuators Suited for Many Uses
- (Controls)
- April 08, 2014, Roh’lix linear actuators are said to improve positioning In automated systems, and overload design feature halts movement during excessive pressure PLYMOUTH, MN | Zero-Max offers Roh’lix linear ...
- Z-Flute Boxes for Kitty Litter are Purr-fect
- (Coating/Laminating)
- March 08, 2014, ... solid bleached sulfate (SBS) and sheeted the material into 24x36-inch sheets. OlymPak Packaging & Printing prints the sheets in register and converts the folding carton. The combination of holographic ...
- Web Lines | War on Bagginess
- (Web Handling)
- February 26, 2014, ... of process and material properties that create bagginess forms—bagginess continues to plague many web producers as an uncontrolled variation in product quality. I have worked closely with Dr. Kevin Cole ...
- Carestream Tollcoating Expands Services
- (Coating/Laminating)
- February 23, 2014, ... material solutions onto flexible substrates. The new pilot coaters feature proprietary coating techniques, enhanced drying methods, and streamlined solution delivery systems. • Expanded product and process ...
- Web Lines | The Case for Shorter (and Longer) Acceleration Times
- (Slit)
- February 04, 2014, ... at low speeds. The case against rapid acceleration Many advocates of rapid acceleration do so in the name of machine output. Obviously, any time spent at lower speed does not process as much material ...
- Pro Mach Acquires Ets. André Zalkin & Cie
- (Flexpack)
- January 13, 2014, ... Ets. André Zalkin & Cie. Pro Mach manufactures and supports solutions for primary and secondary packaging, flexible packaging, processing, end of line, material handling, and identification and tracking. ...
- Chinese Label Converter Adds Second Martin Splicer
- (News | New Products)
- January 05, 2014, ... the first MBSC and STR helped reduce their defect rate on that press by 2 percent and their material waste by over 1.6 tons in less than a year." With a compact size, the company reports the MBSC and ...
- AIMCAL Offers Online Courses
- (Metallizing)
- December 02, 2013, Video recordings, which offer the same information as classroom courses, include adhesives, web handling, winding, slitting, and more FORT MILL, SC | The Assn. of International Metallizers, Coaters ...
- AIMCAL Honors Technical Presentations
- (Coating/Laminating News)
- November 18, 2013, ... Honorable Mentions: • “R2R Processing for Flexible Display Applications” by Neil Morrison, Applied Materials • “Barrier Packaging in the Real World” by Dante Ferrari, Celplast Metallized Products • ...
- Splicing | Nonwovens Converter Opens New Markets
- (Nonwovens)
- November 18, 2013, ... with manual roll changing, I estimate we save 208 hours per year with the Martin, and each splice also saves us around five meters (16 feet) of material. Expressed in percentage terms, the Martin MBS has ...
- Esko Digital Finishing Platform Aids Turnaround Times
- (News | New Products)
- November 11, 2013, ... system said to answer the need for faster turnaround times on an increasing variety of materials in the wide-format digital printing market. “This is not scaled up from a light-duty finishing table,” ...
- Centrexpo/Ipack-Ima Unveil Extensive Event Program
- (News | New Products)
- November 05, 2013, ... equipment and materials in the food and nonfood industries. Converflex serves the package printing, converting, labeling, and tissue industries. Grafitalia is dedicated to technology evolution in the ...
- MTi-Polyexe Reduces Downtime, Improves Quality
- (News | New Products)
- November 03, 2013, ... continues to run today. While the line runs well, one constant issue the company had was the shafts supporting the rolls of material on the machine were extremely heavy—over 300 lb each. This made it very ...
- Mark Andy Unveils New Digital Series
- (News | New Products)
- October 24, 2013, ... 13 in. (330 mm) and handles a range of substrates from sophisticated packaging materials to films to traditional p-s label stocks. With beta sites identified, the first Digital Series will be installed ...