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Corona, Flame, Plasma

Laminating Corona Treating: Bond Boosting

Published: August 01, 2010, By Edited by Claudia Hine, Managing Editor
Golden Eagle Extrusions is willing to find ways to invest in new equipment to expand services to its customers. With a little help from the 2009 stimulus

XOL Automation Joins Enercon's Surface Treating Sales & Service Network

Published: July 14, 2010
Enercon Industries Corp. has announced the addition of XOL Automation, Beirut, Lebanon, to its surface treatment sales network

Treat Many Materials

Published: March 01, 2010
Uni-Dyne treating systems, designed for use with digital printing finishing equipment, include both in-line and sheetfed systems that can solve primer,

Heat Transfer Rolls Are Precision Engineered

Published: March 01, 2010
Thermal-Flo heat transfer roll is engineered with precision to provide the temperature control needed for converting, including flexible packaging applications

SOFTAL Changes Hands

Published: January 01, 2010
HAMBURG, GERMANY | Effective this past November, all fixed and non-fixed equipment and manufacturing resources, as well as trademark, industrial property

Plasma Power

Published: May 01, 2009, By By Enercon Industries Corp.

Confused by the terminology surrounding surface treatment? Learn how corona, gas corona, and true atmospheric plasma treaters differ to find the best system for you.

Dyne Levels Part 2

Published: July 01, 2008, By By David Argent Contributing Editor
Last month's column focused on dyne levels relating to surface wetting. This column expands the concept to include surface modification to improve adhesion.

Peak Performance

Published: March 01, 2008, By By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
In a twist on the old cliche, one long-time UK-based resin supplier decided that if you want something done at all, sometimes you just have to do it yourself.

Treater Agreement Reported

Published: January 01, 2008
HARTLAND, WI Pillar Technologies and Empire Treater Rolls, Fishers, NY, have signed an agreement that provides Pillar worldwide distribution rights for

Treat 'em Right

Published: July 01, 2007, By By Edward Boyl,e Contributing Editor
Offset printer adds corona treating to its eight-color press and improves print quality on a new product line: in-mold film labels.

Baggy Webs: Part I Nightmares

Published: April 01, 2007, By By Timothy J. Walker, TJWalker & Assoc. Inc.

This is the first of four columns on baggy webs, starting with understanding the problems they create. To most converters, the ideal web is one that is

Pilot/Lab/Technical Facilities

Published: October 31, 2006, By PFFC staff
Is there a problem with your process? Fix it! These technical facilities stand ready to help.

Model Mock-Ups

Published: November 30, 2004, By Nsenga Byrd Thompson, Associate Editor
Driving its equipment to unconventional new levels, Haney PRC creates model mock-ups.

Corona Collaboration

Published: November 01, 2003, By Edited by Claudia Hine Senior Editor
Label Technology provides input to Corotec Corp. to improve its corona treater design and its productivity.

Some Things to Remember About Dynamic Surface Tension

Published: April 01, 2003, By Dr. Richard M. Podhajny, Ph.D., Contributing Editor
Most flexible packaging plants can measure surface tension of their films by using dyne solutions. The dyne solutions are chemical mixtures that have

Atmospheric Plasma

Published: February 01, 2003, By Rory A. Wolf, Enercon Industries Corp.
Converters of hard-to-treat and thicker substrates will benefit from using an alternative to corona treating—the atmospheric plasma method.

One New Treater, Many New Benefits

Published: December 01, 2001, By Deborah Donberg, Managing Editor

A new production line at Optimum Plastics is the impetus for a new, portable corona treater system from Corotec Corp.

Enercon's Surface-Treating Lab Adds A"Peel"

Published: October 01, 2001, By PRESS RELEASE
Converters in need of surface-treatment information now may be able to get it from Enercon's surface-treating lab. Enercon Industries Corp. says it's added a Friction/Peel Tester to its laboratory to help customers identify the effects of various levels and types of surface treating.

Atmospheric Plasma: The New Functional Treatment for Films

Published: February 01, 2001, By A. Yializis, Sigma Technologies Intl. and David A. Markgraf, Enercon Industries
Application: Specialty films that require stringent surface morphology specifications, specific surface modification, precise surface coating, or tightly controlled electrical characteristics will benefit from atmospheric plasma treatment.

Coating Operation Starts a Tradition of Growth

Published: December 01, 2000, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
Venture Coating Technologies, located in what once was a Wisconsin cornfield, is striving to be much more than a budding converting plant. Moving the process along is a slot-die coater assembled by Dri-Tec.

Corona Treaters Adapt to Converting Processes

Published: October 01, 2000, By Claudia Hine, Senior Editor
Conductive or nonconductive? That is the question, and it's the premiere question when it comes to choosing a corona treater, says Ron Seaman, VP, Corotec

Barrier Layer Protects CDs from Skips and Scratches

Published: August 01, 2000, By Claudia Hine, Senior Editor
Optimanufacturing is turning out a new product designed to protect the surface of a compact disc. A unique laminating process makes it work. Compact discs

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

Published: May 01, 2000, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
Imagine you're a paratrooper. Your mission: to launch yourself out of a plane, drop to the earth, hit the ground running, and go into battle. Sounds risky,

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

Published: February 01, 2000, By Teresa Koltzenburg, Senior Editor
Specialization is something that seems to be burgeoning in the converting industry. From short-run specialty bags to the season/holiday-changing colorful

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

Published: January 01, 2000, By Claudia Hine, Senior Editor

With a combined 50 years of experience in the converting industry, William R. Arndt and Michael R. Nowak decided to start their own coating business,

Flexible packaging converter treats its customers right.

Published: November 01, 1996, By Donberg, Deborah
When Flex-Pak purchased a new laminator for snack food packaging, it made sure that bare roll corona treating was included as a means of increasing quality

Taking the "magic" and the mystery out of treating

Published: September 01, 1996, By Bentley, David J., Jr.
Treating is an important operation in the converting industry. Flexible packaging as practiced today would not exist without this significant factor,

Partnering launches future growth in laminations

Published: September 01, 1996, By Simonsis, Yolanda
As a long-time supplier to wire and cable manufacturers, Chase & Sons, Webster, MA, a div. of Chase Corp., is introducing innovative process technology

Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process

Published: September 01, 1996, By Boyle, Edward
If you surface-treat your materials (and it's very likely you do), you should be up to date on methods for measuring the level of treatment.As a growing

Converter combines profit with environmental concern

Published: June 01, 1995
At Brady USA, the careful selection of a flexo press and bare-roll treater results in improved product quality, EPA compliance, and increased profitability.The

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