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- 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 ...
- In Search of Tension Isolation
- (Magazine)
- September 30, 2007, In web handling, one of the myths told most frequently is that of the independent tension zone, protected from other tension zones by the protective powers of the tension isolation. Like most myths, we ...
- WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT
- (Magazine)
- September 30, 2007, ... Machinery Co. | 401-596-0162 | maxsonautomatic.com | PFFC-ASAP 327 Produce Coreless Rolls Newly designed rewind shaft allows existing owners of company’s high-speed, wide web rewinders to produce ...
- Scoring the Scorecard
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 2007, ... vendors had even logged on to the company’s website to download the scorecard; just 1,200 SKUs had been completed. Task Forces Formed “It’s a huge undertaking; huge, huge, huge,” says Marla Donahue, ...
- Be A Good Citizen
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 2007, Green Converting What do the ancient Iroquois, Thomas Jefferson, and many of today’s leading companies have in common? They all embraced a philosophy that has become known as “sustainable development.” ...
- News Clips
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 2007, ... in.; flying splice unwind and rewind for maximum roll diameters of 39.3 in; an AVT PrintVision Prelude video camera for web inspection and auto register control; a Speedy Clean automatic wash-up system; ...