Drying

Italian Printer Is Europe’s First Flexible Film Converter to Offer All-UV LED Curing in Narrow to Mid-Web Format

(Flexpack)

September 06, 2023, ... the printing process and make narrow web food-grade cured packaging a reality. The results of the retrofitted AMS Spectral UV were impressive. The drying process was completely transformed. By speeding ...

2023 R2R USA Conference presents 95+ technical sessions

(News | New Products)

August 15, 2023, ... Printing, Sustainability, Flexible Packaging, Vacuum and Battery Energy. The schedule also includes presentations of ARC’s popular Coating Fundamentals, Drying Fundamentals, Vacuum Fundamentals and Web ...

Baldwin's FlexoDry IR and FlexoCleanerBrush™ Spotlighted at CorrExpo 202

(News | New Products)

August 15, 2023, ... Technology Company Inc. will fast track corrugated printers to the next level of sustainability, quality, cost savings and efficiency with its FlexoDry IR drying and FlexoCleanerBrush™ automated cleaning ...

Selecting the Proper Web Handling Equipment

(Web Handling)

July 17, 2023, ... convey the web among the various machine sections. Though much time is typically spent focusing on the unwinding, winding, coating, drying, laminating and embossing sections, typically very little time ...

Meech to Showcase Hyperion 650QAC Ionising Bar and More At LabelExpo Europe 2023

(News | New Products)

July 13, 2023, ... charges are generated during the unwinding, printing, drying and rewinding processes and stored in the metallic antennae. The population of the chip onto the antennae can then result in the stored static ...

HERMA Moving Toward Net Zero Emissions by 2040

(News | New Products)

June 19, 2023, ... Gablowski. During the 2030s, the gas required for drying the paper webs is to be phased out. It has yet to be established whether the alternative energy source will be green hydrogen, special heat pumps ...

Thin and Accurate is Slot Die Coating Standard

(News | New Products)

May 30, 2023, Roll-to-roll slot die coating has become the industry standard for extremely thin and extremely accurate coating. By Scott Zwierlein, Coating Engineer, FRONTIER – a Delta ModTech Company Roll-to-roll ...

Conductive Science Chooses Vetaphone Corona

(News | New Products)

May 15, 2023, ... gravure, three roll reverse, rod, or slot-die.  Drying is by a two-zone overhead IR hoods, and to ensure quality, inline and post measurement testing is completed throughout the process.  CSI is coating ...

Students visit Mark Andy Technology Centre in Warsaw

(News | New Products)

May 03, 2023, ... used for printing longer runs, as well. The next demo was devoted to Evolution Series E5 flexo press, which is servo-driven and was equipped with a hybrid curing system, incorporating different drying ...

Why is LED UV the next big thing for corrugated printing? Find out at AICC Annual Meeting

(News | New Products)

April 24, 2023, ... no drying time, using much less energy than both IR and arc UV. The modules can be turned on and off to cover only part of the conveyor, saving energy use when curing smaller stock widths. This arrangement ...

Peters Automates Cup Printing Line with Martin Automatic

(News | New Products)

April 24, 2023, ... roller and is fitted with six flexo print stations and hot air drying for use with water-based inks. It has automatic electronic register control with Omet’s Vision system for advanced register adjustment ...

An OEM Perspective on Industry Changes and Trends

(News | New Products)

April 23, 2023, ... being: No emissions, very low energy consumption and high productivity. We then introduced high-efficiency ovens for emission-based processes requiring drying, for low energy consumption, higher productivities, ...

Baldwin Invites Converters to Push Speed, Dose, Power and Scalability Boundaries at Converters Expo

(Upcoming Conference News)

April 11, 2023, ... surface pretreatment systems, IR-drying systems, hot-air dryers, rotary spray systems, and technologies for color management and defect detection, all of which increase productivity, reduce waste, improve ...

Phoseon Technology Exhibits Latest UV LED Curing Systems for Flexographic Printing at Labelexpo Mexico 2023

(News | New Products)

April 11, 2023, ... printing. It will present a wide variety of industry-related equipment for label, screen, and inkjet printers, manufacturing machinery, drying and curing equipment associated with this sector. To learn ...

How Flexographic Printing Can Unlock New Packaging Potential

(Bag Pouch)

April 09, 2023, ... — whether that means using more AI and automation to enable a printing press to automatically adjust for consistent output, or experimenting with different inks, plates and drying processes to better regulate ...

Low Migration with Mark Andy: When LM Becomes ‘Must Have’

(News | New Products)

April 04, 2023, ... An Evolution Series E5 flexo press will be one of the highlights, equipped with drying systems suited to different inks formulations, including UV, LED, and water-based. Two hybrid solutions, the Digital ...

INX Reinforces Commitment for Sustainable Solutions and Circular Economy at INFOFLEX 2023

(News | New Products)

April 04, 2023, ... inks offer high performance, excellent transfer, fast drying, and printability at high speeds while maximizing shrink contouring and eliminating post-shrink adhesion loss and ink flaking. The Dual Cure ...

Milwaukee to Host R2R USA Conference 2023 Association for Roll-to-Roll Converters Issues Call for Papers

(Upcoming Conference News)

March 21, 2023, ... Sustainability, Market Forecasts, Gravure Coating, and Printing. The association’s popular Fundamentals Workshops on Web Handling, Coating and Drying, and Gravure also will be offered. “Most people attend ...

Water-Based Ink Foaming GTT vs. Hexagonal

(White Paper)

March 14, 2023, ... products and additional downtime. A possible solution is to adjust the print method, increasing the anilox volume. However, this results in a higher drying time, slower process speeds, higher ink costs and ...

The Association for Roll-to-Roll Converters Announces Events

(News | New Products)

February 09, 2023, ... 11-12, 2023 April 11: Dürr Systems Inc. Facility Tour (RSVP required for attendees), 1:00-3:00 p.m. Register Today! April 12: Three in-person courses located in Greenbay, WI — COATING / DRYING / ...

The Role of Corona in Flexible Packaging Lamination Requires an Understanding of Filmic Substrates

(Surface Prep)

January 29, 2023, ... allowing you to judge final optics immediately after lamination. The benefits of solvent-free lamination are zero solvent cost, zero energy requirement for drying, zero solvent residuals, a lower CO2 index ...

Faustel Leads the Converting Industry with Our Innovative Technology Center

(Coating/Laminating)

January 23, 2023, ... the high-performance converting machinery their success depends on. With multiple pilot lines that include limitless configuration possibilities for coating, drying, and curing, the Technology Center is ...

Engineered for your Toughest Challenge

(Bag Pouch)

January 23, 2023, ... ModTech machine owner. CONVERTING, PACKAGING, COATING, DRYING Building complete web converting and packaging machines out of proven, flexible modules gets you to market faster, with less risk and less ...

Q&A: Paul Lembo of New Era Converting Machinery

(News | New Products)

December 15, 2022, ... needs. New Era has a great deal of experience with coating, laminating, calendering and drying systems for a wide variety of environments, with a customer base spanning most industries which handle materials ...

The Versatility of UV Curing

(News | New Products)

December 15, 2022, ... also producing performance properties superior to what is achievable with conventionally dried materials. This is because UV curing is not drying and is instead a chemical reaction initiated with ultraviolet ...

New Era Battery Q&A

(Coating/Laminating)

October 20, 2022, ... needs. New Era has a great deal of experience with coating, laminating, calendering and drying systems for a wide variety of environments, with a customer base spanning most industries which handle materials ...

Thinking Inside and Outside the Coating Box

(News | New Products)

October 02, 2022, ... for hot air drying, infrared and UV curing, and for corona treatment. Edge guides and heated laminator and ATEX coating zones can also be integrated within such systems. Operators can print, coat and laminate ...

Baldwin Technology Partners With Fi-Tech to Represent Textile and Nonwoven Finishing Technologies in North America

(News | New Products)

October 02, 2022, ... The contact-free technology makes it possible to eliminate entire steps from the textile manufacturing process, like drying and bath changeovers required when switching between fabric colors to avoid color ...

Why LED is the Only Sustainable Choice for UV Curing

(Equipment/Machines - Printing)

September 25, 2022, ... processes require a significant amount of electricity to operate, making the electricity bill very high. UV LED technologies provide energy savings up to 85 percent compared to traditional drying systems. ...

Comexi Consolidates Presence in Swiss Market with Sale of L20000 Laminator

(News | New Products)

September 12, 2022, ... profitability and sustainability. As a result of the machine’s high energy drying efficiency, minimum waste, extreme web tension control precision and reverse application system, which is specifically ...