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Narrow Web What's Ne

(Narrow Web)

January 31, 2007, ... brake tension control; quick-release/removable nip roller with pneumatic pressure control; electronic web guidance system with ultrasonic sensor; and more. PFFC-ASAP 319 Foils Have No Seam Line  ...

Lessons in Laminating

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January 31, 2007, ... air bubbles. Increasing the nip pressure of the laminator seemed to be a simple solution. That helped, but it was not enough. Finding Solutions To achieve the line speed goal at high yield, the company ...

How to Drive a Winding Roll

(Web Lines)

November 30, 2006, ... improved by using a close-proximity gap roller or a nip roller controlling the web’s entry into winding. In pure surface winding, the core is idling. All the work to drive the roll is applied to the ...

Web Tension: A Pop Quiz

(Web Lines)

September 30, 2006, ... won't need a tenfold tension increase. Step 3: Bonus round (possible 10 points) Do you prefer unnipped or vacuum drive rollers over nipped drive rollers? (1 point) Have you used the belt equation ...

New Products

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April 29, 2006, ... and other demanding multi- and monolayer film or thin-sheet applications. Features a high nip pressure option of 800 pli of force between the two primary rolls and includes a high-pressure lamination option ...

Digital Integration

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March 30, 2006, ...  SUPPLIER INFO: Nipson—nipson.com As global chief marketing officer of Nipson Digital Printing Systems PLC, Alain Flament oversees the global marketing and development activities for the ...

The PSA Process

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January 30, 2006, ... adhesive coating method employs several rolls to pick up PSA, meter the adhesive amount, and apply the adhesive to the web. Adhesive supply may be from a pan for lower-viscosity PSA or from a nip formed ...

The Secret Strain

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December 30, 2005, ... hard to get rolls tight enough, causing cinching and telescoping. How does strain help understand what happens between nip rollers? Nip rollers are the most complex strain analysis challenge. We use ...

New Products

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December 30, 2005, ... on the nip rolls prevents over-tensioning of film during sealing and minimizes the possibility of distorting and breaking the web, company reports. Servo control of head pressure and distance-of-travel ...

Testing Machines

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October 30, 2005, ... modular, employing a minimum of one to a maximum of four measuring heads connected to a controller unit. PFFC-ASAP 452 Measure Nips to 70 In. Sensor Products, East Hanover, NJ; 973/884-1755; sensorprod.com ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

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September 29, 2005, ... also a good design choice for nipping against rubber back-up rolls to keep the surface of the rubber cool. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY What Does Aluminum Foil Have To Do With Hot Tack In Packaging? by Gunter ...

New Products, Part 1

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September 29, 2005, ... at speeds to 500 fpm. Advanced features include a rolling nip splice head, simple nested vertical festoon, and microprocessor controls with adjustable tension control. Solid manufacture and simple mechanical ...

Without Boundaries

(Magazine)

August 30, 2005, ... and Faria explain, the films should not be stressed any more than necessary. Low-temperature adhesives were specified to minimize thermal expansion of the materials. Nip pressures were controlled accurately ...

New Products

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June 29, 2005, ... Automatic, Middleborough, MA; 800/544-0070; butlerautomatic.com The 1000 Series splicer combines zero speed technology with 99.9% reliability, says company. Features include rolling nip splice head, simple ...

Heat Transfer Gets More Precise

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June 29, 2005, ... they go through a nipping process, Schulz says. "They want to minimize deflection. Customers trying to dial in their process closer and closer to be more precise, to minimize their downtime, make more and ...

18 Ways to Cut Coating Costs

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June 29, 2005, ... a major source of quality problems. These rolls are used in many places on the coater including tension nips or S-wraps, backing, and laminator pressure rolls. When these rolls get hard and shiny and slip, ...

Give Customer What He Wants

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May 30, 2005, ... weight, changes in the drying temperatures used during a run, alternate nip temperatures used with laminating adhesives, etc. Everything must always be the same. Experimentation when filling an order ...

Reporter Clips

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May 30, 2005, ... Inspection Upgrade Label Technology, Merced, CA, has installed two of Advanced Vision Technology’s PrintVision/Juniper automatic inspection systems, one on a 20-in. Mark Andy press and the other on a ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

April 29, 2005, ... rolls are possible, the discussion covers five basic types to include crowned and concave idler rolls, grooved rolls that are either rigid or flexible, nip type, curved axis rolls and bars, and expanding ...

Mouse Roars BUY ME!

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March 30, 2005, ...  Color-Shifting Security Foiling counterfeiters’ efforts is the focus of Flex Products, a JDS Uniphase co., Santa Rosa, CA, with its SecureShift MetaSwitch label, securing it a technical award in the ...