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- Drupa 2000A Big Success Any Way You Count It
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- June 30, 2000, ... even the most complex step-and-repeat arrangements. Wilhelm Kochsiek Maschinenbau GmbH announced digital solutions for conventional printing presses; the company presented a 100% digitally driven flexo ...
- Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray
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- April 30, 2000, ... press, Kapak hit it at full speed. Big deal, you may say, buying a new press isn't exactly war. It may not be war, but it is a big deal. The Toshiba press--which incorporates innovative sectional-drive ...
- Selecting the Right Tensioning System for the Application
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- April 30, 2000, ... 6.0 hp. While the brakes are used primarily on unwind applications, electromagnetic clutches are typically used on small rewinders, which require constant web tension on rolls that are being driven ...
- High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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- January 31, 2000, ... demand initially is what brought barrier films to the forefront in the packaging market, but he adds that cost was also a driver in the development of high-barrier films. "Getting foods to the consumer ...
- Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority
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- January 31, 2000, ... saw that we got what we ordered." "It's a simple design," Rupp adds. "All we did was take their nip roller and turn it into a laminator. Every machine has to have a nip and a drive, so we just put special ...
- Integrated Information System Can Boost Profits
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- January 31, 2000, ... return on assets is the lack of real-time information flow from the shop floor side of the business to the financial side. In price-driven, tight-margin industries, the keys to competitiveness are good ...
- Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater
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- December 31, 1999, ... polys." A proprietary moisture control system has allowed the company to achieve very flat, curl free sheets that are free of static. Arndt also is happy with the Eurotherm Link fiber optic drive control ...
- Bag machine adds value to customer-oriented operation.
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- November 30, 1996, ... with a choice of plain or printed sideweld or bottom seal/twin seal bags. It consists of split dual-lane infeed and dancer sections, dual-lane servo-driven draw rolls, and full-width seal bar. "One of ...
- Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.
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- November 30, 1996, ... interface. The PC3000 controls the extruder and die temperatures, monitors melt pressures, and provides an interface to the drive system. Precise temperature control of the barrel and die zones is achieved ...
- Partnering launches future growth in laminations
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- August 31, 1996, ... general manager of Chase & Sons, points out that the switch from solvent-based coating systems was a customer-driven decision. First, he explains, customers are consistently demanding reduced product cost. ...
- Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need
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- June 30, 1996, ... to be the world's fastest in-line slitter/winder for extrusion lines. It features an overlapping turret design with cantilevered swing-out shafts; a servo-driven turret index for rapid, precise, and repeatable ...
- MSC Specialty Films reaches success down to the core
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- May 31, 1996, ... Two proprietary coaters feature automatic splicing, fiber-optically linked drive packages, laser inspection, and ultraviolet coating capability. Off-line slitting is done in a separate department. "We ...
- Green Bay gears up for specialty labels
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- May 31, 1996, ... digital drive system that can operate in either ratio or tension mode to allow processing both extensible and nonextensible substrates without distortion. Doing the Job with Paper Film liners such ...
- Gravure gets easier
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- April 30, 1996, ... on a mandrel, which can be cantilevered for use. High-pressure air injected on the drive end of the unit easily ejects the sleeve from the mandrel, resulting in a changeover time of just three minutes. ...
- Today's printing presses are whatever you want them to be
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- March 31, 1996, ... taking. And he expects the demand for quality labels to drive manufacturers of offset equipment to create products with lower tooling costs to make variable repeats on offset presses economically feasible. ...
- The 1996 Metallizing Roundup: Experts Ponder and Predict
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- February 29, 1996, ... in the industrialized countries, the trend is toward 80 inches and above." In North America, Raugei expects that squeezed profit margins and higher expectations of product quality will drive the market ...
- Core selection - the difference between success and failure.
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- January 31, 1996, ... diameter rolls; surface-center-drive, single-drum winders; and the elimination of metal pipes and ends. "All of these changes are aimed at increasing productivity for the pressrooms and converters - ...
- Don't forget your unwind
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- January 31, 1996, ... Wilkes notes that, in general, there are five different types of unwinds: shafted, shaftless, center driven, surface driven, and turret. A typical shafted unwind has three main advantages, says Wilkes: ...
- New measurement technology improves web control.
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- January 31, 1996, ... tension in a format that is meaningful to the line's tension control system. That system, in turn, regulates tension through the drives or the use of brakes at strategic points in the line to match a preset, ...
- Brake and clutches improve to meet industry demands.
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- December 31, 1995, ... mechanical systems. Magnetic Power Systems, Fenton, MO, uses an electromagnetic field to couple drive components. Merobel USA, Merrillville, IN, utilizes magnetic particle technology. "The air gap between ...