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- CMM Tops 22K; Product Debuts; Show-Floor Sales
- (News | New Products)
- April 23, 2003, ... says co. Flying splicers reportedly allow continuous rewinding and eliminate down time for roll changes and related material use. According to co., patented transfer technology eliminates tail at the incoming ...
- New Products for the Converting Industry
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2003, ... SpA, Piacenza, Italy; + 39 (0) 523 596411; nordmeccanica.com The Sprintflex CI flexo press features a sleeve system on cantilever mandrels for both plate and anilox rollers; automatic preregister; remote ...
- Can't Touch This (Web): Part
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2003, ... wait before any roller “sits” on the fresh paint. The touch-free zone starts at the coating head and extends into the drying or curing oven. Here “no contact” is qualified as one-sided and temporary. ...
- New Product Digest, Part 1, PFFC, April 2003
- (Magazine)
- March 30, 2003, ... anilox rollers; automatic preregister; remote fine adjustment of printing pressure; four stepping motor color stations; and computer controls with powerful supervisor software. Rotary Die-Cut Many Materials ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2003, ... Film and Foil Web Handling Guide. Publisher CRC Press reports the book was “written to assist anyone who works with webs directly or indirectly.” Topics include roller alignment; web tensioning; slitters; ...
- Cinching Belt Tightening Gone Bad: Part Two
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2003, ... unwinding, draw a spoke line from the core to the outside of the roll. Apply the tension and start unwinding. If the line remains in the spoke direction, the layers are not slipping relative to each other. ...
- Cinching Belt Tightening Gone Bad: Part One
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2003, ... like a fiscally wise move. Belt tightening, also known as cinching, is good for budgets, trash bags, and keeping your pants up; cinching during roll winding, however, may have less desired results, such ...
- Atmospheric Plasma
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2003, ... plasma can facilitate the use of gases, which can produce controlled chemical reactions on the surface as well. Gas molecules introduced in the plasma are propelled to the material surface. Low molecular ...
- Automation and Options Spell Opportunity for Converters
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2003, ... shipment to a customer. Many slitters incorporate some type of roll handling equipment to reduce operator fatigue and improve the safety of manually handling rolls.” Boyles says recent technology improvements ...
- Differential Rewinding: Part Three
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2002, ... or air pressure to vary the torque and — through the roll's radius — winding tension. One repeated theme in this column is measure your tension. A tension-sensing roller, whether used for control or measurement ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2002, ... The Midi product range has been re-engineered and upgraded to provide what the co. says are more efficient solutions for rolling mills in aluminum foil and strip production. Line includes high-precision ...
- An Uplifting Experience
- (Flexpack)
- November 30, 2002, ... And in 2001, the plant took FTA's “Best in Show” award for its Dark Sweet Pitted Cherries package (not shown). Anilox rolls, supplied by Pamarco and Praxair, are said to have helped Pliant achieve such ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- November 30, 2002, ... anilox rolls for the press. Installations CPFilms Adds Sputtering Machine to Its Arsenal MARTINSVILLE, VA, USA—CPFilms' business unit of Solutia is expanding its vacuum-coating capability by installing ...
- Differential Rewinding: Part Two
- (Archive)
- November 30, 2002, ... at the core-spacer interface, two sides per core, limits the torque that creates winding tension for each roll. As with all differential shafts, each core rotates independently to compensate for strand-to-strand ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- November 30, 2002, ... SpA; Valmet Converting; and Webex Inc. Machinery, Accessories, Services Slitter/Sheeter Offers Shaftless Unwind Contech, Goddard, KS; 800/961-6449; contech-usa.com Roll-fed slitter/sheeter system ...
- Opportunities in Academia
- (Magazine)
- November 30, 2002, ... dynamics; wrinkling; air films between webs and rollers; aerodynamic effects in transport; and measurement of tension, wound roll properties, and physical properties. Materials considered in these research ...
- Energy-Curable Inks
- (Magazine)
- November 30, 2002, ... $100,000 for a very basic setup to $450,000 for a more complex installation. Additionally, some ink products require NBR (nitrile-butadiene rubber) or EPDM (ethylene-propylene diene monomer) press rollers ...
- Differential Rewinding: Part One
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2002, ... It would be nice to wind one roll at a time, taking care to start each roll smoothly and give it dedicated tension control. On a slitter/rewinder, however, it's common to rewind ten slit rolls (or more) ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2002, ... designed for high-speed production of bags on a roll, features enhancements to increase production efficiency, safety, and ease of operation, co. reports. Wound bags may be perforated or separated and ...
- What's New in Narrow We
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2002, ... The DIN Rail Dancer Controller is suitable for use with a dancer potentiometer or other position sensors. It offers internal adjustments for P, I, D, level, bias, and speed compensation, with an analog ...