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- Coating Success
- (Unprinted Rolls)
- September 30, 2003, ... step. The coating process is serial in nature in that it starts with raw materials, which are converted to the final product in the subsequent steps. A base roll with defective gauge bands and poor ...
- Producing Coextruded High Barrier Heat-Shrinkable Packaging Films
- (The Place)
- September 30, 2003, ... uses an infrared oven, the collapsing nip and winder are typically mounted on a rotating platform for optimum gauge randomization and finished roll geometry. For this process, the collapsing nip is normally ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- September 29, 2003, ... Corp., Roll Concept, Sigma Technologies Intl. Inc., Valmet General, and T.D. Wright. Machinery, Accessories, Services Plasma Treating Part of Vacuum Coaters Valmet General, Charlotte NC;704/587-2207; ...
- Adhesion of Coatings to Aluminum Foil
- (The Place)
- August 31, 2003, ... involves cold rolling strip in subsequent rolling steps to reduce the thickness by almost half in each step. The strip for cold rolling can originate from continuously cast ingots that have been hot rolled ...
- Pay Attention to Tension
- (Archive)
- August 31, 2003, ... slitting the wide input material into the output slit strands and trims. Third, transporting the slit web to the winding cores (and to the trim take-away system). Fourth, winding good slit rolls with proper ...
- The Long & the Short of Web Bending
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 2003, Last month I reviewed the parallel entry principle (PEP), how a web wants to “go with the flow” of a roller's surface. Last month I reviewed the parallel entry principle (PEP), how a web wants to “go with ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 2003, ... steel regulators are designed to provide accurate pressure regulation and stand up to harsh environments. Said to provide instrument-quality air to valves, pneumatic controllers, transmitters, valve positioners, ...
- Going with the Parallel Flow
- (Magazine)
- July 31, 2003, ... of a roller relative to the web angle, every revolution will attempt to track the web laterally. If we observe this error, we can realign our rollers or install an automatic web guide. In either case, ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- July 31, 2003, ... Dover Flexo Electronics Inc., Rochester, NH; 603/332-6150; dfe.com The Webhandler3 is a digital version of co.'s WebHandler2 analog tension controller. Automatically maintains a preselected tension set ...
- Size Doesn't Always Matte
- (Magazine)
- June 30, 2003, ... opportunity to “stroll the show floor” through the pages of PFFC. Best of all, you can do it from the comfort of your desk chair. So just put your feet up and enjoy the show! Slitter/Cutter Offers ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- May 31, 2003, ... even on absorbent materials such as paper; PG-3 is similar to PG-2 but features an integrated micro-pump that can deliver accurate droplets in 0.5-µl steps. Handle Rolls to 2,000 lb Safely Converter ...
- Can't Touch This (Web): Part
- (Magazine)
- May 31, 2003, ... counting the contact within the winding roll). A videocassette is an example of a lazy C web line layout where the entire line from reel to reel will avoid face-side contact. One-sided contact, whether ...
- Fit for Use
- (Materials)
- April 30, 2003, ... be controlled by many different factors to give a range of films with improved clarity to opaque cavitated films. Substrate thermal stability also is very dependent on the mechanical and thermal processing ...
- 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 (2 of 2)
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2003, ... system transducer or roll independently, allowing one unit to monitor multiple tension zones. Integrated data collected from each transducer or roll drives four high-resolution analog signal outputs. Individual ...
- Guts and Glory
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2003, ... press,” explains Traver. Ultimately, Tech Pak invested in a gearless model, “because of the necessity of precise repeat lengths for roll-fed labels — difficult to obtain even with 5-mm pitched gears,” ...
- New Product Digest, Part 2, PFFC, April 2003
- (Magazine)
- March 30, 2003, ... multi-zone web tension transmitter measures each system transducer or roll independently, allowing one unit to monitor multiple tension zones. Integrated data collected from each transducer or roll drives ...
- 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. ...
- Minimize Slip of AC Induction Motors
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2003, ... motor slip. A load torque signal is added to the speed controller to increase the output frequency in proportion to the load. Slip compensation cannot be 100% of the slip because of rotor temperature variations ...