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- How to Influence Gloss and Friction Coatings or Cast Films by the Chill Roll Surface Design
- (The Place)
- May 30, 2004, ... surface treatment, and other items are important. The chill roll surface measurements should include roughness, gloss values, and pictures of the topography. Roughness, gloss, pictures of the topography, ...
- Unique Issues of Laminating Inks
- (Magazine)
- April 29, 2004, ... that can catalyze oxidation of some resins. Corona treatment of films is a common method of increasing the surface tension of a film to improve the ink adhesion. In some cases, excessive corona treatment ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- April 29, 2004, ... USA; 408/232-0600; oainet.com UV-Ozone dry surface treatment technology uses UV light and ozone to both clean and modify the molecular surface of solids. Result is said to be higher yields, improved adhesion, ...
- Materials
- (Magazine)
- April 29, 2004, ... in several grades, film can include corona treatment, abrasion-resistant coatings, and anti-static properties. Retort and microwavable grades are available. Applications include snacks, retort, lidstock, ...
- The Mettle of Metallizers
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2004, ... plasma treatment (of substrates before processing), has improved metal adhesion and, in turn, driven overall growth, too, says Tony Broomfield, sales manager at General Vacuum Equipment (now part of the ...
- Film Wettability Not So Simple
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2004, ... wettability on a substrate for a specific printing apparatus. Ink formulators improve ink wetting through creative formulation of ink ingredients, while the printer uses press adjustments and surface treatment ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- March 30, 2004, ... inks, and special fabric treatment ensures consistently low elongation. Boats Boast New Benefits Wacker Ceramics, Adrian, MI, USA; 517/264-8842; wacker.com LaserMet two-component boats are based on ...
- The PLACE Division of TAPPI Announces Film and Extrusion Coating Short Course
- (The Place)
- January 31, 2004, ... the various treatment options available to converters and know when to apply them Understand process requirements for making cast and blow film structures Identify safety concerns in extrusion processes ...
- UV & Jet Inks: An Exciting Combo
- (Materials)
- January 30, 2004, ... to substrates such as polyolefin films usually requires a surface treatment. Polyolefins that have been treated to 42 dynes/cm or higher typically will show better ink adhesion. Corona as well as flame ...
- Trident Wants Your Most Challenging InkJet Experience for Its Tough Love Contest
- (News | New Products)
- January 04, 2004, ... which their Trident printheads perform. "The entrant that demonstrates the toughest treatment of their Trident printhead will receive dinner for two and a dozen long-stem roses," says the co. Trident ...
- How Dirty Is Your Money?
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2003, ... are more difficult and require higher levels of treatment. Among the variety of antimicrobial products available, inorganic antimicrobial materials offer good protection characteristics and are very ...
- A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI
- (Magazine)
- December 30, 2003, ... materials handling, screw designs, instrumentation, process control, cooling systems, additives, troubleshooting, surface treatment, test methods, and similar topics. All the TAPPI PRESS offerings listed ...
- Sniffing Out the Sources of Packaging Odors
- (Materials)
- November 29, 2003, ... they can contain adhesives, primers, coatings, or inks. Converting processes involved in package manufacturing can involve corona treating, ozone treatment, coating, laminating, printing, and metallizing. ...
- Corona Collaboration
- (Tapes)
- October 31, 2003, ... for frequent cleaning of the corona treater. The corona treatment process, by its very nature, creates an acid by-product known in the industry as “treater juice.” This by-product is produced when moisture-laden ...
- What Works Best?
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2003, ... recent addition is an Enercon Plasma 3 treater that, for the first time, allows Equistar to post-treat films, foil, paper, and paperboard. Billed as “the world's first atmospheric plasma treatment syste ...
- Furthering Substrate Functionality
- (Magazine)
- September 30, 2003, ... In metallizing applications, the plasma treatment process takes place in a vacuum chamber, hence the description “vacuum plasma treatment.” It's used to improve the adhesion of the metal, usually aluminum, ...
- Converter Panel Attracts Interest at Conference
- (The Place)
- September 30, 2003, ... packaging, film extrusion additives, hot melt pressure-sensitive adhesives, pilot plant facilities, knowledge management, extrusion coating pre-treatment, new developments in film, etc. High Energy ...
- Coating Success
- (Unprinted Rolls)
- September 30, 2003, ... are specified correctly and quality level is maintained is essential. Often the available substrate webs cannot meet the wetting and adhesion needs of a product. Surface treatment systems — flame treatment, ...
- Exercising Environmental Responsibility: Part 1
- (Magazine)
- September 30, 2003, ... The incumbent has voted against a bill that would have required construction of a new, very expensive treatment plant to reduce the arsenic level in a water supply to a specific level. The response ...
- Meeting the Need
- (Materials)
- September 30, 2003, ... (VCI) treatment for primary packaging of ferrous parts, is applied directly to corrugated, solid fiber, and other paperboard packaging during the converting process. Can be applied with blade or rod coaters, ...