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Thermal Transfer Roll Performance Today

For decades markets within the converting industry have relied on Thermal Transfer Roller performance to enhance products, add critical properties, and increase speed and efficiency in their process.

Measuring the Coating Window: Simplify the Concept with Mapping

Coating windows are the most useful way to understand what is going on at the coating head.

The Griff Network Invests in Upgrades to Adhesive Toll Coating, Private Label Division

The Griff Network, a premier provider of roll-to-roll, roll-to-sheet, and roll-to-finished products, announced advancements to its three Fallsington, PA facilities.

Mondi and traceless Develop Ground-breaking Coating Solution

Mondi, a global leader in sustainable packaging and paper, is partnering with advanced biomaterial engineers traceless to develop a new coating solution based on by-products from the agricultural industry.

Sustainability: A Journey Through Coating and Lamination Technology

The converting industry has had positive impacts on nature, developing technologies to reduce energy use in the packaging cycle

Obtaining Barriers When Coating and Printing Flexible Materials

Thin flexible substrates of paper, film and foil are often modified, manipulated, coated or combined with other substrates, adhesives or chemical blends

New Era Converting Machinery President Bob Pasquale Elected President of the Association for Roll-to-Roll Converters

New Era Converting Machinery is proud to announce that its President, Bob Pasquale, has been elected President of the Association for Roll-to-Roll Converters (ARC).  

ARC Elects Officers, Directors

Members of the Association for Roll-to-Roll Converters (ARC), a global non-profit trade association serving the flexible metallizing

Surface Treatment: The Importance of Getting it Right

With the growth in demand for flexible packaging predicted to continue at a rapid rate for the foreseeable future

Excelitas Technologies to Showcase UV Curing and Disinfection Innovations at the 2024 RadTech UV+EB Technology and Conference

WHO: Excelitas Technologies® Corp., a leading industrial technology manufacturer focused on delivering innovative, market-driven photonic solutions

HOW TO: Do in Register Coating

The continued evolution of packaging requires converters to keep upgrading their conversion portfolio with additional features. 

HOW TO: Dual Layer Plasma Release Coatings for Curing Oven Rollers

Any interruption in today's manufacturing process results in lost time, product, and profitability.

Surface Tension and Wettability

Key Principles for Quality Production in Converting

Innovation in Extrusion Barriers Can Reduce Brand Owners’ Dependence on Plastic

According to the most recent statistics from the Environmental Protection Agency1, in 2018 the U.S. produced 35 million tons of plastics, while 27 million tons went to landfill.

Tension: The First Thing We Must Get Right

Web tension is arguably the most important parameter for any web process. Tension is the first thing we must get right.

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