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Readers Choice | Top 10 New Products of 2017

(Flexpack)

November 29, 2017, ... faced to assure concentricity and self-adjust to the web tension pull. All chucks are furnished with round bore sizes with +0.010 tolerance unless specified. Contact Company   Flex Films F-PDP Polyester ...

Maxson Web Splicer Is Automatic

(Carton Box)

November 14, 2017, ... tension is also programmed by the operator, governing the unwind brake pressure. Infeed idler rolls equalize the tension across the web and double the web length between the roll core and point of splicing, ...

Sunshield Deployed on NASA's James Webb Space Telescop

(Coating/Laminating)

November 09, 2017, ... tensioned for the first time. REDONDO BEACH, CA | Northrop Grumman Corp., which designed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) optics, spacecraft bus, and sunshield for NASA Goddard Space Flight ...

Medical Patches | Faustel Meets Challenge of Hydrogel Pad Production

(Coating/Laminating)

October 23, 2017, ... the scrim web required its own handling challenges, Gely pointed out. “Too much tension would stretch this nonwoven mesh-type material causing it to ‘neck down.’ This narrowed our operating window for ...

New Era Coating/Laminating Line At Work

(Coating/Laminating)

October 14, 2017, ... of running at 500 fpm under constant, closed loop tension control. The machine can handle 50-in.-dia input bundles at 60 in. wide, laminating two materials prior to windup. Featured is a specialty coating ...

Esko Offers Turnkey Workflow Automation

(Label/Tape)

October 04, 2017, ... The system has been specifically designed to include digital label printers in a seamless workflow process, particularly HP Indigo label presses “As an extension of our successful ten-year relationship, ...

AstroNova Launches Label Presses

(News | New Products)

October 01, 2017, ... and registration and is optimized with automatic tension control and a built-in web guide. The intuitive TrojanControl touch panel user interface is said to be easy to use and facilitates a quick startup. ...

Protective Packaging | Add Value with Vapor Corrosion Inhibitors

(Flexpack)

September 26, 2017, ... costs, hassle, and tension with customers who might otherwise receive their shipments corroded. When based on organic VCI chemistry and combined with recyclable material, these materials offer safer, more ...

Telstar Press Allows Many Tests

(News | New Products)

August 22, 2017, ... provides precise, constant tension from 4–60 lbs. This isolates the unwind tension creating a controlled process zone minimizing waste while contributing to re-registration accuracy. Unwind stand with ...

Catbridge Slitter/Rewinder Suited for Nonwovens

(Slit)

August 19, 2017, ... helps maintain proper tension and minimize web displacement, even for fragile materials, and a special cutoff and transfer system squarely cuts the web, creates very short tails, and places these tails ...

Web Industries Launches Large-Format Spool

(Flexpack)

July 13, 2017, Large-scale spooler reportedly will provide hygiene product manufacturers with quick turnaround and greater yield MARLBOROUGH, MA | Web Industries announces a new, large-format spooling (LSF) resource ...

Martin Automatic to Display Web Handling Units

(News | New Products)

July 02, 2017, ... 25–28, at the Brussels Expo in Brussels, Belgium. The company, known for its line of automatic splicing unwinds, automatic transfer rewinds, and tension control systems, will run demonstrations of the ...

Roller Geometry | What Is Your Roller’s True Shape?

(Web Handling)

June 21, 2017, ... If the geometric variances are too great, then web handling problems, such as wrinkling, stretching, bagging, repeating patterns, poor steering, and tension variation, can occur. Most of the time there ...

Sticking With It | Overview of Radiation Curable Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives

(Coating/Laminating)

June 14, 2017, ... use chelates to develop cross-linking and cohesive strength, these systems build cohesion through the UV process, which cross-links and builds the molecular weight of the polymers by chain extension. The ...

CTC Splicer Is Semi-Automatic

(News | New Products)

May 19, 2017, ... can do all roll loading and splice prep, and machine can be application-engineered for a wide range of roll sizes, web tensions, and web dynamics. A CE-compliant version is also available. Company says ...

Grafotronic Upgrades Tabletop Rewinder

(News | New Products)

May 15, 2017, ... a counter in meter or feet as standard; and a motorized table for perfect tension. Other reported features are as follows: 1-in. air shafts as standard and optional quick-change adaptors for any ...

Martin Automatic Installs Unwind Roll Changer

(News | New Products)

April 05, 2017, ... and tension control systems, reports it has commissioned a custom automatic butt splicing unwind on a new line for coating heavy fabric materials. The MTB is designed to unwind and splice a variety of ...

FAS Bag Machine Offered in New Model

(Bag Pouch)

April 03, 2017, ... sides of the web enables precise seal temperature control with minimum dwell time. Higher lines speeds are the result. Relaxed (tension-free) sealing and cooling section. Seal bars can be run in ...

Show Preview | ICE USA 2017 Exhibits with InPrint USA in Orlando

(Trade Shows)

March 27, 2017, ... #102) will highlight the latest advances in its Tension Transducers, Amplifiers, Indicators, Controllers and pneumatic brakes. ebeam Technologies (Booth #1173) will exhibit the ebeam Compact, the world’s ...

KPG Offset Label Press Is Shaftless

(News | New Products)

March 25, 2017, ... bridge roller, greatly reducing material waste. A vacuum unwinding device (patented and optional, alternative being a roller unwinding system) features a suction pulling device that keeps tension stable, ...