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Blown Film | Line Upgrade Provides Quick Changeovers

(Bag Pouch)

January 25, 2012, ... equipment that is already situated in the footprint of a customer’s facility, Gloucester engineers made multiple site visits to ensure the retrofitted solution would function within the facility’s space ...

Web Lines | Blocking in Rolls

(Web Handling)

January 12, 2012, ... headaches, and have no impact on final performance. Recommendations to reduce blocking: Wind Looser | Pressure within wound rolls of film is controlled by many variables, including the core, the ...

Tags & Labels Begin 2012 on a High Note

(Yo's Yarns)

January 11, 2012, ... reported to the industry in a January 9th announcement. Within the last few years, gone are the days of double-digit growth for most TLMI converter members. And like its membership, TLMI (along with ...

Slot Die Coating | The Pressure Is On

(Adhesive Coating)

December 01, 2011, ... thin, and precise converting operations, a customized coating system is necessary to have a technical edge. Building the system from the material up to the process sets the stage for a high precision tool ...

Cortec Corp. Offers Biodegradable Film with Corrosion Inhibitor

(Flexpack News)

October 16, 2011, ... protection and is an improved replacement for non-degradable and nitrite-based VCI films. Once exposed to soil or compost conditions, this product is said to disintegrate rapidly and completely within ...

Pet Food Packaging: Evolution, Revolution & Innovation

(Flexpack)

August 18, 2011, ... (PP) fabric (~10 strands/in. in each direction; think of the type of material in the ubiquitous blue tarp) created the most news and movement in this segment. This tough, lightweight material can be laminated ...

Green Converting: Landfill Diversion

(Green Converting)

August 16, 2011, ... programs, most of which are in the commercial or institutional sector, so things like college cafeterias, food courts, and the like. Seattle and San Francisco also have residential collection, which adds ...

Web Lines: Wrinkling of Foils

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2011, In our everyday lives, our main experience with foil likely comes from wrapping a potato in kitchen-grade aluminum foil. Wrinkling thin aluminum foil In our everyday lives, our main experience with ...

UFLEX Expands in Egypt & Poland

(Coating/Laminating)

July 31, 2011, ... oxide coater, dubbed ALOX, on October 6 near Cairo, Egypt, where a 12,000 million tons/yr CPP line already has started up. The ALOX coater will apply a thin, highly transparent coating of aluminium oxide ...

Experience Speaks: Jim Streicher

(Bag Pouch)

July 31, 2011, ... do you handle a difficult customer? We have learned over the years to make sure everything is well documented and that processes are in place to handle situations when they arise. The key is to be prepared. ...

ALOX Coater & CPP Film Line Debuting in Egypt

(Flexpack News)

July 13, 2011, ... Reportedly, this capability places UFLEX among a select handful of manufacturers that produce aluminum oxide coated films. The ALOX coater will apply a thin and highly transparent coating of aluminium ...

Update on World BOPET Market Trends

(Flexpack News)

July 07, 2011, ... pricing, and forecasts for thin and thick BOPET film markets to 2015. The study reports: The global BOPET film shortage has eased to the point that supplies are now plentiful, and new capacity coming ...

Catching Up with PFFC News

(Trends/Management)

June 30, 2011, ... news about machinery, materials, products, and services, that I forget about promoting PFFC's own great news. So this month I'm taking this space to talk about things some of you astute readers already may ...

Web Lines: Is Wound Roll Pressure Greater Than Tire Pressure?

(Tension)

June 30, 2011, ... When you stretch a rubber band around something, it creates tension proportional to how much the band is elongated beyond its untensioned length (a.k.a. strain). The pressure under a rubber band on a cylinder ...

Holographic Technology: Pattern Pressing

(Print)

June 30, 2011, ... interesting things happening” in both the creation and use of holographic materials that have brought holograms light years from their origins. “We're still living with that sort of [inferior] image ...

Europe Faces Plastic Bag Bans

(Yo's Yarns)

June 21, 2011, ... is currently running an Europe-wide survey, amongst other things. The explanation accompanying the survey contains incomprehensible claims. According to this, each and every EU citizen is supposed to ...

One Sweet Delivery Option

(Flexpack)

June 15, 2011, ... The key to its success lies within the multiple layers of film, supplied by Danafilms, that form air-filled baffles for insulation. The number of baffles is directly related to the structure's thermal characteristics ...

SVC Holds Ambitious Technical Conference

(Metallizing)

May 31, 2011, ... for Thin Film Photovoltaics” and “Coating Advances and its Impact on the Future of the Vacuum Coating Industry.” Günter Bräuer, Fraunhofer Inst. for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST, Braunschweig, ...

Static Beat: Surface Resistivity Testing

(Static Elimination)

May 31, 2011, ... of a thin layer because the thickness (dLAYER) in Equation 1 is often so small (perhaps only a few molecules thick) that it is difficult to measure. One practical way to avoid this problem is to define ...

Technical Report: Up & Running

(Slit)

May 31, 2011, ... razor slitting, these systems greatly reduce setup times. For example, an auto score system can precisely position more than 100 score knives within a few minutes. In addition to reducing setup times, ...