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Film Opens New Markets

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... production speeds but to divert equipment previously used for silicone coating to more profitable applications. Today’s new coextruded PET films are made with a thin coextruded sheet consisting of a ...

Why Tension?

(Magazine)

January 30, 2005, ... yield or break point. Think about how a web’s break or yield stress may vary in your process. Heating polymer films will depress their elastic modulus and yield points. Drying paper and poor edge quality ...

In Defense of Control Freaks

(Magazine)

January 30, 2005, ... is not true. Computers can do many things in our lives today, but they will never be any better than the people attending to them. Leaving everything to a computerized control system, in fact, can cause ...

E-Clips Top 10

(Magazine)

January 30, 2005, ... cutting stroke and cutting pressure, and stops to determine accurate cutting depth. New Material is Real Wood Sheer Veneer, Waukesha, WI; 262/442-4086; sheerveneer.com Sheer Veneer is an ultra-thin ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Magazine)

January 30, 2005, ... by the oil price, and styrene costs are affecting the cost of acrylic resins," says Leif Svensson, corporate purchasing director of ANI. "The acrylic acid situation throws everything on the binder side ...

Profit for Printers

(Archive)

December 30, 2004, ... and cosmetics. The trend is toward thinner films, converted on roll-to-roll presses with in-line sheeting capability. Their paper also gave a detailed and helpful account of the IML injection-molding process. ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, ... before that could do anything like this," adds Shreve. SUPPLIER INFO: Latran Technologies—latran.com Film Star Images When Madonna came to the Centrum Centre in Worcester, MA, last summer, her ...

Who Likes Film?

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, Customers like films because they are cool. Films can be clear, thin, shiny, clean, and elastic. Product designers like films because they are functional. Films can improve a product’s break strength, ...

A Universal Film for Flex-Pack?

(Flexpack)

December 30, 2004, ... everything? Some students take longer than others to ascertain that a universal solvent is not possible, because no container could hold it. In a similar vein, new employees in the adhesive industry ...

Global Economic Slowdown?

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, ... can be disconcerting at the very least. Given a little more time for things literally to settle down, along with healthy doses of care, concern, and most important, aid for the victims of this cataclysmic ...

Hit the Brakes!

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, ... economy is slowing down as we enter the new year. "Although current economic data and most leading indicators point to a continued slowdown in the global economy," Fry continues, "things could be looking ...

Coating & Laminating Special Report, Part 1

(Archive)

December 30, 2004, ... that produces ultra-thin capacitors for hybrid cars and a new machine that features three sputtering chambers. AET Films has introduced an upgraded polypropylene film that offers improved bonding characteristics ...

Coating & Laminating Special Report, Part 2

(Archive)

December 30, 2004, ... moon of the planet Saturn. According to Lee Smith, project manager, "Our ultimate objective will be to develop an extremely thin, exceptionally strong, and highly flexible material for the unmanned blimp." ...

Coating & Laminating Special Report, Part 3

(Archive)

December 30, 2004, ... technology. In both papers and films, there is a drive toward lower weights and thinner face stocks. Paper sources in Asia are a mix of "local" production with more than 100 mills supplying a wide range ...

Coating & Laminating Special Report, Part 4

(Archive)

December 30, 2004, ... cast and polymeric calendered films. Cast vinyls offer the highest durability, the thinnest face films, the best dimensional stability, and the best conformability, but with just 10% of the overall ...

Lamart Approved for Phase II of NASA Project

(Archive)

December 12, 2004, ... company reported that the ultimate objective will be to develop an extremely thin, exceptionally strong, and highly flexible material for the unmanned blimp—controlled by a computer on Earth. According ...

Model Mock-Ups

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... (PRC). Not unlike the popular 1980s T.V. secret agent Angus MacGyver, Haney PRC is not afraid of experimentation to make things work that defy conventionality. In 1990, fresh off the heels of graduating ...

Aniline printing - 100 Years Later

(Flexpack)

November 29, 2004, ... The high tack of lithographic inks proved impractical for printing thin flexible substrates. The key advantage of flexo and gravure inks is they have very low tack and dry quickly, making them well suited ...

New Product Digest, Part 1

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, New products from: Rotatek, HCI Converting Equipment Co., Maguire Products, Sterling Toggle, Battenfeld Gloucester Engineering, NexGen Enviro Systems, Pinnacle Converting Equipment, Davis-Standard, Agfa, ...

New Product Digest, Part 2

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ...  Applied Extrusion Technologies (AET), New Castle, DE; 302/326-5558; aetfilms.com Mirage holographic packaging and labeling films with shimless designs reportedly eliminate seams or lines within holographic ...