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Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

May 31, 2001, ... Mark has entered a partnership with Teknek Electronics, Renfrewshire, Scotland, to market Teknek's web cleaning technology throughout the US, Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean, and all of Central and South ...

Flexo Inspection

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, ... must be in register or the label is waste. All the elements of the very ornamental background must be in place and print cleanly for the label to work. The embossing must be present and crisp. Flex-Pack ...

Extrusion Coating Technology For The Imaging Industry

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, ... promotion, and clean rooms. Such technologies provide improved ink jet bases, improved laminating film, and improved fabric transfer films. For example, adhesion of laminating films of plain paper is ...

Web Handling...Making a Slitter/Winder Upgrade Work for You

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, ... the surface, and it can be used on wet or dry webs. Vacuum rolls tend to be very reliable when properly constructed, and they usually stay very clean in the area of the web path. Most superior designs ...

Doctor Blades: Making the Most of Mission Critical

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... blades are used to wipe or meter the surface clean, so they are delivering a consistent ink film to the substrate,” says Anthony Foley, national marketing manager at Edward Graphics US Inc., Niagara Falls, ...

Products

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... by eliminating the need for full-sheet p-s or dual-web constructions. Tapes are made with a 40# SCK protective liner with a low release system said to strip off easily and cleanly in the converting process. ...

Innovative Problem-Solving: Advances in the Industry

(Magazine)

January 31, 2001, ... current, ionizing efficiency, and electrode contamination (which notifies the operator that the time has come to clean the bar). Individual static neutralizers can be monitored, or the entire system can ...

Think the Ink You're Using Is A No-Brainer? Think Again

(Materials)

December 31, 2000, ...  Karen Chu at the National Printing Ink Research Institute's technical conference last October. "Flexographic Ink Options: A Cleaner Technologies Substitute Assessment" offered results of a study that compare ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... The adhesives reportedly resist preconsumer removal yet peel cleanly and will not penetrate through food surface layers. Other features include moisture resistance and high cohesion. Adhesives can be applied ...

Pilot Coating Line Aids Both R&D and Production

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... a result, the pilot line is often used to produce narrow web finished rolls for customer use, since the end characteristics are virtually identical. Clean Outside and Inside "We've got a two-pronged ...

Conference Features New Networking Opportunity

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... for these changes will be the flexible, agile, demand-based production facilities that will soon arrive. Timothy W. Whitman of Beringer LLC noted that the "best" cleaning strategy is the one that supports ...

Takin' Care of Business: How the Industry Does It

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ...  and their future employees with a nice place to work and a decent living" were true. It was a picture of an enthusiastic, well-run, extremely clean, employee-friendly work environment. But even so ...

Nitrocellulose, Solvents, Recycling, and Safety

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, Without proper precautions, the combination of nitrocellulose-containing inks, solvent-based press cleaners, and on-site recycling can be a deadly one. In the converting industry, it is normally desirable ...

Materials and Products for the Converting Industry

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... of rotation. Shaftless Unwind Suitable for Clean Room Ashe Converting Equipment, Upswich, U.K.; +44-1-473-710-912; ashe.co.uk Shaftless unwinds are controlled via electric servo motors, making them ...

Barrier Layer Protects CDs from Skips and Scratches

(Magazine)

July 31, 2000, ... place in a class 10,000 clean room. This lamination is especially important, as it applies the proprietary adhesive-like substance that will adhere the product onto the CD. "Those slit rolls are taken ...

On-Line Purchasing Saves Time, Money, and Space

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... and the e-mail order can be deleted when supplies are received. "It makes my life easier, and it cleans up after me. It's like having a maid"... "Made to order," that is. Supplier information All Printing ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... chemical composition of such products as household cleaners and fabric softeners wouldn't saturate the lamination, break it down, and cause leaking. But nobody could do it." Bell then went outside of ...

Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... conduit emerging from the extruder. Access to the screen pack at the 90-deg bend makes cleaning much more efficient, says Glenn, adding that this feature saves time in screen changes, although he notes ...

Partnering launches future growth in laminations

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ... a clean manufacturing process - there were some problems with the two processes "cohabitating," explains Coulter. Having grown the electronics business to a point where production could no longer reside ...

A directory of custom slitting

(Magazine)

July 31, 1996, ...  Maximum slit width: 65 in. No. of employees: 55 Special environments: Clean room Annual sales: $10 million to $20 million Avon Tape Co. 46 N. Montello St., Box 4350 Brockton, MA 02403 Ph: ...