Drying

Advancing Curing/Drying Trends: A Pathway to Sustainable Bio-based Coating Solutions

(Coating/Laminating)

August 27, 2023, ... plastics — the coatings industry is also witnessing significant advancements in curing/drying trends. These trends not only address traditional challenges of efficiency and productivity but also pave the ...

Interesting Times- The Role Drying and Energy Curable Technology Will Play

(News | New Products)

January 12, 2019, ... curing in order that products can be developed, tested and performance monitored. Designed and developed by RK Print Coat Instruments Ltd these pilot coat/print, laminate and drying/curing systems also ...

B&W MEGTEC Launches Drying Lab

(Coating/Laminating)

July 30, 2017, An in-house bench-top drying system profiles drying characteristics of coatings and substrates from small-size samples DE PERE, WI | Babcock & Wilcox MEGTEC has developed an exclusive in-house drying ...

Maximize Drying in Limited Footprint

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2010, The ModuleDryer can combine the full range of heating, drying, and cooling technologies. Multiple zoning allows the system to be tailored to customer The ModuleDryer can combine the full range of heating, ...

AIMCAL-PFFC Web Drying 101 Webinar

(News | New Products)

November 03, 2009, The Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators, co-hosts with PFFC, a one-hour webinar on November 10 at 11 A.M. EST on the subject of Web Drying 101, instructed by Edgar Gutoff and Dr. Edward ...

Drying Part 3: Paste Inks

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

March 31, 2008, This column will review the two primary drying methods of paste inks. Oil-Based Inks The main application of oil-based inks is in litho printing, primarily This column will review the two primary drying ...

Drying Part 2: Computer Simulation

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

February 29, 2008, Drying of liquid inks is a simple mechanism requiring complex engineering. About 20 years ago I worked on computer-simulated drying to develop ink formulation Drying of liquid inks is a simple mechanism ...

Process Management: Drying Part 1: Liquid Inks

(Magazine)

January 31, 2008, In the next three columns, we will cover the basic mechanisms of ink drying. This month we look at inks drying primarily by evaporation and absorption In the next three columns, we will cover the basic ...

Coating & Drying and Adhesion Technology Seminars

(Archive)

April 02, 2007, PRESS RELEASE WALTHAM, MA—The 19th Coating and Drying Technology seminar will take place May 7-10, 2007, immediately followed by the 16th Adhesion Technology seminar, May 10-11, both held in the Best ...

New Book on Coating and Drying Defects

(Archive)

October 04, 2006, "Coating and Drying Defects: Troubleshooting Operating Problems, 2nd ed.," by Edgar B. Gutoff and Edward D. Cohen, provides manufacturing and quality control personnel, equipment operators and supervisors, ...

Coating/Drying and Adhesion Technology Seminars Announced

(Archive)

February 15, 2006, The Coating and Drying Technology seminar is designed for engineers and scientists who work with the coating of fluids onto continuous webs. The Adhesion Technology seminar is designed for engineers and ...

Vehicle Retention is a Drying Not a Driving Issue

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... coating, or ink, that remains in a construction after drying. The adhesives, coatings, or inks used in a typical construction often come as solutions, dispersions, suspensions, or the like in water, ...

Release Liners: A Worldwide Special ReportEB/UV Curing Drying

(Archive)

October 31, 2002, ... beam and ultraviolet light for curing/drying inks and coatings. The advantages of reduced emissions, lower energy costs, and increased speed have fueled this interest. Electron Beam (EB) The electron ...

Portable Drying Unit Installed

(Magazine)

September 30, 2001, ... installed the Easy Scan from Prime UV Systems, Carol Stream, IL. Easy Scan is designed for “cold set” printers looking to increase productivity with instant drying of heavy-coverage inks and coatings. ...

Estimating the Drying Rate of Flexo Ink in the Laboratory

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, One reason the drying rate of flexo inks has become an important subject is the general trend toward the use of thinner ink films. In the narrow web sector, One reason the drying rate of flexo inks has ...

Rudolf Commissions Baldwin’s TexCoat™ G4 Lab-scale Precision Spray Unit

(News | New Products)

September 13, 2023, ... performed thanks to recipe management, including automated chemistry and coverage selection. Furthermore, the system takes speed information from the drying process to insure exact coverage regardless ...

Italian Printer Is Europe’s First Flexible Film Converter to Offer All-UV LED Curing in Narrow to Mid-Web Format

(Flexpack)

September 06, 2023, ... the printing process and make narrow web food-grade cured packaging a reality. The results of the retrofitted AMS Spectral UV were impressive. The drying process was completely transformed. By speeding ...

2023 R2R USA Conference presents 95+ technical sessions

(News | New Products)

August 15, 2023, ... Printing, Sustainability, Flexible Packaging, Vacuum and Battery Energy. The schedule also includes presentations of ARC’s popular Coating Fundamentals, Drying Fundamentals, Vacuum Fundamentals and Web ...

Baldwin's FlexoDry IR and FlexoCleanerBrush™ Spotlighted at CorrExpo 202

(News | New Products)

August 15, 2023, ... Technology Company Inc. will fast track corrugated printers to the next level of sustainability, quality, cost savings and efficiency with its FlexoDry IR drying and FlexoCleanerBrush™ automated cleaning ...

Selecting the Proper Web Handling Equipment

(Web Handling)

July 17, 2023, ... convey the web among the various machine sections. Though much time is typically spent focusing on the unwinding, winding, coating, drying, laminating and embossing sections, typically very little time ...

Meech to Showcase Hyperion 650QAC Ionising Bar and More At LabelExpo Europe 2023

(News | New Products)

July 13, 2023, ... charges are generated during the unwinding, printing, drying and rewinding processes and stored in the metallic antennae. The population of the chip onto the antennae can then result in the stored static ...

HERMA Moving Toward Net Zero Emissions by 2040

(News | New Products)

June 19, 2023, ... Gablowski. During the 2030s, the gas required for drying the paper webs is to be phased out. It has yet to be established whether the alternative energy source will be green hydrogen, special heat pumps ...

Thin and Accurate is Slot Die Coating Standard

(News | New Products)

May 30, 2023, Roll-to-roll slot die coating has become the industry standard for extremely thin and extremely accurate coating. By Scott Zwierlein, Coating Engineer, FRONTIER – a Delta ModTech Company Roll-to-roll ...

Conductive Science Chooses Vetaphone Corona

(News | New Products)

May 15, 2023, ... gravure, three roll reverse, rod, or slot-die.  Drying is by a two-zone overhead IR hoods, and to ensure quality, inline and post measurement testing is completed throughout the process.  CSI is coating ...

Students visit Mark Andy Technology Centre in Warsaw

(News | New Products)

May 03, 2023, ... used for printing longer runs, as well. The next demo was devoted to Evolution Series E5 flexo press, which is servo-driven and was equipped with a hybrid curing system, incorporating different drying ...

Why is LED UV the next big thing for corrugated printing? Find out at AICC Annual Meeting

(News | New Products)

April 24, 2023, ... no drying time, using much less energy than both IR and arc UV. The modules can be turned on and off to cover only part of the conveyor, saving energy use when curing smaller stock widths. This arrangement ...

Peters Automates Cup Printing Line with Martin Automatic

(News | New Products)

April 24, 2023, ... roller and is fitted with six flexo print stations and hot air drying for use with water-based inks. It has automatic electronic register control with Omet’s Vision system for advanced register adjustment ...

An OEM Perspective on Industry Changes and Trends

(News | New Products)

April 23, 2023, ... being: No emissions, very low energy consumption and high productivity. We then introduced high-efficiency ovens for emission-based processes requiring drying, for low energy consumption, higher productivities, ...

Baldwin Invites Converters to Push Speed, Dose, Power and Scalability Boundaries at Converters Expo

(Upcoming Conference News)

April 11, 2023, ... surface pretreatment systems, IR-drying systems, hot-air dryers, rotary spray systems, and technologies for color management and defect detection, all of which increase productivity, reduce waste, improve ...

Phoseon Technology Exhibits Latest UV LED Curing Systems for Flexographic Printing at Labelexpo Mexico 2023

(News | New Products)

April 11, 2023, ... printing. It will present a wide variety of industry-related equipment for label, screen, and inkjet printers, manufacturing machinery, drying and curing equipment associated with this sector. To learn ...