Doctor Blades

Not Just a Pretty Face

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2009, The Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators, Fort Mill, SC, bestowed this year's top Metallized Product of the Year Award, named in honor of PFFC's former publisher Peter Rigney, to Graphic ...

AIMCAL Honors Technology of the Year, Institutes Sustainability Competition

(News | New Products)

March 24, 2009, The Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators announced winners of its annual Technology of the Year Award and its new Sustainability Competition at its March 22 annual management meeting FT ...

Flexotecnica F12: A Winning Press

(Flexography)

February 28, 2009, The F12 12-color, gearless, CI flexo press from Flexotecnica won the 2008 award for “Innovation in Printing Press/Finishing” at the 2008 FlexoTech Awards. London, England | The F12 12-color, gearless, ...

Narrow Web & Label Products: March 2009

(Label/Tape Main)

February 28, 2009, ... between-station and IR dryers, ink is formulated for reversed angle and chambered doctor blades with fine line anilox rolls for sharp replication of high screen artwork. Graphic Sciences | 888-546-4465 ...

Joint Venture for Gravure Cylinders

(Gravure)

February 28, 2009, ... Systems, K. Walter, Bauer Logistik, Schepers, Daetwyler R&D Dayton, and their worldwide sister companies. These companies will continue to distribute Daetwyler doctor blades and diamonds. Max Rid will ...

Crowning Benefits

(Web Handling: Main)

February 28, 2009, Many industrial manufacturers rely on crowned rollers. A crown is a shape or diameter profile necessary to compensate for deflection and obtain uniform nip pressure distribution Many industrial manufacturers ...

Pilot Line Has New Coating System

(News Clips Archive)

January 31, 2009, ... a new coating system for functional coatings available on its pilot line. The technology centre is equipped with a chamber doctor blade operating in the six o'clock position. The chamber doctor blade ...

Press a Perfect Fit

(Flexography)

November 30, 2008, ... slitting and second generation of Easy-Set for automatic setting of impressions; 51-in. winders; Turboclean 600A modular wash-up system; and a new design of carbon fiber doctor blade chambers for use with ...

Web Coating: Process Characterization

(Coating/Laminating)

October 31, 2008, ...  Uniform thickness in machine direction (MD) and transverse direction (TD), which is particularly important in a doctoring process in which the distance from blade to substrate determines final coating ...

Lab/Pilot/Technical Facilities Directory

(Archive)

October 31, 2008, ... solvents: water, flammable, organic Coating Technologies | doctor blade, forward roll, gravure, hot melt, reverse roll, rod, slot die Printing | rotogravure Substrates | film (0.5-20 mil), foil (1.0-12 ...

Robinette Invests in First Miraflex Flexo Press

(News Eclips)

October 09, 2008, ... slitting and second generation of Easy-Set for automatic setting of impressions, 51-in. winders, a Turboclean 600A modular wash-up system, plus a new design of carbon fiber doctor blade chambers for use ...

Adding Capacity

(Flexography)

September 30, 2008, ...  Turboclean 600A inking and wash-up system, which automatically cleans the print decks, anilox roll, and doctor blade chamber using a variety of selectable wash-up programs. “We have always purchase ...

What's New Product

(Magazine)

September 30, 2008, Coatings Resist Oil, Stains Capstone sustainable fluorotelomer products are used to make surface-protection products such as oil- and grease-resistant Coatings Resist Oil, Stains Capstone sustainable ...

Flexo Ink Based on Renewable Resin

(News Eclips)

September 17, 2008, Flint Group Narrow Web offers Hydrosoy Ink System, a water-based flexo ink that features high color strength, great printability and dot reproduction, and good press stability PLYMOUTH, MN | Flint Group ...

Cleaning at the Cutting Edge

(News | New Products)

August 17, 2008, Teknek contact cleaners are said to differ from other methods of web cleaning in the their effectiveness RENFREWSHIRE, UK | Teknek contact cleaners are said to differ from other methods of web cleaning ...

FFTA Annual Forum Speakers Score High Marks

(News | New Products)

August 05, 2008, ... Technical Assn. (FFTA) Forum in Dallas, TX. Tony Donato, product development engineer at Harper, presented at the Flexo 101 session, addressing the relationship of doctor blade contact angle to vibration, ...

Knife Holder Is All-Electric

(News Eclips)

July 20, 2008, Sigmala knife holders replace conventional pneumatic controls and manual setup with electrically powered embedded servo motors in the company’s 50-mm-wide SL50 slitter LINCOLNSHIRE, UK | Sigmala knife ...

Updated Anilox Scoring Prevention Guide

(News | New Products)

June 30, 2008, ... new edition contains updates on scoring prevention, additional information on doctor blades, an Ink Cleaner Cross Reference Guide of HarperScientific products, as well as Harper’s 10 Tips for Anilox Roll ...

News Clips

(News Clips Archive)

June 30, 2008, ... and distributes consumables, including anilox sleeves, mounting tape, doctor blades, and inks. Caraustar Industries, Atlanta, GA, an integrated manufacturer of converted recycled paperboard, joins ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Narrow Web)

June 30, 2008, ... performance. Coating is available on PVC and synthetic sheets. Michelman | 800-333-1723 | www.michem.com PFFC-ASAP 312 Dot Gain Reduced With Doctor Blades Doctor blades using the latest developments ...

What's New Product

(Magazine)

April 30, 2008, Self-Calibrate Knifeholder Setup The all-electronic e-Knifeholder is now in production. Self-calibration features reportedly eliminate guesswork in knifeholder Self-Calibrate Knifeholder Setup The all-electronic ...

Drupa New Product Digest

(Magazine)

April 30, 2008, ...  PFFC-ASAP 403 Many Features on Flexo Press Diamond HP 808 flexo press offers printing speeds to 500 mpm; deck makeready while machine is running; pneumatically suspended, tool-less chambered doctor ...

W&H to Debut CI Flexo Press at Interpack 2008

(News | New Products)

April 06, 2008, ... improvements, such as sleeve-type nip rolls and light-weight doctor blade chambers, highlight this new development. The MIRAFLEX C is available with 8 or 10 color decks and printing widths of 39-in. to ...

Shrinkable Film/Label Inks

(Archive)

March 12, 2008, ... reportedly include good film adhesion, printability at high speeds, good doctor blade wiping, high strength, resolubility, heat resistance, scratch and scuff resistance, blocking resistance, and clean ...

Property Control

(Coating/Laminating)

January 31, 2008, Coater operability and the applicator's ability to apply coating uniformly as well as physical defects and final coating quality all depend upon the properties Coater operability and the applicator's ability ...

February What's Ne

(Magazine)

January 31, 2008, ... roller coater with enclosed doctor blade; web widths of 13 or 20 in.; quick-change magnetic die cylinder; two-knife system for underscore (additional knives optional); and three-knife slitting system. ...

Coating & Laminating Services Directory 2008

(Archive)

January 31, 2008, ...  2 Brush 21 Nonwovens 3 Coextrusion 22 Plastic Films 4 Doctor Blade 23 Paperboard 5 Extrusion 24   Electrostatic 25 Coating Type Gravure 26 ...

February Products

(Magazine)

January 31, 2008, MicroPunch Dust-Free Holes MicroPunching systems reportedly provide dust-free punching of holes as small as 0.020 in. Easy-to-operate modules have a long MicroPunch Dust-Free Holes MicroPunching systems ...

Roll Winding Dynamics

(Web Handling)

January 31, 2008, Materials today often are more than they may seem at first glance; many are manufactured with non-conventional properties. Label and semi-glossed enamel stocks are engineered Materials today often ...

Dust Removal for Slitter Section

(News | New Products)

January 21, 2008, Maxson Automatic Machinery Co. has developed a vacuum system for its sheeter that removes dust at the slitters for cleaner sheeted stock and minimized dust related defects (hickies) at the press. WESTERLY, ...