Doctor Blades

Seamless Quality Monitoring from Raw Material to Finished Roll

(Web Handling)

February 12, 2024, ... rolls by automatically stopping the slitter or doctor machine at the exact position of the defect. Comprehensive reporting functions round out the suite, enabling complete documentation of the production ...

Pro Tapes: Cutting Edge Converting Solutions

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

February 10, 2024, Pro Tapes® is rounding out our arsenal of state-of-the-art converting equipment with new fully automatic G&A FA300 and RTA600 wide web slitters. Pro Tapes® is rounding out our arsenal of state-of-the-art ...

Single Source Solutions for the Press Room

(Slit)

February 08, 2024, ... you minimize downtime by up to 75% and increase productivity, while limiting waste of inks, substrates, and production time. Provident offers custom doctor blades and end seals fit for your application, ...

Double E Group Debuts New Appleton Side Load Slabber for the Converting Industry

(News | New Products)

February 05, 2024, New Side Load Slabber Reduces Cut and Strain Injuries While Increasing Efficiency In Slabbing Operations. Photo courtesy of Double E Group New Side Load Slabber Reduces Cut and Strain Injuries ...

Automating Flexo Closer to Digital

(Equipment/Machines - Printing)

January 21, 2024, ... reduce expensive ink costs. An automatic wash-up system removes residual ink from the complete inking system including doctor blade chambers, anilox sleeves, connecting hoses, pumping hoses and filter ...

New Cutter Sharpening Service Returns Lundberg Cutters to Like New Condition for Maximum Productivity and Efficiency

(News | New Products)

January 16, 2024, AirTrim, a leader in the design and manufacture of trim waste and dust containment systems Photo courtesy of AirTrim AirTrim, a leader in the design and manufacture of trim waste and dust containment ...

Danny Kasper New Regional Sales Manager at TGW International

(News | New Products)

January 09, 2024, TGW International, a leader in industrial machine knives and brand of EDGE Industrial Technologies TGW International, a leader in industrial machine knives and brand of EDGE Industrial Technologies, ...

Pearl Technologies Launches eCommerce Website

(News | New Products)

October 18, 2023, Pearl Technologies, a division of EDGE Industrial Technologies, has announced it has launched a new ecommerce website.  Pearl Technologies, a division of EDGE Industrial Technologies, has announced ...

Leverwood Knife Works to Showcase Cutting-Edge Machine Knives at MD&M Minneapolis

(News | New Products)

October 04, 2023, Leverwood Knife Works will exhibit at Booth 3838 where the company will present its newest product: precision ground knives for flow wrap packaging applications. Leverwood Knife Works will exhibit ...

Flexo Wash Introduces New Updated Parts Washer for Narrow Web Clients

(News | New Products)

September 11, 2023, ... units are designed to wash all of the press parts from narrow web presses. They wash ink trays, doctor blades, aniloxes and other removable press parts.  These cleaning systems are effective on all types ...

EDGE Industrial Technologies to Bring its Three Industry Powerhouse Companies to Pack Expo 2023

(Upcoming Conference News)

August 31, 2023, EDGE Industrial Technologies is bringing all three of its brands— TGW International, Pearl Technologies Inc. EDGE Industrial Technologies is bringing all three of its brands— TGW International, Pearl ...

Provident, LLC Welcomes Rob Reinhart as Technical Sales Representative for the Northeast United States and Canada

(Uncategorized)

August 22, 2023, Provident, LLC, a leading distributor of press room products including Doctor Blades, End Seals, and Cleaning Chemistries Provident, LLC, a leading distributor of press room products including Doctor ...

Walnut Packaging Inc. Invests in an Often-ignored Way to Improve Packaging Productivity: A New SOMA Pluto Slitter

(Flexography)

August 03, 2023, SOMA, producer of flexographic printing presses, plate mounters, slitter rewinders and laminators, has announced that Farmingdale SOMA, producer of flexographic printing presses, plate mounters, slitter ...

Future trends and new production monitoring tools within the converting industry

(News | New Products)

July 23, 2023, ... many across? Small or large diameters? If you have a mix, is it possible to specialize a slitter for short runs and another for long runs? Have you ever thought of a doctor rewinder machine for roll-to-roll ...

2023 ARC Annual Business Summit “A Resounding Success”

(News | New Products)

June 28, 2023, ... manager at VDI, Malay leads all research and development work, and is responsible for all process engineering projects and initiatives. Prior to this, he was a doctoral researcher at Binghamton University, ...

Corona Treatment for Extrusion Coating and Laminating Production Lines

(Surface Prep)

June 18, 2023, ... industry experts to ensure optimum product quality and performance. About the Author Frank Förster has been at SOFTAL Corona & Plasma GmbH since 1993. He holds a doctorate in Physics from Clausthal ...

Leverwood Knife Works Announces $3 Million Plant Expansion, Doubles Capacity

(News | New Products)

June 01, 2023, With a new facility size of 24,000 square feet, the company is bringing in new machinery, including a CNC grinding center, a CNC machining center and other additional equipment. With a new facility ...

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 ...

The Feat of the Foam

(Equipment/Machines - Printing)

May 07, 2023, ... applications. There are multiple factors that can cause the aeration of your aqueous coatings during production. Ink pumps, doctor blades, end seals and anilox rolls are often the top culprits of foaming ...

EDGE Industrial Technologies Announces New Vice President of Sales and Global Vice President Marketing

(News | New Products)

May 02, 2023, EDGE Industrial Technologies, the industrial knives and punches market leader, has announced it has hired Rocke Saccone as the company’s Vice President of Sales. Rocke Saccone EDGE Industrial ...

Totani

(Uncategorized)

April 30, 2023, Think Sustainable, Think Totani Box Pouch® Totani’s original design is versatile (food, pet food, coffee, lawn and garden, etc.), has a great shelf ...

Back to Basics: Fundamentals of Successful Converting Companies

(News | New Products)

April 24, 2023, ... improvement of slitting and rewinding processes, companies must avoid using slitters as doctor machines. Defects should be eliminated from rolls before slitters, on specific machines equipped with defect ...

A New Slitter

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

April 23, 2023, An Often-ignored Way to Improve Packaging Productivity An Often-ignored Way to Improve Packaging Productivity By Garrett Taylor, Sales Director, SOMA North America The introduction of faster, wider ...

President and CEO of Stora Enso Receives TAPPI/PIMA 2023 Executive of the Year Award

(News | New Products)

March 27, 2023, ... Development (WBCSD). She holds an Honorary Doctor of Technology from Lappeenranta–Lahti University of Technology LUT since 2022. Bresky was awarded the RISI Woman of the Year PPI award in 2022. She holds ...

US-Based Converting and Printing Innovator EDGE Industrial Technologies Expands Platform Offerings, Eyes New Acquisitions

(News | New Products)

March 22, 2023, The cutting-edge technology solutions provider is now a $50 million business, supplying machine knives, punches and related equipment. The cutting-edge technology solutions provider is now a $50 ...

Reducing the Occurrence of Ink Spitting

(White Paper)

March 14, 2023, ... reduce or increase the changes of ink spitting, including: Doctor blade thickness Doctor blade angle Ink temperature and flow Anilox engraving Anilox surface finish Press set up Press speed ...

Winding: Part 4

(Web Handling)

March 05, 2023, Winding Best Practices Winding Best Practices By Neal Michal, Principal, Converting Expert, LLC Previously we have discussed wound roll mechanics, how to document your roll structure, and the importance ...

Small Pack Color Communication

(News | New Products)

February 19, 2023, ... can be obtained using the gravure printing head with RK Print Coat Instruments K-Laminating accessories, which includes a rubber covered bed and wired K-Lam bars fitted in place of the doctor blade assembly ...

A&V Canada Completes Asset Purchase of Flexo Consumable Business from Grimco

(News | New Products)

February 06, 2023, ... ULC. provides an extensive portfolio of flexo prepress equipment, materials and new technologies. Some of the product offerings include XSYS, 3M, Tesa, Lohmann, Adheso, Toyobo and doctor blades and seals ...

Flint Group revolutionises food label and packaging printing with launch of sustainable UV LED Dual Cure ink

(News | New Products)

February 01, 2023, ... ANCORA F2 delivers better press performance for long runs in chambered doctor blade systems. Furthermore, these inks provide enhanced adhesion to a wide range of substrates, such as coated and uncoated ...