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- Coating Matters: How To Avoid Bubble Defects
- (Coating Matters)
- October 10, 2011, ... and air entrapment. These very similar words have very different causes. Air Entrainment Air that is introduced into the fluid prior to the coating head is entrained. I remember the term by thinking ...
- Web Handling: Top 7 Causes of Wrinkles
- (Web Handling)
- October 09, 2011, ... your desired productivity and quality goals. Machine misalignment leads to roll misalignment. 1. Poor Machine Alignment Machine alignment is the first thing to check when experiencing web ...
- Inspection: Lighting the Way
- (Controls)
- August 21, 2011, ... within the press and be able to communicate with slitter/rewinder equipment for fast, efficient marking and removal of defective roll material. Finally, a system must collect and store performance data ...
- PCR Milked for Flex-Pack
- (Flexpack)
- August 21, 2011, Consumer demands to preserve the environment is a trend Hood Packaging takes seriously. The biggest challenge is simultaneously keeping upcharges for more sustainable converted products within reason Consumer ...
- Digital Printing: Digital Meets Demands
- (Digital)
- August 16, 2011, When John Roberds and his partner started Odyssey Digital Printing, Tulsa, OK, in 1996, he says, "We would print anything we could get people to pay us to print." With a laugh he adds, "Since then, we'v ...
- Green Converting: Landfill Diversion
- (Green Converting)
- August 16, 2011, ... programs, most of which are in the commercial or institutional sector, so things like college cafeterias, food courts, and the like. Seattle and San Francisco also have residential collection, which adds ...
- SVC To Explore Future Innovation at Annual Symposia
- (News | New Products)
- August 10, 2011, ... for presenting at the TechCon event, abstracts on the following technical subject matter are being accepted: • “Lab to Fab” Vacuum thin Film Manufacturing Processes • New Materials and Processes for ...
- Package Design: Make an Impact
- (Flexpack)
- July 31, 2011, ... Labeling Solutions Div., Wyman's had been thinking about expanding its juice lines and was considering moving to shrink sleeves as a labeling option. “They weren't sold on shrink until mid-2009, and the ...
- Meeting Efficiency Challenge
- (Trends/Management)
- July 31, 2011, ... Kefalos, global supply chain manager for ExxonMobil, in a webinar hosted by the Tag & Label Mfrs. Inst. on July 28 for its members. Perhaps nothing truer has ever been said — particularly in the volatile ...
- Surface Energy Matchmaking
- (Coating/Laminating)
- July 31, 2011, ... technical terms, the fluid and substrate both have an inherent amount of energy exhibited at the surface where they come into contact. If the energy within the fluid is high relative to the substrate, ...
- UFLEX Expands in Egypt & Poland
- (Coating/Laminating)
- July 31, 2011, ... oxide coater, dubbed ALOX, on October 6 near Cairo, Egypt, where a 12,000 million tons/yr CPP line already has started up. The ALOX coater will apply a thin, highly transparent coating of aluminium oxide ...
- Education Training: School's in Sessio
- (Trends/Management)
- July 31, 2011, ... example, if they have 20 operators who need to understand more about extrusion, we could set up something online for them.” Webinars that bring industry suppliers into the “classroom” are offered once ...
- ALOX Coater & CPP Film Line Debuting in Egypt
- (Flexpack News)
- July 13, 2011, ... Reportedly, this capability places UFLEX among a select handful of manufacturers that produce aluminum oxide coated films. The ALOX coater will apply a thin and highly transparent coating of aluminium ...
- Update on World BOPET Market Trends
- (Flexpack News)
- July 07, 2011, ... pricing, and forecasts for thin and thick BOPET film markets to 2015. The study reports: The global BOPET film shortage has eased to the point that supplies are now plentiful, and new capacity coming ...
- Catching Up with PFFC News
- (Trends/Management)
- June 30, 2011, ... news about machinery, materials, products, and services, that I forget about promoting PFFC's own great news. So this month I'm taking this space to talk about things some of you astute readers already may ...
- Web Lines: Is Wound Roll Pressure Greater Than Tire Pressure?
- (Tension)
- June 30, 2011, ... When you stretch a rubber band around something, it creates tension proportional to how much the band is elongated beyond its untensioned length (a.k.a. strain). The pressure under a rubber band on a cylinder ...
- Multilayered Solutions: One Stop Shop
- (Print)
- June 30, 2011, ... product and to the end-user — all in its Cranbury, NJ, facility. “We do everything under one roof,” he says. “Lots of people talk about it, but we actually do it. We do our own chemistry, originations, ...
- Brand Security Innovations Technical Report: Tamper Evidence
- (Print)
- June 30, 2011, ... or covert to provide the broadest possible umbrella of protection for everything from ethical pharmaceuticals and medical devices to legal documents, designer handbags, automotive and aerospace parts, ...
- Holographic Technology: Pattern Pressing
- (Print)
- June 30, 2011, ... interesting things happening” in both the creation and use of holographic materials that have brought holograms light years from their origins. “We're still living with that sort of [inferior] image ...
- Europe Faces Plastic Bag Bans
- (Yo's Yarns)
- June 21, 2011, ... is currently running an Europe-wide survey, amongst other things. The explanation accompanying the survey contains incomprehensible claims. According to this, each and every EU citizen is supposed to ...