How Do We Know When, How To Upgrade Our Tension Controls?

Typically, the catalyst that leads a converting production team to upgrade their tension-management or web-guiding equipment, or even to install new components for the first time, will be quality problems that are obvious in the finished roll or material.

Tension Control Technology Keeps Up With the Times

Accurate tension measurement and control can go a long way toward reducing the negative effects of process deviations on printed and converted materials in a continuous web process, particularly in cases where flexible, extensible substrates are being run.

Tension Control Product Development Trends

While it wasn't the case 30 years ago, most flexible packaging printers and converters today know that by retro-fitting their web-fed machinery with direct tension-sensing and control equipment they can control their overall process better while preventing poor quality in finished roll material.

Types of tension zones: the unwind zone, the intermediate zone, the rewind zone

Printing: Tension Control

Tension Control: Zone by Zone

Mark Breen

October 3, 2016

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A tension zone is any segment of the press in which the tension on the web (in the machine direction) is isolated from other parts of the process.

Tension Control Improves Web Printing

By retrofitting web converting and printing machinery with direct tension sensing and control equipment, flexible packaging manufacturers can prevent poor quality in finished roll material.

For the flexible package printer or converter who works with extensible films and materials, the fight to prevent defect-rendering process deviations never ends.

Better Web Process Control through Direct Tension Measurement

For the flexible package printer and/or converter who works with extensible films and materials, the fight to prevent defect-rendering process deviations never ends. The key to reliable defect prevention is

Flexible Packaging

2020 November

Some lessons can be hard to learn, and COVID-19 has been one tough teacher when it comes to supply chains. We shed some light on what this taskmaster has taught us in the November issue of Flexible Packaging as well as how printers can use less ink without sacrificing quality, how advances in technology are opening up new markets for flexible, and showing you a brand that’s dear to our hearts with its flippancy. There’s more than that, though, but you’ll have to dive in to see it!

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