Press Accessories - General

Montalvo has released the XN cantilever load cell. It can be fully customized to a customer’s specifications.

Apex Group of Companies, in an effort to align its global operations under a single name, will become known as Apex International.

Bingham Flexo Services has signed a multiyear agreement to represent Pamarco’s flexo and coating products.

Despite how important dies, anvils, and cylinders are to a package printer, many fall short of maintenance requirements.

Three industry experts—David Skellie, Michael Potter, Michael Bell—offer tips on maintaining anilox functionality, including the use and care of anilox sleeves.

Knowing the symptoms of unnecessary blade wear can mean the difference of thousands of dollars a year in blade replacements, blade sharpening expenses, and downtime incurred from removing and replacing blades. By identifying simple wear patterns on your upper and lower knife blades, you can find clues that will help you optimize the life of your blade and reduce your maintenance budget.

MADISON, N.J.—Seminars for Engineers has added new seminars on web handling and converting this year to its established seminar series. Seminars are being held at a variety of regional locations in the U.S., internationally in Germany, and can also be held on-site, in-house at a company’s request. 

Shorter runs—they are the reality for many package printers today. This reality can impact your slitters/rewinders by way of greater wear and tear, more frequent tool changes, and so on, but these are not the only packaging trends that affect the slitters/rewinders market. The myriad substrates available to converters alone impacts slitter/rewinder performance and construction. Thank the emergence of flexible packaging for the increased substrate requirements. All these factors will impact your business in terms of what equipment you buy—a typical rewinder versus a turret rewinder, for example—what you will do to increase the lifespan of such equipment, as well as what other types

Web handling is a broad category of products that can range from slitters/rewinders, web guides, register, tension controls, and web inspection. Web guiding and tension control are two factors that help converters control waste as well as the web’s “wobble” as it comes off the roll. In the case of tension control, sensor selection is a major factor. Using low-cost sensors that require constant recalibration is no longer acceptable to converters. Tension Control Issues Although some converters may be intimidated by the tension control concept, the waste reduction and improvement in product quality are more than worth the investment. “Tension control is perhaps

Several factors contribute to long doctor blade life. Coatings, proper setting of the blade, and properly selecting a blade for your application/press will go a long way toward prolonging the life of the blade, as well as other press components such as anilox rolls. Considering the plethora of coatings and materials available to printers, blade selection today goes far beyond simply considering price. According to Perry Lichon, president of Retroflex, “While blade materials should be judged by their ability to doctor, they should also be judged for ease of handling, blade life, impact on roll wear, and overall cost.” According to Anthony Foley, vice