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Are you maximising
your profits when printing or producing labels? A big percentage
of label production is the material cost, especially if you buy in precoated
stock. While your customers may accept that label stock is relatively
expensive, need you?
If you were to produce your own label
stock, you could offer a greater variety and size of label types (from
high peel to high tack), make your pricing more competitive and improve
your margins because you would not have to purchase expensive stock.
How? By fitting a Universal
label coating station on your existing press or tape coater, you will
be able to specify your own facing paper, liner paper and adhesive. Your
customers can benefit from a better service, while you can explore new
markets and make savings on precoated stock.
Bolted on
 Universal
hot melt adhesive coating stations can be
retro-fitted to reel fed printing presses and narrow
web
tape coaters.
Can
produce coatings of permanent, pressure sensitive
or remoistenable adhesives.
Coatings
can be full width, striped, beaded, spot,
patterned or zoned for any type of label, tape or
combined business forms and labels.
Station
sizes vary from 150 to 500 mm.
The
user can specify own facing paper, liner paper and
adhesive to suit existing plant and current and future
coating requirements.
Operation
can be intermittent or continuous, in-line
or off-line.
Technical aspects
The equipment uses hot melt adhesives. Hot melts contain
no solvents and are easy and inexpensive to apply – see Benefits
of hot melt adhesives.
The coating module has a simple set-up
system for controlling coating weights, stripe patterns and position.
The heads for the main coating station module will cover the majority
of process needs, including dual web laminations for speciality coupons
and envelopes, and a wide variety of patterns, stripes and squares.
The equipment is capable of precise
registration for continuous, intermittent and multi-shot applications.
Universal
Converting Equipment Limited
B12 Farthing Road Industrial Estate, Ipswich,
Suffolk, IP1 5AP, UK
Telephone
+44 (0) 1473 403333
Fax +44 (0) 1473 406636
E-mail
info@universalconvertingequipment.com
Web www.universalconvertingequipment.com
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 If
labels
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part of your
business
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There
has never been a greater demand for self-adhesive labels and tapes.
Now, printers and converters can produce their own label or tape
stock in-house by retro-fitting a modular coating station.
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Universal’s
hot melt adhesive coating stations are available in widths from
150 to 500 mm and can be retro-fitted to reel fed printing presses
and narrow web tape coaters. A 250 mm wide unit is shown
here.
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A
400 mm wide in-line coating station under test.
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The
station uses slot die coating heads from 150 to 500 mm wide, fitted
with high quality needle valves which can run a minimum of 30
million cycles before servicing, so minimising maintenance. Because
lay down accuracy is vitally important, especially when printing
at high speeds, the modules include air activated bracketry for
automatic accurate positioning, a silicone rubber back-up roll
and web guide idlers as standard. A direct drive press interface
is optional.
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