SIMCO Industrial Static Control

Featured Products for the flexographic, narrow-web and package printing industries including TAKK Industries, Polymag Tek, Meech, NRD Advanced Static Control, Jemmco, Simco-Ion, R.G. Egan, and Doyle Systems

Featured Products for the flexographic, narrow-web and package printing industries, including Meech Static Eliminators, Simco-Ion, Monroe Electronics, Doyle Systems

Featured Products for the flexographic, narrow-web and package printing industries, including TAKK, Polymag Tek, Simco-Ion, Monroe Electronics, Doyle Systems and Meech International.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including ACTEGA, OEC Graphics, KBA North America, Sun Chemical and Illinois Tool Works.

News on suppliers to the package printing industry, including EskoArtwork, Mark Andy, Technicote, Anderson & Vreeland, Davis-Standard, MacDermid Printing Solutions and more.

The new corporate identity, Simco-Ion, comes on the heels of Simco’s acquisition within the last year of Ion Systems, a technology-driven firm with electrostatic and process monitoring solutions.

Celebrating 75 years in business would be a significant milestone for any company. For Simco Industrial, this achievement serves as the perfect backdrop for the company’s aggressive business agenda for 2011.

Thousands of converting professionals from 37 countries came together to see a comprehensive range of new products and technologies from more than 250 exhibiting companies at the inaugural ICE USA show.

Dirt, dust, and any number of other contaminants can wreak havoc on a printing press. Package printers understand this well and work hard to maintain clean working environments and provide the necessary systems to eliminate contamination in their printing operations. Key components incorporated onto printing presses to achieve this purpose include static-elimination and web-cleaning systems. With the growing use of film materials, run at higher and higher press speeds, the need to control static (a.k.a., dirt magnet) and assure that substrates are free of foreign material is greater than ever. There are a number of companies that supply static-control and web-cleaning equipment and

Clean, clean, clean! It is one of the keys to successful package printing. The substrate must be substantially free of contaminants to stand any chance of providing consistent high-quality printing. Various systems are used to help keep printing surfaces clean, including static control systems and web cleaning systems. Although George Zuments, president of Web Systems, Inc., points out that static control and web cleaning are separate systems, they typically work in conjunction with each other. Static control systems are used to enhance the cleaning process by reducing or eliminating static levels. Static poses two problems relative to web cleaning. First, static can