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“We got very good fefeedback fromcustomers and everybody recognised our launch as the biggest innovation in lamination adhesive,” said Fraschini. “This is the first drupa that we’ve been at; our obj


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we are the leader in the adhesive and laminating segment – I think ourmissi on is accomplished. “Dow always wants to deliver a solution fofor the consumer in the value chain and we collaborate with OEMs, brand owners and customers to try and find what is really needed across themarket. In order to be ahead of other companies working with Nordmeccanica was the best solution.” Caimmi added: “For Nordmeccanica the number of visitors recorded at the boothwas slightly higher thanwe expected, and our newinnovationwas the topic of nearly all ourmeetings.


“Each company is working on each side of the innovation according to th eir knowhow. Nordmeccanica and Dow have joined to hopefully bring new products in the future. The partnership is not limited to this first launch.We have looked at this part of themarket fromtwo


Other benefits of this new technology inclu Lower cost-in-use – reduced line downtime and curing inventory; ability to forma package in less than one day fromlamination, and achieve fofood compliance within one day fo


structures; eliminates adhesive scrap; and bond- quality c hecking 30minutes after lamination .


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PACKAGING AMINATION REDEFINED Compared to a conventional lamination line, the Duplex SL One Shot laminator fefeatures a system to handle the solventless lamination process, enabling the two adhesive components to come into contact as late as possible.With two


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ffers reduced downtime and easy cleaning. “In collaboration with Dow we set ourselves targets, fofor example the almost 50/50 ratio of the adhesive helps the two coating heads to deliver approximately the same amount of adhesive on both webs,”continues Caimmi. “We designed coating stations that allow fofor remote settings and replication of the settings fromone station to the other in a completely automatic way.


“The idea was that we didn’t want to overcomplicate the


lamination procedure; starting at the early days of this idea, we took out of the equation existing


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as solventless lamination.” Fraschini explains that in talking to its customers Dow fofound that there was a need to react to last minute requests and to therefofore speed up the


whole lamination process. By working with Nordmeccanica applying a two-coat adhesive independently this can be


before thematerials can be slit and the rollsmoved on to the next step of the process. Dow has been working with common


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the door ready for the customer.With a diffe technology, you would be working with a fofour or five day turnaround.”


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substrates fofound in the packagingmarket, including polyester, aluminiumfofoil, and PE films. “One example I’musing here, if you have a substrate roll coming into the fafactory at eight in themorning you will start the lamination process. Then in 90minutes you can start cutting and slitting the roll, then within the same day you can produce pouches on a packagingmachine. A t eight the nextmorning, the product will be out fferent


Caimmi adds: “In reality you do not believe something until you see it. It was a great idea to change the entire converting process onstage [at drupa] with the demonstration daily at the Nordmeccanica stand and then 90minutes later we were using that same roll on the Dow boot h on a commercial slitter. ”


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