Contents In this issue  Cover by magazine


New Genesis Air Mini


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The Machine Knife Specialists Supply – Sharpening – Support


+R Group, a world-leading equipment engineering company founded in 1918 in Lancashire and still based in the UK. We


have grown and developed across a number of market sectors including Print, Forming, Vacuum and Coating and we are proud to be a leading manufacturer of sophisticated roll-to-roll production machinery.


Editor’s Comment & News 8. Precision Products: A strong legacy, a new chapter


Film & Foil 12. Clarity and vision in flexibles


14. Functional films seal success for the meat industry 16. Reel & Roll Handling


Flexible packaging 18. Rethinking Nitrocellulose


20. Achieving consistent colour in flexible packaging – why anilox tolerances matter


Machine vision & Web inspection 22.


26.


Machine vision helps scale EV battery production From mirrors to cameras


Slitting and Rewinding 28. Automation breakthroughs in narrow web slitting for bottle labels


Web tension & Guiding 30. Tension measurement and control


34. Tension control & web guidance


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