Converting Process Sustainability Via Optimized Web Handling

Steve Lange, ProcessDev, LLC

Converting webs while minimizing environmental impacts, conserving energy and natural resources and ensuring employee and product safety requires optimization of the most fundamental web converting process: web handling. This presentation outlines how web handling affects the sustainability of converting processes and what to consider when designing for, or improving, their sustainability. Topics covered include improved process reliability, reduced scrap and energy use, and sustainable material handling using optimized web path and roller designs and managing unsteady-state conditions including line ramps and splices.