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OOP(s) and Obsolescence

Posted by David Roisum on March 6, 2011
OOP(s) and Obsolescence
I was talking about programming with my son, a recent grad from a robotic program in a tech school.  We could barely communicate even though I prided myself with ample experience programming in assembly language, Logo, Basic, Fortran, Pascal, C and several different industrial drives and contro...

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Posted in: Current Affairs, New & Noteworthy, Tension/Drive Control, Upcoming Events, Winding
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Converter's Expo - March 2-3 Green Bay Wisconsin

Posted by David Roisum on January 29, 2011
Converters Expo features converter-manufacturers who add value to mill rolls of paper, film, nonwovens fabrics and other roll goods. “These exhibitors make products ranging from medical disposables to tissue products, printed specialties, wet wipes, labels, tapes and much more,” says Bob...

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Kodachrome 1935-2010

Posted by David Roisum on December 31, 2010
Kodachrome 1935-2010
It turns out that being best, the best, is often not good enough. The last Kodachrome film processor in the world, Dwayne’s Photo, opened the last canister of blue dye, thus ending the longest and most successful photography product ever. Kodachrome was the first film to render colors effectiv...

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Dan 'Dryer' Bemi does it again

Posted by David Roisum on December 17, 2010
Dan, along with principle authors Steve Zagar and Jeff Quass, have won best paper at the 2010 AIMCAL Fall Technical conference with their "Drying Laboratory Methods for the Development of Complex Empirical Drying Data.”  This is not the first time.  Back in 2006 he took the prize wit...

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Posted in: (Other) Converting, Current Affairs
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IWEB 2011 – Call for Papers

Posted by David Roisum on November 24, 2010
IWEB 2011 – Call for Papers
Now is the time for all good men (and women) to come to the aid of our web manufacturing industries (who payeth our salaries).  Mark your calendars for this 11th international conference on Web_Handling.   December 17, 2010 – Abstracts Due  June 12-15, 2011 – IW...

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Web Handling Brussels and Delhi

Posted by David Roisum on October 31, 2010
Web Handling Brussels and Delhi
Don’t miss out.  Public web handling instruction comes only a couple of times a year to Europe.  See you for my Web and Winding short-courses hosted by AIMCAL's Converting School: 16-19 November in Brussels Belgium as well as 2-3 December in De...

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Web Handling Europe

Posted by David Roisum on October 22, 2010
Web Handling Europe
Don’t miss out.  Public web handling instruction comes only a couple of times a year to Europe.  See you for my Web and Winding short-courses hosted by AIMCAL's Converting School: 16-19 November in Brussels Belgium as well as 2-3 December in Delhi India (co-sponsored by the India Con...

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The 2010 Ignoble Awards

Posted by David Roisum on October 3, 2010
The Ignoble Awards for 2010 have been announced in a recent ceremony at Harvard University.  Among the winners are included: Physics prize Awarded to Lianne Parkin and her team at the University of Otago in New Zealand for demonstrating that people are less likely to slip over on icy foot...

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Posted in: (Almost) Anything Goes, Current Affairs
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Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of Barrier Coatings

Posted by David Roisum on September 17, 2010
Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of Barrier Coatings
A new book by one of AIMCAL's favorite blogmasters, Dr. Charlie Bishop, is hot off the press. Heck, its even got "roll" in the title so we better take notice. Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of Barrier Coatings presents a practical guide to provide any reader with the basic information to help them...

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AIMCAL Launches Converting Quarterly

Posted by David Roisum on September 10, 2010
AIMCAL Launches Converting Quarterly
AIMCAL launches CONVERTING QUARTERLY, a new technical publication and Website for the web-processing, converting and finishing industry. The first print issue of CONVERTING QUARTERLY, scheduled to mail in February 2011, will have a circulation of 15,000. "Publishing a technical journal represents a ...

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Dr. David Roisum

Dr. Roisum is a well-known authority in the area of web handling and converting. He has authored seven books, including Winding, Rollers and Web-Handling and has coauthored or edited several others. He was a technical editor for Converting Magazine with a monthly column entitled "Web Works." An accomplished professional speaker and instructor, Roisum has been praised for his skill at translating highly technical information into a common sense practical reference. Dave has been honored by TAPPI with their Finishing & Converting Division Award, Thomas W. Busch Prize and Finest Faculty awards and is a TAPPI Fellow. Dave received his Ph.D. from the Web Handling Research Center where he later became an Industrial Advisory Board member.

Dave has worked for the Beloit Corporation as a designer of winding machinery and later as a manager of research, and for Kimberly-Clark as a converting expert serving all business units. He is now a principal of Finishing Technologies Inc., providing consulting services to more than 300 clients who convert or manufacture: paper, film, foil, nonwovens, textiles and many other materials. He has accumulated much practical experience working in nearly 1,000 plants over the course of more than three decades.