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Cooling Rubber Covered Rollers and School

Posted by David Roisum on February 13, 2012
Cooling Rubber Covered Rollers and School
Metso’s Up and Running E-news has another roller related article.  This one is on Guidelines for Internal Water Cooling of Rubber Covered Rolls.  While it is considered tasteless to critique an article when you yourself have not written anything better (or at all) on the subject, I o...

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Posted in: Design, Maintenance, Nips, Rollers, Temperature/Moisture Effects
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From Rags to Riches

Posted by David Roisum on February 22, 2011
From Rags to Riches
Paper, as a product, is more than 3,000 years old. Paper as a web product is more than 200 years old. Not only is paper the oldest web product, aside from textiles, it is also the largest (by volume) and probably the richest. Not surprisingly then, the industry has developed an extensive body of ...

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Posted in: (Other) Converting, Design, Rollers, Temperature/Moisture Effects
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Baggy Web - Final Word by Cecilia Land

Posted by David Roisum on November 13, 2010
Baggy Web - Final Word by Cecilia Land
All good things must come to an end. Cecilia Land’s doctoral thesis at Karlstad University (Sweden) has been completed.  It is, in my opinion, the most useful doctoral thesis I have ever seen (and I’ve seen dozens).  You can access all of her newsletters and the thesis at www.k...

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Posted in: Materials, Measurement, Temperature/Moisture Effects, Web Manufacturing, Winding, Wrinkling & Flatness
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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.