Accraply finds
shrink sleeves being utilized for many types of products, ranging from the dairy aisle of supermarkets all the way to motor oil.
The main motivation for insulating each tape individually by heat
shrink was to reduce the complexity of the cable fabrication process.
Annette Hanson to join me in this venture, and
Shrink Rap has continued to publish regular blog posts for 8.5 years now.
The film stretched at low temperatures tends to
shrink faster and to a greater extent as it is heated up.
Cold foil may be successfully printed on
shrink film with a press fitted with chill rollers, UV lamps curing a cold foil adhesive formulated from a
shrink ink vehicle, a hard cold foil nip system and lamination unwind and rewind to unspool the foil and wind up the waste foil.
The second goal is to allow the part to
shrink radially away from the cavity wall.
To cram more transistors onto a chip, manufacturers
shrink wires and other features.
With this sort of knowledge under her belt, I figured Ravichandran would surely know why jeans
shrink. Here's what she told me.
A newly designed white filmic facestock
shrinks to fit curves at the ends of a can (with a
shrink ratio up to 20%), to ensure a premium brand image.
Although most materials grow when they get hot, zirconium tungstate does the exact opposite--it
shrinks.
Now, he and Atsushi Suzuki of Yokohama (Japan) National University have made a polymer that
shrinks when subjected to light of visible wavelengths and reswells in the dark.
Inks are also affected by the fact the film is meant to
shrink. "One challenge is to make sure the ink is flexible enough so that when the material
shrinks, it doesn't crack, break or cause dark streaks when the pigments bundle up as it
shrinks," says Gates.