Overwhelming interest in the X6 Slitter at ICE Europe 2015 This year’s International Converting Exhibition (ICE) in Munich appeared to be the best attended ICE exhibition to date, both in terms of delegates and exhibitors. Here at Universal Converting Equipment we decided to book a larger stand, and to take more machinery than in previous […]
Universal Converting Equipment at ICE Europe 2015
Deutsch | English | Español | Français Universal Converting Equipment will be exhibiting at ICE Europe 2015 in hall A6, stand 523. The ‘star’ of the stand will be the Universal X6 Slitter Rewinder, a high performance slitter developed primarily for flexible packaging, but proving itself just as efficient and fast when processing a wide […]
Universal Converting Equipment appoint top slitter sales executive
Universal Converting Equipment are pleased to announce the appointment of Mike Wilkinson as Sales Executive. Mike has a wealth of experience in the converting industry having worked in senior sales and general management roles for Titan, Atlas, Comexi and Kampf. Commenting on the appointment, Alan Jones, Managing Director said, “Mike is one of the top […]
Universal Converting Equipment complete Phase 2 of their expansion strategy
In the last two years, Universal Converting Equipment has doubled its turnover. To support this turnover growth, Universal invested in additional manufacturing space, designers and assembly staff (Phase 1). However, Universal found that the business was being held back by the lack of capacity of its sub-contractors to meet their increased demands. In the last […]
Lean Flexibles Install a High Performance Universal X6 Slitting Machine
Lean Flexibles are a fast growing supplier and contract slitter of flexible packaging materials based at Hinckley, UK. Lean offer short lead time supply of a range of materials including PET, OPP, PE, CPP and multi-layer laminates. In choosing the Universal X6 slitting machine, Lean needed a wider web machine which minimised job set up […]
Universal Converting Equipment expand
Slitter, winder and hot melt coating equipment manufacturer grows into new premises. Slitting and coating equipment manufacturer Universal Converting Equipment have announced they have purchased an additional 4000sq feet of manufacturing space adjoining their existing Ipswich-based facility. “The additional spacewill be used to complement our existing production areas and also to house a 2000sq feet […]
Energy efficient adhesive coating
The next generation of ITW Dynatec Dynamelt™ S Series Adhesive Supply Units have been designed to reduce the amount of energy required to operate efficiently, thereby also reducing their TCO (total cost of ownership). Reducing energy consumption. The new Dynamelt™ S unit consumes 20% less energy and significantly less air than similar adhesive supply units […]
Reducing energy consumption and costs with a Slitter Rewinder
Industrial machinery has a reputation for being noisy and it’s taken for granted that ear protection needs to be worn when working with very large machines, but how often have you walked past a noisy machine only to realise it doesn’t appear to be actually doing anything? The energy consumption of large processing, printing, packaging […]
Laser core alignment, what’s in the kit and how does it work?
There has recently been a surge of interest in our laser core alignment system, so we have written this post to explain how the system is installed and how it works. Core positioning. We fit our ComputaCore Laser Core Alignment System to many of the slitters we manufacture, and we also offer our laser core […]
Slitter web guiding made simpler and greener
Universal Converting Equipment focus on re-usable energy and ease of use for their web guiding system. As a part of their commitment to ‘actively reduce energy usage’ Universal Converting Equipment have developed a ‘regenerative’ web guiding system. The ‘Converter Guide 4’ is a simple to use web guiding system designed as an upgrade for slitters […]
