The perceived wisdom has always been that the turret slitter will outperform the duplex as the changeover time between sets of rolls is so much quicker. However, when you risk assess a turret slitter, it is very difficult to make them safe whilst allowing the operator access to the non-winding shafts whilst the machine is operating.
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Mike Wilkinson Retires
After over 50 years in the converting industry, Mike Wilkinson, known as Wilkie to many, has decided to retire. During his career he has worked for Chambon, Titan/Atlas, Comexi and Kampf until finally ending his career with Universal Converting Equipment. Commenting on his time in the industry Wilkie said “I have seen the transformation of […]
Don & Low expand production with a Universal X6 Slitter
Don & Low are an international supplier of innovative polyolefin based woven and non-woven materials for a range of specialist applications. As their business has grown over the past few years, they found their existing slitting capacity could not keep up, so they took the decision to invest in a Universal X6 slitting machine. […]
Watershed Packaging Install a High Performance Universal X6 Slitting Machine
Watershed Packaging are a fast-growing adhesive label and flexible packaging producer with three production sites, including a recently completed custom-built factory in Leeds. Watershed needed a slitting machine with fast set-up times to slit material used within its conversion operation. Watershed chose the Universal X6 for its automatic shear knife set up, ease of operation […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reducing roll handling risk and increasing productivity
Universal Converting Equipment has extended the range of attachments available for their popular roll-handling trolley Safe roll handling is essential not only for the health and well-being of machine operators, but also for efficient job setup and turnaround, but not all rolls need handling in the same way. To ensure that customers have the right […]
