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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Bryce Corporation Invests $8 million in new Automated Slitting Operation
Bryce Corporation continues to grow with the investment in the latest slitting and roll handling technology at their Searcy, AR, USA location. Bryce is a major US supplier of flexible food packaging with the capability to serve both the long run and short run production orders. Bryce’s previous slitting operation did not meet the needs […]
FFP Packaging Solutions win ‘Investment of the Year’ at UK Packaging Awards with the Universal X6
FFP Packaging Solutions has won the prestigious ‘Investment of the year’ award at this years UK Packaging Awards. FFP is a packaging company that focuses on designing and manufacturing sustainable packaging solutions for food, beverage, pharmaceuticals and other industries. Established over 50 years ago, FFP have grown to become one of the leading flexible packaging […]
Universal offer free lifetime support on all slitters
Universal Converting Equipment manufacture class leading slitting machines and other converting equipment that is sold worldwide. The Universal X6 slitter offers a range of technically advanced features to ensure production of high quality product while minimising the amount of time the machine is stopped. However, to achieve repeat sales, Universal decided they must also offer excellent reliability […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
