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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]