Slitter words mean what now?

Slitting / cutting machines are complex beasts, and so I guess it is perfectly natural that a complex vocabulary is spawned by discussing the methods and mechanics of slitting. The corporate culture within companies that use converting machinery usually ensures that slitter operators and their management all speak the same language, but when a need arises for slitter users to speak to outside agencies (when buying or servicing machinery) then it can become a bit of a challenge making oneself understood.

Introducing the Slitter Glossary.

When new customers contact me about buying a new slitter (or upgrading / servicing an third-party machine) it is important to make sure I fully understand our customers' needs. I concentrate a large portion of my energies making the specification part of the buying process incredibly simple for our customers, and recently a part of that process has involved creating a glossary of slitter terms.

The slitter glossary is a bit like a garden or model railway, in that it will never be finished. The glossary is being added to all the time, and hopefully as I continue to add new photographs and definitions this glossary will develop into a very useful resource, not just for our customers, but for everyone who works with slitter rewinders and converting machinery.

View the slitter glossary...

Comments

Drupa 2016 - the legacy lives on

Drupa 2016 may seem like a distant memory to some people in this industry, but here at Universal the legacy of last year’s Drupa exhibition is still strongly felt. We met many new people who are now customers, or who are in the process of becoming customers. Exhibiting at Drupa also gave us the opportunity to spend some time showing existing customers some of our latest technical developments. Being a part of Drupa was a great opportunity to show off our X6 Slitter Rewinder. With an estimated attendance of a third of a million people my colleagues who were on the exhibition stand had their work cut out for them. Over the eleven days of the show we had an overwhelming amount of interest in the machinery we were exhibiting. In addition to the X6 we also took a RT2 Roll Handling Trolley and a CCA Automatic Core Cutter to Dusseldorf with us. When potential customers ask when they can see the machinery running it’s great to be able to run it right there o...

Skymark are using laser to stay head of the competition

The news has just gone public that Skymark Packaging Ltd have bought a Universal X6lp Laser perforation Slitter Rewinder for their facility in Scunthorpe, here in the UK. Skymark have recently been in the news for declaring that their experience of the flexible packaging market is particularly buoyant at the moment. Their reasoning is that following the Brexit vote, a lot of supply chain risk is being mitigated by companies processing more materials here in the UK. In addition to sharing common features with our X6 slitter, the X6lp can also laser perforate and produce easy open scribe lines. The easy open packaging systems are popular with producers who want their products to be consumer-friendly, but to still be able to protect the contents of the packaging.

How to turn a heavy roll as easily as putting the kettle on.

Roll Handling is a subject that naturally rises to the surface quite often at Universal Converting Equipment , this comes as no surprise as the majority of the equipment we manufacture is designed for processing rolls, and those rolls have to safely get to our machines before they can be processed. One of the issues we've noticed with a lot of third party roll handling trolleys on the market is that they don't appear to be very well set up for unloading a roll at a different angle to how it was loaded. To clarify I'm going to give you a very simple scenario: You buy in your jumbo rolls on pallets, they arrive on said pallets neatly standing on end. Your slitter runs rolls horizontally, and so you need a way of getting the rolls off the pallet and onto the slitter unwind shaft without your spine exploding, and you've probably guessed by now that we have the answer to this potentially dangerous problem... If this blog was a shopping channel now would be the point...

Slitter Man

Search This Blog