We've snuck out two new slitters!

Over the past few weeks we've gently introduced two new slitter rewinders into our range, we've not (yet) made a huge fanfare to announce these machines but we have been drip-feeding information out through tweets and some adverts and articles in the press. We haven't been focussing the press adverts on these new slitters, but we have been including images of the new machines on said adverts

Slitter Rewinder X6
Flexible Packaging Slitter
This new slitter shares a lot of common ground with our flagship slitter (the X9), and has been designed to fill a gap in the market just below our largest machine. The new X6 shares a lot of its design and components with the X9, and shares many of the same options, the X6 has been developed as a lower-cost alternative to the very large duplex slitters on the market.
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Slitter Rewinder X1
Small footprint, low cost slitter
The X1 is one of the smallest duplex slitters we've made (excluding our cantilevered slitter), and was developed as a direct response to customers who wanted a simple, fast, incredibly precise slitter but were lacking the floorspace needed for a large slitter. Put simply the X1 is a very robust small slitter rewinder with a surprisingly large roll capacity, it's a little bit like we've built the Tardis of the converting world!
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Trim removal on slitters

A trim fan attached to a slitter. As discussed previously on this blog the process of slitting (at its most basic) can be reduced to the one-line description of ' a big roll is loaded on one side of the slitter rewinder, and smaller rolls are loaded off the other side' and that's fine... most of the time. Here comes the example! If a 1000mm wide roll is loaded onto a rewinder and is slit down into rolls that are 212mm wide then four rolls would be produced. If your mental maths is up to scratch you might have noticed that 4x212 does not equal 1000, and that means that from the original / master / jumbo roll there will be roughly 117mm left over. Sometimes this happens because the edges of jumbo rolls are discarded due to damage, print reasons or simply because the material being slit isn't coated all the way to the edges of the roll. So what happens to this waste material? Waste material can be wound onto cores in the same way 'correct' rolls are,

Slitter core alignment using lasers

Lasers and slitters go together like cheese and biscuits, and fitting laser scoring, cutting and perforation devices to slitter rewinders is something that has now become reasonably commonplace here in our factory, but lasers can do a lot more than cut and perforate. We've recently had a huge upsurge in interest in our ' ComputaCore ' laser core alignment system, and because it is such a simple system to control and operate it can be a little bit challenging finding many things to write about it - it's simple and it works very well! But what's in the box? We've made our laser core alignment kit as easy to fit as it is to operate, and to highlight the simplicity of this approach to perfect core alignment we've recently published a post on the subject on our blog here - https://www.universalconvertingequipment.com/laser-core-alignment-whats-in-the-kit-and-how-does-it-work We're planning a new promotional video for our laser core alignment syste

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.

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