Cool core cutters

Today I've been busy with core cutter demos, more specifically I've been demonstrating our CCA Automatic Core Cutter. An increasing number of companies are coming to us to investigate the huge cost savings that can be made by buying in cores in full lengths rather than as cut cores.

One conversation with a customer re-enforced the advantage of having a core cutter 'in-house' to salvage core off-cuts left over from other jobs.

A topic that often pops up when speaking to customers about core cutters is supply chain risk, and how owning (or leasing) a core cutter allows companies to minimise risk by buying in large quantities of full length cores (at a discount) and cutting their own extensive stock of cores. This makes a lot of sense to me - for the small cost of buying a core cutter you can avoid your production managers tearing their hair out because they have slitting jobs to run but no cores on which to wind onto!

So in conclusion I think our automatic core cutters are cool, and here in a nice simple bullet list fashion is why I think they're cool:

Our automated core cutters require almost no operator training
The recipe system on our core cutters allows users to cut multiple lengths from a single core
Our core cutters are FAST!
Changing between core sizes is easy and fast
A core cutter can greatly reduce your supply chain risk, and therefore increase reliability and boost customer service
The side frames are made from good thick metal, so the core cutter doesn't shift about even when running at top speed
The control system on the machine knows how long the core you've inserted is, and it even knows how thick the core wall is
Our CCA Core Cutters run on standard 240v three pin sockets, meaning no special power supply is required

There are many more reasons I think our Core Cutters are particularly smart, but I've got another demonstration coming up so I'll leave this post here.

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