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Slitters save money (and energy)!

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If you look in the new issue of Package Print Worldwide (@PackPrintWorld) you'll spot a photo of our rather handsome X3 Slitter Rewinder on page 18, the reason this slice of cool blue is on page 18 is because it is a good example of one of our energy (and money) saving slitters.  A large part of my job at Universal Converting Equipment involves working on press releases and talking to editors and journalists, and while this bit of coverage is one of many I thought I'd mention it here on my own blog because energy efficiency is a topic we've been talking about a lot recently.

Reducing energy usage has long been a hot topic in our factory (and equally importantly in our design suite), and over the last few months we've started to let the world know what our machines can do to reduce energy consumption.  I'm particularly proud of this aspect of our machinery as reducing energy consumption is something of a personal mission of mine (I even cycle to work!), so I thought I'd use my personal blog (this one) to give you a list of some of the  press releases and official blog posts we've recently published on the topic:

We're planning some more articles and press releases on energy efficiency, so watch this space!
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