Low cost slitter love

'Low Cost Slitter' is a phrase I thought long and hard about when writing some marketing copy for our Universal X1 slitter - we're trying to get across the fact that we have partly designed this slitter to be a minimal capital investment, but we also need to make sure potential customers know that this is a solidly built and cleverly designed device. Before I go any further let's have a quote:

"There is hardly anything in the world today that some man cannot make just a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who buy on price alone are this man’s awful prey." - John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

This quote perfectly summarises why I put so much thought into how to describe our recently redesigned X1 slitter rewinder; here is a machine that has a price tag that won't look too painful on an invoice, but it is by no means a budget machine.

Introducing the Universal X1 Low Cost Slitter

Our 'low cost slitter' wasn't designed in answer to the very poorly built slitters that currently foul the market, neither was it built to enable us to fight our way into the crowded lower end of the slitter world. The Universal X1 is designed to perform a specific role for a particular part of the market, it isn't available with as many options or automations as some of its bigger brothers and sisters, but it doesn't need them.

We launched the Universal X1 as a highly productive slitter that can be installed where space is restricted, which makes it ideal for:

Clean room environments
Expanding slitting lines
Adding slitting and winding capabilities to print facilities
Product development trials
Products requiring an extremely short web path
Thick materials
And much more!

This British designed and manufactured low-cost slitter shares many common control (and mechanical) components with the slitter machines at the other end of our range (like the X9 SR Slitter); just one of the reasons that the X1 is such exceptional value for money.

So have we designed a low cost slitter? Yes! Have we built a cheap slitter? No, we most certainly have not!

Find out more about the Universal X1 Slitter Rewinder...

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