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, ...

Slitters save money (and energy)!

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 t...

Winding onto 6" cores on a slitter with 3" shafts

A (used) 6" differential ball chuck designed to fit a 60mm rewind shaft (once the 3" chucks have been removed!) I sometimes use this personal blog of mine to talk about the basics of slitting and rewinding, with the content partly led by thinking back to the questions I had when I first started working in the converting machinery industry. One of the first questions I had was 'how on earth can slitter rewinders with 3" rewind shafts be used for winding onto 6" cores?' A lot of converters and labellers / packaging companies regularly switch between winding onto 3" (76mm) and 6" (152mm) cores, which is one of the reasons we designed our Automatic Core Cutter to change between core sizes in under thirty seconds. But what do companies who predominantly wind onto 3" cores do when they need to wind onto 6" cores? The answer is actually quite simple - they remove the 3" ball chucks and slide on 6" core chucks! There are of...

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