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Spooling Line Uses SAHM Winders

Published: October 1, 2010
Catbridge Machinery has built a p-s tape spooling line utilizing SAHM winders

Splicer/Rewind Combo Cuts Waste

Published: September 1, 2010
The MBSC splicer combined with an STR rewind provides roll automation for label presses with webs to 13 in. With speeds to 500 fpm, combo is called a

Flexo Trade Services Installs Martin Automatic Butt Splicer & Turret Rewinder

Published: July 16, 2010
Martin Automatic announces the installation of a new splicer and rewinder combo on a narrow web label press at Flexographic Trade Services, Fort Mill, SC. The new Martin Automatic MBSC butt splicer

Web Lines: Are You Getting the Shaft?

Published: July 1, 2010, By By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor
Getting the shaft may sound bad in street lingo, but in winding there are good and bad aspects of whether you want to get the shaft (wind with a shaft

Unwind Features Aid Production

Published: June 1, 2010
Company offers a dual-position turret unwind feature for its AFR Series automatic rewinders for the food film industry. Feature allows the machine operator

Martin Automatic Introduces Compact Splicer/Rewinder

Published: May 1, 2010, By By Nsenga Thompson, Associate Editor
ROCKFORD, IL | PFFC was invited to visit Martin Automatic on March 5 for an exclusive look at the new MBSC/STR compact splicer/rewinder combination. With

Splicing/Rewinding: Martin Automatic Introduces Compact Unit

Published: April 16, 2010, By By Nsenga Thompson, Associate Editor
MBSC/STR combo offers a practical, affordable solution for narrow web converters

Rewind Many Materials

Published: April 1, 2010
Model RRW-1400 high-speed counter roll rewinder is designed to convert many materials, including gift wrap paper, wallpaper, metallized PP, PP, and PVC

Kampf Enhances Service Offerings

Published: February 1, 2010
WIEHL, GERMANY Kampf has introduced new service concepts for its slitting and winding machines. Tailor-made services offer a choice between individually

Move Rolls Safely

Published: February 1, 2010
The battery-powered RollMover is said to increase productivity and ensure worker safety when heavy loads need to be moved. Has the power to move loads

Rollstands for Winding Control

Published: February 1, 2010
Solution Series shafted rollstands range from a simple A-frame with brakes, safety chucks, and a shaft to more complex systems with closed or open loop

Wind Forward And Reverse

Published: February 1, 2010
The Centrum CS blown film center surface winder is able to wind in forward and reverse modes. Floating Suspension System is said to provide outstanding

Wind with Less Vibration

Published: February 1, 2010
The Goebel optiwind two-drum winder handles materials to 7,000 mm at a speed of 3.000 mpm. Variable drum roller geometry is said to enable rollers in

Keep Cores from Deforming

Published: February 1, 2010
Leaf air shafts reportedly provide the ideal support for thin wall cores of 1 in. or larger to keep cores from deforming during winding. Trapper leaf

Couple Spindles Quickly

Published: January 1, 2010
EZ-Lock Spindle Coupling Kits now are available for company's Helipath Stand, DIN Adapter, Thermosel, and EZ-Lock Vane Spindle Set. Reportedly, coupling

Winder Is Fast

Published: January 1, 2010
The WOW winder, designed for stretch film applications, is said to offer higher roll quality, winding speed, winder indexing time, material optimization,

Cores | The Foundation of Winding

Published: November 1, 2009, By By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor
Where would you prefer to build your next house on swamp land or solid bedrock? This should be an easy question since it's clear a house starts with the

A Torque Devil Is in the Details

Published: October 1, 2009
In center winders, like the classic Rolling Stones song, you can't always get what you want. Imagine you need to buy a new center-driven winder or unwinder.

Berry Plastics Gets First WOW Winder

Published: October 1, 2009
GLOUCESTER, MA | Gloucester Engineering reports Berry Plastics, Evansville, IN, will install the world's first WOW Winder on a Gloucester 11-layer PE

Rewind Equipment: Chic & Sleek

Published: October 1, 2009, By By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
IKEA's line of modern home furnishings is virtually synonymous with the phrase Scandinavian design. But one Sweden-based wallpaper manufacturer was using

Time for Unwinding Upgrade?

Published: September 1, 2009, By By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor

How do you know when its time to upgrade from a brake-controlled to a driven unwinding process?

Spool Rules

Published: September 1, 2009, By By Bruce L. Butler, Independent Machine Co.
No longer just limited to paper, film, and foil materials, converting is a critical process for nonwovens and the increasing complexity of laminates

Winding Doesn't Add Up

Published: August 1, 2009, By By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor

When things in life are linear, they make sense. Driving two hours usually gets you twice as far as driving one hour. Adding two doughnuts a day to your

The Coefficient of Winding Trouble

Published: May 1, 2009, By By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor
In winding, the important coefficient of friction (COF) is always about the two surfaces that will come in contact as the entering layer hits the winding

Custom Core Shafts Do the Job

Published: August 1, 2008

NEW BERLIN, WI Premier Paper Converting Machinery, a company making machines that produce fiber and corrugated partitions, now offers a custom machine

Winding: What We Know & What We Don't Know

Published: August 1, 2008, By By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor
Winding is an amazingly complex process. Our understanding of winding can be broken into three areas: the winding process, winder design, and wound roll

It's 40 Years for IMC

Published: April 1, 2008
FAIRFIELD, NJ Why does one company survive and thrive for 40 years while many others seem to come and go? PFFC put that question to Bruce Butler, VP of

Web Lines: Thinking About New Equipment?

Published: February 1, 2008, By By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor
A new year often brings new budgets and thoughts about new equipment. If you are lucky enough to be handed a project to buy new converting equipment,

Roll Winding Dynamics

Published: February 1, 2008, By By Keith Fordham, Ashe Converting Equipment

Materials today often are more than they may seem at first glance; many are manufactured with non-conventional properties. Label and semi-glossed enamel stocks are engineered

Picking Up the Pace

Published: January 1, 2008, By By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
As press manufacturers continue to introduce presses that can run faster in theory but not necessarily in practice it falls to the manufacturers of register

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