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Flexcon installs six more
Titan slitter rewinders
Titan, part of Bobst Group, has installed a further six SR Series
twin-shaft cantilever slitter rewinders at Flexcon, the North
American-based supplier of pressure-films and adhesive
materials. This brings the total number of Titan SR Series slitter
rewinders now in full production in the USA and Europe for this
customer to 18 machines.
The Titan SR6, SR7 and the latest generation six SR8
machines were all designed to meet Flexcon’s specific
requirements for product quality and highly efficient production.
Founded in 1956, in Spencer, Massachusetts, Flexcon is an
ISO 9001:2000 manufacturer of custom pressure-sensitive film
and adhesive solutions for a variety of applications ranging
from product identification labels to point-of-purchase (POP)
and promotional graphic films, durable markings, novelty
stickers and decals, packaging, bonding and mounting.
Flexcon produces thousands of different off-the-shelf, custom
and specialty products, including a line of DigiPRO products
compatible with narrow web HP Indigo presses, DPM Aply1000,
a bubble-free labeling solution for durable product markings
and high-performance adhesives like Flexmount performance
adhesives for bonding to low-surface energy plastics and other
challenging substrates.
‘Continuing trends in the pressure sensitive film and adhesive
industry to run “just-in-time” (JIT) deliveries of multiple
production runs meant that this requirement was one of our
primary concerns during the selection and specification of the
Titan machines,’ explained Ed Allie, director of engineering at
Flexcon.
The 1800mm (71ins) wide Titan SR machines have a
maximum rewind diameter of 800mm (32ins) on 76mm and
152mm (3ins and 6ins) cores, running at production speeds of
up to 600 m/min (2000 ft/min). The capability of handling a wide
variation of PSA materials at high production speeds was an
essential part of the Titan SR slitter specification at Flexcon.
The Titan SR8 slitter rewinder has a wide range of automation
options which enabled Flexcon to choose a specification to
meet its particular requirements. An automatic knife positioning
system enables the positioning of male and female knives
to an accuracy of +/-0.15mm (0.006 ins) within 90 seconds.
Peter Glückman, managing director of Ettiketto Labeling Systems
This feature reduces the ‘make-ready’ down-time for changing
slit widths enabling big increases in productivity. Laser core
positioning provides a quick, accurate guide for the operator
in positioning the new rewind cores for re-starting the slitting
process.
The handling and unloading of the finished reels is also an
important consideration. The SR machines are fitted with an
automatic reel stripping system. This allows the operator to
safely strip the finished reel packages off the rewind shafts and
on to unloading trolleys.
The SR8 cantilever slitter rewinder is the most successful in
the Titan range and more than 180 machines have been sold to
many different converters worldwide since its launch, covering
a wide range of flexible materials applications.
Fourth Grafotronic installed
at Swedish converter
Ettiketto Labeling Systems, a Sweden-based self-adhesive label
printer, has installed its fourth Grafotronic machine. The latest
installation is the new Grafotronic 530, a combination machine
equipped with servo drives for slitting of mono-film materials
and a 20” die cutting unit for label production. The new model
is equipped with the latest Grafotronic unwind lifting system: a
new invention from the Swedish manufacturer.
Peter Glückman, managing director of Ettiketto Labeling
Systems, explained the decision to install another machine
from Grafotronic. ‘Our co-operation with Grafotronic during the
last years has been successful and we are very satisfied with
the overall quality, support and performance supplied by our
partner.
‘This spectrum of machine widths, together with the new
servo rewinders, gives us the possibility to run all the different
types of applications from mono-film to cardboard. And this
possibility in combination with the price/performance ratio of
the machines creates a quick return of investment through a
more efficient production’
The product range from Grafotronic now includes slitter
rewinder inspection and die-cutting machines in the range from
10” to 20”.
Ettiketto Labeling Systems was founded in 1977 and is one of
the companies in GSS – Glückman, Silwer & Skog AB.
may 2009 | L&L