Purpose-built machine must both slit and die cut.(Film & Sheet Conversion)

British Plastics & Rubber, February, 2004

A CUSTOMISED slitter rewinder being built by Emerson & Renwick is for use on a 2.2 m wide converting and packaging line.

The machine is intended to replace the current method of production which is extremely labour intensive, involving a number of manual operations to produce the finished product. The brief from the client was that any manual handling of the substrate on the machine through to packaging had to be eliminated, and that it had to be able to make not one, but two totally distinct products--one a web product and the other being produced by a die-cutting type ...