Mason and Jones invests in Elite Cameron machine

Taking a positive approach to the tough economic climate, the Mason and Jones Group, a major importer of polypropylene sacks, bags and rolls, and fabrics for the UK packaging market, has invested in a new, 2,000mm wide Elite Cameron CW600 slitter rewinder from TS Converting. Installed in the Bromsgrove, UK, facility, it will be used to broaden the company’s offering to the market, as director Tim Mason explains.

“We spent some considerable time looking at the market before deciding to buy the Elite Cameron machine,“ he says. “We firmly believe that the CW slitter is one of the most versatile on the market. We slit a wide variety of packaging materials, woven and non-woven PP fabrics for our existing customer base, and the new machine gives us the capacity to offer a comprehensive trade slitting service for most materials.”

The company believes that its trade slitting facility and convenient location in the centre of the country will be attractive to companies that do not want to invest in machinery in the current economic climate, providing a comprehensive slitting and warehousing partner.

The slitter has been built to a very high specification, incorporating the latest digital drive technology and tension control to run most films, laminates, textiles and paper.

Although the machine is 2,000mm wide, the footprint is quite small, with a very short web path from the slitting to the rewind section. The combination of this short distance and the latest differential rewind shafts is

said to work extremely well, accommodating a wide tension range and successfully achieving narrow slit sizes - 15mm - not generally achievable on conventional centre winders.

The machine is equipped with hot slitting to cut and fuse the edge of woven materials, as well as the more conventional crush, razor and shear slitting.