Alpha Converting recently won additional business from a major international food manufacturer – this time for six more of its in-line Alphaspool units.
“In standard form, the AlphaSpool gives precise control of the tension and spooling pattern, but to meet the specific requirements of our customer’s production processes, these machines have been substantially modified,” says Simon King, Alpha’s managing director. “They have been designed to accept a continuous web from the customer’s extrusion line, enabling non stop production through the combination of a zero speed roll change and inbuilt accumulator.
As well as independent tension zones, each with dancer control, the spoolers are able to wind pancake rolls (straight winding) or level rolls (traverse winding). “The lay-down roll can also be operated in both contact and gap winding mode,” says Simon King. “These features allow our customer to optimize winding across a wide range of products, and have contributed to substantial productivity improvements in their converting department.”
For slitting applications, the AlphaSpool can be supplied complete with unwind, slitting head and all necessary path rollers, with the spoolers arranged in one or two banks up to three units high. AlphaSpool winders can handle a wide range of products, including adhesive foam, tear tape and film laminates. AlphaSpool decoilers can be supplied to feed the level wound spool into the next process.
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