In South Africa Nampak has recently installed two 1,350mm width Titan ER610 compact slitter rewinders from Atlas Converting Equipment - one at its Flexible division in Pinetown, Durban and the second at its operations in Cape Town. They will be used to boost the company's expanding production of flexible packaging materials, and join seven Titan slitters installed between 1994 and 2001.
Anand Padayachee, general manager at Nampak Flexible in Pinetown, Durban, remarks: "Good control of web tension is critical in producing the highest quality rewind reels for our customers and the ER610 slitters provide this, as well as faster acceleration and higher running speeds - giving us much improved levels of productivity".
The Pinetown plant has a number of slitters served by a common materials handling system, so the more compact design of the ER610 has actually improved the working space around the machine without any modifications required to the existing handling system.
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