Atlas Converting: 50 years Titan slitter rewinders

UK Atlas Converting Equipment Ltd reports that they welcomed more than 80 guests to their Open House event held on 17^th September in Kempston, Bedford (UK) to celebrate the 50^th Anniversary of Titan Slitter Rewinders.

A full day’s programme of presentations included the latest slitter rewinder technology from Titan, followed by demonstrations of the ER610 Compact and SR9-DT Dual Turret models, processing a 30 micron, 1200mm wide BOPP film kindly supplied by the Poligal Group (Spain) and specially printed for the occasion by FFP Packaging Solutions, of Northampton (UK). Six 190mm reels were rewound on both machines and at 700m/min on the SR9-DT rewinder.

After a presentation on Atlas-Titan Service & Customer Support, the Guest Speaker of the day was Dr. Carolin Struller, Research Associate of Bobst Manchester Ltd., who gave a presentation on Aluminium Oxide Coated Transparent Barrier Films for Packaging Applications.

Furthermore there were presentations from four partner suppliers – Koch robotics (Germany), Dienes slitting technology (Germany), Ga.Vo core cutting solutions (Italy) and BST eltromat Intl. web guiding & inspection systems (Germany). Demonstrations of all partner suppliers’ equipment was available throughout the day.