What is a slitting machine?

Slitting machine, also know as slitting rewinding machine or slitter rewinders is a machine used in converting processes to cut large parent rolls into smaller daughter rolls of materials. This article would talk about what a slitting machine is, how a slitting machine operates, how the slitting machines in the market are categorized.

What is a slitting machine?

In most of the cases, the materials are always produced in big rolls, such as paper rolls, film rolls, aluminum foils, copper foils etc. However, the these materials need to be customized into various sizes according to the demand of customers. It is therefore necessary to design an equipment that can cut those materials into different sizes and rewind them at high speed and in a perfect way for industrial production. A slitting machine is basically a roll to roll equipment that converts big parent rolls into smaller daughter rolls.

The main parts of a slitting machines consist of the unwind part, the slitting part, the rewind part, the control part and other auxiliary functions. The originally produced rolls (parent rolls) are loaded into the unwind part of the machine, while the unwind part starts rotate to unwind the web material, the rewind part starts to rewind simultaneously, and the slitting tools are positioned in between those two parts, so that the width of the rewound rolls are individually set according to customers needs.

All kind of paper products, such as the logistic labels, commercial labels, register cash receipts, books, etc, protective films, optical films, battery separator, aluminum foils are originated from a very big master roll before being processed by a slitting machine. The final products present to the end-consumer are always been cut once or several times by a slitting machine.

Categories of slitting machine

There are many types of slitting machines available in the market nowadays. Those slitting machines could be generally categorized into low speed slitter, middle speed slitter, and high speed slitter based on their mechanical running capacity of the machine. They could also be categorized into wide-web slitting machines and narrow-web slitting machines on the basis of the feeding width of the machine.  

A right slitting machine depends on your budget, the materials to be processed, the expected production capacity etc. If you are looking for a right slitting machine for your project, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. Juyou experts have engaged in this industry for more than 20 years and would be more than happy to share our expertise for free with customers from all over the world.