Don’t Let the Web Guide You

Waste control

In April 2004, General Converting bought and installed a slitter/sheeter at its Bolingbrook, Ill., plant. A few months later, the company realized that it needed a solution to help eleviate tedious web-guiding procedures. “When General Converting first installed the sheeter, it was equipped with a manual single roll guiding system for each [unwind] roll stand,” says Michael Johnson, technologies manager. “We had to use the roll stands and the manual single guide rolls to try to center one roll to the slitter. We would then thread the second roll over the top of the first roll, trying to keep it centered exactly before it went through the center slitter.”