KTI Launches Modular Converting Systems

Keene Technology Incorporated, a global leader in splicing and turret rewinding solutions for nonstop production in the printing, packaging, and converting industries, will unveil its new Modular Converting Systems line at Labelexpo. Some of the features that are featured include: full rotary and semi-rotary diecutting, flexographic print/coating stations, laminating stations, hot foil/cold foil, inkjet print, folding carton diecut, pharmaceutical inspection, and error detection.

To compliment KTI’s core product line of various butt splicing and turret rewinding products, KTI will now manufacture and sell a complete and expansive series of modular converting products that will address many applications that would normally incorporate its existing product line. This now allows KTI to offer a truly “turnkey” solution to any offline converting applications that converters face today. The modular capability also allows KTI to offer clients a machine that fills their needs for efficient and “LEAN” workflow, optimal performance and throughput and marginal waste. Along with its unwinds and rewinds, KTI can now supply a converter a virtual nonstop production system all from one single source manufacturer. The system is also built from the operators point of view making it much more user friendly and consequently, a more productive profit generator within its environment by reducing wasted, setup, and makeready time. The equipment will actually make the operator more efficient.

As well, the KTI product line offers equipment that can be reconfigured or added to as the needs change, with the simple addition of the required modules to perform the task.

The KTI Modular Converting Systems will address applications in the label and tag, folding carton, ECL/booklets, digital finishing, and nonwovens segments of the industry. With over 40 years of industry proven experience and cutting-edge engineering the KTI system will offer converters an American built product line with the needed technologies offered in other systems.

KTI offers this equipment in web widths of 10˝–32˝.

“The new path for KTI has been driven by our large customer base and their need to source a turnkey solution from one manufacturer that can control the entire process from the beginning to the end. The requirements by the industries we serve have driven us to become more technically advanced, resulting in high efficiency production capabilities with less down time and substantially more production at the end of every shift for our customers,” stated André Beaudoin of KTI.