Roll Change Automation Makes Tobacco Packaging Company More Efficient

Martin installed the first RMAP rewinders in 2005, both on existing 32" Bobst-Champlain Lemanic presses. One of these presses required a new tension control outfeed, also supplied by Martin, as well as a new unwind. Martin replaced the existing OEM-supplied splicer with a new butt splicing unwind, the model MCB automatic splicer. The cantilevered spindles of the MCB butt splicer extend into the aisle to lift rolls off the floor and into running position. The MCB makes tight butt splices, with tape on both sides of the web, at full-press speed.