Rewinders-A Look at the Future

"The new winders offer operators more tunable adjustments that can dramatically affect the quality of a wound roll," said Thomson. "An educated operator now has the opportunity to wind difficult materials, at larger diameters, than older machines would allow. More and more, we are providing rewinders for larger diameter rolls that match the diameter of the unwinding rolls. These are necessarily bigger units and more expensive, given the challenges of winding larger rolls, especially at the increasing speeds of new presses and the abundance of filmic webs."