Slitting Pretty

Hands-on, hands-off safety

Slitting has made leaps and bounds of progress in the safety department—producing a generation of extremely sensitive equipment that will respond to the slightest possibility of injury. According to Scott Beaudoin, vice president of marketing at FlexoExport, Trumbull, CT, "Hands-off slitting operations are a major safety innovation. You can't get near a machine without breaking a light source that cuts off the power."