Sticking to Business

Suppliers have also turned their attention to more profitable quality control features. "Converters increasingly wish to sell good quality splices to their customers without removing the splice first," contends Atlas' Carey. "Improved web inspection systems allow first quality reels to be produced the first time around, but converters should keep in mind that the flying splice produces an inconsistent quality join which normally must be removed, whereas the zero speed option generates a consistent quality join with minimum or zero tail that can be passed on to the end-user."