headline ctp flexibles south africa adds 3 more titan er610 compact slitter rewinders in recent years, ctp flexibles, the cape town based and leading south african converter of flexible packaging materials has achieved dramatic expansion of its business. in 2010, the company installed a new 8 colour fischer & krecke fp16s flexo printing press and in order to cope with the increased printing capacity it also installed two titan er610 compact slitter rewinders &ndash one 1650mm and one 1350mm wide machine. further increases in production to serve its expanding &lsquoblue chip&rsquo customer base led to the addition of three more 1350mm wide titan er610&rsquos during the first few months of 2012. this brought the total number of titan er610 slitter rewinders at ctp flexibles to five machines &ndash and seven titan slitters in total, if two older machines are included. &ldquowe are enjoying record sales and now operating 247,&rsquo explained gary seale, managing director of the company. &ldquowith the five new titan er610 slitters we now have ample capacity to cope with both current demand and also future expansion of our business. having installed the two titan slitters during 2010, we had every confidence to invest again with titan,&rdquo he confirmed. &ldquofor our production requirements, these slitters really are the perfect solution.&rdquo ctp flexibles manufactures specialised plastic extrusion and flexible packaging materials mainly for the food, beverage and confectionery industries. the company is part of the ctpcaxton group and has been producing high quality flexible packaging since 1971. &ldquowe produce everything here,&rdquo gary seale added. &ldquowe extrude highdensity, lowdensity and linear lowdensity polyethylene films and produce cast polypropylene films. we also manufacture a comprehensive range of sophisticated products from laminations, multilayer films and shrink films to bags, pouches and shrink sleeves.&rdquo the titan er610 compact slitter rewinder has been a great success with sales of more than 100 machines worldwide. it has a maximum rewind diameter of 610 mm 24&rdquo, a 10&rdquo touch screen control system and an integral edgetrim extraction system. the pneumatically controlled braking system provides accurate web tension control and a digital edgeguide system controls lateral movement of the unwind reel to 50 mm 2&rdquo. the minimum slit width can be as narrow as 25mm approx. 1 inch at speeds up to 450 mmin 1,500 ftmin. slitting systems available include shear knives, rotary razor burst or razor slitting in air or groove. optional features include an antistatic control system, laser line core positioning and an option for shaftless unwind roll pickup from the floor, which is included on all five titan er610 slitters commissioned at ctp flexibles.
