Atlas sells slitter to Mexican converter

Atlas Converting Equipment sold a Titan ER610 compact slitter off the booth at the ICE USA exhibition in April in Florida to Plasticos Especializados de Monterrey (Plemsa) of Mexico. The 1650 mm (65”) wide slitter was demonstrated during the exhibition. 

The ER610 is a twin-shaft cantilever slitter and rewinder. It has reduced power but an all-electric operation without hydraulics, a CCD camera for reducing waste, a running speed of 450 m/min (1500 ft/min) and an option for slit widths as narrow as 35 mm (1.37”). With a simple design enabling quick installation, the ER610 has extended the Titan slitter portfolio by allowing converters to process lower volumes and shorter runs of flexible packaging materials. 

‘We have been very satisfied with the performance of the first Titan ER610 slitter which we installed at the beginning of last year,’ explained Armando Vazquez Castillo, director of Plemsa’s plastics division. ‘We have other older Titan SR Series slitters which have been running well for the last 10-15 years, so we knew that reliability of the new Titan machine would not be an issue. Our business has expanded rapidly in the last few years and we needed additional high performance slitting capacity in Monterrey to keep up with increased demand.’ 

The Plemsa Group was established in 1957 and produces a wide range of flexible packaging materials, mainly for food applications, with facilities for blown film extrusion and co-extrusion, flexo printing, lamination, slitting and bag production. Plemsa has production facilities in Monterrey and at its parent company, Plastinal, located in Mexico City. It also has offices in Guadalajara. The Plemsa Group supplies flexible packaging materials throughout Mexico and since 1988 has increased sales of its products to customers in the United States, Central and South America. 

Around 100 Titan ER610 slitters have been installed worldwide. It is available in two web widths – 1350 and 1650 mm (53 and 65 inches) – with a maximum rewind diameter of 610 mm (24”). It can process a wide range of flexible materials including plain, printed, coated or metallized film from 20 to 200 micron, and a wide range of laminates and paper from 30 to 200 gsm. 

Atlas Converting Equipment, since its MBO from Bobst Group of Switzerland in October last year, has now established its Charlotte, North Carolina-based subsidiary Atlas Converting North America to support its sales and customer service operations throughout North and Central America. 

Pictured: The Titan ER610 slitter was sold from the Atlas booth at ICE USA 

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