Static Control & Web Cleaning
Why contact cleaning should be a top priority
by Jenni Westwood, managing director, KSM Superclean.
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onverters today face a number of challenges but perhaps the greatest ones are increasing productivity and reducing defects and waste.
However clean you believe your operating environment to be there are numerous sources of contamination which can land on the converting line such as slitter dust, chaff from sheeting, loose paper fibres, additives and powders as well as hair and fibres from operators. All this can produce defects in the materials being produced and cause considerable downtime as well as wasted product.
Contact cleaning has proven to be one of the most effective methods of combatting
contamination in the converting sector. Special rubber rollers make direct contact with the substrate gently lifting particles smaller than 100 microns from the web and transferring them to an adhesive roll for disposal. We have recently extended our range of equipment to cope with wider widths. Our innovative SCWX range is capable of cleaning webs in the 2m to 4m spectrum operating at speeds in excess of 400m per minute (both single and double sided). We believe this gives us one of the most comprehensive offerings in the converting sector with solutions ranging from 100mm effective cleaning width operating at very slow speeds up to the new extra width SCWX.
Given the current global, social and political focus on climate change we evaluated the market and found that an increasing number of materials are converted at wider widths and at much greater speeds than ever before. As part of our commitment to sustainability and helping reduce waste in the industry we have invested in expanding our range to enable converters to have more efficient debris control at these widths. If we can save just 1 per cent of materials from being turned in scrap then that can only have a positive impact on the environment and climate for us all, and for future generations.
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November 2021
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