Trebnick Systems, a flexo printer based in Springboro, Ohio, USA, recently installed an automatic splicer from
Martin Automatic. The MBSF butt splicer was put into service on a Mark
Andy P-7 flexographic press running supported and unsupported film and other products.
Gregg Trebnick reports that the splicer has reduced the company’s material waste in several ways. ‘Before the Martin, we’d lose at least 300 feet of web at a manual splice getting back into register; the non-stop splice doesn’t affect auto registration at all,’ he said. ‘In terms of core waste, with the Martin, we’re able to run down...
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Martin Automatic Installs New Splicer, Rewinder at FTS
July 16, 2010
From pP inBox
ROCKFORD, Ill.—Martin Automatic Inc. announced the installation of a new splicer and rewinder combo on a narrow-web label press at Flexographic Trade Services (FTS) in Fort Mill, S.C. The Martin Automatic MBSC butt splicer will be combined with an STR turret rewinder to provide non-stop roll changing for FTS’s new Mark Andy P5 Performance series press.
