Plastic Film Slitter Rewinder Machine - Purchasing Guide: 10 questions to ask

Once you have approached us with an interest in purchasing a new plastic film slitter rewinder, we will conduct a thorough analysis of your technical and business case. We will establish all the technical and non-technical factors that will define the parameters of the ideal solution for your plastic film slitting machine.

For the technical aspects, we will ask you to work through a 10 point questioner with us. Our slitter rewinders are quite versatile in terms of their capacity to process a wild range of materials.

The below questionnaire is tuned towards customers interested in a slitter machine to complement  their plastic converting line, since most of our customers use our machines for flexible packaging manufacturing.

The thickness range of the plastic film processed by the slitter machine

1) What is the thickness range of the polyethylene films you are planning to process?
2) What is the thickness range of the barrier and laminate films you are planning to process?

The required tension of the slitter rewinder

3) What is the required tension range of the films you are intending to process? Please define it in Nm.

Unwind section of the slitting machine

4) What is the maximum working width of the roll stock you are planning to process?
5) What is the maximum roll diameter of the roll stock film you are intending to process?
6) What type of material is the core made of and what is the diameter size of your core?

Slit section of the machine

7) What is the width of the narrowest slit?
8) What is the range of the number of slits you are intending to produce?

Rewind section of the slitter machine

9)  What type of material is the rewind core made of and what is the diameter size of your core?
10) What is the diameter size of the rewind roll? This will define the max weight the Rewind section needs to handle.

Learn more about our plastic film slitter rewinder models.