Nampak installs two more Titan slitter rewinders

The two 1,350mm-wide Titan ER610s have been installed at Nampak Flexible in Pinetown, Durban and at the company’s facility in Cape Town. They were commissioned during February this year with support from Beswick Machinery, the local agent for Atlas and Titan in South Africa. 

In Pinetown, Nampak has a number of slitters served by a common materials handling system, so the more compact design of the ER610 has improved the working space around the machine without any modifications required to the existing handling system.

Nampak has extensive operations in South Africa as well as in 10 other countries on the continent, as well as nine production sites in the UK supplying lightweight HDPE bottles for the food, drink and dairy industries.

The two Titan ER610s join seven other slitter rewinders at Nampak’s operations in South Africa.

Anand Padayachee, general manager at Nampak Flexible in Pinetown, Durban, said: ‘We already had seven Titan slitter rewinders at our plants in South Africa including the SR6, SR7 and TS350 models from 1994 through to 2001. So we were familiar with the high performance, quality and service which Titan provides for processing flexible packaging materials.

‘Good control of web tension is critical in producing the highest quality rewind reels for our customers and the ER610 slitters provide this, as well as faster acceleration and higher running speeds giving us much improved levels of productivity.’

Padayachee added: ‘Both Titan slitters were operating at the expected running speeds from the first day in production, so all our expectations have been met.’