GORHAM, ME,
Jan. 10, 2012
(Press Release) -
The Montalvo Corporation, international specialists in industrial web control systems, offers web control upgrades for sheeters.
One of those upgrades resulted in a Montalvo customer who set a world record for an eight-pocket sheeter of 399 tons per day.
The Montalvo retrofit consisted of Montalvo load cell-based X-3000 Series tension controllers, Montalvo V-510 brakes, and Montalvo T-Series load cells that took the place of the customer's original dancer control assembly.
Because this enabled increased speeds and the ability to run larger rolls, the customer then asked for a larger braking system and tension controllers with increased capability. This allowed the operators to handle e-stops by adding an additional spike of air pressure to the brakes to keep the web tight as the rolls came to a fast stop. The larger brakes not only provided more torque capacity, they also dissipated much more heat.
President Ed Montalvo says, "This was a result we've had a lengthy period of time to document. After two and a half years in service, the customer had only changed brake pads twice. The customer has broken the record several times since the initial retrofit."
The Montalvo Corporation specializes in the analyzing, upgrading and servicing of customer's web tension control equipment. For some 65 years, Montalvo has manufactured, integrated and serviced a wide range of web control products and systems for the converting, paper, foil, nonwovens, and plastic film industries as well as packaging, medical and high-tech applications. Montalvo products include electronic tension control devices, load cells, indicators, brakes, clutches, and safety chucks. Montalvo manufactures in the United States, and sells worldwide.
Montalvo has completed successful upgrades for customers on narrow web presses, printing presses, corrugators, laminators, coaters, slitters, sheeters, filmers, extruders, waxers, die cutters, and embossers.
