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In this article we will look at slitting and rewinding machines that are used for cutting and converting plastic film, as well as understand their features, and reveal which slitter knives are the best for slitting different types of film.

Sollex offers high quality recycling knives and blades of various dimensions and qualities. We manufacture blades for recycling and pelletising systems from highly durable materials that guarantee long performance. Sollex blades are suitable for plastic recycling, plastic shredding, and pelletizing plastic in EREMA plastic recycling systems, as well as Munchy, Gala, NGR, Weima plastic recycling systems. Sollex has been successfully supplying the plastics recycling industry with die face cutter blades, pelletizer knives and granulator knives for many years. Do you need industrial razor blades to produce, cut and convert blown plastic film or cast film in the slitter rewinder machines? Sollex can offer you industrial blades for cutting blown film, packaging and agricultural film, stretch film, laminated and multilayer film, as well as films with additives, masterbatch and calcium carbonate masterbatch (CaCO3).

What is an Oscillating Knife? An oscillating knife is a knife designed to be installed in a corresponding tool / knife holder on a CNC cutting machine. Oscillating cutting is mainly used on digital flatbed cutting tables. You can read more in the blog

Troubleshooting Common Cutting Problems Blades are needed to convert film to desired dimensions. This text focuses on common problems and their solutions when cutting or slitting blown film. It will go through 13 common problems for flexible packaging manufacturers. It also describes the most common parameter adjustments operators can do to avoid problems and optimize production. The main reasons for cutting problems are blunted or improperly sharpened knives. Sharper knives provide greater efficiency when cutting any material. Sharper knives produce a cleaner cut without tearing, resulting in greater efficiency, higher throughput and a better quality end product.

Shipment precision at Sollex March 2024 March had a shipment precision of 95%. Out of 137 shipments in total, we had six shipments that were late. Four of these shipments were more than ten days late. Again seldom used safety knife, and three special made machine knife were that late. To secure shipments many customers use our warehouse agreement where we stock finished knives for 24h deliveries instead of ordering on customer orders.‌ On the last day of February, Sollex had 129034 packages with approx. 507 different knives and blades in stock for immediate delivery. The total stock value was about 2,8 million more or less the same as one month ago. We want to offer quality products, have a first-class customer service and continuously increase our inventory to ensure stable shipments to customers. Shipments in March 2024 Sollex customers are industrial production units, wholesales, and craft companies. We design, develop, and ship a wide range of industrial knives and razor blad

Sollex has industrial blades for slitting plastic flexible materials such as: PE, PET, LDPE, LLDPE, HDPE, PP, TPU, PVC, EVA, EBA, BOPP, bio raw and recycled materials. The more layers of raw materials, the greater the need for the correct slitting process. If you need blades for stretch wrapping film, Sollex is your partner. Read more....

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The common cutting method for vinyl plotters or flatbed digital cutting tables is the drag knife technology. The movement of the drag knife is usually provided by a non-powered cutting module or tool, depending on the specification and manufacturer of the CNC plotter. The cutter blade is fixed in the knife mount and in some models, if the blade is mounted at an angle, it rotates around the axis of the knife holder when turning and cutting corners in a web. If you are looking for a supplier of cutting consumables and knives for vinyl plotters and digital cutting tables from manufacturers such as Zund, Summa, Aristo, ESKO, Kongsberg, Gerber, Sollex can provide you with high quality knives on time and at an exceptional price. We manufacture plotter and cutter knives from high quality tungsten carbide and with high wear resistance. Here you can see our drag knives, oscillating knives, tangential cutter knives, vinyl cutter knives.

Manufacturers of flexible packaging materials are inevitably faced with production defects regarding the cutting and winding of the material onto reels and rolls. In this text we will try to review the most common 5 challenging roll winding defects and possible remedies for these problems.

Sollex 950 or also known as Martor 614 is a trapezoid blade with grinding on the blade's short angled sides. It is a two edged, single sided, double bevel blade for industrial usage. A Martor blade differs from a regular trapezoid blade in that it has 2 sides of the trapezoid blade instead of 1 long lower side sharpened. This blade is typically designed to be placed in a machine for cut material webs in transverse direction. It is not intended to cut materials in a lengthwise direction. Materials can be plastic film or paper like materials. Buyers of Sollex 950 or Martor 614 are machine builders or packaging manufacturing companies. It has no use outside industrial manufacturing. Customers has been Europe's largest packaging company as well as machine builders in Sweden, the Baltics, South Africa, and Germany.