Slitting Lines

Slitting Lines

A slitting line will create multiple widths or “mults” from a wider master coil. The mults are made from predetermined widths. The slitter consists of three main parts: an uncoiler, slitter, and recoiler. The material is fed from the uncoiler, through the nip between the two circular cutting wheels (one on top and another underneath), and then re-wound in slit mults on the recoiler. The slitting process has been referred to as part art and part science. It is important that the equipment supplier and end user work in concert so the proper components, arbor size, tooling package, horsepower and tensions are suitable for the material to be slit.
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Your Professional Slitting Lines Supplier in China!
 

Wuxi Jinye Complete Equipment Co.,Ltd. specializes in manufacturing various steel plate slitting machines, leveling machines, slitting machines and other machinery mainly used for slitting, leveling and slitting of steel plates and other applications. We have been working in coil metal processing machinery for over 20 years and we design and customize each machine.

Focus On Innovation

The company has professional engineering and technical personnel in hydraulic and electrical machinery and a relatively complete quality assurance system, and constantly develops today's advanced product structures and new processes, new materials, and new technologies.

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Provide high-quality products to users at home and abroad, design and produce non-standard products according to user needs, and provide complete design, manufacturing and technical consulting services.

 

 

Stable Quality

Our machines are built to the highest industrial standards to ensure long-lasting durability and operating efficiency. We get many repeated orders because of excellent quality & good after-sales services.

 

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Our machines have reached over 50 countries around the world, our engineers go to customer's plant to direct installing and teach how to operate machine. So far we have maintained stable communication with most of our old customers.

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Introduction to Slitting Lines

 

A slitting line will create multiple widths or "mults" from a wider master coil. The mults are made from predetermined widths. The slitter consists of three main parts: an uncoiler, slitter, and recoiler. The material is fed from the uncoiler, through the nip between the two circular cutting wheels (one on top and another underneath), and then re-wound in slit mults on the recoiler. The slitting process has been referred to as part art and part science. It is important that the equipment supplier and end user work in concert so the proper components, arbor size, tooling package, horsepower and tensions are suitable for the material to be slit.

 

Heavy Gauge Slitting Line

Heavy Gauge Slitting Line

The heavy gauge slitting line is a specialized machine used in industrial settings for cutting large coils of metal into narrower strips. It is commonly used in industries such as steel manufacturing, automotive, construction, and packaging.

Stainless Steel Coil Slitting Line

Stainless Steel Coil Slitting Line

Jinye complete equipment professionally developed stainless steel coil slitting line machine is a specialized piece of equipment used in the metalworking industry to cut large coils of stainless steel into narrower strips. It's an essential tool for various industries that require precision-cut stainless steel strips for their products.

Steel Coil Slitting Line

Steel Coil Slitting Line

Steel Coil Slitting Line Machine can be used in industry utilizes steel strips for manufacturing various household appliances like refrigerators, washing machines, and ovens. The high precision slitting line ensures that the steel strips are cut accurately, allowing for efficient production and consistent quality of these appliances.

Precision Slitting Line

Precision Slitting Line

JINYE COMPLETE EQUIPMENT are producer of Metal Slitting Lines for 20 years. JINYE Each Precision slitting line Machine professionally developed is customized in accordance with customer requirements.

High Precision Steel Slitting Line

High Precision Steel Slitting Line

A high precision steel slitting line is a machine used in the metalworking industry to cut large rolls of steel into narrower strips with high precision and accuracy. The application of such a High Precision Steel Slitting Line (0.3-3 x 1600 150mpm) is widespread and essential in various industries that require steel strips of specific widths.

Steel Sheet Slitting Line

Steel Sheet Slitting Line

A high-speed thin sheet slitting line is a specialized machine used in industries such as steel processing, metal fabrication, and coil processing. It is designed to efficiently and accurately slit thin sheets of metal into narrower strips.

Light Gauge Slitting Line

Light Gauge Slitting Line

Light gauge slitting line for thin coil sheet metal slitting professionally developed by JINYE continuously decoil and slit thin metal coil into several to dozens of narrow baby strips and then rewind narrow strips up onto recoil mandrel under stable coiling tension, we make high speed high precision light gauge slittig lines.

Metal Slitting Line

Metal Slitting Line

JINYE COMPLETE EQUIPMENT are producer of Metal Slitting Lines, High speed precision slitting lines for 20 years. Each slitting line is customized in accordance with customer requirements.

 

 
 
Slitting Process Explained

 

Slitting is a sheet metal cutting process with circular knives, which is used to split wide coiled sheet metal into narrower widths or for edge trimming of rolled sheet. The slitter knives are mounted on two arbors together with spacers . The spacers determine the width of the cut and the horizontal clear- ance. Sometimes also a vertical clearance (overlap, Appendix A) is used, e.g. to correct for bending of the arbors. Rubber stripper rings are used to eject the strip from between the knives and to support the strip during slitting. A slitting line consists of an uncoiler, a slitter and a recoiler. The uncoiler, slitter and recoiler are driven by separate motors. Depending on the way the uncoiler, slitter and recoiler are driven, different modes to drive the material through the slitter knives can be distinguished. Which mode is chosen depends on the material, the sheet thickness and the number of slits. 

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Straight Mode Slitting

In this mode the driven recoiler pulls the material from the uncoiler through the slit- ters. It is called pull-through slitting, when the uncoiler and slitter are driven only to feed the material to the recoiler. In driven slitting the slitter is also driven during the process. The motors must now be synchronised to maintain a constant speed of the material as it moves through the line. The advantages of driven slitting are the ability to slit thin sheets and an improved edge quality for all thicknesses.

02.

Free Loop Mode Slitting

In free loop slitting, the material is allowed to form a free loop between the slitter and the recoiler. A tensioning device in front of the recoiler is needed now, to produce well wound coils. This method makes it possible to process poorly shaped coils. Shape defects (length variations such as buckles, twists and thickness variation across the width) and internal stresses in the incoming coil influence the result of the slitting process. Therefore, a leveller or a temper mill can be added to the slitting line, to correct defects in the incoming coil, which ensures a better quality of the slitted strips.

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Features of Slitting Lines

 

 

  • Fully automatic strip threading systems.
  • Special braking units for strips with high surface finish.
  • Non-contact braking strips for the aluminum industry.
  • Automatic knife change.
  • Knife arbors with quadruple radial precision bearings.
  • Automatic clamping and unclamping of the cutting tools on the knife arbor.
  • Automatic strip strand transfer systems.
  • Fully automatic strapping on turnstile.
  • Underfloor edge scrap baler with automatic feed.

 

Functions of Several Main Components in the Slitting Line
 

Uncoilers and Feeders
Uncoilers are sometimes referred to as decoilers. It usually works with a coil feeder to insert sheet metal into a slitter. An uncoiler, as the name suggests, unwinds sheet metal from a coil car and feeds it to a coil feeder. The coil feeder is used to flatten the main coil and ensure that the sheet is fed evenly into the slitter. In some coil slitting lines, the uncoiler and coil feeder are integrated in one machine. In this case, a sheet flattening attachment is equipped to replace the coil feeder.

 

Sheet Slitting Machine
The slitter is the main component in the slitting line that performs the actual slitting task. The slitting machine consists of rollers, slide rails, specification adjustment, and knife pairs. Parts and accessories may vary depending on the model of the slitter, but will require knife setting and adjustment. Knife pairs cut sheet metal into narrower multi-knives. Most slitters use roller blades to cut sheets. The number of mults determines the tool pairs set up on the machine. The gauge adjustment, or adjusting the slider, controls the width of the muls coming out of the machine. The gauge adjustment also determines the width of the main coil that the slitter handles. In a highly automated slitting line, all these adjustments are controlled by a computer control unit. The operator arranges adjustments manually using a light and simple slitter. The sheet slitting machine is crucial in a slitting line, not only because it can slit the coil, but also control the quality of the result. One of the problems that occurs during the slitting process is the rough edges of the multi-knives. A rough edge occurs when the knife pair is not set correctly or the blade becomes dull. To avoid such problems, insert clearance and adjustment tolerances should be pre-checked before each production. The muls enter the press cut after being cut.

 

Press Cutting Machine
A press cutter is a machine that cuts muls into desired lengths. This is where the fixed-length part comes in. Although usually driven by a press, cutters can be operated using other types of power sources. Although the cutter usually follows the slitter on the coil slitting line, in rare cases it may precede the cutter. In modern slitting lines, it is common to combine cutters with slitting machines. Integrate multiple workstations into one, reducing work cycles and workspace.

 

Coiler
The winder collects and winds multiple rolls of film at the end of the slitting line. The setting of the winder should be synchronized with the slitter for good winding. Coilers are important in specific slitting processes where long strips are produced. However, in most cases it is excluded from slitting lines. Since the multiple cutters produced by small workshops or most slitting lines are rather short, no winders are used. After the muls are backflushed, they are packaged and sent to the end line for processing.

 

Advantages of Slitting Lines

 

There are significant benefits to incorporating slitting machinery in your manufacturing or pre-manufacturing processes, including:

Cost Savings
Slitting is far faster and cheaper per pound versus cutting sheets or alternate saw methods requiring extensive labor, time, and blade costs.

 

Customization
Precision rotary slitters produce coils in specialized widths tailored to customers' roll forming and component size needs.

 

Finish Quality
Clean, smooth, razor-cut edges prevent distortion or saw teeth marks, permitting thinner gauges and improved corrosion resistance.

 

Efficiency
The slitting machine can cut the coiled material efficiently and improve production efficiency. They typically feature fast cutting speeds and automated features that allow for continuous shearing operations, reducing downtime during production.

 

Accuracy
The slitting machine uses an advanced control system and precision cutting tools to achieve high-precision cutting. This accuracy is important for products that require precise dimensions, such as sheet metal, paper, plastic film, etc.

 

Versatility
Slitting machines usually have multiple cutting modes and adjustable cutting parameters, which can adapt to the needs of different materials and different sizes. This makes slitting machines widely used in different industries, such as metal processing, printing and packaging, etc.


Automation Control
Modern slitting machines usually have advanced automation control systems that can realize automated cutting operations. This not only improves production efficiency, but also reduces operator labor intensity and the risk of human error.

 

 
Components of Slitting Machine
 

 

Slitting is performed on slitting lines which consist of four basic devices: 

 
Uncoiler

The uncoiler, or pay-off reel, which tightly grips the master coil on its inside diameter using an expandable mandrel. The coil is fed into the slitter by either rotating or jogging the mandrel.

 
Slitter

The slitter, which consists of two parallel arbors mounted with rotary cutting knives. These knives partially penetrate the coil stock causing a crack or fracture on both sides of the stock, separating the material.

 
Tensioning Device

A tensioning device, which is placed between the slitter and the subsequent recoiler. A tensioning device is needed because the master coil is crowned or larger in diameter in the center of its width than at the edges. Without a tensioning device the slit material from the center of the master coil would take up more quickly while the outboard strips would hang loosely.

 
Recoiler

The recoiler, which takes up the slit coils on a driven, expandable mandrel. The recoiler mandrel is fitted with separator discs which prevent interleaving of the narrower coil widths.

 
Other

Other slitting line equipment can include:
• Scrap disposal machinery
• Edge conditioning equipment
• Packaging devices

 

 

Choosing the Right Provider for Slitting Lines
 

Most metal service providers offer slitting services, but that's not to say all of them are created equal. Before you make a decision, consider the following factors. Making the wrong choice can lead to costly errors and delays.  

Expertise and Experience

Assess their experience, technical expertise, and knowledge of different slitting techniques. A reputable provider will have a skilled team capable of handling diverse metal types, thicknesses, and sizes.

Range of Services

A comprehensive range of services will cater to your needs better than jumping from provider to provider. Ensure they can perform various techniques required for your products, such as recoiling, cut-to-length, or deburring.

Quality Assurance

A reliable service provider will have stringent quality assurance processes to ensure consistent and accurate edge conditioning results. They should adhere to industry standards and conduct thorough inspections to maintain high-quality standards.

 

 
Common Problem of Slitting Lines
 
 

Q: What is the process of slitting?

A: Slitting is a process where a large roll of material is fed through a machine that cuts it into smaller, more manageable rolls. This is often done with metal or paper. The process can be done by hand, but is usually done with a machine.
The technique of thinning is the process of cutting a large roll of material into smaller strips. To accomplish this, either unwind the parent roll with a bladed knifeholder or laser and cut it into smaller pieces, or slit the roll and unwind without unwinding. Slitting is commonly used in the cutting of paper, vinyl, thin plastics, and other soft, pliable materials. Slavering is accomplished by placing a razor blade (or a series of razor blades) on a slitting machine and slicing the material into desired widths. Converting very thin films is best done with razor-slit substrates. Sleeving, scoring, and crush slit is accomplished by moving an substrate between two rotating anvils and a rotating knife or series of knives.
The two types of machines have a significant difference in the cutting method. A cut to length machine makes a series of incisions with a blade that moves back and forth. Machineries like this are more effective for thick materials that are difficult to break. The only difference is that a slitting machine has a single blade that moves up and down, making narrower cuts. This type of machine is better suited to materials that are fragile.

Q: What is slitting in steel?

A: Steel slitting, or steel fabrication, occurs when a steel coil is slit into the lengths and widths specified by the end user. The machinery lines must be equipped with a decoiler, a slitter, and a recoiler in order for the coils to be slit into sections.

Q: How does a slitting machine work?

A: The unwind, slitter, and rewind are the three major parts of a slitting machine. As the slitter unwinds a large roll of your chosen material, it unwinds and is slit into various widths before being rewound into cores of various widths.

Q: Is slitting a shearing operation?

A: Slitting is a shearing operation in which the workpiece is cut into narrow strips by two blades. The blades are mounted on a shaft and rotated at high speed. The workpiece is fed into the space between the blades, which shears it into strips.

Q: What is slitting machine?

A: The machine used for roll slitting is called a slitter rewinder, a slitter or a slitting machine – these names are used interchangeably for the same machines. Roll slitting, also known as log slitting or rewind slitting, is a shearing operation that cuts a large roll of material into narrower rolls. The log slitting terminology refers back to the olden days of saw mills when they would cut logs into smaller sections. They would also use these saw mills to cut iron rods into smaller sections. By today's definition, slitting is a process in which a coil of material is cut down into a number of smaller coils of narrower measure. Potential workpieces are selectively thin (0.001 to 0.215 in.) and can be machined in sheet or roll form. Slitting is considered a practical alternative to other methods due to its high productivity and the versatility of materials it can manage. Rewind slitting involves rewinding the material through a number of knives to form narrower rolls of materials.

Q: What is the purpose of slitting?

A: Slitting is a sheet metal cutting process with circular knives, which is used to split wide coiled sheet metal into narrower widths or for edge trimming of rolled sheet.

Q: What does a metal slitter do?

A: Slitting is a machining service that cuts wide coils to narrower widths. It requires specialized machinery, and when it's done properly, metal slitting can make additional processing faster and more precise.

Q: How does slitting process work?

A: Steel slitting is a steel manufacturing process wherein a coil of steel is slit into the lengths and widths specified by the end application. This process requires machinery lines equipped with a decoiler, slitter, and a recoiler-to achieve the end product: slit steel coils, or "mults."

Q: What is the difference between cutting and slitting?

A: Cutting makes straight cuts across material to create separate pieces. Cutting makes flat sheets or specific-sized pieces from materials. Slitting is dividing a material into narrow strips with parallel cuts along its length.

Q: What is difference between perforation and slitting operations?

A: Slitting blades are also helpful in providing a finished product by trimming any unwanted waste. Perfing blades: Perfing is a method of piercing or making a hole in a sheet of paper allowing for easier tearing and separating.

Q: What is slitting milling?

A: The slitting mill consisted of two pairs of rollers turned by water wheels. Mill bars were flat bars of iron about three inches (75 mm) wide and half an inch (13 mm) thick. A piece was cut off the end of the bar with shears powered by one of the water wheels and heated in a furnace.

Q: What is a steel slitting machine?

A: Metal slitting machines are used to change large metal coils into smaller, more manageable strips. This process starts by feeding a large metal coil into the slitting machine and unwinding it through circular blades. These blades make precise cuts in the metal to produce narrow strips.

Q: What are the defects of slitting?

A: These defects are Flared or High Edge, Fuzzy Edge, Rippled Edge, Slitter Scratches, Slitter Picks, and Slitter Skip. For example, when slitting delicate or fibrous web materials a "Fuzzy Edge" roll face is not uncommon.

Q: What are the defects of steel slitting?

A: Many problems can arise during metal slitting. These include poor edge quality, edge burr, edge wave, camber, crossbow, knife marks, and slit width that is out of specification.

Q: What material is used for slitting blades?

A: Metal slitter blades are mainly made of high-quality tool steels and high alloy die steels such as T10, 6CrW2Si, Cr12MOV, LD, H13, W18Cr4V, H13K.

Q: What are the main parts of the slitting machine?

A: Slitting machines consist of three main components: the unwind, the slitting method, and the rewind. The process starts when a master roll of material at a given width is loaded into the unwind, allowing you to pay out the material.

Q: What is the minimum slitting width?

A: The general rule is that if the slit widths are greater than 1" (25mm), a center-wind slitter rewinder is recommended. If the slit widths are less than 1", a center-surface slitter rewinder is a better fit for the application.

Q: What is the use of slitting line?

A: Slitting lines obtain narrow coils from a parent coil. The main characteristic of these lines is high productivity. For this purpose, it is essential that the lines be functional and operational in order to minimize changeover times from coil to coil, as well as, the times of changeover of the auxiliary operations.

Q: What is the function of slitting?

A: Slitting is a process in which a roll of material is cut into narrower rolls or strips. The potential workpieces are noticeably thin measuring only at 0.001 up to 0.215 inch. These can also be machined in the form of sheets or rolls. It is often used in the manufacturing of paper, metal, plastic, and textile products.

Q: What are the components of a slitting machine?

A: Slitting machines consist of three main components: the unwind, the slitting method, and the rewind. The process starts when a master roll of material at a given width is loaded into the unwind, allowing you to pay out the material.

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