When it comes to providing innovative solutions for complex web finishing problems Friedheim International has the experience and know-how in abundance with the agencies it represents exclusively in the UK and Ireland.
One of those companies is Ehret Control, whose standard range of equipment is focussed on a host of major industries. Besides printing (both offset and digital), areas covered include direct mail, label, book and newspaper production, various packaging processes such as those for pharmaceutical items, and cardboard converting. The company can offer a complete solution from unwind unit to diverse web treatment modules and stacking options for maximum automation and profitability.
Ehret Control’s core business is the industrial web finishing of the (printed) roll, including all refinement processes (in-line and off-line) for maximum productivity and cost efficiency. The company’s modular system provides maximum production flexibility along with the shortest set-up times, and due to this modularity all of Ehret’s state-of-the-art web finishing lines can easily be retro-fitted later with any newly introduced innovations.
One of Ehret Control’s core products is its range of fully electronic patented sheeters, which are completely variable in format and cut-out size, and feature a maximum production speed of up to 300 metres per minute. The sheeters can also be supplied without the cut-out facility if specified by the user. The use of the shear cut method in the design of the sheeters in performing cross and length cuts helps to guarantee the highest quality of cut. Any change to the format and cut-out size is achieved simply by keying in the new format and chip length, and without any associated mechanical change required!
All cut-out material is environmentally handled by being securely sucked and blown away into the external exhaust system. All sheeters in the Ehret Control range can be run either off-line or in-line with a digital or offset press or a web finishing system.
Besides sheeters, other products in the Ehret Control equipment range include unwind and rewind units, split & merge modules, plow fold stations, rotary die-cut units, scoring & die-cutting units, variable strip cutters, shingle stream delivery units, high pile, label and batcher stackers, plus variable intelligent palletisers.