Coil Slitting

thyssenkrupp Materials UK offers innovative and cutting-edge features driven by our passion to deliver quality results to our clients on time.

With our industry experience, cutting-edge rotary slitting knives, high-level skill operators and warehouse logistics, we are able to offer high-quality coil slitting services with the highest standard, efficiency and accuracy.

Based on customer demand, we supply long production runs but we also have the equipment and human resource to remain flexible and offer a rapid service even on small quantity requests.

We are able to produce strips in both aluminium and stainless steel and we have the capacity to run small, single runs to larger multiple coil operations.

After slitting the coil, our team will recoil the finished material and band the narrow coils. We aim to deliver all materials in pristine condition and our team is very meticulous with how all delicate materials should be handled.

In addition to slitting and blanking, we also have in house polishing facilities as well as being able to offer traverse wound coils.

Slitting is a process used to cut a wide coil of metal into several narrower coils. The process is primarily used to cut thin materials lengthwise and features a machine fitted with circular blades.

The entire process can be summarised in several steps, but before getting into the process, it’s important to note that there are two modes of slitting:

Straight mode slitting

In the straight mode slitting, the recoiler pulls the material from the uncoiler through slitters. If the uncoiler and slitter are driven only to feed the material to the recoiler, this is called pull-through slitting.

In driven slitting, the slitter is also driven during the process. In this process, the motors are synchronised to maintain a constant speed as the material moves through the line.

Driven slitting allows slitting of thinner sheets and a better edge quality for all thicknesses.

Free loop mode slitting

The material forms a free loop between the slitter and the recoiler in this method of slitting. A tension device is placed in front of the recoiler to ensure the coils are properly wound. This method is recommended for poorly shaped coils.

Sometimes, a temper mill or a leveller can be added to the slitting line to correct defects in the incoming coil-like buckles, thickness variations and twists. This improves the quality of the slitted strips.

Stages of Metal Sheet Slitting

Storage station – This is where the processed raw material and the workpiece is stored. For slitting, this is usually a big, broad roll of metal sheet.
Transport trolley – A trolley is used to move the workpiece from the storage station into the uncoiler. The unwinder does, as the name suggests. It unwinds the coil as it feeds the metal sheet into another machine for slitting.
Slitter – Once the material leaves the uncoiler, it is fed into the slitter. How this happens depends on the type of slitting the material undergoes. The slitter is set to cut the material in several narrow sheets as per the requirements of the order.
Recoiler – The last stage of the process is the recoiler. It is the opposite of the uncoiler. The recoiler winds the different strips of materials neatly. In some cases, a tension device can be used to ensure the coils are neat and firm.

Sheet metal slitting requires the careful setup of the slitting machine to avoid inconsistencies that could be caused by leaving the blades with too little clearance, too much clearance, or without proper vertical clearance.

Benefits of Coil Slitting

thyssenkrupp offers a comprehensive range of materials processing for its client with the purpose of delivering project ready materials. With coil slitting, our clients can enjoy a vast range of benefits including;

Cost savings

Coil slitting is a continuous, and more cost-efficient process compared to other processes like cutting sheets from a shear. Slitting through our high-speed lines ensures you get multiple cuts from the sheet which reduces on labour, time and consumable blade costs.

Customisable

We can set our equipment to cut any length and coil width to match your requirements. This reduces the need for additional processing saving on delivery times.

Precision tolerances

Our coil slitting lines feature razor slitters capable of holding extremely tight width tolerances. This ensures the sheet can be used in automated stamping presses or CNC machining centres with minimal secondary processing required. Also, the machines maintain a slit-edge squareness with accurate tolerances across the strip width.

At thyssenkrupp Materials UK, we have the latest slitting equipment from GEORG. Therefore, we can guarantee exceptional, timely, and efficient results to our clients no matter the size of the project. The line provides a very gentle treatment of highly sensitive surfaces such as surfaces for vehicle parts, coated strips or for example annealed stainless steel by means of braking processes adapted to the material surface.

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