Some Slitting Line FAQ

1. What is a coil slitting line?

A coil slitting line is used to create smaller coils to a specific width or weight. A master coil will be threaded into the slitting line and from there a coil will be formed to your desired width.
The slit coils that are produced (sometimes referred to as mults or strips) are then recoiled.

2. What is a light gauge slitting line?

Light Gauge Slitting Lines can produce coils from 0.15 mm to 4 mm in thickness at speeds of up to 2400 feet per minute (730 MPM).

3. What is a medium gauge slitting line?

A medium gauge slitting line is designed to handle heavier materials, but also have the precision of the lighter gauges.
The medium gauge slitting line is also capable of a variety of edge trim scrap systems.

4. What is a heavy gauge slitting line?

A heavy gauge slitting line is designed to slit high strength heavy gauge materials.

5. At what speed slitting line operates?

Depending on which gauge you use, the speed will vary.

6. What is the process of coil slitting?

The coil slitting process involves large coils of metal are cut using sharp rotary blades. Straight lines are cut lengthwise into the large coil, the resulting strips of metal are narrower in width.

7. Slitting vs cut-to-length process

The cut-to-length process takes a coil of material, uncoils it, level it, then cuts it to precisely to the specified width and length.

The slitting process takes a master coil of material and breaks it down into smaller coils with specific widths only.

8. What is an uncoiler?

Uncoiler is a special equipment for metal plate leveling, which can be composed of uncoiling, leveling, shearing production line and other plate products production line according to relevant configuration.

One of the roles of the uncoiler is to support the steel coil by tightening the inner hole of the coil; the other is to feed the head of the strip into the leveling machine by rotating it under the cooperation of the straight head machine. Therefore, the performance of the uncoiler is crucial to the whole production line.

Applicable to machinery, vehicles, metal products household appliances, steel, decoration and other industries.

9. What is a recoiler?

The recoiler is used to wind slit strips of metal onto a spool-shaped device. One of its features is an expanding mandrel which controls the rate and direction of the strip as it is being rewound.