Tissue and towel converting roll coatings

Who can coat the rolls on my tissue rewinder? AEGIS Advanced can. AEGIS Advanced is an industrial coating applicator in Elkton, Maryland that coats rewinder bedrolls, rider rolls and other traction rolls on bath tissue and towel converting lines. Our XR100TC traction coating grips the sheet and sheds dust and glue, so logs wind tight and the rolls stay clean.

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A jumbo parent roll feeding a tissue converting line. Every roll it touches on the way to finished product is a place for slippage or glue buildup. Photo: Sammutawe, CC BY-SA 4.0

Why tissue is hard on rolls: the sheet is light and soft, there’s dust everywhere, and there’s glue for cores and tails. Rolls have to grip without marking the sheet, and they fill up fast. That’s the job XR100TC was made for.

Stuck waiting on your OEM for a recoat? We recoat converter traction and winder rolls with XR100TC, spec in a day and quote in three. See our OEM recoating alternative.

Proven on a bath tissue line

We ran XR100TC in a trial at a tissue converter in Virginia that turns parent rolls into bath tissue. It outperformed the incumbent traction coating on the line, and we turned the rolls around faster. If you’re running a bath tissue or towel line, we’re happy to set up the same kind of trial on one of your rolls.

Problems we hear about

Soft or loose logs, telescoping, wrinkles, startup slip on the core, inconsistent log diameter, and rolls that need to be stopped and cleaned because dust and glue have built up. If your crew is wrapping rolls in tape or cleaning them every shift, the surface is the problem.

Rolls we coat on tissue and towel lines

Rewinder bedrolls, rider and lay-on rolls, unwind and pull rolls, spreader rolls, and other traction rolls on the parent roll and rewinder side. For embossing, glue and transfer rolls that need release instead of grip, we have release coatings too. See converting equipment coatings.

Parent rolls this size are why winder grip matters. Photo: FFC1966, CC BY-SA 4.0

Grip without the buildup

XR100TC is a coarse tungsten carbide surface with fluoropolymer built in. The carbide gives the grip and the wear life. The fluoropolymer gives the release, so dust, lint and glue don’t pack into the surface and take the grip away.

Knurled rolls

Running knurled rolls? We can add a release coating to them so they hold their grip and stop loading up. Or we can talk about moving that position to XR100TC.

Common questions

Will it mark the sheet?

Tell us the grade and position and we’ll recommend the right surface for it. That’s part of every quote.

Can you coat rolls without pulling them?

We coat in our Elkton facility or on site, on any size roll. On site work is planned around your shutdown.

How fast can we get a quote?

Send photos or drawings and we’ll come back with a spec within a day and a quote within three.

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