Web Tension Control

• The Martin Web Tension Control is introduced using Martin’s patented Inertia-Compensated Dancer. The introduction of Inertia-Compensated Constant Tension devices to the printing and allied industries represents a major technical contribution by Martin.

The First Zero-Speed Splicer

• Martin’s first Zero-Speed Splicer is introduced to the commercial printing market, each offering advances in the efficiency of automatic roll changing with new features and greater simplicity.

Air Turn Bars

• Martin Air Turn Bars are offered as an alternative to press grater rollers.

New EC Splicer

• Martin combines ten years of zero-speed splicer experience into its new model EC Splicer. The EC splicer is used in a wide range of applications in the printing, packaging, laminating, sheeting, non-woven, envelope, and tag and label markets.

Zero-speed splicing and tension control

• Martin introduces its zero-speed splicing and tension control expertise to the gravure and flexographic packaging printing industries. Martin’s “plant audit” methods result in increased productivity and reduced waste from older press lines.

New EC Plus

• Offering the simplicity of the EC with more operator convenience features, the new EC PLUS is a heavy-duty, high-speed automatic lap splicer. This model becomes the platform for many future Martin splicers.

MTB Introduced

• Martin develops the model MTB Butt Splicer for the wide-web, heavy paperboard markets. Later advances include fully automatic in-register splicing, electronic autosplice at an adjustable diameter, and a tailgrabber feature.

MBLT Introduced

• Furthering its reputation as a full-range supplier of automatic roll changing equipment, Martin introduces the MBLT line of low-tension splicers. Applications include the manufacture and printing of napkins and disposable diaper products.

CPL Debut

• The Martin Model CPL (Constant Path Length) Decurler debuts, enabling fine control of board curl immediately prior to die-cutting and delivery without disturbing critical process register.

CHW at IDEA ’90

• A line of CHW (Cantilevered Hot Wire) Splicers is introduced at IDEA ’90. This creative design accommodates larger roll capacities and greatly enhances operator convenience while maintaining the low tension level and accuracy previously developed in the MBLT Splicer.

EC and EC-Plus Upgrades

• Martin’s most popular line of automatic splicers, the EC and EC-Plus series, receive both fully automatic and manual in-register splicing capabilities, making these splicers even more attractive to users of preprinted webs and specialty products.

RMAP Introduced

• The RMAP automatic splicing rewind is introduced for use with films, papers and board stock. No operator intervention is required after the taped core is introduced into the machine. The operator simply inserts an empty core at one end and removes a rewound roll from the other.

SHPFI Introduced

• The SHPFI Splicer is developed for flexible packaging and laminating processes. Its shaftless design and proprietary platen splice unit make it ideal for running wide rolls of film, tissue, nonwovens and even unsupported foils.

MASH Introduced

• Martin expands its efforts to meet web handling needs in the nonwovens industry by developing the MASH, shaftless, side-by-side roll position, lap splicer. The MASH is capable of handling web widths to 150 inches and roll diameters of 60 inches.

MASB Introduced

• Similar to the MASH in function, frame design changes allow for roll pick-up from below, increasing safety with large roll handling. The MASB incorporates a butt splice instead of a lap splice, while still maintaining tension capabilities established with the MASH design.

NCHWE Introduced

• Martin introduces the NCHWE, which incorporates In-Register splicing technology provided previously as a retrofit system to existing machines. This technology allows full speed in-register splicing on driven spindle machines with no significant increase in storage.

Traverse Winding System

• Martin introduces a Traverse Winding System for nonwovens, foams, films and other light webs. The modular design includes manual or automatic splicing unwinds, slitting section, waste wind-up, and manual or automatic transfer winding heads programmable with a multitude of winding profiles.

MBX Introduced

• Martin introduces the MBX model. The MBX brings the ease of Martin’s patented, in-aisle roll loading system to machines in the 16-26 inch web width markets, running roll diameters up to 72 inches.

Introducing the ECPLT

• The ECPLT uses the same platform as the ECPFI Wide Web Splicer, incorporating driven spindles to provide extremely low tension levels in very demanding applications involving films and nonwovens.

MBX Modifications

• Martin modifies the MBX Butt Splicer for customers running multiple substrates on a single press. Driven spindles and a second tension control dancer deliver maximum flexibility for a wide range of materials and tension levels.

MCB 40-inch and beyond

• A lift-table system for heavier and wider rolls of paperboard enables Martin to extend the cantilevered design of the MCB up to a 40-inch web width and beyond. Mobile lift tables are also incorporated into the MAS splicer system.

ECP Heatseal Butt Splice Unit

• The ECP platform, previously only available with overlap splice units, gets a heat seal butt splice unit. The new unit provides for easier splice preparation and a no-tail tapeless splice on nonwoven and film webs.

SSBSC-IR Introduced

• The SSBSC-IR In-register Butt Splicer is designed for very narrow pre-printed or pre-processed webs. This extremely simple model will accurately splice in-register to a printed mark or between diecut labels.

STS Introduced

• The compact STS Automatic Splicer offers non-stop production to an even larger number of printers, converters and packagers. Initial applications include envelope production, narrow web label printing, and form/fill/seal processing.

MSL Splice Unit Introduced

• The MSL splice unit is a cantilevered splice unit designed for easy operator access and thread-up. The knife and anvil cut-off system is compatible with most substrates, including traditional nonwovens, airlaid nonwovens, films, tissues and laminate webs.

Speed Upgrades

• The MASL Automatic Lap Splicer is speed-upgraded to 2000 fpm (609 mpm) for use in high-speed nonwoven applications. Even at this speed, the splicer maintains a tension level as low as 15 pounds (67 N). The RMAP receives a similar speed upgrade.

CHW roll loading system

• A roll loading system with an integrated outboard spindle support is developed for the CHW Wide-Web Splicer. This enables the CHW to load heavier weight rolls on cores as small as 3 in (76 mm) inside diameter.

CUS & CRS

• The CUS Cantilevered Unwind Stand and CRS Cantilevered Rewind Stand are offered for applications, typically of a special nature, where non-stop roll changing is not optimal.

LRH Introduced

• Seeing the need for a winder in the mid-web market, Martin introduces the LRH Automatic Transfer Rewinder, a 2-spindle non-stop winder for rolls up to 72 in (1828 mm) diameter and 32 in (812 mm) wide.

Splicing in tight spaces

• Martin engineers develop an MBS Butt Splicer with an integrated turn bar. This design enables the festoon to be installed in-line with the press, while the unwind and splice section is installed perpendicular to the press.

MBSC Introduced

• Recognizing a need in the label converting industry for automatic roll changers specifically for narrow web (up to 13 inches/ 330 mm) presses running smaller diameter rolls (up to 31.5 inches/ 800 mm), Martin introduces the MBSC Automatic Butt Splicer.

Company founder John R. Martin dies

• An entrepreneur known for his irreverent sense of humor as well as his engineering acumen. John’s great wisdom, foresight and legacy continues with Martin Automatic’s innovative work in splicing, rewinding and web handling systems.

Stretching the MBS

• Expanding the MBS reach even further in the label industry, Martin answers the call of PCMC and its ELS press, stretching the ever-popular label market MBS to 28 in (711 mm) web width to accommodate flexible packaging applications identified by the Midwestern OEM.

Auto-taping MTBAT

• Building on the success of our auto-taping splice units on the MASB splicers, Martin incorporate new auto-taping technology into a high-speed MTBAT Automatic Butt Splicer, feeding paperboard into a flexo press at 2000 fpm/610mpm.

Non-stop rewinding for scroll slit webs

• Adding to our portfolio of rewinds, Martin introduces non-stop rewinding for scroll slit webs for the disposable cup market. The modified LRHS non-stop rewind features proprietary use of bowed rollers to attain up to 2 in (50 mm) separation between ribbons.

The widest RMAP-XB

• At a web width of 87in/2210mm, the widest to-date RMAP-XB for paperboard is installed on a folding carton press,  supplied with a powered cart for easy shaft-handling and with a slitter section for winding multiple ribbons.

Special MBS Design

• A unique MBS is developed for the electrical cable industry, featuring driven spindles for very low tension, and a pay-off system that enables unwinding and splicing of both cookie rolls and flat-wound (spooled) rolls in the same machine.