Red Bud Industries recently installed a new Multi-Cut Blanking Line at Ideal Roofing Company Limited of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, designed to produce material for the company’s in-house needs as well as outside customers.

Featured in the line are Red Bud’s Precision Grip Feed System and CNC Programmable Slitter. This combination of machines gives Ideal the capability of producing blanks with width and length tolerances of ±.005" (.127 mm). The CNC Slitter can be set up in less than two minutes per cut, thus eliminating costly downtime that can occur when using conventional packed arbor Slitters. An

additional advantage to the system is the Automatic Strip Divider Positioning System. While the operator is setting up the Slitting Head, the Strip Divider Positioning System automatically sets up the dividers in the Strip Stacker.

The .060" (1.52 mm) line consists of a Coil Stage & Load System, Uncoiler, Peeler Breaker, Crop Shear, Herr-Voss Leveler, “Pop Up” Flatness Inspection Table, “Hands Free” Thread System, Dual Motor Grip Feed, CNC Programmable Slitter, Shear, Combination Strip/Drop Stacker, Automatic Part Diverter, Automatically Lowering Stack Table, and End Rollouts.