Around ten professionals participated in late September in the Advanced Slitting and Rewinding Course, which was held at the Technological Centre Manel Xifra Boada. A new edition of the course will be held next spring 2017.
Comexi CTec organized for the first time the Advanced Slitting and Rewinding Course in order to strengthen training for slitting and rewinding professionals in the flexible packaging field. Along two training days, attendees had the opportunity to discover, booth practical and theoretical classes, the main elements that set up a slitting machine, its functions, technical characteristics and supply, taking into account the origin of the materials to slit.
During the training, attendees analysed studies about productivity and efficiency regarding configuration rules and slit types, as well as market trends in slitting and rewinding.
The course was aimed to operators and professionals in charge of slitting and rewinding processes. Representatives from companies like Poligal Packaging, Wipak Iberica, Amcor Flexibles, Samafrava, Poligal Arcos Portugal and Rodenas y Rivera, among others, take part into it and they returned a positive evaluation. After completing the course, attendees received a degree certificate from the University of Girona Foundation.
Comexi includes the technological centre Manel Xifra Boada where the company provides support and transfers its knowledge to the various groups involved in the flexible packaging industry process. Annually, within its training offer, the Comexi CTec programs around twenty courses aimed at its clients and focused to different stages of the flexible packaging converting process in order to reinforce the knowledge and improve the competitiveness of their companies. Since its establishment, four years ago, around 600 technicians have been trained in CTec technical courses.
