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Old 04-26-2008, 12:04 AM
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Yeah, they are big-un's! We use a 70 ton crane to move them. The whole front end of the board machine was redone along with the back end of the rewinder/slitter to handlw them. Even the 18" thick floor had to have more reinforcement. That is now the only paperboard machine in the US that puts out the most square footage per minute/hour/etc. and they're still working on upping the machine speed.
Yeah, that's a lot of future cereal boxes sitting there. They will actually make 3 set of 72-73" diameter rolls from that and slit them into the smaller rolls in the other pictures. We can make them from 5" wide on up. Most average around 40" wide.
Sorry that I don't have any shots of the paprboard machine itself as it is huge! From wet end to dry end it's probably 300 feet long. A rebuild some 10 years ago cost a mere $100 million. The printing presses that the cartons are made on were state-of-the-art at the time they were installed at 6 Million a pop for 3 of those.