- Building Materials – Roofing, vinyl siding, veneers, deer netting, carpet, linoleum, sheet rock, Home Depot packaging, etc. All Convertech products are used in this category.
- Business Forms – Collating of multipart forms and/or printing of the forms. This is generally narrow web. Convertech products which are used in this industy are: narrow web leaf shaft, continuous lug shaft, shaft adapters.
- Corrugated – Rigid box making. Convertech products which are used in this industy are: mechanical chuck, mechanical high torque chuck, pneumatic/mechanical high torque chuck, continuous lug shaft, lug shaft, button shaft, external bladder chuck, leaf shafts.
- Converting – This is the generic name for the overall industry. Most of the sub-categories below fall into this category. All Convertech products are used in this category.
- Film – This includes extruding, corona treating, blown film lines, winders, slitting. This is generally wide web with shafts. Convertech products which are used in this industy are: differential shaft, concentric shaft, button shaft, lug shaft, continuous lug shaft, carbon fiber shaft, knife shafts, leaf shafts, through shafts, cheap chucks, external bladder chuck
- Graphic Arts – This is a growing market that would include printing for billboards, postcards, flyers, and other advertising. Convertech products which are used in this industy are: continuous lug shaft, lug shaft, button shaft, cheap chucks, adapters, external bladder chuck.
- Metals – This is the metal foils industry. The webs are wide and heavy. Convertech products which are used in this industy are: continuous lug shaft, and highly customized shafts that combine pneumatic/mechanical high torque chucks lined up inside a shaft.
- Metalizing – A vacuum process for putting the shiny metal backing on films. Convertech products which are used in this industry are: mechanical shafts and concentric shafts.
- Nonwoven – Diapers, disposable pads, Tyvek. This is almost always wide web. Convertech products which are used in this industy are: continuous lug shaft, lug shaft, button shaft, high torque mechanical chuck, mechanical chuck, pneumatic/mechanical high torque chuck, adapters, cheap chucks, through shafts, external bladder chucks.
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- Packaging – This is a broad category that would include rigid and flexible packaging. This is generally narrow web, although some are wide web. Convertech products which are used in this industy are: narrow web leaf shaft, lateral motion shaft, continuous lug shaft, shaft adapters, small diameter shaft, trapper leaf shaft, mechanical shafts, external bladder chucks.
- Paper Manufacturing – Usually wide and heavy rolls on very large diameter cores. Convertech products which are used in this industy are: mechanical high torque chucks, pneumatic mechanical high torque chucks, continuous lug shaft, lug shaft, button shaft, shaft adapters, cheap chucks, external bladder chucks.
- Printing – This is a broad sub-category of converting. This is both wide and narrow web. All Convertech products are used in this category.
- Sailmaking – Many sails are made by sandwiching carefully laid out fibers between sheets of mylar. Convertech products which are used in this industy are: narrow small diameter shafts
- Slitting/Rewinding – This is the process of taking wide rolls and slitting them into many narrow rolls. Convertech products which are used in this industy are: differential shaft, continuous lug shaft, button shaft, lug shaft, mechanical high torque chucks, pneumatic/mechanical high torque chucks, shaft adapters, external bladder chuck, through shafts (for the unwinds side.)
- Tag & Label – This is the printing and rewinding of narrow web products. Convertech is a major leader in this industry. Convertech products which are used in this industy are: narrow web leaf shaft, small diameter shaft, continuous lug shaft, lateral motion shaft, trapper leaf shaft, mechanical shaft, shaft adapters, differential shaft, concentric shaft.
- Textiles – Weaving, cutting, slitting, carpet. It is both wide web and narrow web. All Convertech products are used in this category.
- Traverse Winding – There are several large companies that make machines that traverse wind (like a roll of fishing line). These machines use 20-100 shafts per machine. Convertech products which are used in this industy are: narrow web leaf shaft, continuous lug shaft, concentric shaft.
- Wire – This is the twisting and covering of wires. Convertech products which are used in this industy are: wide mechanical shafts.
- Woodworking – Application of veneer to cabinets, countertops. Convertech products which are used in this industy are: continuous lug shaft, lug shaft, button shaft.
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