Plastic Card Collators

• Static reduction devices
• Auto registration and knock-up systems
• Adjustable air blow pin pointed precisely where needed
• Double sheet separation devices

• Optional pin registration to guarantee set accuracy
• In-line ultrasonic welding
• Many worldwide installations for this special plastic card collating application
• Adjustable feed stations for reliable sheet pick-up and set registration

On many occasions the industry is faced with exceptional paper weights, sheet sizes or other issues, which make collating on conventional equipment troublesome, or sometimes impossible. Over the years' Col-Tec have been called upon to build plastic card collators to speed up time consuming and difficult applications. This presents challenges at the time of design but in many cases we start by drawing on our considerable experience of other problem solving collator projects. In the case of plastic card collators, the design has been developed and refined over many years and some of the principle features are summarised above.

In order to support automatic production lines, Col-Tec will produce the necessary interfaces to conveyors, binding equipment, film-wrapping machines, etc all to individual specification. In this case we fit directly to the collator ultrasonic welding equipment which provides a secure and consistent binding process in either 2 or 4 spots. This keeps all sheets within the set securely held while transferred for further processing such as laminating etc.“