Ashe Converting Equipment is demonstrating wide web and narrow web finishing systems at LOUPE Americas 2026. The booth includes the widest slitter the company has ever exhibited at a LOUPE (formerly Labelexpo) show.

On display is Ashe’s 65″ (1.65m) Diamond duplex slitter, which uses differential rewinding techniques. The company has been developing this technology for 35 years. This allows the winding of a wide range of substrates. The fully servo-driven machine is targeted at labelstock manufacturers, flexible packaging converters, and narrow web label printers. Ashe engineered the product for customers seeking the flexibility to slit rolls in-house to their exact specifications. According to Ashe, this is an increasing trend.

“Our decision to exhibit the Diamond slitter is a direct result of Labelexpo’s rebrand to LOUPE,” says Simon Godbold, Ashe’s sales director for narrow to mid web equipment. “Our equipment range covers narrow, mid and wide web, so whatever you print, you will find something relevant at our stand.

“The Diamond slitter is perfectly suited to wider web converters but also to label printers who are looking to diversify their production into, for example, flexible packaging,” he adds. “It can slit almost any substrate at widths from 16″ (400mm) up to 65″ (1.65m), allowing exceptional flexibility. We also see many larger label converters increasingly looking to slit rolls in-house, enabling them to reduce costs and create exactly the width of roll they need for their printing processes.”

Ashe is also exhibiting the Opal glueless turret slitter-rewinder from its flagship narrow web equipment range. The 4-spindle system features Ashe’s Autoset technology for quick, automated setup. It can run inline with existing processes or be a separate off-line, secondary operation.