Rubber Expander Roller

A rubber expander roller is a specialised production roller used primarily to remove wrinkles, creases, and tension inconsistencies in plastic or flexible materials during processing and manufacturing activities. This roller solution will offer superior material conditioning and width expansion to textile, paper, film or web processing industries where smooth and uniform material handling is essential to producing quality textile, paper, or plastic film products. Rubber expander rollers are commonly used for fabric smoothing in textile mills, web spreading in printing, web coating and web processing lines, as well as controlling tension in packaging and converting operations without damaging or distorting the material. A rubber expander roller will exhibit characteristics such as a precision-ground rubber surface, carefully selected durometer, and balanced construction for the desired, consistent, and repeatable spreading action to maintain the quality of the material. Advanced rubber compounding techniques allow expander rollers to produce a distributed lateral force and sufficient and consistent wrinkle removal whilst applying low contact pressure, making them suitable for lower and less durable contact pressure for soft materials such as thin films, sheet fabrics or substrates. Rubber expander rollers can also provide adjustable mounting systems that allow for easy adjustment of roller position or fine tuning of roller contact pressure for the thickness of web materials that may vary during processing. Normal rubber hardness and possibly surface pattern would be selected to give the required spreading performance according to the material requirements and processing needs. Find some of the high-quality rubber expander rollers here at Aajjo.