Machines/FL Smithe
FL Smithe SW
The FL Smithe SW is a micro-processor controlled high-speed web envelope machine for side-seam booklet. It runs at up to 72,000 cycles/h.
Each job you run comes with its own specific problems, and more often than not the culprit is found on the tooling shafts. The standard finishing tools supplied with your machine aren’t accurate, versatile or delicate enough for the results you and your customers expect. At Technifold we design and build bespoke, retro-fit premium finishing tools to solve both common and complex finishing problems.
Your SW, finished properly.
Patented in the UK · 45,000+ tools running in 79 countries · since 1999
The SW at a glance
- Rated output
- 72,000 cycles/h
- Format range
- Side-seam booklet max 11 13/16 x 7 1/4 in (300 x 184 mm), min 5 x 3 in (127 x 76 mm); open end (pocket) max 11 x 6 3/4 in (279.4 x 171 mm) centre seam / 11 x 4 3/4 in side seam, min 4.93 x 3 1/2 in (125 x 89 mm)
- Control
- Touch screen operator interface; industrial motion controller; multi-axis servo control; digital pushbutton feed-length control (no change gears); job storage on floppy disc or built-in hard drive with automatic circumferential phasing on recall
Built for: The FL Smithe SW is a micro-processor controlled high-speed web envelope machine for side-seam booklet. It runs at up to 72,000 cycles/h.
What we solve
Problems we eliminate on the SW
Tooling for the SW
If it’s a wheel, a blade or a rib that touches paper or board, we can make it.
Tech-ni-Fold manufactures precision finishing tooling: 45,000+ tools running in 79 countries over 25 years. Alongside our patented systems, we engineer and machine components to order for finishing machinery of every kind, including machines like the SW.
Precision rotary tooling is what we do
Creasing ribs, scoring wheels, perforating blades, slitting knives, blade holders, anvils and custom shaft components, designed and machined in-house in the UK, by the company that invented and patented rotary creasing.
Engineered to order
Most of what we make started as somebody's problem, not a catalogue page. Send us the part, the drawing, or just the job that's going wrong, and our engineers will tell you straight whether we can make it better, sharper or cheaper.
OEMs buy from us already
Machine manufacturers source blades, holders and finishing components from us under their own part numbers. If you build or maintain machines, you get a supplier who actually understands why the part is shaped the way it is.
Talk to the engineers
What does your SW need?
Tell us the part, the problem, or the price you’re paying now. We’ll tell you honestly what we can make, what it would cost, and how quickly it can be on your machine.