Oscillating Web Cleaner

Oscillating web cleaner removes particle contamination as small as 1 micron - for the coating, laminating, printing and converting industries.

Polymag Tek's award-winning patented Oscillating Web Cleaner (OWC) improves the quality of your products and reduces waste by cleaning both sides of paper or film web prior to printing or coating.

The OWC prevents printing defects by transferring loose contamination on the web surface to Contact Cleaning Rolls (CCRs) made of our Polymag® Blue proprietary polymer.

On a printing press, this fully automated assembly is designed to mount between the reel or unwind and the infeed. The CCRs are individually moved into a moving web against a nip roll or other CCR.

When the CCR becomes contaminated, the roll moves into the "retract" position for cleaning by the auto cleaner.

The auto cleaner uses water on a cleaning fabric to remove web contamination from the CCR.

After CCR cleaning, there is a drying cycle and the CCR is then ready to move back into service while the other CCR is retracted for auto cleaning. A simple yet highly effective system!

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Print or Coating Quality Improvements

  • Enhanced overall print or coating quality
  • Dot Gain reduced/eliminated
  • Improved Halftone highlights
  • Reduction of "Hickey" defects

Process Advantages

  • Improved process control
  • Keeps inks and water solutions cleaner
  • Longer continuous runs

Press Equipment Benefits

  • Reduced need for and use of auto blanket washers
  • Reduced Dirt lessens wear on equipment

Bottom Line Advantages

  • Reduced paper and print waste
  • Increases press run time
  • Less blanket washing, solvent usage and disposal