Shafted and Shaftless Unwind Reel Stands

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Weston™ Reelstands

Weston Handling can design and supply bespoke Unwind Reelstand's to meet demanding workloads and conservative budgets. Our unrivalled expertise, learnt from over 40yrs of working in papermills and packaging plants around the world, has produced uniquely practical and productive unwind stand solutions.

The Patented, Moving Sideframe, Shaftless Reelstand

In 2000, Stephen Weston patented the "Moving Side-frame Shaftless Reelstand", as the "Weston Reelstand", a low cost, multi featured Reelstand for unwinding large reels, that could be scaled up to handle multi-tonne paper mill reels. Cleverly designed not to require traditional welded fabrication, it could be assembled 'Flat-Pack' style in hours, rather than weeks, using only four 'Allan Keys' wrenches.

In order to obtain startup investment, he built a prototype at home in his garage, powering lift and clamping from compressed air. From that he found investor funding to develop the Reelstand, eventually selling it to a leading Converting machine manufacturer, which developed Stephen's idea into a commercial model. Customers included, Avery Dennison, Dupont Films, Whiteley's Paper, and highly confidential clients, configured as single unwind stands and as multiple back to back unwind stands.