Flexible Packaging Machinery, Textile and Tyre Cord Machinery Manufacturer

Krishna Engineering Works (KEW) builds flexible packaging machinery, textile processing machinery, tyre cord machinery and paper industries machinery in its own factory in Ahmedabad, India. Founded in 1990, the company manufactures more than 60 types of machines and supplies each one to the customer’s own width, speed, material and automation level.

This site is the full catalogue. Every machine and every part has its own page with the construction, the specifications and the details to send for a quotation.

What does Krishna Engineering Works manufacture?

Krishna Engineering Works manufactures machinery in five groups: flexible packaging and converting machinery, textile processing machinery, tyre cord and technical textiles machinery, paper industries machinery, and the equipment that all of them share, such as rollers, shafts, web guides and tension controls.

The groups cover a material from its first process to the finished reel or roll. A film can be printed, laminated, slit, inspected, coded and wrapped on KEW machines. A fabric can be dyed on a jigger, finished on a stenter, inspected and folded. The table shows where to start.

You need to	Start with	Group
Slit wide reels into narrow reels	Slitter rewinder machine	Flexible packaging and converting
Print batch codes on a printed reel, or correct a badly wound reel	Winding rewinding machine with inkjet printer	Flexible packaging and converting
Print film, foil or paper	Rotogravure or flexo printing machine	Flexible packaging and converting
Bond two webs together	Lamination machine	Flexible packaging and converting
Keep a web on its line through any machine	Web guiding system	Equipment
Replace or re-cover a roller	Rubber roller	Equipment
Hold and release cores on a winder	Air shaft	Equipment
Dry, stretch and heat set fabric	Stenter machine	Textile processing
Dye fabric in open width	Jigger machine	Textile processing
Dip and heat treat tyre cord fabric	Equipment for a tyre cord dipping plant	Tyre cord and technical textiles
Slit paper at the mill or converter	Heavy duty drum type slitter rewinder	Paper industries

Flexible packaging machinery and converting machinery

The flexible packaging machinery range takes a web from printing to the finished, coded and wrapped reel. It is built for the films, foils, papers and laminates used in flexible packaging, and each machine is configured for the substrate and speed of the buyer’s line.

The slitter rewinder machine is the centre of the range. It is a cantilever type machine with independent rewind tension control, and it converts wide parent reels into finished reels of the width the next process needs. The winding rewinding machine carries an inkjet printer for batch coding and is also used to correct badly wound reels and to inspect printed material.

For printing, the range includes the rotogravure printing machine and the flexo printing machine. For combining webs there is the lamination machine, together with coating machines, inspection and doctoring rewinders, core cutters, BOPP tape machines, trim rewinders and roll wrapping machines.

All of these are listed, with their photographs, in the flexible packaging and converting machinery category.

Web guiding, rollers and shafts: the parts every line needs

Every web line depends on the same few components: a guide that keeps the web on its path, rollers that carry and nip it, and shafts that hold the cores. KEW makes these in house and supplies them with its own machines, as replacements, and to other machine builders.

• Web guiding. The web guiding system comes as an electro-hydro or a hydro-pneumatic web aligner unit, with its own hydraulic power pack, sensor and cylinder.
• Rollers. The rubber roller range covers nip, impression, printing, grooved and brush rollers, and worn rollers can be re-covered. Bow rolls, hard chrome plated rollers and cooling rolls are separate catalogue pages.
• Shafts and chucks. The air shaft range includes lug, leaf, multi-tube, differential and mechanical shafts, with safety chucks to carry them.
• Tension. Load cells, tension controllers, pneumatic brakes and powder brakes hold the web tension steady from full reel to empty core.

These items are grouped under equipments machinery. Converting, paper and textile equipment is also presented by process on the group’s Con-Pap-Tex site.

Textile processing machinery

The textile processing machinery range covers wet processing and finishing of woven and knitted fabric. The two main machines are the stenter and the jigger.

A stenter machine holds the fabric by its edges on a chain of clips or pins and carries it through heated chambers, so that it is dried, set to width and heat set in one pass. KEW builds the stenter with its padding mangle, pre-dryer, weft straightener, drying chambers and selvedge drying unit, and also supplies stenter spares.

A jigger machine dyes fabric in open width by passing it back and forth through a liquor trough between two batching rolls. The range runs from the semi jigger to the super jumbo jigger.

Around these two machines the catalogue adds bowl mangle and drying ranges, float and relax dryers, fabric feeders, cloth guiders, folding machines, cloth inspection machines and trolleys for material handling. The full list is in the textile processing machinery category.

Tyre cord and technical textiles machinery

Tyre cord machinery handles wide, heavy fabric at high tension, so guiding, accumulation and winding matter more here than on any other line. KEW supplies the equipment for a tyre cord dipping plant and for a calendering plant as individual units or as a set.

The equipment for a tyre cord dipping plant page follows the line station by station: let-off, accumulator, tension control, dipping tank, stretching and heat zones, cooling rolls, guiding and the two stage winder. The same group includes liner rewinders, fabric re-rolling machines, festoon accumulators, cooling and heating drums and the hydro pneumo web aligner used across technical textile lines.

Paper industries machinery

Paper mills and paper converters need slitting at wide widths and large reel diameters. The heavy duty drum type slitter rewinder winds on drums, which suits coated paper, cup stock, stationery paper and similar grades. The paper group also includes a rewinder machine and corrugated box machinery.

How a machine is specified and built

Every KEW machine is built to the technical requirements of the buyer, not picked from a fixed list. Non standard widths, speeds, substrates and automation levels are part of normal work, and the company supplies single machines as well as complete lines, with no minimum order.

The steps are the same for a single air shaft and for a complete printing line.

1. Send the material, width range, reel sizes and speed you need, with a drawing or photographs if the machine must fit an existing line.
2. KEW proposes a configuration and a specification for your approval.
3. Components are made in the company’s own factory, using computerised drawing and design.
4. Parts are inspected from raw material through to final assembly.
5. A continuous trial is run on the finished machine. Customers are invited to the factory to take a trial of their own machine before dispatch.
6. The machine is dispatched, then installed and commissioned at your site, with operator training.

The quality process behind these steps is described on the quality policy page.

Why buyers choose Krishna Engineering Works

Buyers choose Krishna Engineering Works because one company designs, makes, tests and supports the whole machine. The points below are stated on this site and can be checked with the company.

• Founded in 1990. The company has built machinery for the packaging, textile, tyre cord and paper industries since 1990.
• Own manufacture. Machines and their components are made in the company’s own factory in Ahmedabad. Web aligners, rubber rolls and textile spares are made in house.
• ISO 9001 certified. Manufacturing follows an ISO 9001 certified quality system.
• Recognised for quality. KEW is a winner of 3 National Awards and 2 International Awards for quality manufacturing.
• Export ready. As an IEC-certified exporter, KEW handles export documentation, shipping coordination and on-site installation support abroad. Machines have been delivered to buyers in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria and the United Kingdom.
• Technical advice. The company’s advisory technical committee includes experts from CIPET and other institutes.

More background is on the about us page.

Installation, spares and service

KEW installs and commissions its machines on site and trains the operators, for customers in India and abroad. For international buyers, engineers travel to the customer’s site for startup.

After commissioning, the company supplies spare parts and gives ongoing technical support. Rollers can be re-covered, and wear parts such as air shaft bladders, lugs and valves are supplied as spares. See the repairing and servicing page for the service scope.

Industries served

KEW machines are used wherever a continuous web is processed. The industry of converters is the largest group of users, followed by textile processors, tyre makers and paper mills.

Industry	Typical machines from the catalogue
Flexible packaging converters	Rotogravure and flexo printing, lamination, coating, slitter rewinder, inspection and doctoring rewinders
Label, tape and film producers	BOPP slitter rewinder, core cutter, winding rewinding machine with inkjet printer
Paper mills and paper converters	Drum type slitter rewinder, rewinder, core cutter, roll wrapping machine
Textile mills and process houses	Stenter, jigger, drying ranges, cloth inspection and folding machines, stenter spares
Tyre cord and technical textile plants	Dipping and calendering plant equipment, accumulators, web aligners, liner rewinders
Machine builders and maintenance teams	Rubber rollers, bow rolls, air shafts, safety chucks, web guides, tension controls

What to send for a quotation

A quotation is prepared from your line data, so a complete enquiry gets a useful answer the first time. Send:

• The machine or part you need, and the process before and after it
• Material, with its thickness or weight range
• Maximum and minimum web width
• Parent reel and finished reel diameter, weight and core size
• Line speed required
• Power supply at your site, and any space limits
• For replacement parts: a drawing, the old part’s dimensions, or clear photographs

Send these through the contact page, or browse the whole range first on the products page.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is Krishna Engineering Works located?

Krishna Engineering Works is located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The office address is 28, Madhuvan, Nr. Prestige Bungalows, Punit Nagar Crossing Road, Ghodasar, Ahmedabad 380050. Machines and components are manufactured in the company’s own factory in Ahmedabad, and customers are invited there to take a trial of their machine before it is dispatched.

What types of machinery does Krishna Engineering Works make?

Krishna Engineering Works makes more than 60 types of machines in four machinery groups: flexible packaging and converting, textile processing, tyre cord and technical textiles, and paper industries. A fifth group covers shared equipment such as rubber rollers, air shafts, safety chucks, web guiding systems and tension controls. Each product has its own page in this catalogue.

Does Krishna Engineering Works export machinery?

Yes, Krishna Engineering Works exports machinery and is an IEC-certified exporter. The company handles export documentation and shipping coordination, and its engineers travel to the customer’s site for installation and startup. Machines have been delivered to buyers in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria and the United Kingdom, among other markets.

Can a machine be built to a non standard width or speed?

Yes, building to the customer’s specification is normal practice at Krishna Engineering Works. Machines are made with non standard widths, speeds, substrates and automation levels, working from the technical data the buyer sends. The company supplies single machines as well as complete production lines, and there is no minimum order.

Is Krishna Engineering Works ISO certified?

Yes, Krishna Engineering Works is ISO 9001 certified. Components are made in the company’s own factory and inspected from raw material to final assembly, and a continuous trial is taken on each machine before dispatch. The company has also won 3 National Awards and 2 International Awards for quality manufacturing.

Who installs the machine and trains the operators?

Krishna Engineering Works installs and commissions its own machines at the customer’s site and trains the operators as part of commissioning. This applies to customers in India and to international buyers, for whom engineers travel to the site for startup. After that, the company supplies spare parts and gives ongoing technical support.

What details are needed for a machinery quotation?

A machinery quotation needs the machine type, the material and its thickness range, the maximum and minimum web width, the reel diameters and core size, and the line speed required. For a replacement roller, shaft or guide, a drawing or the dimensions of the existing part are needed as well. Photographs of the machine it must fit are always useful.