Packaging and Textile Machinery Products from Krishna Engineering Works
The packaging and textile machinery products of Krishna Engineering Works fall into five groups: flexible packaging and converting machinery, textile processing machinery, tyre cord and technical textiles machinery, paper industries machinery, and equipment such as rollers, shafts and web guides. This page summarises each main product and links to its full specification page.
Krishna Engineering Works (KEW) has manufactured in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, since 1990 and offers more than 60 types of machines. Machines are built to the customer’s technical requirements, as single machines or complete lines.
The five product categories
The catalogue is arranged by the industry a machine serves. Each category page lists every product in that group.
| Category | What it covers | Who uses it |
| Flexible packaging and converting machinery | Printing, lamination, coating, slitting, rewinding, inspection and core cutting | Film, foil, paper and label converters |
| Textile processing machinery | Stenters, jiggers, dryers, mangles, cloth guiders, folding and inspection machines | Dyeing, finishing and process houses |
| Tyre cord and technical textiles machinery | Dipping and calendering plant equipment, accumulators, let off stands, guiding | Tyre cord and coated fabric plants |
| Paper industries machinery | Drum type slitter rewinders, rewinders, corrugated box machinery | Paper mills and paper converters |
| Equipments machinery | Rollers, air shafts, safety chucks, web aligners, brakes, load cells, cutters | Machine builders and maintenance teams |
Flexible packaging and converting machinery
This group takes a reel from printing to the finished, slit and checked reel. The products below are the ones most buyers start with.
Rotogravure printing machine
The rotogravure printing machine is offered in 4, 6, 8 and 10 colours for polyester, nylon, BOPP, foil, LDPE, HDPE, polypropylene and paper. It has an oscillating doctor blade assembly and prints on the front and the reverse of the web.
Flexo printing machine
The flexo printing machine is a stack type press in 2, 4, 6 and 8 colours for web widths from 18 to 30 inch. The product page gives the table for the 20, 24 and 30 inch models.
Lamination machine
The lamination machine joins film, foil and paper webs with adhesive, using a coating head, a hot air drying tunnel and a laminating nip. Tunnel lengths from 15 to 45 feet are listed, and each machine is built to order.
Coating machine
The coating machine applies a gravure or reverse roll coating and dries it in a multi zone arch dryer. The coating types named are silicone, gum coating for sticker sheet, paper, VMCH and PVDC.
Slitter rewinder machine
The slitter rewinder machine is a cantilever type for working widths from 800 to 2000 mm, with independent rewind tension control and ultrasonic diameter measurement. It slits film, foil, paper and laminates into finished reels.
Winding rewinding machine with inkjet printer
The winding rewinding machine carries an inkjet printer for batch coding from reel to reel. It handles web widths from 100 to 1500 mm and replaces coding on the production line.
Doctoring rewinding machine
The doctoring rewinding machine corrects badly wound reels and removes defective lengths before the reel reaches the packing line. More than 25 models are offered, from table top units to heavy duty machines with a slitting system.
Inspection rewinding machine
The inspection rewinding machine checks printed reels under top and bottom illumination, with stroboscopic equipment as an option. It handles web widths from 500 to 1500 mm and can carry a slitting arrangement.
Rewinder unwinder
The rewinder unwinder is a separate unwind or rewind unit that is added to a printing, lamination, coating, slitting or extrusion line. It is supplied with a web aligner, brake, tension control and safety chucks as the line needs.
Web guiding system
The web guiding system keeps the web edge on a fixed line with an electro-hydro or a hydro-pneumatic web aligner unit. The page compares the two unit types and gives the KEW-17 and KEW-30 power pack table.
Paper industries machinery
Paper is heavier and stiffer than film, so paper reels are wound against drums. One product leads this group.
Heavy duty drum type slitter rewinder machine
The heavy duty drum type slitter rewinder is built for paper mills and paper converters. It uses duplex centre cum surface rewinding for web widths from 600 to 2500 mm at 100 to 130 m/min.
Textile processing machinery
These machines dye, dry and finish fabric in open width. The two main machines are listed here, and the category page holds the dryers, mangles, guiders and spares.
Stenter machine
The stenter machine dries and sets fabric to width on clips and rails, from the pneumatic padding mangle to the selvedge drying unit. Length, width and the number of drying chambers follow the buyer’s requirement.
Jigger machine
The jigger machine dyes fabric in open width by passing it back and forth through a stainless steel trough. Sizes from 48 to 120 inch are offered, in semi and jumbo versions.
Tyre cord and technical textiles machinery
This group covers the stations of a fabric treatment line and the guiding equipment between them.
Equipment for tyre cord dipping plant
The tyre cord dipping plant equipment page lists 19 units, from the two stage let off station through the dipping tank, stretch and heat zones and accumulators to the two stage winder.
Hydro pneumo web aligner system
The hydro pneumo web aligner system is the air sensed guiding unit used on these lines and on converting machines. It comes as a complete kit with a 0.5 HP motor, pipes, sensor, filters and a hydraulic cylinder.
Equipment, rollers and shafts
These parts are fitted to KEW machines and supplied on their own for machines from other builders.
Rubber roller
The rubber roller range covers nip, impression, printing, grooved, brush and ebonite rolls and slat expanders, with re-covering of worn rollers.
Industrial roller
The industrial roller page covers metal and specialty rolls: calender rolls, cooling drums, spiral cooling rolls, dryer cylinders, hard chrome plated, knurled and hard anodised aluminium rollers.
Bow roll
The bow roll removes wrinkles and separates slit strips. Three types are made: rubber sleeve covered, hard chrome plated metal expander and variable bow.
Air shaft
The air shaft page is the overview of ten shaft types, including differential, lug, leaf, multi-tube and ball shafts, with the figures stated for each.
Expandable shaft
The expandable shaft page covers mechanical and duplex winder shafts in depth, with their materials.
Safety chucks
The safety chucks hold square ended shafts at unwind and rewind stands. Six square sizes from 25 to 90 mm are listed, with other sizes on request.
Repairing and servicing
The repairing and servicing page covers installation, commissioning, operator training, spare parts and roller re-covering.
How do you find the right machine in this catalogue?
Start from your material and the process step, then open the product page for the specification.
- Name the material: film, foil, paper, label stock, fabric or tyre cord.
- Name the step: printing, laminating, coating, slitting, rewinding, inspecting, dyeing, drying or guiding.
- Open the category for your industry, or the product summary above.
- Compare your reel width, diameter and weight with the figures on the product page.
- Note the options you need, then send your data.
If the product you need is not summarize above, open its category page. The home page also explains how the groups fit together.
What to send for a quotation
Every machine is quoted from the buyer’s own data. Send the product name, the materials with their thickness or GSM range, the web width, reel diameter, reel weight and core size, the speed you need and your power supply. For rollers and shafts, send a drawing or the main dimensions.
Send these through the contact page. KEW handles export documentation and shipping coordination for buyers outside India.
Frequently Asked Questions
What products does Krishna Engineering Works manufacture?
Krishna Engineering Works manufactures flexible packaging and converting machinery, textile processing machinery, tyre cord and technical textiles machinery, paper industries machinery and equipment such as rollers, air shafts and web guiding systems. The company offers more than 60 types of machines, all made in its own factory in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, and built to each buyer’s technical requirements.
Does KEW supply single machines or complete lines?
KEW supplies both single machines and complete lines. A buyer can order one slitter rewinder, one roller or one web aligner, or a full line built from several machines in the catalogue. There is no minimum order. Each machine is configured to the width, speed, material and level of automation that the buyer specifies.
Can a machine be built to a width that is not in the table?
Yes, machines are built to the customer’s technical requirements, including non standard widths, speeds, substrates and automation levels. The tables on the product pages show the published range of each machine. If your reel is wider, heavier or of a different material, send the data and the configuration is proposed to suit.
Does KEW export its machines?
Yes, Krishna Engineering Works is an IEC-certified exporter and ships to the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa and Europe. The company handles export documentation and shipping coordination, and its engineers travel to the customer site for installation and startup. Operator training, spare parts supply and technical support continue after commissioning.
