Gimax REV respooling line - top flexibility and line speed

Gimax Srl launched the company's revolutionary fully automated REV respooler several years ago and since then it has undergone several updates that saw it increase the level of flexibility and line speed.
The concept, totally different to the traditional respooling machine, was designed to reduce downtime to a minimum between one spool and the next. The REV can handle 100 mm and/or 200 mm plastic spools of various widths, and in the past few years has been used to respool solid welding wire (steel and aluminum) as well as tubular wire (flux cored wire), both random and precision layer wound. The overall line speed has been increased at high speed, producing on average about two small 100 mm spools per min, or one 200 mm spool.
The REV line uses a standard Gimax driven payoff for reels and incorporates a dancer as well as automatic feeding of the spools onto the machine.
The design also reduces floor space to a minimum to avoid having to stretch out the line, as often happens with other respooling systems. The "tie-off" of the wire to the spool can be one of several different systems, depending on the characteristics of the wire as well as the more traditional "bending and hooking" of the wire to a hole in the spool.
There are more delicate systems that are appropriate for either high-tensile strenght wires or very delicate wires.
Being fully automated, the line does not require an operator, and one person can generally supervise up to five machines.