From special construction to customer favourite

Exactly 25 years ago, we at IBD Wickeltechnik designed our first aluminium profile expansion shaft for 3“ cores as a special application for a customer in the packaging industry. With the profile shaft, we fulfilled the customer’s request for a much lighter expansion shaft that would help the machine operator when changing rolls frequently.

The flat tube system with continuous expansion ledges became a meaningful alternative to our strong central tube expansion shafts. The weight, the price and the sleeve-protecting characteristics made the aluminium profile expansion shaft so popular to our customers that we were able to extend our range by a 6″ profile.

Today, the flat tube expansion shaft PSW-F is one of our top-selling products and we offer it for six different core diameters. In addition to the classic design, the expansion shaft is also available as an ultra-lightweight design and with shell elements for coreless winding.