From special construction to customer favourite

2023-10-10T08:43:51+02:00

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 [...]