ASHE Converting Equipment

ASHE Converting Equipment is a family owned company, established in 1976.  The company is now a global manufacturer and supplier of specialist state of the art slitting and rewinding machinery for the film, paper and allied web industries.

The business was started with 3 people originally manufacturing Drive Control Systems. Of being one of the first companies to develop a fully reversible rewinding machine.  It was a natural progression for ASHE to extend the range into slitting and rewinding machinery.

Ashe now manufactures a complete range of slitting and rewinding machinery from widths of 300mm up to a maximum of 8.7m.

With manufacturing base continues to be in Ipswich, United Kingdom and subsidiaries in the USA and China.  We have a workforce totaling approximately 75 personnel. We have a strong team of mechanical engineers who all work on a modern 3D Cad system, and work alongside a team of software / electrical engineers, who are dedicated to writing all software for our machines only.

The plant located in Ipswich is equipped with an array of machine tools, where up to 80% of machine parts are manufactured in house. This gives us huge flexibility in the range that we are able to build, and also being able to engineer a machine, to suit what the customer wants. It also enables us to guarantee precision of parts that are going onto the machine.