Morcon Tissue Makes Strategic Investment in United Converting’s S-70 Industrial Winder
Morcon Tissue has invested in a new S-70 winder from the world-renowned manufacturer, United Converting. This state of the art piece of equipment will allow Morcon to better service its customers, introduce new products and significantly increase their capacity of wound products. Morcon and UC are very excited to build upon their strategic partnership that began in 2016.
Joe Raccuia, President and Owner of Morcon Tissue stated, “United Converting has truly earned our business the good old-fashioned way. Luca Catoni’s level of professionalism and follow through have been best-in-class. Their equipment has evolved dramatically under Giuseppe Lupi’s visionary leadership and we are blessed to have such a fantastic, innovative partner in UC.”
Increasing Towel & Tissue Production Capacity
Morcon’s VP of Sales Laura Morris is also excited to share the news with customers revealing that, “Our new S70 winder will add 1 million cases of new capacity to our towel and tissue offering. Our goal is to be the #1 converting company for the Away-From-Home tissue market, in the eyes of our customers. The new S-70 winder will help make our goal a reality.”
United Converting Sr President, Giuseppe Lupi, said, “We are delighted to support the growth of Morcon with the supply of our S-70 winder line. Under Joe Raccuia’s entrepreneurial leadership, Morcon has grown steadily and has been both a great customer and partner for several years.”
Luca Catoni, United Converting Sales Manager, added, “We feel extremely privileged to support Morcon’s highly qualified and enthusiastic team of professionals in the achievement of their goals. They are becoming a well-known force in the U.S tissue market. The high-tech design of the S-70 stop-start winder enables unsurpassed production output when paired with our T-35S high-density log saw.This delivery is a milestone for UC as it is our 15thwinder line in the U.S.”
Morcon Tissue is building a greenfield site in Tulsa, OK, which will house the new United Converting S-70 winder. This third site will be fully operational in Q1 of 2019.
About Morcon Tissue: Morcon is a leading converter of napkin, towel, tissue and specialty products for the Away-From-Home market with over 31 years of industry experience. With two converting facilities in NY and SC, and a third opening in OK in 2019, Morcon is now able to effectively service their customers on a national basis by offering the broadest portfolio of napkin, towel, tissue and dispensing systems.
About United Converting: United Converting (UC) was founded in Lucca, Italy, in 2004 to develop and manufacture high-quality equipment for the tissue converting industry.As a full-life-cycle tissue converting equipment supplier – from the design, development and delivery of new machinery, through to service, optimization and upgrades of existing lines, the company has successfully built and installed over 200 units Worldwide.UC has focused on Simplifying Tissue Converting TMsince its founding and has been committed to our customers’ success. To provide even better support UC recently added dedicated Service and Spare Parts locations in the U.S.
