Converting Services

At Mohawk, we offer complete finishing and custom converting services including exceptional turn-around time at our state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. With locations in Cohoes, NY, Waterford, NY and Ashtabula, OH, our world class specialty converting centers feature humidity and temperature controls, integrated process controls and an experienced staff of paper manufacturers.

Mohawk offers the ability to sheet both coated and uncoated products in a variety of text and cover weights and includes flexible labeling and lot traceability on all folio sheeters. We also offer in-line tabbing on skid pack lines, perfing services and  a variety of single, multi-tier and press-ready skid configurations. All products are subjected to a rigorous quality system before any material is shipped.

Two Lenox sheeters and three Bielomatik machines are dedicated to large volume carton and skid projects. The Pemco SHM and Maxson sheeters are customized for smaller, unique jobs.

Mohawk offers standard slitting and rewinding services including wide format rewinding. These services together with customized packaging solutions, flexible labeling and lot traceability allow Mohawk to create unique solutions to customers' increasingly complex roll converting and packaging needs.

The Jennerjahn winder supports the growing digital papers market and other special customer requirements. It is used for Xeikon rolls, wide format products, and a wide range of high-end inkjet, laser, plotter, photo papers and films. It offers automatic low tack/high tack core taping, automatic start and stop, low tack tail sealing, and automatic removal of finished product rolls. The Jagenberg and Webco winders are focused on standard rewinding and slitting projects.

Each winder has sophisticated tension control systems and can handle a wide variety of substrates including coated and uncoated papers in a range of text and cover weights.

The Bielomatik, Evtec, Lenox and Will sheeters allow for a broad range of standard and nonstandard digital cut size services. They offer the flexibility to fulfill both small and large volume projects and can handle diverse substrates, such as inkjet, laser, text and cover weight coated and uncoated grades ranging from 60 gsm up to 600 gsm. These sheeters offer fully-automated sheeting, ream wrapping, cartonizing and palletizing functionality. Extremely flexible labeling capabilities allow lot coding of your product for ease in traceability. Three-hole punch services on 8 ½ x 11 products are also offered.

Mohawk is able to emboss a range of textures for uncoated and coated papers. Our embossing service is designed to give our customers a fast and affordable way to create patterned paper.

Mohawk offers the ability to laminate two stocks together to form a double-thick cover or a duplex sheet. We are able to work with smooth and textured papers, from 60 text to 100 cover, delivering finished sheets for small or large volume projects. Our laminating services are guaranteed to provide the strength and dimensional stability required for today’s printing and finishing techniques. Product performance is ensured via rigorous quality testing of attributes such as curl, crack at fold, and bond strength.

Mohawk Specialty Converting Services is fully capable of meeting both FSC and SFI requirements for our customers. Mohawk’s environmental certification specialists will work with their customer counterparts to ensure documentation and material labeling requirements are fully satisfied.

Mohawk’s Specialty Converting Center provides full-service management of our customers’ packaging needs and will source, order and warehouse required materials for all converting projects including custom pallets, skids, boxes, cores and core plugs, slip sheets, tie sheets, stretch wrap, banding, etc.

We have relationships with all of the major ream wrap suppliers and have experience running a wide variety of substrates including paper, poly/paper laminates, heat sealed poly wrap and other specialty substrates. Registered ream-wrapping is also offered for high-stress retail applications. Mohawk’s pressure-sensitive label equipment has the capability of producing in-house generic printed labels or pre-printed multi-color labels as well as individual and customized labels for rolls.

Additionally, Mohawk’s lot traceability capabilities help customers trace their product through the converting process by tracking the origin and destination of all components, limiting exposure to quality issues and supporting their inventory control systems.

The Specialty Converting Center provides the following support to domestic and international customers: pool truck service, warehousing services, inventory reporting systems, combined shipments, competitive freight rates, and low drop-off fees.

Shipment Response Time

• Next Day - 90% of the U.S. Print Market
• 2nd Day - 95% of the U.S. Print Market
• 3rd Day - 100% of the U.S. Print Market

Distribution Centers

• Albany, NY
• Saybrook, OH
• Rancho Cucamunga, CA
• Portland, OR
• The Netherlands

All Products are put through a rigorous quality system before any material is shipped.

Base paper inspection

• Verify order number, grade, finish, basis weight, shade match
• Inspection for ridges, edge/truck damage, general roll quality

Cut-size and folio sheet inspection

• Light tables at each converting machine with low angle Landsco lighting, through lighting, and back light systems
• Sheets are inspected for surface and sheet defects such as wrinkles, marks, ridges, and welding
• Evaluation of cut quality, size, and squareness

Finished product inspection

• Finished product inspected for appearance, label placement, and overall package quality
• Wrapped product is opened to verify fiber tear at all glued or heated sealed seams
• inspect product for quality defects

Other services upon request

• Quality reports
• Certificates of Compliance (COC’s) and Certificates of Analysis (COA’s)
• Yield reports
• Special testing