Using a Translated Slitting Quotation Safely: What You Can and Cannot Publish

1. Definition

A translated slitting quotation is a partial-evidence document: useful for inquiry comparison, but not automatically safe as a public specification sheet. Some translated sources document thickness about 0.5–3.0 mm, coil width about 900–1500 mm, minimum slit width about 25 mm, and knife arbor about φ150 mm — while line speed and maximum strip count are unreliable, unit-suspicious, or blank.

Buyer RFQ practice in the coil industry emphasizes freezing thickness, strip program, and arbor/tooling assumptions before comparing lines. The same discipline applies here: publish only what the source clearly supports; send speed and strip count to engineering confirmation or prefer a complete-evidence configuration.

2. When this caution applies

• Internal comparison of an incomplete translated quote against a complete ZJX / hydraulic slitter proposal
• Public FAQ or CMS copy that must avoid inventing a single line-speed number
• Sales handoffs where a customer asks “how many strips” and the translated source left the field empty
• Any rewrite that might convert a suspicious unit (for example mm/min instead of m/min) into a firm rating

3. Supported vs blocked parameters

Safer alternative for customer-facing speed/strip answers: reference slitter configurations with complete quotation evidence (for example ZJX medium or high-speed bands) and note that the translated document requires technical review.

4. Boundaries

• Do not rewrite a suspicious “mm/min” figure into “m/min” without engineering sign-off.
• Do not borrow strip count or speed from a neighboring ZJX document and present it as this quote’s own rating.
• Do not treat the translated document as the only public truth for the whole slitter family.
• Do not mix CTL transverse-cut ratings into a translated slitter answer.

5. Buyer FAQ

Can we publish thickness and width from a translated quote?

Yes, when those values are clearly present — about 0.5–3.0 mm and about 900–1500 mm in the reference source type. Still confirm on the technical proposal for the order.

Why is speed blocked?

Because the source unit can be wrong or inconsistent with industrial slitting practice. Publishing a wrong order-of-magnitude speed creates false buyer expectations.

What if the customer insists on strip count?

State that maximum strip count is not evidenced on that document. Offer a complete-evidence configuration or ask engineering to size knives/arbor for the buyer’s strip program.

Is a translated quote useless?

No — it is useful for partial comparison (thickness, width, min strip, arbor). It is unsafe as a standalone public rating sheet for speed and strip count.