Web handling, cleaning and processing equipment is used to process continuous webs of textiles, paper, plastic films, metal sheet, or other materials. The primary goal of a web handling system is the transport of materials through machinery and production processes without defects or losses. Consequently, web handling, cleaning and processing equipment allows personnel to control the running of continuous strip materials (webs) in web handling systems that are used in the papermaking, plastics, and non-woven industries. As a product area, web handling, cleaning and processing equipment covers a wide array of applications, from unwinds, winders, coaters, laminators, embossers, dryers, drive and control systems, and roll handling equipment.

Textile machinery and paper making equipment are examples of web handling, cleaning and processing equipment. Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders run machines that make textile products from fibers. Examples of textile equipment for web handling include automatic winders, slitting machines, spoolers, material festooners, vertical blockers, tube formers, and rotary drum machines. In the paper industry, paper mill equipment is used for the production and converting process of paper, including paper rolls, slitters, rewinders, wrappers, and packers.

Web handling, cleaning and processing equipment includes sheet metal equipment that can destack, feed, convey, and wash sheet metal to any type of press. For example, a magnetic sheet stacker that uses permanent magnets can move sheet metal components from conveyors, punch presses, stamping, and blanking operators to any other production machinery. Sheet metal fabrication equipment is used to process metal in various thickness, such as for thin aluminum to heavy-duty steel brackets.

Web handling, cleaning and processing equipment for the plastics industry can be used for the pneumatic conveying of plastic resins, polymers, and other pellet or powdered products commonly found in the food processing, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. Plastic processing equipment is ranges from granulators, gravimetric and volumetric blenders, vacuum and pressure loaders, dryers, chillers, and recycling systems in the plastics processing industry.