The invention relates to a method and an unwinding section for unwinding a fiber web from a parent roll, which unwinding section comprises at least one unwinder for unwinding a fiber web from a parent roll and a joining device configured to join a trailing end of a running-out parent roll to a beginning end of a next, new parent roll to be unwound in a parent roll change. The unwinding section comprises a broke handling device configured to handle broke. The unwinding section comprises a tensioning device located between the joining and the broke handling, and the tensioning device is configured to tension and straighten the fiber web to be joined between the tensioning device and the joining device before joining of the end of the fiber web from the running-out parent roll and the end of the fiber web from the next parent roll to be unwound.

A slitter-winder for fiber webs has an unwinding section (10), a slitting section (20) and a winding section (30) and is configured to unwind, slit and wind a thick fiber web having a basic weight of at least 200 g/m.sup.2 to customer rolls (33). The unwinding section (10) has a first unwinder (11) and a second unwinder (12) for unwinding the thick fiber web from a parent roll of full-width thick fiber web (W11, W12), and a joining device (16, 17) for joining a beginning end of a thick fiber web (W11) coming from a parent roll in the first unwinder to an end of a thick fiber web (W12) coming from a parent roll in the second unwinder by forming a joint (J). The winding section (30) has a cutting device (35) for cutting and removing joint part(s) of the thick fiber web from the winding section (30).