Industrial Printing

Printing and Paper Technology
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Industrial Printing
Printing and Paper Technology
Showcase
Industrial Printing
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Company exhibits
• Felix Böttcher GmbH & Co. KG
• BST eltromat International GmbH
• Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
• IST METZ GmbH
• KBA-Digital & Web Solutions
AG & Co. KG
• KBA-KAMMANN GmbH
• KHS GmbH / NMP Systems GmbH
• KOLBUS GmbH & Co. KG
• Krones AG
• LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. KG
• Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V.
• TECHNIGRAF GmbH
• Till GmbH
• TKM Group
Industrial Printing is on the Rise
Printing methods are increasingly
used for more and more applications.
Printing systems structure and finish
surfaces as well as creating very fine
functional layers with high precision,
produce touch displays and diabetes
test strips, decorate every imaginable
type of product. In the ceramic, furniture and textile industry, printing
processes are substituting conventional methods of decoration. Today
there are more than 5,000 tile printing
facilities worldwide and more than
170 gravure printing presses printing
laminate floors, first industrial inkjet
printers are in operation. For the
world’s largest textile user IKEA,
printing is the method of choice for
decorating fabrics, shower curtains,
bedspreads and upholstered furniture. Nowadays, motorcycle helmets,
skis, snowboards, car dashboards and
keypads on electrical appliances are
decorated by a variety of printing
methods.
According to forecasts from market
researchers at Smithers Pira, by 2020
the sales volume of industrial printing
will double to more than US $ 100
billion. In this market, printing press
manufacturers often supply modules
including appropriate interfaces for
easy integration in other suppliers’
systems or customer processes for
additional features.
Printing is also exploring new dimensions. For example, direct printing
on three-dimensional objects is
increasingly replacing the use of
labels. Systems for personalised
printing on plastic objects are
appearing on the market and will
be on show at drupa as well.
The growing number of specialised
applications is due to a key industry
trend: Print 4.0. In the highly developed, diverse production environment in the printing industry
‚off-the-shelf’ solutions can no
longer cope with requirements.
Printers need solutions optimized
to their individual needs. These
solutions must be fully integrated
with other machines and systems,
digital interfaces have to ensure
monitoring process quality and
performance.
Where to find us
1.
722
Hall 1
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen
Hall 10
D41
Hall 2
B10
BST eltromat International
Hall 12
IST METZ
C51/B53 LEONHARD KURZ
Hall 16
Hall 3
D60/E74 LEONHARD KURZ
D05
D70-3
TECHNIGRAF GmbH
C47,1/C47,2 KBA-Digital & Web Solutions
E70
TKM Group
C22
Hall 7
B22BST eltromat International
E10
LEONHARD KURZ
Felix Böttcher
KOLBUS
Felix Böttcher GmbH & Co. KG
our own laboratories. One of the
latest developments is thin functional coatings which are used in
digital printing applications, but also
improve the transfer characteristics
of both inking and dampening rollers
in offset printing. The easy-to-clean
properties of products such as
ProAqualis, ProColora and Golden
Pearl also help reduce make-ready
time and increase productivity.
The parts shown are examples of
different coating materials for rollers
for industrial printing.
Böttcher rollers, sleeves, blankets and
printing chemicals are used in industrial printing applications such as
packaging production ranging from
folding cartons to film/foil, labels
and beverage cans. Böttcher offers
highly specialised roller coverings
in a wide range of rubber types and
in polyurethane, all developed in
Dr. Stefan Breidenbach
A global player with 21 production
sites and more than 1,950 staff in
39 countries, Böttcher is the main
supplier of both machine manufacturers and the end user market in all
sectors of industry: printing, paper,
metal, wood, plastic, glass, textile
and office communication.
Hall 16
Booth D05
BST eltromat International GmbH
Reliable Web Guiding
The image shows a modular guiding
device, which is adaptable to various
processes. Main features are:
• easy “plug ‘n’ play” installation
• multiple sensors for any type of
material
• available in different sizes,
the system fits diverse
machines with minimal effort
Assuring quality for
Functional Printing
BST eltromat, the leading full-service
provider for quality assurance and
production optimization, is supplier
for the web processing industry. The
solutions are used in the printing,
packaging, coating, converting, foil,
rubber and tire production as well as
in functional printing applications
like solar cell, electrical circuit and
battery manufacturing. With a global
sales, production and service network,
BST eltromat is always available to
customers.
Additional solutions for a smooth
production
• Register Control
• Print and Surface Inspection
• Color Measurement and
Management
• Layer Thickness and Basis Weight
Measurement
Hall 7, Booth B22
dip! Innovation Park
Hall 10, D41
Anne-Laureen Lauven
[email protected]
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
The modular concept of the Omnifire
machine series ensures maximum
flexibility for a wide variety of
different objects, surfaces and applications, tailored to the needs and
requirements of different industrial
sectors that wish to use 4D printing to
expand their business models and
open up new market segments.
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4D printing from Heidelberg
The new dimension in printing
The new Omnifire machine series
allows direct and digital printing on
objects. Personalization concepts can
thus be implemented straightforward
and with ease, industrial production
becomes leaner and more flexible.
The basis of 4D printing is the combination of state-of-the-art inkjet technology and high-precision robotics.
Object sizes from 10 mm to more
than 1000 mm
four colors – opaque white and
protective coating as an option
movement of the object through
robotics with up to 6 highprecision axes
Excellent support with the Heidelberg
Service Contract 4D: We have flexible
offers for flexible business models.
Hall 1
Ivar Emde
Annette Gansert
IST METZ GmbH
The challenges were:
•
Uniformity of the pattern taking
into consideration the complex
surface geometry
•
Fulfilment of the requirements as
to chemical and physical demands
•
Productivity with small batches
•
Monochrome and polychrome
printing is possible
Hall 2
Booth B10
The part shown demonstrates DOD
(drop-on-demand) direct printing in
an UV inkjet process with a resolution
of 360 dpi. Two coating layers were
applied onto a panel of a center
console of a car in order to produce a
special surface pattern.
Stefan Feil / [email protected]
KBA-Digital & Web Solutions AG & Co. KG
of the wood products industry to pro­­
duce furniture, kitchen worktops –
or, as shown here, laminate floorings.
The advantages of the digital printing
process can especially be used in many
fields of the wood products industry.
The reduction of make-ready times,
faster availability of small quantities
and the possibility to achieve a subs­
tantially shorter time-to-market time
for new decors are very important
At the beginning of 2015, KBA officially drivers here. Apart from that, digital
printing also offers new chances for
presented the RotaJET systems of the
additional business fields, like personL series and VL series to the market.
alized or versioned decorative products
Particularly with the VL series in the
– as, for example, the KBA / Interprint
form of the RotaJET 168 and RotaJET
decor exhibited here. Furthermore,
225, KBA took a bold – but successful
digital decorative print­ing offers the
route. The first system of the KBA
possibility to produce decors that are
RotaJET VL series is in operation at
Interprint – one of the leading decora- impossible to produce with conventional printing technology.
tive printing companies worldwide.
There, the RotaJET 168 furnishes proof
Therefore, this application combines
that maximum quality requirements
optimal conditions for decorative
and high-speed single-pass inkjet
printing – starting from process optitechnology can profitably be implemization – right up to the generation
mented and applied in a production
of new business areas.
environment.
At Interprint, the KBA RotaJET 168
prints on standard decorative paper –
which is then used by many customers
Hall 16
Booth C47-1, C47-2
Hr. Bernd Hillebrand / [email protected] / +49 171 9769897
Hr. Oliver Baar / [email protected] / +49 173 8780554
KBA-KAMMANN GmbH
Primarily, the substrates are finished
using screen and digital printing, with
speeds of up to 250 items per minute.
In addition, pad printing and hot-foil
transfer technology are used.
The established fields of application
of direct decorative printing are
sophisticated packages for the
beverage industry (spirits) as well as
the cosmetics and perfume industry.
Other substrates besides glass are all
commonly used plastic materials as
well as metal.
KBA-KAMMANN GmbH is a leading
manufacturer of machines for direct
decorative printing on three-dimensional objects like, e.g., beverage
bottles, glasses, perfume flacons and
plastic packaging.
[email protected]
As far as technology is concerned,
KBA-KAMMANN GmbH focuses on
highly flexible machines that also
enable to produce decoration on fancy
geometries with, e.g., elliptical or
freely shaped cross sections. Precise
machine manufacturing, the latest
drive and control systems as well as
high software competence are the
strengths of this “hidden champion”
based in the German region of East
Westphalia-Lippe and part of the
Koenig & Bauer AG group of companies since 2013.
KHS GmbH / NMP Systems GmbH
Direct Print Powered by KHS™ is a
disruptive innovation which enables
brand owners to individually decorate
empty PET bottles at industrial speeds
with high resolution, digital inkjet
360° graphics, creating new possibilities for consumer engagement:
up-to-the-minute events, sponsorships, promotions, collector’s series.
Specially co-developed low-migration
UV-LED cure inks provide food safety
due to non-migration through the PET
wall, and are approved for bottle-tobottle recycling. With the cloud-based
proprietary Direct Print artworks
management platform, brand
managers can upload and color
manage new decorations quickly,
producing digital-to-bottle printing
proofs on their Direct Print sample
printer within seconds, before
uploading new images into the workflow of the industrial Direct Print
technology installed in their filling
and packaging line.
Direct Print Powered by KHS™ eliminates the need for labels, while it
provides for late customization and
infinite image variability on PET
bottles for an unprecedented level of
brand engagement.
Phil Johnson / Managing Director
[email protected]
KOLBUS GmbH & Co. KG
At drupa 2016, KOLBUS shows how
rigid cardboard boxes with lids and
metal fasteners are produced on a
fully automatic continuous flow line.
Taking a case-maker as a basis, a
modular production line was developed for the processing of paper,
carton, cardboard and magnets with
high-quality substrates and printed
cover materials including finishing
processes with embossing, relief and
micro hot-foil embossing. Due to a
production speed of more than 2000
boxes per hour, a format change-over
Leonid Ugorets, [email protected]
Karen Rauter, [email protected]
can be carried out as fast and toolless
as on the KOLBUS case-makers.
The KOLBUS system enables industrial
packaging production to be: fast,
flexible and perfect.
Hall 16
Booth C22
Krones AG
Material savings
• Precise production quantities are
possible, no waste of labels
• Reduced logistics, no storing
of labels
• No use of adhesives
Marketing advantages
• Printing on areas where no labels
can be fixed as well as structure
printing (optics and haptics)
• Easy integration of variable data
like barcodes, QR codes, raffle codes
• Personalization of products
DecoType
The new type of container decoration – fully automated digital direct
print on containers in an industrial
environment
Fast and flexible container
decoration
• Fast print production of up-to-date
decors as well as location-specific
product versions all the way
through to single product tracking
• High system availability due to
short change-over times
• Time to market: Fast response to
changes in the market and new
trends
• Independency from label suppliers
Josef Mayer
Advantages in production
• Efficient production of small
batch sizes
• Printing on cylindrical bottles and
specially-shaped containers on one
machine
• Printing on different container
materials
[email protected]
Stefan Richter [email protected]
LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. KG
MORE THAN JUST
PACKAGING:
ADDED VALUE FOR
YOUR BRAND.
The glamorous play of light: elegant,
metallic-decorated packaging draws
the eye as if by magic. Awakens
desires. But how can your brand stand
out in a luxurious world full of glitz
and glamour? The key to more brand
appeal lies in the combination of
attraction and function – starting
with the packaging. Attractive means
something that surprises and offers
added value – beyond visual stimulation too.
As a specialist for decorative and functional coatings, KURZ offers you
finishing solutions for brilliant packaging and varied brand worlds. Solutions that have the same effect on
paper and cardboard as they do on
plastic, glass and textiles. Discover the
new world of bright ideas for your
packaging – irrespective of material.
Let yourself be inspired by unique
examples. Surprise your target groups
with visual effects that put the viewer
under a spell. Count on more brand
security. And benefit from a wide range
of communicative functions behind
brand logos, signets and barcodes
based on custom-made smartphone
apps. Everything from a single source.
Everything for your success.
Brand added value, made by KURZ.
Hall 3, D60 & E74
Hall 7.0, E10 Innovation Park
Hall 12, C51 PrintCity
& B53 Touchpoint Packaging
Ursula Mezler, [email protected]
Elke Andersch, [email protected]
Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V.
applications such as digital and
conventional print inspection,
anti-counterfeit or any other kind
of surface inspection application.
For more information, just contact
us or visit our website.
http://eu3a.mitsubishielectric.com
Experience sharpest
and best colour image
acquisition
Line Scan Bar-CIS technology by
Mitsubishi Electric is offering for the
machine vision market:
• top performance for applications
up to 600 dpi resolution
• compact size for easy system
integration
• distortion free scanning
About Mitsubishi Electric
With over 90 years of experience in
providing reliable, high-quality products to both corporate clients and
general consumers all over the world,
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation is a
recognized world leader of electrical
and electronic equipment used in
information processing and communications, space development and
satellite communications, consumer
electronics, industrial technology,
as well as in products for the energy
sector, water and waste water, transportation and building equipment.
Our sales offices, research & development centres and manufacturing
plants are located in over 30 countries.
Our one-to-one scale technology and
high speed sensors are approved for
bank note inspection and document
processing for over 3 decades already.
We deliver perfect results for various
Herr Markus Köhler, +49 174-185 72 06, [email protected]
Herr Martin Messy, +49 173-244 04 09, [email protected]
TECHNIGRAF GmbH
For the wide range of applications in
industrial printing the TECHNIGRAF
GmbH offers special solutions around
the UV curing process.
For more than 50 years the brand
TECHNIGRAF stands for quality,
reliability and customized solutions
in UV light.
The UV curing process is our core
competence. The standard product
range includes UV dryers from 6 cm
up to 2 m as well as UV measuring
equipments.
Karlheinz Mohn
[email protected]
We are the partner for UV curing solutions for special industrial printing
and coating application. Isabellenhütte Heusler in Dillenburg is one
of the world’s leading producers of
low-ohmic precision and power resistors. The UV coating on the resistors
is curing with a customized dryer
AKTIPRINT G from TECHNIGRAF with
an integrated UV process control system.
Hall 3
Booth D70-3
Till GmbH
Till printing machines can print
photorealistic images with 360 dpi
(720 dpi available upon request) using
up to eight colors (CMYK and white
plus three additional spot colors or
varnish). Till uses UV curing inks
that are optimized for printing on
3D containers. All inks are tested
for adhesion and scratch resistance.
Printing materials currently available
include glass and PET (additional
materials upon request).
Digital printing offers innovative
marketing opportunities, highest
quality standards, cost efficiency and
sustainability. Digital printing will
revolutionize the packaging industry.
Till GmbH is a member of the KRONES
Group and offers printing systems to
lead digital printing from niche to
mass markets. Till offers printing
systems to lead digital printing from
niche to mass markets. Till machines
enable bottling or decorating companies to directly print on any containers
at industrial speed up to 36,000
containers per hour depending on
bottle size, material, artwork and
resolution.
Achim Schlicher
+49 (0) 6195-6 76 77-17 / [email protected]
TKM Group
TKM CeraPrint
TKM ScreenPrint
CeraPrint is the new ceramic-coated
doctor blade from TKM. It stands out
due a unique distribution of hardened
particles and prevents hazing and
drag out. CeraPrint is suitable for long
print runs and features a long service
life, is suitable as a problem solver
for all inking systems in gravure and
flexographic printing.
ScreenPrint is a new development
for rotary screen printing in the
decorative, textile, wallpaper, security
printing sectors as well as the label
industry. It is available in different
versions and can be adjusted to
the customer`s field of application
individually.
Hall 3
Booth E 70
Herr Michael Kammler
+49 (0) 173-181 60 44 / [email protected]
TKM Group
S3 cutting knives
Maximum service life can be ensured
with our newly developed highquality S3 cutting knife in combination with the suitable cutting stick
and the correct knife setting.
The outstanding quality of this knife
and the extremely high wear resistance are further indicators of a long
service life.
The S3 cutting knife is available for all
commonly used folding machines.
Hall 3
Booth E 70
Herr Franz Xaver Schauer
+49 (0) 171-75 30 682 / [email protected]
TKM Group
Shredder head
Another drupa highlight presented
by the TKM Group is the improved
shredder head. The mechanical
fixed tungsten carbide (TC) inserts
can be used as both re-grindable
or disposable TC segments.
The TKM shredder head is the only
milling head in the market that can
alternatively be equipped with both
insert types. Therefore, the user is
offered full flexibility and can select
the type of tungsten carbide insert
that fits best for his spine preparation.
The wear is limited to the tungsten
carbide inserts only, the milling head
can be used without limit and is fully
re-usable. A cost intensive replacement of the milling head is no longer
necessary.
Hall 3
Booth E 70
Herr Udo Middendorf
+49 (0) 2191-96 93 27 / [email protected]
Imprint
Exhibits made available by members of the
working group “Industrial Printing” within
VDMA.
Pictures by
Felix Böttcher GmbH & Co. KG
BST eltromat International GmbH
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
IST METZ GmbH
KBA-Digital & Web Solutions AG & Co. KG
KBA-KAMMANN GmbH
KHS GmbH / NMP Systems GmbH
KOLBUS GmbH & Co. KG
Krones AG
LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. KG
Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V.
TECHNIGRAF GmbH
Till GmbH
TKM Group
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