Materials and machinery

  • Print finishing: a business transfer

    Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) and Müller Martini have reached an agreement on the transfer of Heidelberg’s service business for saddle stitchers and perfect binders.
  • When offset is worthwhile

    PACKAGING Reduction of costs of print forms, flexibility in the processing of the substrates and a better environmental balance: the advantages of variable format web offset printing on Muller Martini’s VSOP printing presses.
  • Super flexo for packaging

    Double Italo-American open house at Uteco, which presents its Crystal New Series globally: a totally equipped flexo printing machine specifically designed for flexible packaging.
  • Industrial relauncing in Italy

    Nordmeccanica, a global leader in the construction of lamination and coating machinery, based in Piacenza, relaunches Galileo Vacuum Systems, specialized in the creation of vacuum installations for metalizing plastic films.
  • Patented edger for stretch film

    A new type of edging device intended for cast stretch film co-extrusion plants has been designed and built by the Engineering Division of Akro Flex Sas (Vermezzo, MI).
  • A masterbatch against counterfeiting

    Grafe Advanced Polymers GmbH (in Italy at Turate, CO) has developed a new additive that finds use in the protection against counterfeiting of fibres and yarns.
  • Easy removal

    La società francese Pro-Vs (Etoile sur Rhône) presenta Destick Etiquettes: una sostanza per la rimozione di etichette adesive e non, che si impiega con la massima semplicità in tre passaggi e non richiede raschiatura. Destick Etiquettes rispetta i requisiti di alimentarietà ed è completamente biodegradabile.

     
  • Special pigments for plastics

    Le materie plastiche colorate con pigmenti a effetto aprono nuovi mercati ai produttori di masterbatch e compounder.
  • For hot stamping (and much more)

    INVESTMENTS Flexibility and high quality products: these the trump cards of the Swiss converter Läser AG has consolidated its own position on the market and entered into hot stamping. Thanks to the latest Bobst technology.
  • SUPER-Tecnopolymer for super components

    Over these last years, the result of applied research in the automobile field and intensive laboratory work, new high resistance tecnopolymers have emerged, called “SUPER-Tecnopolymers”, used also to replace metal.
  • Longlife systems

    SERVICES Müller Martini powers up its MMServies program in support of technicians to extend the lifecycle of plants and systems, optimizing longterm operating costs and investments. Objective: guarantee the user greater performance and the advantages offered by the most recent technology without having to invest in new machines.
  • Beneficial radiation

    ELECTRON BEAM CURING Why and how to use electron beam curing for hardening surface coatings. Update at the RadTechEurope conference. David Helsby
  • News in corona treatment

    Ferrarini & Benelli, a leading designer and producer of corona treatment plants, presents at K 2013 with a positive trend of order collection in the last half year under its belt, launching various new products.
  • Technicians, representatives, explorers

    PGS-Pool Graphic Service makes its debut as a network of companies able to install, service and repair printing and converting machines. But also, and increasingly, to offer complete cutting edge systems for the converting industry, featuring the best brands.
  • An "atelier" for made-to-measure cylinders

    Established manufacturer of rollers for printing presses, extrusion, lamination, coating, winding, drying and much more, L’Artigiana Srl (San Giorgio su Legnano, MI) accelerates its custom and consulting design service, and the growing importance of competitive added value bears witness to this.
  • Zip: an automation patent

    Slider Pack Srl will be presenting, at K Düsseldorf, a new patented tool for the automatic insertion of the cursor on PE, PVC and PP zips in different sizes. The system, developed by the Milanese concern (headquartered in Cerchiate di Pero), handles plastic sliders of various kinds: SP, SPZ, SC, SF, SFC.
  • Longitudinal high speed slitter

    Daroitex Srl (Santorso VI) has developed the high speed HS-500 slitter for cutting multiple longitudinal nonwoven and spun-bond fabrics in at least 18 mm wide strips, with single or double rolling.

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