Materials and machinery

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.

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.

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.

Digital plates with textured surface for maximum print quality at high speeds

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.

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Four lines of hi-tech, food contact barrier-varnishes by Sun Chemical.

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).

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.

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.

 

Le materie plastiche colorate con pigmenti a effetto aprono nuovi mercati ai produttori di masterbatch e compounder.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Euromac, one of the leading producers of high-end slitter rewinders, this year celebrate their 45th anniversary with record breaking machine production results.

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.