Impressive achievement reinforces the value of greater automation in packaging production. Accomplishing a packaging production world record at any time is a huge achievement. But doing it during a global pandemic with a whole range of safety measures in place? That’s extraordinary.

A team of apprentices have put the skills they have acquired into practice after successfully installing a new NOVACUT 106E die-cutter into the Competence Centre at Bobst UK & Ireland headquarters, Redditch.

Most of the newspaper printing plants currently tasked with safeguarding their production opt for a retrofit solution – in other words, a “freshening up” with the addition of new control components and a thorough overhaul of the mechanical wear parts. This was no different at Funke Media Group, where the mailroom technology at the plant in Hagen was given a comprehensive retrofit by Ferag.

Schäfer Print & Packaging aims to lead the market through a generational technology upgrade –comprised in the acquisition of two new VISIONCUT 106 LER flatbed die-cutters, combined with that of a VISIONFOIL 104 hot-foil stamping machine and an EXPERTFOLD 110 A2 folder-gluer, all from BOBST.

Based in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, Brett Martin is one of the world’s leading producers of plastic sheets, so when local company Denroy was looking for a high quality solution for face visor manufacturing, Brett Martin was the natural partner – its aPET sheet, known as Marpet-a FS, proving the ideal solution.

Thanks to the Tecnau solution, Edubook AG is moving to efficient on-demand book-of-one production
Established in 2004 as a digital-only print shop, Edubook AG of Merenschwand (Switzerland) has a long tradition of commitment to on-demand book production and is a staunch advocate of highly networked machinery and production processes. Edubook is a company of the Kalidos Education Group, Switzerland’s biggest group of private schools, which was acquired by the German Klett Group at the beginning of 2019.

Job processing up to 60% faster and two new registration methods
Scodix, the world’s leading provider of digital enhancement solutions for the graphic arts industry, has announced today the launch of a new productivity workflow package, Scodix Studio Station. Developed to boost press utilisation and production flexibility, Scodix’ new workflow solution can process jobs up to 60 percent faster for Ultra Digital Enhancement Press users.

As part of the new "Solo to System" campaign for further industrialization of print finishing, qualified customers will receive a POLAR stack lift free of charge.

ACTEGA Metal Print GmbH announced today that VollherbstDruck GmbH, one of the leading German label printers, will start up an EcoLeaf metallization unit with the help of A B Graphic International (ABG). Based on the company's previous experience in technology and market research, and its ability to offer the unique benefits of this technology to its customers first, the company expects the investment to pay for itself in just six months.

Encore Packaging Solutions is set to boost capacity at its Peterlee site with the addition of a new state-of the-art die-cutter from BOBST.

Having secured a number of new clients in the past year and seeing volumes from existing customers grow, the company has chosen to invest in NOVACUT 106 ER. The machine offers fully automated, inline blanking separation to streamline carton processing and remove the need to manually strip waste from die-cut work.

Extraordinary situations require extraordinary (sales) measures: Following a successful live video demonstration of a KM 610.A transmitted from the Rahden plant to New Taipei City, Taiwan, located some 9,000 kilometers away, Zhi Sheng Bookbinding decided to purchase the 8,000-cycle perfect binder from Muller Martini.

Aditya Flexipack based in India has purchased a VISION K5 1650mm which will be installed in their state of the art green field project focused on qualitative improvements & backward integration; the facility is spread across 19 acres and will be one of the largest converting facilities under one roof. The new metallizer is equipped with BOBST AluBond® for the production of high barrier and high adhesion CPP/BOPP films and BOBST Hawkeye pinhole detector.