David Trimble knew it was time to retire an old Challenge paper cutter, the one with all the miles on it after years of service. To find its replacement, he turned to the Internet and began researching the various options. That’s what led Alta Systems to invest in a 45-inch refurbished Polar cutter that Colter & Peterson had available and installed in mid-June.

Exhibiting under the theme “Wherever You Are, Go Further,” Heidelberg North America will showcase its scalable solutions for the commercial, packaging, and label markets in Booth 10143 at Printing United. Whether maximizing its customers’ efficiency or helping them grow, Heidelberg has solutions that can take printers further – regardless of the current size or primary market segment of a business. Aimed at empowering current commercial and folding carton customers to expand into new areas of business, Heidelberg will premiere its new Digimatrix 60 FC die cutter and hot-foiler as well as the Diana Go 85 folder gluer – both machines aimed at short run and digital packaging solutions – at the first Printing United Expo in Dallas, TX, October 23-25, 2019.

The British printing plant Clays is adding an Alegro perfect binder and a Kolbus BF 530 bookline to its machine line-up, which already features 13 machines from Muller Martini.

Ferag has successfully won over another Indian customer for its mailroom technology: Bartaman Pvt. Ltd. based in the metropolis of Kolkata. This newspaper publisher’s newly built and fully re-equipped printing plant is now operating with the HPC High Performance Conveyor, HPS High Performance Stacker and JobStrap modules.

Congraf, a company dedicated to industrial packaging printing, located in Sao Paolo in Brazil, purchased a POLAR die-cutting system DC-11 to increase productivity in the paper label section. This new POLAR system consists of a loading table, an AC 25 stack cutter, a die punching unit DC and a single-headed banding unit BD. The system works in connection with a POLAR 137 to pre-cut the strips of labels.

The tried and tested SACMI preform manufacturing platform with injection technology can make 100% rPET preforms and use recycled PET flakes in quantities of up to 50% using standard machines and hot runners

E-commerce is booming and, so too, is the courier, express delivery and parcel industry. Current growth forecasts for Germany predict volumes to reach 4.4 billion items by 2023. Handling this rising volume of post and parcels economically, requires automated logistics solutions, intelligent workflows and reliable systems. At this year’s Parcel+Post Expo in Amsterdam, BÖWE SYSTEC, the global technology provider, is showing its answers to these requirements.

The new Zünd Press Cutting Tool – PCT, designed for processing corrugated cardboard, is taking cut quality and throughput to the next level.

The enhanced facility is an important step in boosting awareness of what’s possible with stronger collaboration between designers, printers and finishers

C&T Channel Matrix (C&T), one of the world’s leading manufacturers of creasing matrix, will be selling the PlayMatrix 4.0, an automatic creasing matrix cutting system, across the UK with immediate effect.

Standard Finishing Systems will again present a diverse lineup of feeding and finishing solutions at PRINT 19, one of the largest events catering to the printing industry in North America. Each year, PRINT offers those in the industry the occasion to see the latest breakthrough innovations and to learn from manufacturers and other industry leaders about new trends and business opportunities.

Ferag technology first arrived at the Mannheimer Morgen Großdruckerei und Verlag GmbH mailroom in 2018. The fact that Ferag prevailed against its competitors in the selection procedure mainly comes down to innovative concepts such as the FlyStream collating system. And to performance: the printing company can now handle the same number of products with two mailroom lines as it did before using three.