Matbaa Teknik Dergisi Ağustos 2017 Sayısı

In 2017, it will be seventy-five years since BOBST
started designing and producing folder-gluer machines
for the packaging industry.
One of the very first such machines, a PCR382, was set up in 1942
at the Zeiler company near Bern, Switzerland. This same company,
which under its current name, Limmatdruck Zeiler, is now an extremely
successful part of one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of
folding boxes — the RLC Packaging Group — is, to this day, still a
BOBST client.
What began in 1942 is very much a success story. Thanks to their
reputation for consistently high box quality and outstanding performance,
BOBST folder-gluers have imposed themselves as the benchmark
for the folding carton and corrugated packaging industries.
And today’s client can purchase complete folding-gluing lines. They
combine highly configurable machines with top-of-the-range peripherals
to provide integrated and automated solutions for anything
the customer might need.
BOBST has consistently invested around 6% of its annual turnover
into research and development. This has allowed the company to
develop innovative new systems, equipment and processes — many
of which are still patented and unique to the sector. For all of those
75 years, BOBST folder-gluers have continually evolved through
the roll-out of ground-breaking new technologies such as, the blank
aligner, the crash-lock module, four-corner box folding systems, the
flipper-ejector, as well as GYROBOX for the production of complex
boxes in a single run, Braille embossing and zero-fault quality checks,
in-line and at full running speed.
Philippe Milliet, Head of Business Unit Sheet-fed, explains, “The success
of our folder-gluer equipment over the past seventy-five years
is the proof that passion and innovation are part of our DNA. Over the
years, customers have demanded equipment that runs faster and
faster, is more and more efficient, and can deliver boxes that meet
increasingly stringent quality requirements across a whole range of
packaging markets. We are continually developing the sophisticated
materials and technologies that allow us to deliver all this, while
maintaining the same reliability and longevity as those very first machines.”
It is this ability to respond to client needs through constant
innovation that has earned BOBST its dominant position in the folder-gluer
market, such as the sector of e-commerce.
Today, BOBST folder-gluers are sold worldwide, often locally produced
for different markets. BOBST understands, however, that technology
alone is never enough, so the company — now present in
fifty countries around the world — also invests generously in local
services.
Mouvent
Announces
Launch of
8-Color Digital
Textile Printer
Mouvent – a new company
founded by a joint venture between
BOBST and Radex focused
on digital print using
pioneering digital technology
– today announced the launch
of its first printer. The TX801 is
an 8-color digital textile printer
producing high print quality
on textiles with up to 2’000 DPI
optical resolution, and is associated
with unmatched printing
speed.
“This is a major step forward in textile
printing,” said Ghislain Segard, Marketing
& Sales Manager, Textile Machines at Mouvent.
“The TX801 enables crisp, colorful,
very high printing quality in a cost-effective
way for short to medium print runs on a
wide range of textile materials. Not only is
this machine a major advance on traditional
textile printing but also on existing digital
methods, with a noticeable leap forward
in quality, industrialization and reliability.”
The TX801 prints with up to 8 colors and,
even though it is a scanning type machine,
up to 50% of the print jobs are completed
in a single pass, boosting productivity up
to 200 m2/h or 120 m/h without compromising
on quality. In order to reach those
levels of productivity, the TX801 utilizes
an ingenious, very compact proprietary
print engine development, integrating Fuji’s
Samba print head technology. This is
associated with speed, precision and scalability,
deploying up to 16 g/m2 of ink in a
single pass. The engines are based on the
MouventTM Cluster, which results in high
optical resolution and a very high printing
quality. The machine can print onto knitted,
woven and non-woven textiles. The maximum
fabric width that can be processed is
1,800 mm with roll diameters of up to 400
mm.
“The TX801 is a very durable, compact and
accessible printer,” said Ghislain Segard.
“The high longevity and resistance of the
print heads is proven, guaranteeing an
exceptionally long service life of the MouventTM
Cluster. It is one of the smallest
digital printers in its category, helping to
boost productivity with a minimum footprint
for simple implementation, very ergonomic
utilization and extremely quick and
efficient job changeovers, making it highly
cost effective even on very short runs.”
“The TX801 also has a very competitive
price per square meter compared with basic
digital printers, but with unrivaled print
quality,” said Ghislain Segard. “We believe it
will change the face of digital textile printing.”
The TX801 is the first printer to be launched
by Mouvent, the digital printing competence
center of BOBST. The company has
a full product pipeline of digital printers
which will be unveiled in the months ahead.
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