KOENIG & BAUER PER IL CARTONE ONDULATO
fornisce alte performance di postprinting su cartone
Emanuele Pogliani, Sales Manager di Koenig&Bauer IT Srl
ondulato nella migliore qualità flexo. Rappresenta la soluzione unica che combina le più recenti tecnologie e funzionalità con operatività semplice e intuitiva. La CorruFLEX raggruppa una serie di caratteristiche uniche, per esempio un mettifoglio a nastro aspirante che opera senza rotelle, e un sistema di cambio del rullo anilox innovativo. Il caricatore aspirante è di nuova progettazione e garantisce la massima produttività senza interruzioni per l’alimentazione e senza danni al cartone. “Con l’installazione di questa macchina per la stampa
Il trasporto dei fogli grazie al sistema pneumatico con-
flessografica, rispondiamo alla richiesta del mercato
tinuo a rulli garantisce un trasferimento dei fogli stabile
dell’est europeo di packaging con stampa di valore e
attraverso l’impianto e una perfetta stabilità di registro
costruiamo il nostro portfolio di soluzioni orientate alle
durante tutto il processo di stampa. Rulli di trasporto
esigenze del cliente. Siamo molto soddisfatti dei primi
non usurabili garantiscono un funzionamento senza fer-
test effettuati e la macchina sarà impegnata prevalente-
mo macchina dovuto alla necessità di sostituire le cin-
mente per lavori in quadricromia su carta patinata”, rac-
ghie. L’azionamento diretto servoassistito dei motori si
conta Michael Weber, responsabile Corporate Strategie
traduce nella garanzia di registro perfetto dei vari colori
e Marketing del Gruppo Thimm.
di stampa, con gruppi flessografici di ultimissima gene-
CORRUFLEX – CORRUCUT: DALLA STAMPA ALLA FUSTELLATURA CON L’OBIETTIVO DELL’ALTA QUALITÀ
razione per l’alta qualità. La CorruFLEX stampa dal basso formati da 600-2100 mm di larghezza massima con 600-1250 mm di lunghezza massima, ed è in grado di raggiungere fino a 14mila fogli l’ora. Può essere impiegata sia come solu-
La CorruFLEX è stata progettata e sviluppata insieme
zione stand alone che integrata in una linea di produzio-
alla fustellatrice rotativa high board line CorruCUT, e
ne con fustelle piane convenzionali.
ENGLISH Version
Koenig & Bauer: high-level technologies for high-quality corrugated cardboard market THE FIRST CORRUFLEX WAS INSTALLED AND PUT INTO PRODUCTION IN 2020 AT GERMAN MULTINATIONAL GROUP THIMM, PRECISELY IN SIBIU PLANT IN ROMANIA, KOENIG & BAUER NOW AIMS TO EXPAND SALES AND INSTALLATIONS TO HIGH-END CUSTOMERS. WE TALK ABOUT IT WITH EMANUELE POGLIANI, SALES MANAGER OF ITALIAN BRANCH OF KOENIG & BAUER
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020, especially with the participation in Drupa, which was later skipped due to Covid-19, would have been the year of the launch of new technologies by Koenig & Bauer for corrugated cardboard market. Present with high-end solutions for offset printing, both commercial and paper converting, and in the world of flexible packaging, with the introduction on the market of three machines for the printing and converting of corrugated cardboard, Koenig & Bauer aims strongly to conquer market shares in the
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world of high quality corrugated cardboard. If on the one hand the pandemic has slowed down marketing actions and the presentations of these new technologies to possible interested customers, on the other hand this last year, with the explosion of e-commerce, a market that was already growing and which now has been growing at a dizzying pace for over a year, has probably laid the foundations for the future success of these new production lines. “The installation at Thimm Group represents for us the starting point to demonstrate the
potential of this technology and the quality that can be reached with our machines”, tells us Emanuele Pogliani, sales manager of Koenig & Bauer IT and a figure of great importance for the German company in our country, with a background in the world of offset printing and now engaged in this new and exciting challenge in the corrugated cardboard sector. Koenig & Bauer already in the 2000s and only for the American market, had developed technologies for flexo printing of corrugated cardboard but then the project was subsequently abandoned. Perhaps the times were not ripe, we were at the beginning of internet era, in those years we began to consider the word quality coupled with corrugated cardboard. Today times have definitely changed, and the need of brand-owners, retailers and above all consumer expectations have grown and with e-commerce, the supply chain has been extremely reduced and corrugated cardboard packaging is the business card for companies that use it. “The growing demand for high quality in this
market meant that the time was ripe for our entry into this extremely interesting sector”, says Pogliani - “and as for all the other sectors in which we are leaders, also for printing and converting of corrugated cardboard we offer highly technological and performing products for a high quality market. The range of Koenig & Bauer solutions for cardboard includes 3 machines: CorruFLEX, CorruCUT and CorruJET that exploit a common technological platform with the possibility of acquiring them as standalone or inline solutions, according to customer needs”, adds Pogliani. CorruFLEX installed in Romania at Thimm Group plant, completed with minimal delays due to Covid, has already produced tests relating to quality and registration accuracy carried out by an external operator with customer satisfaction. “With the installation of this flexo printing machine, we respond to the Eastern European market demand for value printing packaging and build our portfolio of customer-oriented solutions. We are very satisfied with the first tests carried out and
