Hardcover Production
The Acoro A7 Can Now Focus on its Core Task like his brother Nikola has followed in his father’s footsteps). Thanks to its increasing customer base across the European Union and in the neighboring countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Grafotisak, which has had its own stand at the book fair in Frankfurt for years and was also present for the first time this year at the book fair in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, is continually increasing its production volume. Long-Standing Partnerships That has also had an impact on the company’s investment volume. In order to increase its capacity accordingly, Grafotisak, which is also the largest trader of graphic arts materials in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has invested some EUR 7 million in new production systems this year alone, namely a state-of-the-art eight-color XL printing press, which means that 36 presses are now in operation in Grude, 24 of them in the B1/XL format, and new print finishing systems. “Just as we have long-standing
The second showpiece in Grafotisak’s print finishing hall, besides the Diamant line, is the Acoro A7 perfect binder featuring a 24-station gathering machine, crisscross delivery, a book block feeder, a PUR nozzle, a mull feeder, a Merit S three-knife trimmer, a cooling section and a CB 16 book stacker. “It continues to deliver high quality even in its fifth year of operation,” says Managing Director Stipan Vranješ. Until the purchase of the new Diamant MC 60, book blocks for the Diamant were also produced using the Acoro line. However, in 2010 Grafotisak invested in an additional 24-station gathering machine with a Universo stacker delivery from Muller Martini. That left the Acoro free to process the significantly increased number of perfect binding jobs.
partnerships with our customers, we’re also loyal to our system suppliers,” says Stipan Vranješ when asked why the company again opted for Muller Martini. Diamant 30 Makes Way for Diamant MC 60 In April Grafotisak replaced its Diamant 30, which was installed in 2007, with a new Diamant MC 60 bookline. The complete production line consists of: a Solema book block feeder and hand feeder, a RPM/GPM roller pressing/full-surface pressing machine, an endsheet feeder, a Collibri backgluing machine, a cooling section, a second RPM roller pressing machine, two cooling towers, a Merit S three-knife trimmer, an EP joint forming and pressing machine, a BLSD 650 book stacker and a Ribbon inserting machine. “Capacity, speed and quality” are the words that Marko Vranješ uses to express his enthusiasm for the Diamant MC 60. He has nothing but praise for the machine’s
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1 From right: Marko Vranješ (Deputy Managing Director Grafotisak), Stipan Vranješ (Founder and Managing Director Grafotisak) and Željko Pokupec (Managing Director Muller Martini Zagreb) in front of the new Diamant MC 60 bookline from Muller Martini. 2 By adding a new production hall to its facility, Grafotisak has increased its production floor space by an additional 7000 m2.
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performance in the first few months of operation: “Our new line runs with absolute reliability, the quality of the books is excellent and the changeover from the old to the new model was extremely smooth thanks to on-site training of our machine operators. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would award the Diamant a 10.” As with the Diamant MC 60, Marko Vranješ is especially delighted with the motion control technology and servo motors of the Ventura MC book sewing machine, which was commissioned two months later. “They make operation much easier.”
3 For capacity reasons Grafotisak replaced the Diamant 30 with a comprehensive Diamant MC 60 bookline in April. 4 The Ribbon inserting machine is also used inline.
5 The Ventura MC is the second book sewing machine from Muller Martini at Grafotisak. 6 At the end of hardcover production, the BLSD book stacker stacks the books in countless stack combinations.
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