WEB OFFSET REPORT -- Make Ready for Change

"We were not able to integrate our equipment into the hottest (first) section of a heatset web offset dryer, where our technology would be the most effective," reports Lukas Hahne, managing director. "However, we were able to demonstrate the principle in other dryer sections."

The future of the concept remains an open question, Hahne admits. "It is difficult to integrate our technology with a state-of-the-art dryer, therefore we cannot prove our technology on a existing dryer. Our original cooperating partner stopped the project, and the industry in general doesn't seem ready to accept new drying concepts."