Finishing - Conventional

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY— 29/05/2008—On the first day of drupa, Duplo is unveiling further new additional products on its stand: the fully automatic and user-friendly Ultra 205A UV Coater; the DuWrap, a polywrapping unit for the mail fulfilment market and a new friction fed collating range including the DFC-100 and DFC-120 Mini Collator. Visitors have the opportunity to experience technology previews as well as a range of other new products and innovative modular finishing configurations which will allow printers to introduce sophisticated value-added finishing processes to their customer offerings. In addition to the UV Coater and DuWrap product, visitors to the exhibition

DRUPA—May 29, 2008— Spartanics M510 Compact Card Punching System is now available worldwide. The Spartanics M510 is a very low-cost plastic card punching system specifically designed for the requirements of printers, card manufacturers, and others producing small volumes (e.g. 5,000 –86,000/day) of hotel keys, loyalty cards, phone cards, gift cards, membership cards, and other plastic cards in standard CR80 formats. Paul Dirienzo, Spartanics Director of Engineering, says, “This inexpensive plastic card punching system is geared to allow newcomers to take advantage of the highly profitable card manufacturing niches for an initial investment in the 10’s of 1000’s dollars range instead

DUSSELDORF, GERMANY— 5-19-08—Construction of the Muller Martini drupa booth has started on schedule. The drupa show begins May 29, 2008 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Here are a few statistics to underscore what a huge effort the construction team will be making over the next three weeks in order to: • Lay 24,757 square feet of flooring for the machine line-up; • Lay almost 7,535 square feet of flooring on two levels for the visitor area; • Drive no fewer than 60 tractor-trailers to Düsseldorf in order to transport Muller Martini’s machines to the exhibition center; • Drive another 6 trucks with construction material for

LEEDS, WEST YORKSHIRE—May 2008— MetalFX Technology—a Ciba subsidiary—will introduce the flexographic version of their popular metallic printing technology at drupa 2008. The process permits printing millions of metallic colors reliably and consistently. Discussing MetalFX for flexo, MetalFX Managing Director Andrew Ainge commented: “The popularity of MetalFX among lithographic printers prompted us to release a MetalFX version specifically for flexographers. MetalFX for flexo is expected to be particularly popular among label and package printers, offering them a significantly lower cost alternative to foil stamping and metallic substrates, and enhanced design capabilities for packaging. On drupa Stand D17 in Hall 15, we will have

MONTAGUE, NJ—05/01/08—Imagine folding and trimming cover stocks or multi-panel brochures 2 or 3 up on a folder, effectively doubling the yield (or better.) Conventional folding machine wisdom has it that achieving guillotine quality trimming or die quality creasing (scoring) is just not possible. Yet for the past four years, Technifold’s Multi-Tool & EZ-Fit Tri-Creaser have been doing just that in thousands of shops, radically reducing run times on the folder by providing in-line guillotine quality cutting, working together with the Tri-Creaser to produce letterpress quality creasing. This year at Drupa they will be introducing the next generation of Multi-Tool and Tri-Creaser to provide

HOFHEIM, GERMANY—04/22/08—Polar, a manufacturer of high-speed cutters worldwide, will be represented at the drupa 2008 with an innovative and complete line of machines in Hall 1, Stand A 02, a total of 48 machines with 7 gripper systems, of which 11 are high-speed cutters as well as 2 automated cutters. This equipment will be shown on approximately 1,000 square metres. The machines and systems are divided into four areas: • Ideas for cutting/trimming • Ideas for automation • Ideas for label production • Ideas for networking for various applications. POLAR therefore addresses customers with different technical requirements and supports them with new ideas. When

ARCDALE, NC—April 18, 2008—Vecoplan LLC, a worldwide leader in size reduction technologies, has appointed Jeffery Queen to the newly created position of Director of Finance. Responsibilities of the position will include the ongoing development, implementation and oversight of “Best Accounting Practices” as they apply to domestic and international manufacturing, importing and sales. Formerly Controller at the U.S. subsidiary of a Belgium manufacturing concern, Jeff brings 16 years of experience in international finance to his new position at Vecoplan. “Everyday we compete in a true world economy.” states Marty Kennedy, Executive Vice President of Vecoplan, LLC, “In order to succeed, not only does

Paper Drill Receives Warm Welcome CHICAGO—Chuck Nestor and James Kelly with Apollo Printing, of Newport News, VA, attended Graph Expo 2007 looking to buy a new paper drill. They found the one they were looking for at the Rollem International booth. The printing execs selected a PB-16, which is a heavy-duty drill with up to 15 drilling heads, making it ideal for most applications, including mechanical binding patterns and multiple-up work. The new PB-16 was installed in February. Bobst Readies for Drupa, Direction ’08 ROSELAND, NJ—At Drupa 2008, Bobst Group’s Folding Carton and Flexible Materials divisions will showcase a wide range of products,

SANTA ANA, CA—March 14, 2008—Duplo will use this year’s drupa to unveil a range of new products and innovative modular finishing configurations which will allow printers to introduce sophisticated value-added finishing processes to their customer offerings. Visitors to the exhibition will see for the first time Duplo’s unique DC-645 Production Color Finisher with a new knife folder, adding further application possibilities to the already versatile slit, cut and crease machine. drupa will also see the first showing of the intelligent DSF-5000 high speed dynamic document sheet feeder; Duplo’s new PUR DPB-500 Perfect Binder as well as the launch of the new mid-range

NÜRTINGEN, GERMANY—March 13, 2008—The machine manufacturer Kugler-Womako from Nürtingen, a company of the Körber PaperLink Group, presents its double wire forming machine ProLoop and the punching machine ProPunch at drupa 2008. Both machines show optimized handling processes and extended production possibilities. The punching machine ProPunch can be used for different materials such as paper, board or plastic. Products including register cards, calendar sheets or loose leaf dividers can be punched quickly and efficiently. A new develop-ment is the non-stop stacker: Until now two operators were necessary to remove completed packs manually. Now, these packs are collected automatically and sent to a transport belt for