Heidelberg

Binding and finishing company news for Febuary 2010, including items on Binding Industries of America and FetterGroup.

The recent introduction of several products, including e-Call intelligent notification service, Web-based Remote Diagnostics, Installation Planning and Press Registration Evaluation, combined with budget-friendly “Smart Pricing” and a two-year extended warranty on Original Heidelberg Replacement Parts, has given customers a variety of convenient, affordable options for risk-free preventive maintenance.

Heidelberg USA announces new prepress, press and bindery product installations by commercial printers, including Triangle Communications, Stolze Printing, Bramkamp Printing, Grunwald Printing

Heidelberg has developed a camera recognition system for its EB4000 model perfect binder to monitor the quality of the application of glue film on the spine of the book. The unit circulates PUR through the width of the nozzle to ensure a consistent heat temperature at the point of application.

FRANCE—Theodore "Ted" Niggli, an influential leader in the international printing industry throughout the last half of the 20th century and a former executive with the Miehle-Goss-Dexter, Marinoni, Harris and Heidelberg-Harris organizations, passed away in France on Jan. 11, according to Goss International. He was 84.

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY—Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, parent company of Heidelberg USA, is reportedly seeking a return to the digital printing arena in the form of a partnership. The German business newspaper Handelsblatt, citing an unnamed source within Heidelberg, said the company is in talks with Eastman Kodak. Heidelberg exited the digital printing market in 2004 after selling its NexPress unit to Kodak.

Commercial printer and bindery news from Across the Nation in Printing Impressions January 2010 edition.

This video offers an overview and presentation excerpts from the recent "Print Delivers" event in Minneapolis.

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY—The management and supervisory boards of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) have announced a new corporate structure. Effective April 1, 2010, the company will be split into three divisions: Heidelberg Equipment, Heidelberg Services and Heidelberg Financial Services.

Heidelberg developed a way to increase productivity for signature work by rotating the sheet to feed oblong with a special twin lay attachment and pneumatic gate in the first folding unit. They call it “frog folding” because the sheets “leap frog” one another into two parallel side lays.