One of the world’s leading suppliers of equipment
and services to packaging and label manufacturers in the folding carton,
corrugated board and flexible materials industries, Bobst announced its
participation at Chinaplas, in Shanghai, P.R. China, from 24 to 27 April 2018.
On booth E83, in hall 1, Bobst will present its
unique range of web-fed printing and converting equipment and services intended
to help converters in the label and flexible packaging industries achieve
superior levels of productivity, product quality and substrate functionality. With
gravure printing making the lion’s share of the printing technology of choice
in China and South East Asia, Bobst will highlight the latest updates in its
range of gravure presses.
“What makes our solutions so successful is that
their flexibility provides the best market/product fit anywhere in the world”
explains Giovanni Caprioglio, Sales Director, Bobst Business Unit Web-fed. “This
is most evident in South East Asia and China where the best-selling RS 5002 and
the 3.0 presses add that extra value to flexible packaging production that only
a market-customized solution can provide. But the principle is also valid for
other Bobst gravure presses that can be customized with inking / drying systems
that optimize the process with market specific-variety of inks, for instance”.
In converting, Bobst’s solutions span a very
comprehensive range of equipment that covers a variety of process technologies
able to handle in the most efficient way the applications required by the
global and local markets. Representative products in this domain are the best
in class CL 750 multi-technology and SL 750 solventless laminators, the K5 Expert,
the world’s highest productivity metallizer in the world for the packaging
industry, the newly extended range of coating machines and the latest dedicated
configurations of the RotoExtruder extrusion coating lines for flexible
materials.
Referring more specifically to Bobst vacuum
metallizing and process know-how, Steve Carey, Managing Director and Head of
the Vacuum Metallizing Product Line, Bobst Manchester commented: “Bobst is the
only vacuum metallizing equipment supplier that also develops viable industrial
solutions relating to new barrier substrates, such as the Alubond process and
the AlOx converting turnkey solution. By providing much higher metal adhesion
the Alubond eliminates the need for chemically treated films, while the AlOx
converting process enables film manufacturers and converters to produce high
barrier clear films with superior properties that can withstand the stresses of
typical conversion processes with minimal loss on barrier permeation
performance”.
Coating is another field of great expertise for Bobst
that continues to enlarge its portfolio of CO coating lines to fulfil the
increasingly diversified variety of applications demanded by film converters
and manufacturers, as well as the requirements of the paper and aluminium foil
markets.
In flexo printing, the update will cover both
inline and CI machines. Uniting the entire workflow through centralized
standards and fully digitized press operations is a reality for the BOBST range
of narrow- and mid-web inline UV flexo presses, through unique Digital Flexo
automation and REVO 7-color Extended Color Gamut printing. In wide web CI
flexo, the novelty is the 20SEVEN CI flexo press launched in February 2018,
whose notable improvements in process consistency and repeatability make it a
perfect fit for the requirements of Extended Color Gamut printing.
Visitors to the stand, will also be amongst the
first to receive hot news and the program preview of the inaugural Open House
event to be held in May 2018 at Bobst’s brand new production plant in
Changzhou, China. Dedicated to web-fed technologies, this state-of-the-art
facility exemplifies Bobst commitment to be close to its customers and its
resolve to continue strengthening its leadership in Asia.
