Consumables
Eco-Friendly Printing Blankets Developed
Tuesday 20. May 2008 - The CONTI-AIR HC series provides for greater cost-efficiency - and is, at the same time, eco-friendly.
“ContiTech goes green”, with one of the worlds eco-friendliest printing blankets coming from ContiTech. For years now the CONTI-AIR HC line (for “High Compressibility”) has been setting standards for eco-friendliness. It is thus one of the focal points of the high-tech company’s presentation at drupa 2008 (booth A79 in hall 6). For indeed, environmentally friendly products are more in demand than ever before – and that applies to the printing blanket branch as well. ContiTech’s Elastomer Coatings business unit has become the first offset printing blanket manufacturer worldwide to succeed in making standard sheet-fed offset printing blankets in a calendering process that largely gets by without solvents
“Use of solvents has been reduced to an absolute minimum in the manufacture of our HC line of printing blankets. Our blankets contain just three percent of the amount of solvent found in conventional printing blankets. There is no comparable product anywhere in the world,” says Joachim Herrmann, head of printing blanket development at ContiTech Elastomer Coatings.
Other advantages of the new HC line: The extremely strong compressible layer ensures better compensation when the blanket is taxed to its limits and thus prevents creases from occurring. The effect of this is not only a longer printing blanket service life but also better print quality.