Offset Printing
Major order for Heidelberg – oeding print invests in complete solution for zero-emission print shop
Wednesday 15. May 2013 - Productive and sustainable solutions for prepress, press, and postpress with Suprasetter 106, Speedmaster XL 106-8P+LX, Stitchmaster ST 500, and Stahlfolder TH 66
End-to-end process integration with Prinect ensures sustainable production processes
Investment supports resource-friendly production
oeding print GmbH brought together the expertise of Oeding Druck and Ruth Printmedien under one roof in Braunschweig in May 2012. The company is one of Germany’s most sustainable industrial print service providers. A new production facility is currently being built on an area of around 5,500 square meters (59,200 square feet) at the Braunschweig site – the first “zero-emission print shop” in Germany. Among other things, oeding print has invested around EUR 4.5 million in eco-friendly equipment from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg), thus significantly expanding its existing machine park. oeding print’s workflow, prepress, press, and postpress operations have now been augmented by a Suprasetter 106, an eight-color Speedmaster XL 106 perfecting press plus coating unit, “next-generation” Prinect Image Control, a Stahlfolder TH 66, a Stitchmaster ST 500, and the Print Ready Prinect module.
Innovative machine, storage, and building technology is being used to reduce building-related greenhouse gas emissions to zero in constructing the new facility, which is being built to the Plus energy standard with scientific support from the Faculty of Supply Engineering at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences in Braunschweig. The aim is to generate the total energy needed for cooling, heating, lighting, ventilation, and hot water through heat recycling and renewable energies – such as a photovoltaic system and the operation of a cogeneration plant – and to do so independently and on a climate-neutral basis. The building will also have a positive energy balance, with energy that is not needed being fed into the public grid.
“Oeding print views sustainability as a continuous improvement process that will ensure the company’s future viability. We are pursuing a fully integrated environmental strategy rather than relying on individual measures,” explains Frauke Oeding-Blumenberg, Managing Director of the Oeding Group. Among other things, this saw the company launch two environmental management systems in parallel in 2011. oeding print uses EMAS validation (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) and certification to ISO-14001 to document the continuous improvement in its environmental performance. “State-of-the-art technologies, efficient processes, and resource-friendly production are essential for us,” says Oeding-Blumenberg. “As well as the eco-friendly equipment, the Prinect print shop workflow was therefore a key factor in us opting for Heidelberg. Only with an end-to-end workflow can we integrate all processes efficiently along the entire value-added chain.”
Machine technology ensures sustainable production processes
“The global trend toward green print production will continue to grow in the future. We help our customers meet the “green” requirements of print buyers and we provide their companies with low-emission printing processes and resource-friendly equipment,” says Stephan Plenz, member of the Management Board responsible for Equipment at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG.
All the new purchases of Heidelberg equipment at oeding print contain integrated environmental solutions for green printing that help cut water and energy consumption and reduce paper waste. The Speedmaster XL 106-8P+LX3 coats after sheet reversal in a single pass and achieves maximum productivity, operating at 15,000 sheets per hour in straight and perfecting modes and making this solution ideal for highly industrialized commercial printers in the premium sector. To deliver this outstanding performance, the press is equipped with the fully automatic AutoPlate XL simultaneous plate changer system and the Prinect Inpress Control spectral inline color measuring system. The Speedmaster XL 106 is also ideal for energy-efficient print production that conserves resources – the press from the Peak Performance Class scores highly thanks to its short makeready times and fast inking-up, thus cutting material consumption and CO 2 emissions. It is also carbon-offset and provides significant additional production capacity over the existing Speedmaster XL 105. The waste heat from both presses will be used as an energy source in the future. In terms of consumables, the company uses inks based on vegetable oil from the Saphira Eco product range from Heidelberg.
As part of the Prinect workflow, the “next-generation” Prinect Image Control spectrophoto-metric quality measuring and control system delivers far higher resolution for spectral image measurement and offers user-friendly operation. The new automated setup functions of Prinect Image Control based on prepress data also make for more reliable production.
Customized solutions from the outset
Heidelberg was involved from the outset in providing support in planning the machine concept for the zero-emission print shop. Experts from the Heidelberg Business Consulting team used the BizModel simulation software for print shop planning to simulate expansion/investment options for oeding print. “In the intensive consulting phase with Heidelberg, we were supplied with a sophisticated simulation of several investment options based on our actual job data,” says Managing Director Oliver Ruth. “That provided us with a platform to structure the machine park at our new production facility, making it fit for the future, cost-effective and tailored to meet our green print production needs.”
Thanks to the Systemservice 36plus service package, oeding print also covers key services such as repair costs, spare parts, and remote services over a three-year period. Systemservice from Heidelberg thus helps users improve availability and productivity and cut the total cost of ownership.