Finishing & Screen Printing
The New Ventura MC 160 Proves a Hit
Monday 21. September 2015 - tThe new Muller Martini MC 160 book sewing machine has been put through its paces in continuous use, and has passed with flying colors.
It has been operating at top speed at the site of a field test customer right from the very first day, and has more than proven itself as an industrial solution. The new book sewing machine, which combines all the benefits of the globally successful Ventura MC 200 in a more compact form, not only produces end products of excellent quality, but also has numerous other benefits, including patented loop formation using blow air, which removes the need for expensive and error-prone grippers in the stitching center.
The suckers, which can be switched on individually and are each equipped with an injector, ensure a high degree of production reliability. Reliability is also guaranteed by the Asir sensor, which can be integrated with the auxiliary saddle to control the sequence of signatures and opening. Markings on the signatures are prevented by the nip rollers being switched off above a speed of 50 cycles. No other entry-level model in the market allows cutting the threads without tension between the individual book blocks, which is made possible by the active thread divider system.
At field test customer Conzella Verlagsbuchbinderei Urban Meister GmbH & Co. KG in Pfarrkirchen (Germany), the Ventura MC 160 book sewing machine has processed over 10 million signatures in its first six months of operation. “The quality of the end products is consistently high,” says Production Manager Markus Estermann.
Conzella integrated the Ventura MC 160, like its other seven book sewing machines, with one of its two VenturaConnect systems. The signatures are gathered, stacked and processed into thread-sewn book blocks in a single procedure, thereby considerably reducing the production costs of thread-sewn products