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Polar 176 X with latest version Compucut trebles cutting output at RCS

Thursday 16. September 2010 - RCS is achieving three times the productivity with a Polar 176X it has installed to replace a refurbished Wohlenberg installed 18 months ago.

The Retford company needed this very large size guillotine to take work from its VLF litho press and to cut down the growing volume of point of sale and free-standing display units it produces, much of which is for trade clients.
Managing director Michael Todd says: “There was a great increase in large format print volumes and we needed to overcome a bottleneck in the guillotining area. We had investigated the market beforehand and our view was that the Polar was streets ahead of the competition. The Wohlenberg was only ever a stop gap machine. The Polar is proving to be a fabulous machine.”
The Polar 176 guillotine is equipped with Compucut, a computerised system that enables the operator to preset work and reduce set up times. It can take CIP 4 data from the prepress area and be adapted to handle specific programs, functions and customer-specific data. The Compucut software on two existing Polar 115X models has also been updated to the latest version.
The company operates out of a 43,000 sq ft site and has a reputation as “innovators in print”, running a hybrid pressroom with full design to despatch services.