Constant commitment to the environment pays off: For the second time, Aumüller Druck in Regensburg received the biennial environmental prize for companies awarded by the city. In 1995, the companys exemplary waste management concept was honoured – in 2020, its many and varied measures to achieve largely CO2-neutral production.
Which solutions do commercial printers need to be competitive and profitable in the market? Which processes and interfaces offer potential to be leveraged, and how can print shop staff be even better supported? These are the questions the experts at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) asked themselves when developing the latest innovations.
In a year where grocery stores are rushing to keep shelves stocked, Old York Road Printing (OYRP), a division of Double H Plastics, has both drastically sped up its production of food-grade packaging cartons and grown its business – thanks in part to its Heidelberg Subscription partnership, which includes a new Speedmaster XL 106-7+L.
The logical next step for an already long-standing partnership: Koenig & Bauer is expanding its service portfolio. In cooperation with Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC) – EAE, Koenig & Bauer will in future be offering retrofits and technical service for presses with EAE controls or QI Optical measurement and control systems.
In May 2020, DCOS inked a deal with Tryck i Norrbotten (Lule, Sweden) to future-proof their eight tower, single folder Goss Magnum press. The order includes a full DCOS package solution, replacing and retrofitting the complete Omnicon system, the shaftless drive system and the QTI Multicam system.
President Matsuoka says that visualization grew out of the need to clarify the per piece cost of the products and the need to capture as much revenue as possible during these challenging economic times. I decided that we needed a system to get time data from the plant, so we developed a platform that added the concept of time management.
Packaging producer Kroha from Miesbach in the south of Germany is a long-standing user of sheetfed offset presses from Koenig & Bauer. Just a year ago, one of two Rapida 106 presses dating from 2008 was replaced with a brand new model. This six-colour Rapida 106 in a double-coating configuration now bears the main workload in the print centre.
