02.12.21
BOBST hosted a gravure printing and laminating virtual event from its Competence Center in San Giorgio Monferrato, Italy.
“The event demonstrated how BOBST latest advances in gravure and lamination are shaping the future of flexible packaging through solutions built around automation, digitalization, connectivity and sustainability," Davide Garavaglia, managing director of Bobst Italia. "This creates value for all users along the interconnected value chain, elevating packaging quality and making printing and converting operations more agile, sustainable and profitable.”
The machines showcased were the EXPERT RS 6003 gravure press and the multi-technology NOVA D 800 LAMINATOR.
Job changeover on the gravure press was completed in under 14 minutes with only 95 m of waste, according to BOBST.
The results were achieved using two gravure jobs printed in oneECG BOBST extended color gamut process allowing to print a 14c job (CMYK + 9spot colors + white) with 7 fixed process colors and automation features.
The NOVA D 800 also demonstrated its high-level capabilities together with the unique flexo trolley, the flat tunnel design and the driven rollers.
The lamination job demonstrated was processed at 400 m/min coating the solvent-based adhesive directly on the 8 μ alu-foil substrate.
The PET-Alu-foil substrate combination highlighted the capabilities of the BOBST compact laminator to handle complex applications typical of the food, beverage, cosmetic and pharma segments, such as retort pouches.
BOBST presented a brand-new gravure press – The VISION RS 5003, an evolution of the RS 5002 and NOVA RS 5003 series – now featuring speeds up to 450 m/min with fully automated job changeovers at production speed.
“At BOBST we are best placed to support the industry transformation and overcoming the challenges now and in the future. We have all technologies for the production of flexible packaging so we can approach each challenge from an end-to-end view and develop the solution that best fit the given requirements at every stage of the production process”, Garavaglia said.