Heidelberg Reports Strong Interest from Customers at Packaging Days

In the middle of May, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG hosted its Packaging Days at the Wiesloch-Walldorf site with the theme “Together on Track to Success.” More than 350 participants from all over the world visited the Print Media Center Packaging on two days, where they demonstrated interest in Heidelberg’s integrated solutions.
 
Run lengths are declining, the number of individual jobs is increasing, raw materials are going up in price, and margins continue to be under pressure. Heidelberg offers its customers a wide product portfolio for this, with standardized processes and largely automated workflows.
 
“We are continuously enhancing the Smart Print Shop, and offer our customers assistance with the digital transformation,” said Stephan Plenz, member of the Management Board responsible for Digital Technology, during his welcome address. “On this journey, we want to give our customers lots of different ideas of how they can make their business model even more profitable.”
 
For example, the “Smart Packaging Production” agenda item showed how productivity and profitability can be significantly increased in an integrated overall solution. Networked with the Prinect Production Manager, the Speedmaster XL 106  six-color press with coating unit and logistics, the new Powermatrix 106 CSB  die cutter, and the Diana X 115  folder gluer ran at full speed.
 
The Powermatrix 106 CSB is the new high-performance die cutter from MK Masterwork. It produces 8,000 sheets per hour and has many features expected by packaging printers, such as an elevated pile handling system and the optical MasterSet sheet register system as standard equipment.
 
The topic of multicolor, and therefore printing spot colors with three colors in addition to the basic colors in one pass, was demonstrated both on the Speedmaster XL 75  Anicolor and on the large-format Speedmaster XL 162 . The fact that no color changes are required between the individual jobs reduces washing and makeready times, which means much higher productivity. The Primefire 106  industrial inkjet digital printing press demonstrated the personalization possibilities in “Packaging as you Like.”