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News Release from: Kolbus UK | Subject: Ratiobinder
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 January 2007
8,000 Cycles An Hour Binder Handles Wide
Range
As part of an investment programme Dublin (Eire) company Future Print has brought its bindery in-line with the level of its pressroom by installing a new Kolbus binding line.
As part of an investment programme Dublin (Eire) company Future Print has brought its bindery in-line with the level of its pressroom by installing a new Kolbus binding line Replacing an aged Normbinder, the Kolbus Ratiobinder reinforces Future Print's claim to be the best equipped litho printing facility in Ireland
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 28 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The claimed 8,000 cycles per hour, 26-clamp KM 473 Kolbus Ratiobinder is fed by a 12-station ZU 841A Gatherer and is equipped with hot melt and PUR gluing.
Products go via a conveyor system with cooling tower and are trimmed on a Kolbus HD 153P three knife trimmer.
They can be automatically check weighed and shrinkwrapped on the in-line compensating Rima stacker, said Kolbus.
Future Print produce magazines for publishers including Eireann and Tara Publications and a range of promotional print for clients such as Gillette, Heineken, Microsoft and Unilever.
That meant that the company was looking for a binder to cope with a wide range of work from gathering thread sewn sections, through burst binding to sometimes up to as many as 40 sections.
The Ratiobinder was found to fit the bill perfectly, the ability to pre-gather sections for example, being particularly useful.
The character recognition system, enabling missed sections to be handled without slowing the machine, also came in for particular praise.
Future Print managing director, Chris Jameson, said: "But it was the feeder that we first fell in love with, as it's the best innovation I've seen for many a year.
We also wanted to go down the PUR route so that option was useful and the three knife trimmer is also very good." Installation at Future Print's purpose built 60,000 square foot facility on the Baldoyle Industrial Estate went without a hitch, said Kolbus.
Operator training was conducted both at the Kolbus training facility in Rahden and on site.
Jameson added: "The operators took to the line well and we have been running the system consistently at top speed ever since installation.
At full speed it looks like it's cantering and you can hardly hear it running.".
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