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Bobst Italia acquires Italian Xeikon’s new

variable data
gravure manufacturer Cerutti Xeikon has unveiled VariOne,
a new variable data tool for
Xeikon’s X-800 digital front-
end, which can immediately
The company said the deal, technical experts adding to generate and print unique
which was completed on 11 our existing know-how and creative designs, based on an
November, is “in line with its capabilities. It also means image or vector graphics, in
strategic goal of further that we can now provide
consolidating its technology Bobst’s high level of service endless complex patterns.
and market leadership in the and support to Cerutti Xeikon’s VariOne has been
global gravure printing machines installed developed and designed to
market”. worldwide.” add value and benefit brand
Based in San Giorgio Bobst employs more than o w n e r s, d e s i g n e r s,
Monferrato, Bobst Italia is 5,600 people globally. In illustrators, printers,
Swiss groupa Bobst’s 2020 the group’s sales were converters, and consumers.
worldwide centre of CHF1.372bn (£1.11bn), with VariOne can achieve a high
excellence for gravure an operating profit of level of variable imagery.
printing, laminating, and Bobst Italia is the manufacturer’s worldwide centre of excellence CHF44m and net result of “Print is becoming more
coating technologies for the CHF17m compared with customized and valuable,”
flexible packaging industry. property rights, and all of the gravure, vacuum, coating, CHF53m in 2019. said Jeroen Van Bauwel,
Gruppo Cerutti was company’s intangible assets. and laminating product lines Bobst Italia is one of the director of product
founded in 1920 in Casale 30 Cerutti staff will join Davide Garavaglia. world’s leading suppliers of management with Xeikon.
Monferrato, in north west Bobst Italia’s team at the site “As a company, Bobst Italia substrate processing, “With VariOne, Xeikon has
Italy, and specialised in the in San Giorgio Monferrato. is characterised by financial printing and converting taken a significant leap
manufacture of gravure “We are very pleased that and social sustainability and, equipment and services for forward in its research and
printing presses for the proceedings have finally as such, is able to create value the label, flexible packaging, development and now offers
packaging, publishing, and come to a completion, in the long term. folding carton and completely new horizons for
specialty printing and ending a period of “F ollowing the corrugated board industries. differentiation. With
converting equipment. uncertainty for the Cerutti completion, we will be able The firm recorded a VariOne it is possible to
Through the deal, the stakeholders locally and to integrate into our consolidated turnover of create thousands of unique
Bobst group has acquired worldwide,” said Bobst Italia organisation the Cerutti CHF 1.372 billion for the year and individual clips from a
Cerutti’s brand, intellectual general manager and head of technology along with its ended December 31, 2020. base design.”
Hunkeler Innovationdays Domino launches

postponed to 2023 Cx350i technology

Sw iss ma nufact urer Domino has launched
Hunkeler’s specialist Cx350i, a new sustainably
continuous-feed inkjet trade designed piezo inkjet
show has been pushed back technology for printing on
secondary packaging,
by a year due to the ongoing highlighting its commitment
effects of the coronavirus to ‘Do more’ to help
pandemic as well as manufacturers achieve their
exhibitors’ supply chain sustainability goals.
issues. “We recognize that
Hunkeler Innovationdays, sustainable production Cx350i to offer more to users
which had been scheduled to cannot be achieved in ambitions and
take place from 21 to 24 isolation,” said David responsibilities in mind – it
February 2022 at Messe The last Hunkeler Innovationdays was held in 2019 Edwards, product manager, offers our customers a
Luzern, will now take place successful event. The unclear known supply chain PIJ at Domino. “Product sustainable solution for direct
at the venue from 27 Covid-19 developments in problems, which make it coding and marking is an printing on boxes and sets a
February to 2 March 2023. various countries continue to even more difficult to hold integral part of all global new standard for product
Stefan Hunkeler, president restrict travel. The rules and such an event.” supply chains – and as such, development at Domino. The
of the board of directors and regulations around the Organisers said the focus we have an ambition and a printer is optimized to ensure
responsible for Hunkeler pandemic are dynamic and, responsibility to our maximum code quality with
Innovationdays, said the in some cases, locally of the 2023 event, which is customers, and to the world minimal ink usage. It has
decision was made in close regulated. already almost fully booked in general, to ensure that our been designed to work
consultation with its largest “They continue to make by exhibitors, will once again products are consciously exclusively with low-impact
exhibitors and business international passenger be on the topic of automation designed to minimize their vegetable-oil-based printing
partners, and following a travel difficult. In addition, and there will be a raft of environmental impact.” inks – the result is
detailed risk assessment. various exhibitors are innovations and product “The Cx350i has been sustainable printing without
“Our goal is to hold a confronted with the globally launches on show. designed with these compromising quality.”

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