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Koenig & Bauer delivers 2 Rapida

145 presses to Schur Pack Germany

S offset presses from the Rapida 145 series (max. sheet format
chur Pack Germany has ordered two large-format sheetfed

1,060 × 1,450 mm) from Koenig & Bauer. The two six-col-
our coater presses are scheduled to start production next
year and will lend a significant boost to sustainability and
climate protection at the company’s Gallin plant in Northern
Germany.
With this latest order, Schur Pack Germany has also reaffirmed its
decades-long, trust-based partnership with Koenig & Bauer, one of the
high points of which was the installation of three new sheetfed offset
presses in 2015.
Both Rapida 145 presses once again with double-pile deliveries
The two new large-format Rapidas can be considered flagship instal-
lations in terms of automation and sustainability. Both high-speed
presses (production speed up to 18,000 sheets/h) were once again con-
figured with double-pile deliveries and integrated into a fully auto-
matic AGV-based logistics system for substrate transport to and from
the presses. Production with a double-pile delivery has already proved
highly effective on the previously installed presses. Waste sheets are
separated as they arrive at the delivery, so that the main pile contains
only good sheets. AGVs then transport this pile fully automatically and functions to reduce job changeover waste. These are joined by systems
from the press to the post-press department.
from the QualiTronic family for inline quality inspection, including col-
Corporate goal: climate protection and reduced energy consumption our control based on grey balance and PDFCheck. Printshop networking,
During the evaluation phase, Schur Pack Germany had placed par- integrated workflows and digitalisation solutions also contribute to waste
ticular importance on the aspects of technical innovation, ecology and savings, production at the highest quality levels and maximum substrate
highly automated integration into the existing production environ- utilisation, and define new standards for sustainable packaging produc-
ment. To this end, a comprehensive package of measures to reduce
energy consumption is being implemented. These include, among tion.
other measures:
• Incorporation of energy-saving VariDry+ large format dryer systems High performance and maximum automation
as a pilot project – presented for the first time at drupa, the new Schur Pack continues to play a pioneering role in the industry when it
concept promises energy savings of approx. 30% compared to cur- comes to digitalisation: alongside the Rapida apps for press control and
rent VariDryBlue IR/hot-air systems
inventory management, which have already been used intensively for a
• Air cabinets with heat exchangers, which likewise achieve consider- number of years and will now also be used for the two new Rapida 145
able energy savings
presses, the company is, for the first time, adopting navigated printing
• Intelligent networking of the presses, peripheral equipment and
heating energy generation (wood chip biomass boiler) for maximum (AutoGuide). This system gives printers and helpers recommendations for
energy efficiency and optimum heat distribution action in plain text via the console wallscreen, or as short voice messages.
• Full integration of the process heat that was previously discharged Along with this information for the press crews, the system also features a
unused into the surroundings in order to reduce power require- special notification panel for the supervisor’s office and for the company’s
ments maintenance employees.
• DC main drives, which are more energy efficient to operate com- Schur Pack can look forward to significant added value in two respects:
pared to AC drives firstly, the two new presses incorporate many new automation tools, and
• VisuEnergy X for company-wide logging of energy data, including secondly, the installations will implement new (industry) standards in
monitoring and reporting, with the aim of increasing energy effi- terms of climate protection, sustainability and energy efficiency. Schur
ciency and lowering production costs
Pack Germany met up with Koenig & Bauer at the drupa trade fair to pay
What’s more, the Rapida presses boast numerous features for sig-
nificantly higher energy efficiency in packaging printing. This starts tribute to the results of a project that has been more than two years in the
with established technologies such as inking units that can be disen- making – with the two partners also pledging to work together to define
gaged when not in use, highly efficient CleanTronic washing systems, further new benchmarks in future.

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