Cutting large formats is so easy
At Ruter Press in Laholm / Sweden a POLAR 176 machine has been
cutting large-format materials sized 130 x 185 cm for four years
now.
Since the mid-1990s Ruter Press has developed from a simple postcard printer to a well-established commercial printer.
The company runs three presses asix-colour and two five-colour presses, each equipped with a UV varnishing unit.
The particular advantage is that these presses with their different sizes allow Ruter Press to take on a broad range of work across many formats, from 52 x 72 to 130 x 185. This combination permits them to process many orders both quickly and cost-effectively.
When the presses were purchased the company also invested in two new folding machines, a saddle stitcher and a POLAR cutting system for 7b formats. These investments, along with their two web offset presses (16-page and 8-page machines), Ruter Press now offers a range of equipment for manufacturing fine packaging products and high-quality magazines and journals which is almost unique in Europe.
Today Ruter Press is one of the biggest printing plants in Sweden, with 80 employees and a turnover of 25 million euros per annum securing work from the Nordics, Germany and the former Eastern Bloc.
In the finishing process POLAR's cutting system at Ruter Press is certainly the most flexible installation ever, owing to its two methods of loading. About 75% of the material to be cut is previously jogged in a RA-7S jogger. After that, the ream is manually pushed across the front table and into the high-speed cutter. The Autoturn turning gripper automatically turns the reams, which are positioned on the rear table before they are cut. The cut labels are then unloaded manually over the front table and onto a Transomat EL 160-7s which automatically places the material onto a pallet.
Ream-by-ream a Transomat loading unit automatically takes the remaining 25% of the material to be cut from the pallet and feeds it to the rear table by means of a gripper system. Such cutting jobs usually require only a four-side trim, which is carried out automatically. From this point, the processes are performed in the same way as for the jogged material. Every day an average of nine to ten pallets of material sized 130 x 185 cm are processed in this way. In general, about nine cuts are performed during each cutting process.
The postpress area at Ruter is currently operating three shifts per day. Both the operators and management have decided in favor of the POLAR system because of its flexibility and highly-efficient turning gripper. Most impressive for Ruter has been the high level of automation the system has to offer. POLAR has been supplying the world market with 155 and 176 high-speed cutters for many years. These machines are perfectly processing cutting materials in formats 6 and 7S.
Further Information:
Rudi Kolbach
Product Manager
Tel. +61 2 9318 5224
Email: Rudi.Kolbach@heidelberg.com
Since the mid-1990s Ruter Press has developed from a simple postcard printer to a well-established commercial printer.
The company runs three presses asix-colour and two five-colour presses, each equipped with a UV varnishing unit.
The particular advantage is that these presses with their different sizes allow Ruter Press to take on a broad range of work across many formats, from 52 x 72 to 130 x 185. This combination permits them to process many orders both quickly and cost-effectively.
When the presses were purchased the company also invested in two new folding machines, a saddle stitcher and a POLAR cutting system for 7b formats. These investments, along with their two web offset presses (16-page and 8-page machines), Ruter Press now offers a range of equipment for manufacturing fine packaging products and high-quality magazines and journals which is almost unique in Europe.
Today Ruter Press is one of the biggest printing plants in Sweden, with 80 employees and a turnover of 25 million euros per annum securing work from the Nordics, Germany and the former Eastern Bloc.
In the finishing process POLAR's cutting system at Ruter Press is certainly the most flexible installation ever, owing to its two methods of loading. About 75% of the material to be cut is previously jogged in a RA-7S jogger. After that, the ream is manually pushed across the front table and into the high-speed cutter. The Autoturn turning gripper automatically turns the reams, which are positioned on the rear table before they are cut. The cut labels are then unloaded manually over the front table and onto a Transomat EL 160-7s which automatically places the material onto a pallet.
Ream-by-ream a Transomat loading unit automatically takes the remaining 25% of the material to be cut from the pallet and feeds it to the rear table by means of a gripper system. Such cutting jobs usually require only a four-side trim, which is carried out automatically. From this point, the processes are performed in the same way as for the jogged material. Every day an average of nine to ten pallets of material sized 130 x 185 cm are processed in this way. In general, about nine cuts are performed during each cutting process.
The postpress area at Ruter is currently operating three shifts per day. Both the operators and management have decided in favor of the POLAR system because of its flexibility and highly-efficient turning gripper. Most impressive for Ruter has been the high level of automation the system has to offer. POLAR has been supplying the world market with 155 and 176 high-speed cutters for many years. These machines are perfectly processing cutting materials in formats 6 and 7S.
Further Information:
Rudi Kolbach
Product Manager
Tel. +61 2 9318 5224
Email: Rudi.Kolbach@heidelberg.com
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