Uncompromisingly efficient
signature production.

Stahlfolder TX 96.

Our Stahlfolder TX 96 folding system enables you to achieve the highest output with low machine speeds, thereby ensuring maximum process reliability.

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Maximum performance for signature production.

This is because the kinds of critical speeds at which faults are likely to occur in the folding process are not actually necessary to achieve output of over 18,000 sheets per hour when producing 16-page signatures in A4 format.

This innovative concept makes the Stahlfolder TX 96 folding system an absolute peak performance machine. The combination of oblong format processing and shingled folding pairs two methods of increasing performance in one machine. The result is optimum efficiency – a completely new level of performance in industrial signature folding.

This peak performance is easily accessible to you. This is because the machine configuration comprising two folding stations with six buckle plates and pre-assembled slitter shafts is optimally coordinated and designed for the highest productivity. The folding programs together with all fine adjustments and the Air Management settings can be saved and quickly called back up for repeat jobs.

The secret to the success of the Stahlfolder TX 96 is therefore increasing the performance while keeping the machine speed the same through shingled folding and oblong format processing. This is how your folding machine keeps up with the performance of your press. Guaranteed.

At a glance

Uncompromisingly efficient signature production in the 70 x 100 cm format range, with a perfectly coordinated machine configuration with two folding stations
Combines two principles for improved performance: unique shingled folding principle in the feeder and the first station and landscape processing of the sheets
Double stream processing of the sheets on the 2nd station
Very high process stability and high-quality end products due to moderate machine speed
The most efficient feeder for your industrialized folding production; Stahlfolder PFX pallet feeder
Push to Stop for finishing: intelligent automation and efficiency-enhancing options for economical short-run production

Key features

1. Feeder

Pallet feeder PFX – shingled feeding and two-step acceleration of sheets

With the PFX pallet feeder it is possible to feed sheets into the folder in an overlapping shingle-stream, and no longer separately with sheet gap as before. Due to the overlapping of the sheets their infeed length is almost halved depending on the fold type. Much more sheets can be fed at the very same machine speed. Up to this day, this technology is unique and is only available at Heidelberg.

The PFX-feeder is optimized for large circulations to achieve a more stable production even with sensible materials. For the Stahlfolder TX 96 folding system, the PFX-feeder is the start of a perfectly matched folder for highest productivity.

2. Modular control system MCT

Modular control concept: your key to profitability

The machine control system of the Stahlfolder TX 96 folding system supports the operator at all operations via the ergonomic touchscreen at the feeder. The operator has full access to the job management and the storage for repeat data.

The set-up assistant leads the operator through the individual steps of the job changeover process and provides graphical hints for the setting of required machine components.

3. Folding units

Advantages of system configuration

Due to the given machine assembly of a Stahlfolder TX 96 folding system, neither the second fold unit nor the delivery must be removed in case of a job change. All necessary creasing and trimming tools are already included in the machine and are simply activated as required.

With the TX 96 buckle plate unit and the pneumatic twin-lay device it is possible to process the shingled sheet stream of the feeder in the fold unit as well. This is the only way to make use of the productivity advantage of the shingled feeding throughout the whole folding machine up to the delivery. Thus with maximum overlapping in the fold unit it is possible to fold a total of 50 % more sheets in the same time and at the same mechanical speed. After the first fold the sheets are carried on with a sheet gap as usual. Before entering the second fold unit, the pneumatic twin-lay device ensures that the sheet stream is divided into two parallel sheet streams. Moreover the adapted machine speed of the second fold unit ensures stable production conditions and optimum fold quality.

4. Folding rollers

Top fold accuracy and mark-free sheet guidance: the right folding roller technology for precise folding results

ExtraGrip folding roller technology
The Stahlfolder TX 96 folding system is equipped with ExtraGrip folding rollers with soft PU. The distribution of steel and polyurethane rings of the ExtraGrip folding rollers is designed in such a way that there is no crossover of steel segments with two folding rollers lying parallel. At the same time the drag force is essentially raised due to the number of polyurethane rings which was increased by approx. 30 % per folding roller. The effect: The rings work exactly in paper running direction so that excellent fold accuracy and an exact straightforward guidance of the signatures is achieved.

Motor-driven folding roller adjustment
For an exact adjustment of the gap of folding rollers and slitter shafts, the Stahlfolder TX 96 folding system is equipped with a motor-driven folding roller adjustment. Here, the paper thickness is measured by the sensor of the double sheet detector at the feeder. A previous piling of paper to feed a learning sheet is not necessary. Therefore, the control system takes over the setting of folding roller gaps and the folding roller traction, considering fold type and paper specification.

5. Buckle plates

Motor-driven combination buckle plates

The first buckle plate of the Stahlfolder TX 96 is equipped with a continuous sheet stop as well as with a continuous buckle-plate lip, ensuring top fold quality.

As a standard, motor-driven combination buckle plates are used. Depending on fold type and format the sheet stops are positioned and – in case of angle adjustments – the fold length is automatically compensated. With every new order an absolute parallelism of the sheet stops – even in deflector position – is guaranteed. All important buckle plate adjustments like clearance, buckle space, and pre-tension of the lower buckle-plate lip can also be done with running production.

Continuous sheet stop in the first buckle plate in standard
Motor-driven combination buckle plate for easy handling and easy operation

6. Slitter shafts

Slitter shafts before and after the fold unit: processing like creasing, perforating and cutting

Standard equipment of the Stahlfolder TX 96 folding system in the 1st fold unit is a single front-mounted pair of slitter shafts and a double rear-mounted pair of slitter shafts with lift function. All necessary tools are already included in the folding machine. The easy activating of the required tools allows for a quick change-over of the folder depending on the fold type.

7. 45°-Undercarriage

The 45-degree undercarriage ensures with the compact construction of the Stahlfolder TX 96 folding system that all operating elements can be reached easily and in an operator-friendly way. The second fold unit can be moved very easily, e.g. to adjust slitter shafts. Over the carriage rails, it slides precisely back into its production position.

8. Pneumatic twin-lay device

After the first folding unit the shortened sheets are carried on with sheet gap as usual. Before entering the second folding unit, the pneumatic twin-lay device ensures that the very close sheet stream is divided into two parallel sheet streams. Moreover the adapted machine speed of the second fold unit ensures stable production conditions and optimum fold quality.

9. Delivery

High-capacity delivery to guarantee your productivity

The palamides alpha 700 hd

The Palamides alpha hd 70 is a delivery matched to the Stahlfolder TX 96 folding system to process signatures. The fold products are pressed by the machine, gathered, piled and afterwards conveyed to the buffering table neatly jogged. The operating staff can take out the neatly aligned stacks from an ergonomically favorable working height. At the same time, it maintains high productive capacities.

The alpha hd delivers mark-free for the set-up time.

Stahlfolder P-Stacker

Alternatively, the brand new Stahlfolder P-Stacker can be positioned behind the delivery, which takes over the stacking of the signature packages completely autonomously. This even makes it possible to operate up to two TX 96 folding systems with one operator.

Customer stories

Grasl FairPrint optimizing postpress with consulting expertise and an overall concept from Heidelberg.

A unique project in the printing industry is underway in Bad Vöslau, twenty miles south of Vienna. The leading Austrian print shops agensketterl, AV+Astoria, and Grasl FairPrint have consolidated their production under a single roof, resulting in one of the largest commercial print shops in any German-speaking country.

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Meinders & Elstermann, Germany.
Aumüller, Germany.

Stahlfolder P-Stacker robot technology ensures Heidelberg customers can benefit from autonomous folding production throughout the entire process

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Feeders for Stahlfolder

Flat pile feeder, round continuous feeder, pallet feeder and pallet feeder PFX.

Modules for Stahlfolder

Slitter shaft station SSP, four-directional folding unit VFZ 52, four-directional folding unit VF 66, pressing station PS, CombiCurve CC 41 and semi-autom. bundler HSB.

Upgrades & accessories for Stahlfolder

Buckle plates, Creasing, perforating and cutting devices, Gluing attachment and Control module ACC 2.4.

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