Komori Corporation (Sumida-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO Satoshi Mochida) (hereafter Komori) announces the establishment of a new group purpose in 2023, the year of its 100th anniversary. And this time we have created and released a video that expresses this purpose.

Cutting-edge LED Curation saves time, money and mitigates health risks.
By John Freismuth, President, Empire Screen Printing
Sustainability and Screen Printing
Screen printing is a notoriously polluting industry, and there’s mixed information on how the process can be made more sustainable.

Glass is a favorite packaging material in the food, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics industries. It has no taste or odor, does not react with other materials and does not emit any harmful substances. Colored designs are applied to glass containers using special screen printing equipment. EG-YES, based in the northern Italian town of Maranello, specializes in developing and manufacturing industrial machinery for the processing of glass and ceramic products.

Paper converting specialist Prealpi srl is one of the first customers to leverage the power of the new ACCUCHECK Recipe Management within the BOBST CONNECT platform. The Italian company is successfully using this new function to improve setup times and quality control on a BOBST EXPERTFOLD 80 folder-gluer for folding carton production.

RMGT, manufacturer of the leading 8-up sheetfed press in North America, this past summer installed two new offset machines to state-government agencies in Austin, TX. In June, a 29-inch, four-color 790 model perfecting press was delivered to the Texas Health and Human Services (HHS) in-plant facility. Two months later, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) took delivery of a four-color, 25.2x37" RMGT 940ST offset press with an LED-UV curing unit, replacing its 4-color Ryobi 754G XL, which was seven years old.

Parent firm buys powerful One & Done Solution to print books, magazines, and catalogs in Ohio manufacturing facility
Graphco, distributor of the leading 8-UP sheetfed press in North America, has delivered an RMGT 8-color 9 Series perfecting offset press to BR Printers, Inc.’s 200,000-square-foot plant in Cincinnati, OH. After an extremely short installation period, the BR Ohio press crew completed the final calibration of their new press, which features Benford LED curing for instantaneous drying as well as INSTA.COLOR makeready technology with SMART simultaneous auto plate changing. This system allows BR to move from job to job without any interruption using what is known as the ASAP (Automatic Smart Assist Program) System.

Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions announced the creation of a new strategic partnership with GIETZ in the domain of OVD application for banknotes. The objectives of this new relationship are defined in a Joint Development Agreement, under which both parties commit to leveraging their respective competencies and technologies to improve and develop OVD application platforms for banknote printers.

Modern facilities for commercial and book production

Eight-colour Rapida 106 with perfecting unit for 4-over-4 production
Export-oriented company with an annual growth rate of 20 per cent

Interpack 2023: New flexographic web printing system for high-volume folding carton production addresses key challenges of packaging producers

Brand corporations increasingly using more sustainable option of folding cartons
Heidelberg underlines leading role in packaging market
First systems already installed at sites of large packaging customers

Komori Europe has announced an intensified partnership with AtéCé Graphic Products, a prominent Dutch distributor of printing products, to handle the product management and the distribution and manufacturing of the K-Supply product portfolio in the EMEA-territory. The partnership aims to provide superior product, better support for local Komori distributors and improve the accessibility of K-Supply products.

True to its vision to advance sector-wide connectivity and digitalization, BOBST has enhanced its middle-range folder-gluers with the implementation of the SPHERE machine interface. Combined with improved ergonomics, both machines take a decisive step into the future of folding-gluing. This evolution allows folding carton converters to further optimize the production workflow and enable efficient data flow between physical equipment and digital solutions.

Komori International Europe B.V. and the Baumann Group have announced the opening of the first European Komori Competence Centre, located at Baumann’s headquarters in Solms. Baumann Group will also now undertake sole Germany-wide representation for Komori.