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PACKAGING & PRINTING INDUSTRY

Real-Time Shaftless Finishing Registration Line B
A high-speed off-line finishing line recently installed at Howard Hunt Direct in Dartford has had such a dramatic effect on production capability of the company that a second line is already being considered.
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Ref: APS
Date: 11/02/2003

UNIQUE LETTERPRESS SYSTEM – THE FIRST WITH DIGITAL
A unique digital system has recently been installed and commissioned by APS Engineering on an eleven station off-line print finishing system, for direct mail specialists The Lettershop Group of Leeds. “This job would have been impossible without the UD70.”
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Ref: 99DA04-01
Date: 01/04/1999

MENTOR IS DRIVE OF CHOICE FOR PRINTING GIANT
KBA-Planeta of Dresden is one of the world’s leading suppliers of high-speed printing presses, from small machines for the jobbing printer up to the huge web presses seen in major newspaper giants. Control Techniques has supplied KBA-Planeta with several hundred drive systems, over recent years, for the company’s medium sized offset printing presses.
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Ref: 97DA11-02
Date: 01/11/1997

REEL STAND DRIVES KEEP THE PRESSES RUNNING AT NEW
The replacement of unreliable analogue drives on newspaper reel stands at News International, with Mentor II DC drives from Control Techniques, has reduced web breaks and improved feed accuracy for several of the company’s huge presses. To date, 15 reel stands have been upgraded and a further ten are on order.
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Ref: News Int
Date: 02/02/2004

Servo Benefits for Packaging Firm
The Sureflow® Model 8000 can produce high-quality thermoform-fill and seal packaging at rates in excess of 30 cycles per minute. This capability combined with it’s width and stroke parameters means that the Model 8000 can produce more packages per minute than any other packaging machine in the industry.
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Ref: Sureflow USA
Date: 06/02/2004

Enhanced Servo Performance for Wrapping Machine
Double-tight Wrapping revolutionized the bundling and wrapping of bagged products by solving the problem of pallet overhang caused by bulk density change, while at the same time reducing film cost by over 30%.
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Ref: EDL Usa
Date: 06/02/2004

Servo Drives Combine Ease-of-Use and High-Performa
For many years, single color in-line flexographic printing has been an ideal method for Pharmaceutical and Medical companies to print product identification information.
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Ref: Bell-Mark Usa
Date: 06/02/2004