The Klingele Group has ordered a six-colour press with a working width of 2,800 mm for its Delmenhorst box plant. The press, a completely new design, stretches from the feeder, via the printing unit and rotary die-cutter to the delivery.
At Drupa 2016, Koenig & Bauer announced its return to the corrugated market. Koenig & Bauer executive board member Christoph Müller: “We studied the market very carefully and also spoke directly with many of the companies. On this basis, we then sat down to design a press which mirrors the specific needs of the customers as precisely as possible.”
Koenig & Bauer unveiled its new presses to the corrugated market at the FEFCO technical seminar 2017 in Vienna.
Dr. Jan Klingele, managing partner of the Klingele Group, the third generation of the owning family, said, “After Koenig & Bauer announced its return to the corrugated market at drupa 2016, we followed the further developments very closely. The branch was simply lacking another potential supplier to the premium segment.”
The more than nine-decade-old Klingele Group’s product range covers corrugated base paper manufactured using recycled waste paper, innovative and sustainable packaging solutions for a diversity of industries and applications, as well as adhesives.
Dr Klingele is also the president of the European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers (FEFCO),
Klingele Group was also brought on board as a top-class cooperation partner for the high board line rotary die-cutter CorruCUT. The CorruCUT incorporates a number of unique features such as a vacuum-belt feeder without infeed shaft, a new solution for anilox roller exchange and an overhead vacuum delivery.
Dr. Jan Klingele, managing partner of the Klingele Group and president of the European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers (FEFCO), said, “The concept presented by Koenig & Bauer and the many new technical ideas embodied in the press sealed our decision in favour of the CorruCUT. We are now looking forward to accompanying the new rotary die-cutter through to series maturity in cooperation with Koenig & Bauer.”
The new CorruCUT will first be set up and tested at the Koenig & Bauer manufacturing plant in Würzburg, and is then scheduled for delivery in early 2019. The two companies have also concluded an agreement on further presses in the future.