ownership of packaging producers involved in high-volume folding carton printing.
Heidelberg Druckmaschinen AG (HEIDELBERG) has launched its new HEIDELBERG Boardmaster, a flexographic web printing system for high-volume folding carton production. The system boasts a machine availability of up to 90% and a maximum printing speed of 600 meters per minute, doubling productivity and dramatically reducing the total cost of ownership in industrial packaging production. With the world premiere of the Boardmaster at Interpack 2023, one of the world’s leading trade shows for the packaging segment, HEIDELBERG underlines its leading role in the packaging market.
According to a recent study by Smithers, fiber-based packaging made from materials such as board and paper will overtake plastic in the medium term and assume the top spot with a proportion of over 40%. With the increasing demand for sustainable packaging options, brand corporations are looking to combine printing quality with greater sustainability and recyclability across their entire packaging portfolio, and they are increasingly moving away from plastic. The Boardmaster is especially suited to the food and beverage sector’s folding carton applications, which are becoming increasingly popular worldwide due to a growing global demand for packaged products.
alternative for many packaging customers using very large format (VLF) offset printing
in their production operations.
The Boardmaster was developed from scratch at HEIDELBERG’s competence center for high-volume flexo folding carton printing in Bavaria, in collaboration with international packaging customers. The first systems have already been installed at the sites of large packaging customers. The system’s modular design ensures high investment security, allowing users to adapt the relevant machine configuration to changed market conditions. The solution is designed to significantly reduce industrial packaging customers’ operating costs, making it an attractive alternative to VLF sheetfed offset printing.