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In addition to the virtual exhibition video, live demos via video conferencing tools have been another important and successful part of the Alliance Days. The initial worry of having contact with visitors in regards to the technology was erased quite quickly. Every company has followed an individual way of proceeding, each of them granting customers the direct dialogue with the contact to the machinery company and allowing them to raise specific questions. The available time window offered even interested visitors from regions in Asia and America enough occasions to make use of the time slots for live demos. In this way the companies have held during the four days overall 185 live demos. Even now the organizers are in agreement, that the Alliance Days have for sure not been the last ones. Although all Alliance members are definitely missing the personal contact with their clients and business partners, the concept itself delivers a perfect alternative in times of reduced possibilities with the pandemic. And most probably even on the long run, these new digital paths of communication will continue to keep a certain level of importance. The fast and easy overcoming of distances as well as the accessibility of product novelties from every corner of the world at any time have become a status quo and are expected rightly by customers as a standard. It is in this spirit that the Postpress Alliance will continue to use this created space of the virtual exhibition and fill it with life also in the future. The 365 days a year open showroom will bear the name Postpress Alliance World and will be periodically updated. Its contents will consistently ring the changes and create exciting moments for the customers.

„After the fair is before the fair“ – and it is in this direction that the industry may already be anxious to see the next edition of the Alliance Days. But now to the technological highlights that have been in the centre of interest of the Alliance Days.

H+H have been convincing in particular with the automated M9.60 folding machine, equipped with 16 buckle plates. To demonstrate live how the machine can be set from one product to another within only three minutes, has been more than impressive. Customers were also excited about the small fold machine concept S45. In January yet, H+H will widen its product range again on the virtual platform with a stirring mailing line. Live video demos are anticipated for the entire year 2021 and can be booked by interested customers at any time.

BOGRAMA went “ALL-IN“ and die cut poker sets on their playing-card-production-line. This interesting line consists of a rotary die-cutting machine BSR 550 Servo and the new card-play delivery ACC 550 HS and disposes of an interface for all potential aggregates of downstream processes, such as for example cellophane wrapping machines. The line produces 2000 full card sets per hour. The according packaging for the card sets was die-cut on their fold-boxmachine. This new concept of first creasing than die cutting achieves the highest scoring quality. The line is designed in a modular way and includes two inline installed rotary die-cutting machines BSR 550 Servo, the shredder SH 550 for the chopping of the die-cut scrap web and the new stacker STA 550 R. The product range of BOGRAMA is rounded up by the rotary die-cut machine BSR 550 basic. This compact and inexpensive offline machine has been purposely conceived for users who aim for an economical and efficient production of smaller and medium size jobs.

The overall concept allows in this way 17 different configuration alternatives, eight of them even in parallel production mode. To this versatile offer visitors of both, virtual showroom as well as live video demos, have reacted with excitement. On the fully automated HSB 13.000 Hohner surpasses with the newly incorporated airblowing injector system on their signature feeders; this allows the production at again higher speed up to the actual 13.000 cycles. This new principle implicates the selective addition of a blown air stream on the signature in order to hold it stable on the chain at high speed. This situation typically causes the unilateral take off of the sweeping signature when hit by the carrier. Also the suction opening works smoothly on the HSB 13.000 up to a maximum speed of 13.000 cycles. More added value comes from optimisations of the two-up device delivering now a set-up time reduced by 50%.

Baumannperfecta - The Future is now - With the premiere of the world's first and unique fully automatic jogging and cutting system baumannperfecta sets benchmarks for automation solutions in printfinishing and emphasizes the claim of technological leadership in their segment. Among the highlights of the exhibition program were shown the new Baumann Automatic Shaker System BASA evolution for the automated jogging, the new generation of cutting machine Cutting 4.0 for the complete integration into the workflow. Thanks to the modular concept at the base of all baumannperfecta solutions also smaller companies now have the chance to already lay the foundations for a future-oriented automation line and to expand gradually. At the same occasion, customers take the advantage of most advanced technologies as for instance the efficient air-knife technology or further developments such as the new cutting cell for significantly longer knife life. Efficient, flexible, and sustainable solutions - into the future TOGETHER with baumannperfecta.

Wohlenberg allowed their customers on the virtual platform during the Alliance Days to learn more about their perfect binder Quickbinder Edition Digital in combination with a trilateral trimmer D09. As an in-line version these machines represent the smallest inline booklet production line with up to 2000 cycles/hour of Wohlenberg. The Edition Digital enables a thickness variable production with the perfectbinder as well as the trilateral trimmer and offers the printing finisher a unique possibility to produce inline booklets with different product thicknesses also for short runs. Moreover the Quickbinder continues to deliver a unique variety of optional equipment, as for example the lining station as well as all perfect binding technologies. Wohlenberg is ready for the next step.