Stahlfolder TH/KH from Heidelberg Receives PIA/GATF InterTech Award for Innovation Excellence
08/03/2005
Award for the modular and highly automated generation of TH/KH
folders
This year the generation of Stahlfolder TH/KH folders from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) received the prestigious PIA/GATF InterTech Award for Innovation Excellence. An independent panel of experts selected 17 innovative products out of a record 52 entries. This is Heidelberg's 22nd award since the program started in 1978. Stahlfolder TH/KH folders require minimal makeready time, feature a level of flexibility, and high automation resulting in markedly higher production and greater operator convenience. The machines are simple to operate and can be integrated in an end-to-end workflow using Prinect FCS 100 Compufold software. The modular design means that customers' very specific needs can be catered to and the folders are scalable to retrofit all hardware features, such as pre-slitter shafts. Since first exhibiting the Stahlfolder TH/KH at drupa 2004, Heidelberg has sold over 800 machines.
The Stahlfolder TH/KH is ideal for midsize and industrial printers as well as trade binders. It comes in sizes of 56, 66, and 82 centimeters.
Shorter makeready times are achieved thanks to the air stream register table, an inclined conveyor belt without marbles that utilizes air flow to control and align sheets. This concept ensures that sheets are not marked during transport and can process a broad range of paper with minimum setup requirements. Newly designed combination buckle plates can be adjusted on the run to change in-feed space, lower or raise the back pan and even to adjust for bowfolds to the benefit of even faster makeready speeds and increased fold quality. These plates are unique in the market and standard on TH/KH folders.
Automation options, such as the motor-driven fold roller adjustments, eliminate the need to add paperstrips to gap settings, resulting in fold roller settings in seconds instead of minutes. The system uses the double-sheet detector to calculate the paper thickness and adjusts fold roller gap settings according to caliper and folding imposition. Settings can then be stored for repeat jobs, including any fine adjustments that might have been necessary. The new, optional slitter shaft lift improves access to all slitter shaft components and adds to operator convenience and the ability to make fine adjustments. The standard Extra Grip fold rollers ensure top-quality folding. The roller design features a greater proportion of polyurethane and as such does not mark, yet maintains a firm hold on any stock weight.
The Stahlfolder KH/TH folders are guaranteed to impress with their new design, where the focus is on user-friendliness and ergonomics. The series was awarded the red dot 'best of the best' prize in 2004. The red dot is an international seal of design quality.
About PIA/GATF
The Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (GATF) was founded in 1924 in the US to help professional users in the graphic arts industrial sector with research, training, information, and services. In 1999 the GATF merged with the Printing Industries of America Inc. (PIA) and today PIA/GATF is the world's largest trade association in the graphic arts industry, representing the interests of over 1.2 million employees and more than 12,000 member companies.
PIA/GATF is the sponsor of the InterTech Technology Awards, where outstanding and innovative technologies for the graphic arts industry are honored. Independent judges select technologies that, in their view, will have a greater impact on the productivity, profitability, service offering, and market opportunities of printshops in the next five years.
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The Stahlfolder TH/KH generation of folders receives the prestigious PIA/GATF InterTech Award for Innovation.
For further information:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Corporate Communications
Hilde Weisser
Fax: +49 (0)6221 92 50 46
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 92 50 66
E-mail: hilde.weisser@heidelberg.com
This year the generation of Stahlfolder TH/KH folders from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) received the prestigious PIA/GATF InterTech Award for Innovation Excellence. An independent panel of experts selected 17 innovative products out of a record 52 entries. This is Heidelberg's 22nd award since the program started in 1978. Stahlfolder TH/KH folders require minimal makeready time, feature a level of flexibility, and high automation resulting in markedly higher production and greater operator convenience. The machines are simple to operate and can be integrated in an end-to-end workflow using Prinect FCS 100 Compufold software. The modular design means that customers' very specific needs can be catered to and the folders are scalable to retrofit all hardware features, such as pre-slitter shafts. Since first exhibiting the Stahlfolder TH/KH at drupa 2004, Heidelberg has sold over 800 machines.
The Stahlfolder TH/KH is ideal for midsize and industrial printers as well as trade binders. It comes in sizes of 56, 66, and 82 centimeters.
Shorter makeready times are achieved thanks to the air stream register table, an inclined conveyor belt without marbles that utilizes air flow to control and align sheets. This concept ensures that sheets are not marked during transport and can process a broad range of paper with minimum setup requirements. Newly designed combination buckle plates can be adjusted on the run to change in-feed space, lower or raise the back pan and even to adjust for bowfolds to the benefit of even faster makeready speeds and increased fold quality. These plates are unique in the market and standard on TH/KH folders.
Automation options, such as the motor-driven fold roller adjustments, eliminate the need to add paperstrips to gap settings, resulting in fold roller settings in seconds instead of minutes. The system uses the double-sheet detector to calculate the paper thickness and adjusts fold roller gap settings according to caliper and folding imposition. Settings can then be stored for repeat jobs, including any fine adjustments that might have been necessary. The new, optional slitter shaft lift improves access to all slitter shaft components and adds to operator convenience and the ability to make fine adjustments. The standard Extra Grip fold rollers ensure top-quality folding. The roller design features a greater proportion of polyurethane and as such does not mark, yet maintains a firm hold on any stock weight.
The Stahlfolder KH/TH folders are guaranteed to impress with their new design, where the focus is on user-friendliness and ergonomics. The series was awarded the red dot 'best of the best' prize in 2004. The red dot is an international seal of design quality.
About PIA/GATF
The Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (GATF) was founded in 1924 in the US to help professional users in the graphic arts industrial sector with research, training, information, and services. In 1999 the GATF merged with the Printing Industries of America Inc. (PIA) and today PIA/GATF is the world's largest trade association in the graphic arts industry, representing the interests of over 1.2 million employees and more than 12,000 member companies.
PIA/GATF is the sponsor of the InterTech Technology Awards, where outstanding and innovative technologies for the graphic arts industry are honored. Independent judges select technologies that, in their view, will have a greater impact on the productivity, profitability, service offering, and market opportunities of printshops in the next five years.
Image:
The Stahlfolder TH/KH generation of folders receives the prestigious PIA/GATF InterTech Award for Innovation.
For further information:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Corporate Communications
Hilde Weisser
Fax: +49 (0)6221 92 50 46
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 92 50 66
E-mail: hilde.weisser@heidelberg.com
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