drupa 2012: BOBST's Best Show Ever

BOBST unveiled a wide range of innovations at drupa 2012, with the company making a conscious decision to focus on four machines, each incorporating a range of innovations: the new 20SIX flexo printing machine platform for the production of flexible packaging, the new EXPERTCUT 106 PER flat-bed die-cutter, the MASTERFOLD 110-A3 folding box gluing machine and the SL 1000 solvent-free, high-speed laminating line. Many customers from all over the world also took advantage of drupa to see machines such as a 10-color F&K 20SIX flexo printing press in live operation at BOBST Bielefeld, as well as a MASTERFOIL 106 PR high-end foil stamping press at Druckveredelung Köch & Glasder GmbH in the town of Neuss, not far from the exhibition. BOBST also presented details of its new EXPERTFOIL 142 large-format foil stamping machine at drupa. In addition, in the autumn of 2011 BOBST had launched ACCUCHECK, the world's first integrated quality control system for folding-box gluing machines and GYROBOX, the first turning module for the corrugated board industry. In Düsseldorf, BOBST announced the launch of an industrial digital sheet-fed printing press for packaging production planned for the summer of 2013. Operating at high production speeds, this unit prints materials with water-based inks in photo-realistic quality, typically used in the packaging business.