Heidelberg Awarded For Environmentally Friendly Presses

Last year, to push environmental factors higher up the agenda when designing and developing new presses, Heidelberg joined forces with Darmstadt University of Technology to develop an intranet-based environment portal. Developers working on a new inking unit, for example, can use the portal to obtain the relevant environmental requirements from a comprehensive database. Moreover, the developers’ own environmental protection know-how can also be fed into the database, where it can be used in the medium term as an example of best practice. The portal is to be launched shortly and has been designed to anchor environmental protection in the very first stage of the product life cycle—a stage that is also crucial for shaping the future and driving standards forward.