Quiet Progress in Folder/Gluers

Chris Raney, vice president of folding carton products for Bobst Group, acknowledged there was a period in the late 1980s and early 1990s in which there was stagnation in folder/gluer equipment development. This changed when Bobst introduced the Alpina line in 1998.

According to Raney, Alpina introduced many innovative features such as a built-in blank aligning module, 4- and 6-corner hooks on a mobile frame using one hook design, a flipper ejector, and in-line ejection of non-conforming boxes. He especially highlights the Gyrobox module.