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Off to the Drupa 2008 with innovative finishing solutions

Hugo Beck has made a name for itself as a leading manufacturer of film packaging machines and packaging lines. But its machines for print processing have grown in the meantime to become an equally important business division. The solutions that the machine builders have for the printing industry were presented by the specialists from Dettingen near Stuttgart at the Drupa 2008. "Although we are only one of a record breaking 1800 exhibitors and not even the largest - in the area of finishing, we are one of the most innovative", according to Managing Director Horst Heimann.

There was a time when a printing product stood alone as a value by itself. But today, product samples, CDs, brochures and lottery postcards are a natural part of catalogues, magazines and newspapers. However, these first become really 'finished off' when supplements are attached neatly, well protected and perfectly presented. Hugo Beck has the technology for this kind of finishing.

Hugo Beck showed its most recent development at the Drupa, the film packaging machine neo X in combination with the inserting machine ESM 15 and the newspaper feeder ZA 450. The ESM 15 is usually used in combination with adhesive binders or saddle stitching machines. It can process up to 15,000 magazines per hour, insert advertising supplements, do corner conversions, glue address labels and de-stack. Apart from the precision, the speed and the flexibility of the plant are remarkable - time-consuming re-fitting or long downtimes are not necessary.

The newly developed newspaper feeder ZA 450 is the only feeder of its kind in the medium output range up to 10,000 cycles/hour which does not use a rotational working principle. A newly developed functional principle is used to safely dispense newspapers with or without pre-selected advertising supplements up to a product thickness of 30 mm and to balance a thickness tolerance of + 10 mm.

More service and lower unit costs through the highest quality: This was and still is the Hugo Beck promise, not only at the Drupa 2008.

Gleanings

With innovations on board at the Interpack 2008

Superlatives were to be heard already ahead of the Interpack 2008 in Düsseldorf: 50 years after the fair's premiere, the trade congress of the packaging industry was registering the most exhibitors ever, the largest expansion and the most international composition in its history. Hugo Beck Maschinenbau, foremost manufacturer of film packaging machines and packaging lines, also had some of the finest innovations in its portfolio.

"neo" is the most recent development from the Hugo Beck company, which was first presented to the public in April at the Interpack.
What is so special about this new machine generation? It was developed by the market and is thus based on intensive customer surveys. These resulted in a long wish list from which three central topics of interest emerged: Users wanted better ergonomics, simpler maintenance and adjustment options for the running machine.

The neo X-generation satisfies these needs, amongst other things, with an altogether slimmer machine corpus, which allows better access to all mobile parts, automation of side welding, flexible storage of the fingers which transport the product into the film, as well as a swivel-mounted waste roller, tilting switchgear cabinet and fixation of the machine casing with locking bars instead of with screws.

From the September 2006 "hob"

Practical workshop on the topic of "Innovative wood packaging" /
Opening of the new demo centre

On the occasion of an exclusive practical workshop on the topic of "Innovative wood packaging", Hugo Beck Maschinenbau GmbH & Co.KG, Dettingen, has presented a new panelling and timber packaging machine.
At the same time, the new demo centre was opened as witnessed by a trade public and regional decision-makers.