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SPECIALISED MAGAZINE FOR THE COATING AND CONVERTING INDUSTRY Issue 84 International December 2020 International film, nonwovens and paper converting WEB INSPECTION, TEST & MEASUREMENT ADHESIVE TECHNOLOGIES & INNOVATIONS DIE CUTTING, EMBOSSING & PERFORATING Insight: BOBST Insight: AST Converter of the Month: Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH • Mainzer Landstr. 251 • 60326 Frankfurt am Main / Germany • www.coating-converting.com 251 • 60326 Frankfurt GmbH • Mainzer Landstr. Deutscher Fachverlag Panoval EDITORIAL | 3 www.coating-converting.com C2 INTERNATIONAL 84 / December 2020 / 14th Edition Publis hed by: Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH Postal address: Mainzer Landstr. 251 60326 Frankfurt/Germany +49 69 75 95-01, +49 69 75 95-2999, www.dfv.de Executive Management Board: Peter Esser, Sönke Reimers (Speakers of Management Board), Markuswww.c2-europe.eu Gotta, Peter Kley Supervisory Board: Andreas Lorch, Catrin Lorch, Peter Ruß, Angela Wisken Publishing Director: Dirk Lehmann, +49 69 7595-1291, [email protected] Publisher: Franz Hermann, +49 40 30712170, +49 40 94775247 [email protected] Editor: Martin Hirschmann, +49 69 7595-1546, [email protected] Director Finances and Media Services: Thomas Berner, +49 69 7595-1147 Production: Hans Dreier (Ltg.), +49 69 75 95-2463 Logistics: Ilja Sauer (Ltg.), +49 69 75 95-2201 A new start with innovation and continuity Graphics: Nadine Bauernfeind Advertising Director technical publications: Heidrun Dangl, +49 69 75 95-2563, [email protected] Dear Readers, Advertising Manager: Nina Pirchmoser, +49 69 7595-1227, [email protected] In this last C2 issue of 2020, the new/old C2 core team greets you: Nadine Bauernfeind, Advertising fax: +49 69 7595-2960 Subscription and Reader Service: Petra Petrasch, Martin Hirschmann and Nina Pirchmoser (from left to right). 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Yours Information in accordance with § 5 sec. 2 of the Hessian Press Law (HPresseG): Shareholders of Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH are Mr. Andreas Lorch, Heidelberg (42,1908%); Mrs. Catrin Lorch, Königswinter (10,9358%); Mrs. Anette Lorch, Büdingen (10,9367%); Mrs. Britta Lorch, Berlin (10,9367%) and Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main (25%). COATING & CONVERTING | C2 INTERNATIONAL 84 | DECEMBER 2020 4 | CONTENTS THE BROADER VIEW 14 My colleague, the robot........................................................................... 7 What will the factory of the future look like? How will it be organised? In this C2 article, we once again venture to look beyond the horizon and present FPT Industrial's Driveline factory in Turin, Italy, where drives and axles for heavy vehicles are manufactured. Robotics is already a matter of course here – a role model for the converting industry, too? MARKET REPORT On the way to number one in surface density measurement ................................................ 9 Prof Dr Daniel Eggerath has been appointed as new managing director of MeSys (Greifenberg, Germany). In an interview with C2, he talks about his new tasks and goals Diversified and well-networked ............................................... 11 C2 in an exclusive interview with Dirk Schröder, sales manager at Erhardt+Leimer GmbH (Stadtbergen, Germany) From flexo printing into the converting industry .......................................................... 13 Laserclean (Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands) discusses why laser cleaning of anilox rollers can also be attractive for users from our sector 22 Comprehensive package for web inspection ..................................................................................... 14 Grafikontrol was founded in 1969 in Milan, Italy. From the beginning, the company focussed its activities on the development and production of systems for quality control during the production processes in the printing and converting sectors. C2 presents the supplier in detail New non-contact allrounder ......................................................... 18 Meech International (Witney, UK) presents the new CyClean-R: a non-contact web cleaning system for webs with low tension Flexible and fully integrated .......................................................... 19 Polytec GmbH demonstrates how non-contact speed measurement and digitisation can go hand in hand today ‘Future concepts’ in strip flatness measurement ............................................................. 20 26 Achenbach Buschhütten has unveiled an innovative CFP measuring roll for the plastics industry Sustainable and food-safe ................................................................ 22 In an exclusive interview with C2, Cristian Furiosi, CEO of SAPICI (Milan, Italy), shares insights into his company’s offering in high-performance polyurethanes for packaging & print, coating, industrial applications, and others Sunny perspectives ...................................................................................... 24 CMC Klebetechnik (Frankenthal, Germany) supplies a range of adhesive tapes for the production of solar modules Secure storage ................................................................................................... 26 For flat and rotative die-cutting tools, Marbach (Heilbronn, Germany) offers its Die Storage System COATING & CONVERTING | C2 INTERNATIONAL 84 | DECEMBER 2020 CONTENTS | 5 Die-cutting the smart way ................................................................ 27 Berhalter AG (Widnau, Switzerland) shows how die- cutting systems can be made even more productive thanks to digitalisation, automation, and networking 50 years of British-Japanese partnership .................... 29 Back in the the 1970’s before emails or Instagram, RK PrintCoat was spotted for a news article by Matsuo Sangyo, Japan. Interested in RK’s K Hand Coater equipment, they made contact by handwritten letter A successor for cylinders .................................................................... 30 The new ComCut 76 from KAMA (Dresden, Germany) is reported to have a quick return-on-investment and enable efficient further processing How to truly ‘understand‘ a production line ......... 31 LAE Engineering GmbH (Wiesloch, Germany) discusses model- based engineering in control and automation technology INSIGHT Why battery technology and slitting and winding machinery actually are a perfect fit ......... 32 KAMPF (Wiehl, Germany) and Kampf LSF bundle and increase their activities for the production of lithium-ion batteries Dynamic Duo ........................................................................................................ 34 BOBST has introduced to the market two brand-new laminating lines 32 in 2020: the solvent-less NOVA SX 550 LAMINATOR and the multi- technology NOVA D 800 LAMINATOR, which is also available in the NOVA