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Bobst has presented the Bobst Inventor Award for the third time. With this award, the company honours inventive employees and aims to raise awareness of the importance of intellectual property. Engineer Fred Rostalski won the award for his innovation that increases efficiency in the printing process.
The award was established in 2020 under the leadership of Sigrid Wagner, Group IP Director. The annual award is sponsored by CEO Jean-Pascal Bobst. It is intended to thank the winners for the contributions they have made with their inventions to the Strengthening the company's intellectual property to achieve. And it aims to raise awareness of the importance of intellectual property.
„We try to promote our highly innovative corporate culture and reward initiative in all areas. It is important that our employees are experts in their fields and that we can utilise their specialist knowledge.“
Leonard Badet, Head of Group Technology at Bobst
Inventions by employees who received a patent for the first time in 2021 were assessed. They were categorised according to their economic benefit for Bobst and its customers, according to their technical possibilities and their suitability for the market assessed.
„Fred Rostalski epitomises exactly what we are aiming for with this award. He is constantly committed to simplifying the work of print shops. His work on this patent is clearly one of the technical processes that can directly benefit companies. As companies improve their efficiency, they also improve the printing technology that supports them. A quick look at the previous winners and the extent to which their inventions are influencing the development of the industry as a whole is an impressive testament to the highly talented, forward-thinking team we employ.“
Leonard Badet
Rostalski's invention uses high-resolution camera scans to provide information on the cliché reliefs, which can be used to improve the quality of products manufactured using pad printing. The invention makes it possible to Visualise print images in advance and determine presetting parameters for the printing machines, to test and correct.
Thanks to this invention, the Presetting of the print images and correction of the print parameters moved upstream to plate assembly, This shortens the presetting times in the printing presses, which in turn extends the service life of the systems.
Source: Bobst
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