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Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) has delivered two sheetfed offset printing presses to packaging manufacturer WestRock. These are the two longest presses ever produced. They were delivered to a plant in Poland and Germany.
The longest machine delivered to the WestRock plant in Tczew, Poland, is a 42 metre long, specially adapted configuration of a Speedmaster XL 106 with a total of 20 printing and coating units. This record-breaking machine epitomises one of the company's key business strategies.
„We help our customers to simplify their printing processes and increase their productivity by offering them a high degree of automation and flexibility, which is particularly important at a time when the global shortage of skilled labour is intensifying.“
Dr Ludwin Monz, Chairman of the Management Board at Heidelberg
This business strategy is increasingly paying off. With forecast annual growth of around 2.3 per cent, the folding carton market is a strategic growth segment for Heidelberg. Around the Half of the sheetfed offset presses sold and installed by Heidelberg go to packaging customers. „Today, Heidelberg is the market leader in packaging printing, with Speedmaster XL technology playing an important role,“ says Monz.
The trend towards increasingly sustainable packaging, such as folding cartons, is fuelling demand. Cardboard packaging is increasingly replacing plastic packaging in all areas - from food to cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Heidelberg also supplies a another Speedmaster XL 106 with a total of 19 printing and coating units to a WestRock site in Obersulm, Germany - the second longest in the world.
The record-breaking presses supplied to WestRock can print high-quality, eye-catching packaging. The long, highly flexible Speedmaster XL 106 with its large number of Printing and coating units for a wide range of packaging applications with eye-catching coating and metallic effects and sustainable products - completely inline, double-sided and in a single pass.
Source: Heidelberg
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