Finishing & Screen Printing
In an attempt to set an efficiency record POLAR outperforms its own expectations
Monday 23. November 2009 - A POLAR automatic cutting system with only one operator achieves a productivity level of more than six pallets per hour during a presentation!
POLARs Technology Days in November are aimed mainly at industrial printing businesses which want to invest in automation. Not only is the system very fast, but it also has a very compact design and does not take much more space than a standard system. The fact that even small runs and a wide variety of materials can be processed means the system is very flexible. Last year, POLARs L-R-137-T PACE System won the globally respected PIA/GATF InterTech Technology Award in the USA.
On 5 November, this POLAR System, operated by only one person, processed as many as 43 reams in sixty minutes. This means more than six pallets, each of them one meter high! The paper was manually prepared in a jogger, and then automatically loaded via a buffer onto the rear table. Here the material was automatically trimmed on all four sides, and finally, also automatically, stacked on pallets. Michael Neugart, Managing Director of POLAR, is really enthusiastic: “With this level of efficiency we can frankly claim to be offering the worlds fastest cutting system. A cycle time in four-side trim of well under 90 seconds per ream! Wed really like to see anyone else do that.”