Using Skype for Business, Muller Martini presented the benefits of its KM 610.A perfect binding line via live video to one of its customers who was unable to travel to Rahden for a machine demonstration due to the current travel restrictions.
The takeover of Cologne-based Druckerei Flock brought Georg Gottwald a rollercoaster ride that lasted many years. Permanent adjustments to changing market situations and a focus on business customers ultimately secured his competitiveness in the long term. The high added value necessary for success is achieved primarily through the use of Horizon machines in the finishing department.
One of the tricks skateboarders perform is known as grabbing air, short for going aerial where you ride with all four wheels off the ground. Brothers Chris and Grant Burns know all about it. After installing a new, 54-inch SABER X-15 paper cutter with Microcut last November, they felt the same kind of rush. Understanding the benefits they experienced in the first 30 days, they ordered and had another same size new SABER installed two months ago at their business, BBS Manufacturing, with headquarters in San Marcos, California.
The new coronavirus has mobilized several sectors of society to seek solutions to mitigate the problems caused by the pandemic. In Curitiba (the capital and largest city in the Brazilian state of Paran), doctors, professors, designers, engineers and executives of the printing industry came together to create and mass produce a face protection gear coined Face Shield, in addition to protective glasses. The reusable products made of plastic are being donated to the State Department of Health, which is distributing the products across the entire state of Paran to healthcare professionals, law enforcement officers, municipal guards and other sectors.
Together with Virobuster, UV equipment manufacturer IST Metz distributes Steritube systems for air and surface disinfection. The Steritube systems from Virobuster feature the unique, patented UVPE technology (Ultraviolet Pathogenic Elimination) for air disinfection. They are used for the deactivation of micro-organisms harmful to humans, environment and food. As an official partner, IST Metz is now distributing the products together with Virobuster.
The year 2020 kicked off with great expectations of new developments arriving for the digital printing industry, and we at Tecnau were eager to show a revolutionary series of solutions at drupa in Germany. Unfortunately, the world has changed in ways hardly anyone imagined, as lives and economies are devastated by the coronavirus pandemic.
The restrictive measures undertaken by the Italian Government required our business processes to quickly adapt in order to safeguard the health of all Tecnau employees, customers, partners and stakeholders in accordance with national laws and recommendation from the World Health Organization (WHO).
