Olaf Ostermöller, owner and managing director of Ostermöller Verpackungen, with the Bobst Visioncut 106 LER.
Bünde-based Ostermöller Verpackungen has commissioned the world’s first Visioncut 106 LER. This was produced by Bobst who had previously presented at the Competence 15 open house, held in Switzerland in June 2015, showcasing the inline separation and 8000 sheets per hour production speed of the new press.
Alongside the Visioncut 106 LER’s short set-up times and innovative technical features, it was the presence of the automatic separation capability at a competitive cost that won over Olaf Ostermöller, owner and managing director of the company.
‘In the fields of foodstuffs and technical products in particular, packaging is increasingly being erected and glued by machine. Given this background, we were absolutely determined to install a flatbed die-cutter with inline separation to replace our existing system.’ explained Mr Ostermöller, emphasising the importance of replacing another manual operation in the production process. Mr Ostermöller goes on to explain that the machine is also flexible enough to be converted quickly and easily to full sheet output. ‘With three months’ production experience of the Visioncut we are very happy with the results. It highlights how right we were to make this investment,’ concluded Mr Ostermöller.
The die-cutter was installed at the end of August and since then it has been operating without issue. ‘Compared to our previous SP 104-E die-cutting machine, set-up times have become considerably shorter,’ said Mr Ostermöller.
The optical, non-contact sheet register, the fully automatic Smart Feeder and the double-cam gripper drive, number among the other technical highlights of this innovative flatbed die-cutter. Together, they guarantee reliable production during the processing of a wide range of packaging materials at sheet formats of up to 1060 x 760 mm – including lightweight paper material with a grammage of 80 g/m2 or more, carton board up to 2’000 g/m2, as well as plastics and corrugated board up to a thickness of 4 mm – while ensuring outstanding quality and productivity.
‘With the Visioncut 106 LER, we can achieve full production speed faster than with our previous die-cutter and accelerate it to its peak throughput of approximately 8’000 sheets per hour,’ continued Mr Ostermöller, illustrating one aspect of the new machines’ enhanced productivity that offers his company an extremely attractive price/performance ratio.
