The Ahaus-Germany-based company has announced that it recently sold its 100th palletizer robot to a North American printer. The 100th order was for an MPA Palletizer with a VVS Pre-Sorter and will be installed during the second quarter of 2015. Segbert is the North American and European market leader for variable-height palletizers in the printing industry.
“We’re very proud that we have achieved this milestone. I would like to thank our partners in the printing industry as well as all our employees here in Ahaus. We could not have done this without them,” said Klaus Segbert, Managing Director. “We’re aware that the printing business is changing rapidly and while we continuously improve our current products, we’re also developing new solutions for areas like digital printing and packaging.”
The first-ever Segbert palletizer line in North America was a ZPA that was installed at Quad/Graphics (headquartered in Sussex, Wisconsin) in 2006 in the Milwaukee area. That installation, said Segbert, served as the foundation for a strong, lasting partnership. Today, Quad/Graphics is the largest Segbert customer worldwide and both companies currently work together to continuously improve workflows and equipment.
“Through close partnership with Segbert, we’re able to make sure that our requirements are part of the continuous improvement of its technology,” said Daren Robarge, Quad/Graphics Senior Vice-President of Manufacturing. “Segbert’s palletizers meet our needs. They can be installed and production-ready in less than one week, can handle different sized bundles, create an orderly and well-constructed pallet of product, and can keep pace with our high-speed equipment.”
In addition to Quad/Graphics, several other leading North American printers, including Fry Communications and TC Transcontinental Printing, have chosen Segbert for certain aspects of their automation projects in recent years. The palletizers and stackers are used in more than 500 installations in pressrooms and binderies around the globe and can be customized to handle a wide range of printed products – such as newspapers, retail inserts, magazines, catalogues, loose signatures, logs of signatures, books and book blocks, cartons and more.
