Heidelberg unveils Kawahara BMS-1100 for automated stripping and blanking of folding cartons

“Heidelberg is systematically investing in the growth markets of packaging and label printing. The distribution agreement for Kawahara blanking systems adds a further key production step in the workflow to the company’s label printing portfolio,” said Rainer Hundsdörfer, CEO of Heidelberg. “In this way, we are helping our customers further automate their processes and thus make them as efficient and cost-effective as possible. As a result, Heidelberg now offers all the technology needed for a highly efficient workflow in industrial label production – from job creation, prepress, and plate imaging all the way through to printing, die cutting, and fully automatic blank stripping.”

The Kawahara TXS-1100 and Kawahara BMS-1100 blanking stations are both high-performance models. It takes less than 15 minutes to set up a job and tooling costs are minimal. The cycle of the TXS-1100, whereby a stack of 1,000 IML sheets can be quickly blanked and offloaded, takes between 1.5 and 2 minutes. The new Kawahara TXS-1100 is a high-performance system with enhanced components and an innovative feeder and unloading system. It’s ideal for the in-mold label market and has proved to be an outstanding stripping and blanking solution for this label material, which is difficult to handle. The Kawahara BMS-1100 offers an excellent price/performance ratio for folding-carton print shops looking to automate blanking. For example, the BMS-1100 can process up to 20 blank individual stacks of packages per minute – and handles single cut and nested products equally well.