Koenig & Bauer has developed a new cutter for gravure presses. As a result, print shops with gravure presses can now significantly expand their order portfolio. BurdaDruck (Hubert Burda Media), one of Europe’s most high-performance gravure printing companies, is investing in this new development. Heiko Engelhardt, managing director at BurdaDruck: “The concept of expanding the cutter convinced us right from the start. As Koenig & Bauer also offers many other services for gravure presses and has extensive know-how in this field, we are convinced that we have the right partner at our side.
The new cutter is to be installed this year as part of a retrofit to the existing press fleet at the Burda printing site in Vieux-Thann, France. “This investment enables us to offer our customers an even larger product portfolio in the future. We can also produce small volumes from eight pages, glued with a two-page jump. The format variability of gravure printing enables considerable savings in paper consumption through optimum formats, which is a major requirement of our customers as paper prices are increasing,” says Ingo Raab, sales manager at BurdaDruck.
