IL MONDO DI CERUTTI

IL MONDO DI CERUTTI

Il mondo di Cerutti - 2016 | 3

Letter of the Chairman and C.E.O.

2016 opens under a cloud of social, political, economic, financial instability and uncertainty. After many years of financial crisis that has expanded its influence with different impacts worldwide, the war that touches many Middle East Areas and the migration flows that disrupt the social reality of many European Countries, cause new tensions and negatively affect consumption and investments. We must also see that the war on oil prices, the drop in demand of raw materials and the economic slowdown of China, Brazil, Russia, add depressive elements to the development of international trade. This scenario makes all investment decisions more problematic and also affects the two economic sectors in which the Companies of our Group operate: the ‘packaging printing and converting’ and the ‘magazine, catalogue, newspaper and book printing’. Two realities that have suffered very different impacts due to the globalization of economies, lifestyles, migratory phenomena and new technologies. Both realities are developing and changing rapidly in different ways, which necessarily influence our strategies. The packaging world continues to grow; although in many countries consumer spending does not have a positive trend, packaging remains a fundamental tool to present and sell products on the market, together with their preservation and transportation from one country to another.At the same time, a new trend is gaining more ground in the food market: the trend of smaller formats, started in the United States, where reducing calories intake is considered very important. The demand for smaller products and consequently smaller packaging (classic examples are the Coke ‘small cans’ and the Magnum ice cream ‘mini double’) is also emerging in Western countries and involving a wider range of products: drinks, snacks, chocolates, cookies, preserves and cold meats. All presented in a colorful, sophisticated package, with multiple layers of laminated film, foil and paper. Printed newspapers, magazines, catalogues and books were negatively affected by the rapid growth of the web, more and more used as a communication and commercial tool. In this sector, technology has truly transformed everyone’s life and accelerated even further the world globalization and real time information of every new event.

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Despite the above, even if paper seems to be on the eve of an irreversible decline, an international market analysis of the book sector found that paper books sold during 2015 in the USA alone, have increased from 559,000 to 571,000 copies whilst the digital book market fell approximately 20-22%. In this specific sector, the much-announced overtake of the web over paper, expected in 2015, was in fact not confirmed, but actually subverted. Today, the confirmed statistical percentage of Americans who use e-readers has been reduced by half, while Amazon has opened a traditional book store in Seattle that will become a franchise. Maybe we should ask ourselves if this trend will touch other print media in the coming years?With these scenarios in mind, our Group began 2016 with a clear strategy and better prospective.Since the previous Drupa, the last 4 years have not been easy for our Group. The collapse of the demand for newspapers, catalogues and magazine printing equipment (Cerutti, for many years and still today, is the only Company in the world producing gravure printing equipment for magazines and catalogues) has substantially influenced the life of our Group, forcing us to face a very challenging industrial and financial restructuring. It has been a tough path, but we achieved our goal: a complete “turn around”. Equipment for packaging printing and converting now amounts to more than 90% of our Group turnover.Under such conditions, our strategy has also changed; focusing on research and expansion of products related to ‘specialties’ with higher added value and growth potential (such as security printing, tipping paper and transfer paper for the fashion industry) and on converting, which follows the printing operation for every gravure, flexo or digital technology.Our 2015 and current 2016 sales show that the market has confidence in the ability of our Group to again be a leader among the manufacturers of gravure printing for packaging - as it has always been in the past. Drupa and K 2016 have always been important in assessing the technical and market trends occurring in particular historical moments.


However, there are not only difficulties and uncertainties in the development outlook of many countries, but also some positive notes. The presence of Africa in the market and the important agreement between the United States, the EU and Iran will bring new opportunities for industrial investments in the printing industry.In-line with the strategy described above, our Group will present at Drupa and then at ‘K’ our innovations and technical proposals developed in the past 18 months.Indeed, we will display printing and converting equipment which are the exemplification of the motto chosen for these two important events: “TECHNOLOGY AND CUSTOM-MADE SOLUTIONS, ALWAYS”.The word “ALWAYS” embodies our history. Since the beginning and for almost a century, we have served the market with the spirit of a Company that identifies itself with the Family who founded and still manages it today.We manufacture heavy duty equipment which is built to last, and the market recognizes it. We are innovators in applied solutions and our technical proposals have anticipated the trends and needs of our customers.We believe that each customer may have particular needs for their strategy; each one is constantly searching for a competitive advantage in the broad way of printing and converting and needs to find a supplier who can support him with custom-made solutions. We highly regard the personal relationships formed with our customers, knowing this is the key to develop stable and mutually beneficial partnerships between us. The passion that has lead us in developing our Company has crossed our history and still guides our daily actions. We remain faithful to the motto of our Founder, Giovanni Cerutti: “don’t be afraid to be brave”.

Dr. Giancarlo Cerutti


The progress of a Company over the course of a century


The history of Cerutti is that of a Company born out of a small workshop, which has grown into the international Group it is today.

Its history is strongly linked to that of Italy and to the international economic system to which our Country belongs.This section of our Annual Report is dedicated to some of the stages of this story: the progress of Cerutti in a country launched towards modernity, its entry in a booming international scene, its answer to the phenomenon of globalisation with all the great change it brings.

We would like to remember the protagonists of these stages: Giovanni, Luigi and Tere Cerutti who - thanks to the important contribution of all those at Cerutti who worked with dedication and believed in them - created this Company that was able to give Italy an example of world success and an important contribution towards its growth.


1924Fortunato DeperoTreno partorito dal sole


The 1920’s:the heritage of the great war

The literary and artistic movement of Futurism offers a radical renewal, in arts as in politics.This renewal is considered an inevitable result of the strength of an industrialization process that the Futurists embraced with great passion.

This contemporary reality forcefully made its way onto the canvases of the Futurists, with its cities growing fast and furiously, bustling crowds, motor cars and trains that became true symbols of the modern age.For the first time industrial modernity became the subject of works of art.


In wartime new technologies are developed.

Charlie Chaplin, in his very famous film “Modern Times” is an icon of industrial progress and the unstoppable effects of the machine and industrialisation.

A second and analogue interpretation of 20th century modernity is represented by the combination of war and technology: not as much for the originality of the connection, which one can also find in the cannons of the sixteenth-century or in the repeating rifles used in the American civil war, as for its extent and propagation typical of the 20th century: a century in which technology has become the predominant force of economic and civil life.


Charlie Chaplin“Modern times”


The blacksmith’s workshop of Giuseppe Cerutti, father of Giovanni, where the founder started his enterprise.


The workshop of Giuseppe Cerutti, father of Giovanni,was the starting point of the founder’s enterprise.

It was back in 1920 when Giovanni Cerutti then thirty years old returned to his hometown of Casale, after working in a factory and then as an engineer in the city of Turin.He served his first apprenticeship at his father’s workshop and later decided to set up his own business, establishing his first enterprise.

From Giovanni’s workshop came a range of products that were very different and high-tech even for those times, above all in the repairing of textile machines, but also in the production of other types of machines, for example wood cutting machinery.


The Second World War proved to be a dramatic experience for the Country, causing extensive damages to the fabric of its cities and industries. At the same time Italy was rejoicing its liberation, it also had to reckon with urgent problems: three quarters of its merchant fleet has been captured or sunk, an agricultural production cut by half; two hundred thousand homeless people in the cities of Turin and Milan and other cities such as Rome, Bologna and Florence reduced to a heap of ruins; an almost unusable railway network and a devastated industrial system.

Nevertheless, for Italy these times also became a challenge and a great opportunity: the 1940’s became the years of reconstruction.

The 1940’s:Italy rises from the war and faces the challenge of reconstruction


The Italian Republic was born on June 2nd, 1946.



Giovanni Cerutti,Officine Meccaniche G. Cerutti founder.

The first rotogravure press manufactured by Cerutti.

Immediately after the Second World War, with the few printing works now under heaps of ruins, intuition lead Giovanni Cerutti to decide that the repairing of textile machines was no longer his future and he threw himself into a great new adventure: rotogravure printing machines.

Confident of his result obtained from repairing a machine damaged by the war, in 1949 Giovanni Cerutti built his first rotogravure printing press, supplied to Prasa of Warsaw, for printing PVC tablecloths.


The Fiat 600: testimonial of Italian miracle.


The 1960’s:a consumer society

After the revolution of the new means of transport and communication, great changes also take place in food consumption: the first packages of pasta and tinned food appeared in the pantries of the Italians and demand increased for chocolates and other types of industrially packed sweets.All products need to be packed, to protect and preserve them in a practical way.Therefore, in this emerging consumer society packaging became increasingly important, also to advertise the brand name and to convince the customer to buy the product.Goods, mass media and advertising are also qualified to enter the art world.The pop art painters focused their attention on common everyday life and on the certain simplicity of the mass culture image. A famous example is the “Campbell’s soup can” by Andy Warhol, 1968.


Luigi Cerutti had a great intuition: “The world will be packed”, that spurred him, at the end of the 1960’s, to start the construction of a new factory in Vercelli, mainly for the production of rotogravure presses to print packaging materials. The enormous development in the packaging of high consumption foodstuffs continues today, confirming the validity of his gamble.Packaging is an important element to sell consumer goods; it is the first approach with the client.In those years, Cerutti presses for packaging printing made important steps in expanding the Company on the markets of Northern Europe (above all in Sweden and Finland), in England, France, The Netherlands, Germany and started the Company’s progress even outside Europe, in the U.S.A., India and South Africa.

A rotogravure press for packaging printing.

Luigi Cerutti signs the agreement for the construction of the new plant in Vercelli.

Work in progress for the new Vercelli plant.



This unforgettable image still arouses emotions to this day: on 9th November 1989 thousands of people from Berlin scrambled over the Berlin wall, which up until the previous day had been a boundary dividing not only the actual capital of Germany in half, but also the entire Europe.

That day marks the start of a peaceful revolution, one in which also Pope Giovanni Paolo II played a leading role. The symbol of victory is represented by the image of our dear Pope who, on 22 June 1996, walked side by side with Chancellor Helmut Khol through the Brandenburg Gate.

On that day Pope Giovanni Paolo II delivered a historic speech to Berlin, during which he recalled the suffering caused by the division of Germany and launched an appeal to the German authorities, to the bishops, the people of Berlin and all Europeans “Europe has been called upon to unite in freedom”.

The 1980’s:the fall of the Berlin wall


The challenge set by Cerutti in the daily newspaper printing sector during this decade is called flexographic technology.

The idea was born at the beginning of the 1980’s during a trip to Turkey, a Country that at the time already had daily newspapers with colour pages. During his speech, for the launch of this new technology, at the convention held at Villa d’Este by Lake Como, Dr. Giancarlo Cerutti said: “The whole world is coloured, the world of nature and the one Walter Benjamin called the world of reproducible techniques.I am convinced that people expect to see a coloured newspaper”.


The idea launched at Villa d’Este makes headway, and Cerutti proposes to the market its first flexographic press for newspaper printing using water-based inks to give brilliance to the colours applied on the paper.In 1983, the first flexo press was used to print “Il Tirreno” and, in May 1985, “Il Gazzettino di Venezia” was printed.

However, it was the night of the first printing of “La Repubblica”, 24th September 1985, that legitimised the turning point of this new printing technology: Giancarlo Cerutti and Carlo Caracciolo were the two protagonists.

In 1983 Cerutti signs its first newspaper.

Tere Cerutti at the inauguration of the first Cerutti flexo press for newspaper printing.



The 2000’s:the third millennium

November 2001: China joins the WTO - World Trade Organisation.Its vigorous growth never ceases to amaze.

January 2002: The Euro entered into circulation replacing the Italian lira and from that day onward, the new money became part of daily life for all people living in Europe.China opening up to the West and the increasing deregulation and flexibility of trade promoted in Europe by the new currency are just two of the important key aspects of the new millennium, a situation that Westerners must address using a responsible and far-sighted policy.



In late Nineties, the Central Bank of Australia, in joint venture with Securency International, decided to print the Country’s banknotes on polymer plastic and, after many trials among several suppliers, choose a Cerutti rotogravure press for the production process. Since then, other Countries followed on its footsteps, like, for instance, New Zeland, Canada, Mexico, Israel, Vietnam, Chile, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Romania, Singapore, Brunei… There is the general opinion that polymer plastic banknotes are the future in the field of security printing: they have a longer life, they are cleaner and more hygienic, more difficult to be damaged and counterfeited. Also other players are due to enter this sector.

In August, 2014, Innovia Security and Cerutti Packaging Equipment have reached an agreement for the supply of a new generation Cerutti gravure press, 11 colour, model R98X, that will be used in the preparation of Guardian® polymer banknote substrate which will include the Bank of England’s £5 and £10 notes, due for release in 2016 and 2017 respectively.Today, 46 Countries all over the world are using polymer plastic banknotes. Cerutti is the main supplier of polymer banknote substrate preparation.

The new R98X press for polymer banknote printing.


In 2011, Cerutti decides to make a strong activity in the Converting sector, continuing with its strategy of being more and more a global supplier for the packaging material printers and converters.Cerutti Packaging Equipment product line includes now also wax and hot-melt coating machines, solvent and solvent-less laminating equipment - in line and off line - and unsupported alufoil lacquering equipment.A decision awarded by important orders, like, for instance, the triplex laminating machine sold to Goglio Group and the lacquering machine with three lacquering stations sold to Al Invest in Czech Republic.

The new converting lines designed and manufactured by Cerutti.





It often remains in obscurity, but the sector of packaging is everywhere. It permeates the everyday life of all consumers. It is an element of civilisation brought about by good international development, which goes hand in hand with economic growth, making for safer and healthier patterns of behaviour by those who break free of poverty and enjoy wealthier conditions for the first time. It is also a key feature of factory progress in the age of the new globalisation, since machines to manufacture, print, and finish packaging have such innovative drive that they can spread innovations and technologies to several other industrial sectors.

Few people mention it, but the life of contemporary men and women is marked by packaging. In its most diverse and versatile guises, packaging shapes the habits and choices of all of us. When you are at home in the morning, having breakfast with your children, you take a pot of yogurt out of the fridge and slot a capsule of your favourite coffee into the machine. And then, after breakfast, you pop a probiotic tablet out of a plastic blister to help improve the health of your stomach. Well, you don’t know it, but it is packaging that is contributing to a good start of your day. The pervasiveness of the sector is considerable, encompassing food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, as well as toiletries and hygiene products. All the seemingly most ordinary, smallest gestures of people in our contemporary world are characterised by interaction with packaging.

No one thinks about it, but packaging is a fundamental piece in a mosaic made up of production (wrapping and packaging goods), logistics (transporting the goods manufactured and packaged by factories to shops and supermarkets), and marketing (satisfying the needs of consumers through an aesthetic and visual packaging formula increasingly geared towards personalisation). This central role – in both manufacturing and consumption of goods – is not limited to the Western world, since packaging follows the routes of global economic expansion. According to international statistics

All you need is pack.


quoted in a report by the Italian Institute of Packaging, “Imballaggio in cifre 2015”, in 2014 the value of worldwide packaging production was equal to 551 billion Euros. In 2010, the same figure had been 443 billion Euros, which means that over a period of four years – the toughest four years after the start of the economic downturn in 2008 – the turnover of the sector rose by 25 per cent. In particular, Asia now holds the largest market share, corresponding to 31.5 per cent. In 2014, Western Europe and the US had a worldwide market share equal to 22.5% and 26.5% respectively. In 2010, the market share of Asia was already large, at 27%, whereas Western Europe had a 27.5% share and North America had a 26.5% share. Then, Asia – with its huge cities and new markets and consumers – is the latest frontier of the global economy and, hence, of packaging. And yet, the same is happening in Africa and South America. As industrialisation grows and consumption levels increase in both quantity and quality, packaging becomes ever more widespread. The children of Malacca, in Malaysia, drink packaged fresh milk, one of the main factors of food safety in countries emerging from poverty. Argentinean doctors open sealed boxes of medications to treat the elderly in the barrios of Buenos Aires. Businessmen of the new bourgeoisie from Lagos in Nigeria take menthol cigarettes out of their boxes. In the gradual establishment of everyday behaviours and in the definition of economic balances, globally characterised by the tendency to grow and conform to Western standards, packaging – with its multifaceted nature – is ever present.

Hardly anyone suspects it, but factories around the world are heavily affected by the technologies developed in the field of packaging and related sectors. Indeed, packaging and printing machines constantly provide new technologies and innovations which are then transferred to a variety of sectors, such as the automotive industry, construction, interior design, and even finance. The objective is to ensure toughness, elasticity, durability, and reliability. A good example is the technique of overlaying several sheets of a given material and then printing


on it. The automotive industry is one of the sectors which have mostly benefited from this process: car dashboards and certain interior plastic parts are manufactured precisely in this way. Over the last twenty years, the furniture and interior design sectors have been deeply changed by the invention of artificial ceramics and tiles, manufactured with new production methods – by overlaying films and resins – and guaranteeing greater efficiency compared to conventional products. The latest revolution is the introduction of plastic banknotes, which have the advantage of being much sturdier and much more difficult to be counterfeited than the traditional ones with watermark. The key is how the base of the banknotes is prepared. A polypropylene film is provided with an anti-counterfeiting window, characterised by holograms and three-dimensional features, which make the banknotes difficult – very difficult – for forgers to counterfeit. This technique has pushed the technological frontier further and further and has now come full circle, since the radical innovation developed for central banks – full of three-dimensional logos and holograms – can in turn be applied to packaging in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic sectors and even to snacks. In fact, large agro-food industries take advantage of these technological advances on their packaging to offer individually wrapped snacks, able to capture the imagination of individual consumers, guaranteeing the snack’s quality and source.In the 1960s, Luigi Cerutti, the son of the Company founder Giovanni, tried to convince his father to manufacture an increasingly large number of rotogravure printing machines for packaging, by saying: “The whole world will be packaged”. This vision, dating back to more than 50 years ago, has made the history of today, and of tomorrow.

Paolo Bricco“Il Sole 24 Ore” Reporter


Our products.

We have adopted a comprehensive global approach, and our customers, by asking for more, are obtaining more in terms of quality, number of solutions, service and efficiency.


In the field of flexible packaging printing, our comprehensive range of gravure presses serves all the printers’ and converters’ needs, in terms of type of material, size, job change-over solutions, production speeds, quality requirements and automation levels.Our specialty gravure printing presses span from wood grain to fashion transfer, from outdoor covers to plastic banknotes, not to forget cork tipping paper printing.We are a well-known supplier of converting equipment, covering a wide range of lacquering, coating and laminating, wax, hot-melt and special coater solutions.Our sheeters, platen die cutters, in line to our gravure presses, are appreciated by the cartonboard industry.Thanks to the range of products and services offered by a worldwide organization, Cerutti Group is acknowledged as a global supplier to the whole printing and converting community.The platform of our products displayed in the following pages demonstrates our capability of covering most of the needs of an ever widening number of customers.We serve the publication business, with two rotogravure press models for both the mid size and mid run products and the very large ones.We offer the right answer for high quality magazines, catalogues, inserts and flyers.We provide hi-tech flexo equipment to print newspapers in full colour, telephone directories and advertising materials.Our service organization supplies maintenance, overhauls, spare parts and retrofits in most of the countries of the world.


A trolley type gravure press, to minimize machine down-time and personnel required for off-line setting and during job change-over.

R98X

An advanced platform of solutions for thewhole printers’ community.Rotogravure presses

for packaging and specialties printing.

Thanks to its special design, the same trolley allows the semi-automatic change-over of:•The printing cylinder only (no bearings and bearing

housings are needed)•The inking system only (including ink tank)•Both printing cylinder and inking system at the

same time (ink tank on board of the trolley)•Optional: inking system featuring driven inking roller

•Optional: printing cylinder rinsing or complete wash-up of printing cylinder and inking system (ink tank off the trolley)

•Available also for hollow printing cylinders, in the “air-chuck” version

•Fully presettable inking system.


Top performance rotogravure press for packaging material and specialty printing: full automatic job change-over solution for the high-end market.

Designed mainly for customers requiring high performances coupled with quick job change-over, flexibility and very high printing quality.

Trolley type printing press

The printing cylinder is supported during change-over time by the trolley frames, while in working position by bearings fitted to the printing unit side-frames.No need of bearings and bearing housings to be mounted on the printing cylinder.The displacement of the trolley in the press axis cross direction is servo assisted.The flexibility of the change-over is such that, independently on each printing unit, only the printing cylinder or both printing cylinder and inking system can be replaced.

R1060


The Cerutti quick job-changeover solution for the narrow web market.

Dedicated to the short run market and specifically designed to satisfy the needs of customers requiring quick job change-over and very high printing quality.

Non-trolley type printing press

The printing cylinder sleeve is mounted on a mandrel permanently fitted to the printing unit side frames.This system gives the printer the possibility of using, on the same press, either a light weight printing cylinder sleeve or a standard one, thanks to the unique printing cylinder sleeves locking solution.The printing cylinder sleeve and the inking system, when in working position, are supported by the printing unit side frames.

R990

The hi-tech fully automatic flexible press for short production runs.

The printing stations are equipped with on-board wash-up system and feature completely automatic job change-over operations. This press model achieves considerable savings in its relevant running costs, with the advantage of reducing the amount of its non-productive down-time, thanks to:•Simplified and faster job change-over operations•Reduction of start-up / running waste•Reduction of the ink return at the end of each production job•Lower running costs•Less personnel required (both on the press and off the press).

The trolley replacement is carried out by one operator only thanks to a servo mechanism, pneumatically operated.

Printing unit model ES972

Each unit is equipped with one two-position trolley, enablingautomatic removal and replacement by a single operation of oldprinting cylinder and/or inking system, with parts ready for newproduction and namely:•Removal and replacement of the printing cylinder only•Removal and replacement of the inking system only•Simultaneous removal and replacement of inking system

and printing cylinder.

R972


A solution “off-the-shelf” to the needs of packaging printers: a modern hi-tech printing press at competitive price, equipped with easy handling trolley system.

Trolley which carries printing cylinder and inking systemThe trolley carries both printing cylinder and inking system.Both of them can be loaded-removed from the printing unit side-frames simultaneously.

Full integration of auxiliary equipmentAutomatic register control equipment, viscosity controls, camera web viewing system, corona treatment station, lel control system (option) are fully integrated in the press functions and controls.Available also for hollow printing cylinders, in the “air-chuck” version.

R1081An off-the-shelf solution for flexible packaging.


It is the solution for carton board industry, combining the flexibility of an in-line sheeter with the gravure printing quality.

Independently driven and digitally controlledSuitable both for long and short runs, thanks to its easy and quick setting features.It handles materials spanning from paper to heavy carton board. Both infeed pulling group and knife cylinder are independently driven allowing for a perfect cut to print register with the highest accuracy.

The sheets, after being cut by the knife cylinder, are accelerated and than slowed down by two successive sections of driven belts, which deliver the sheets as a shingle.The shingle delivery allows perfect pile formation with the possibility of a diverting system for automatic waste rejection and automatic pile change.

Sheeter UP900

Trolley-type gravure press: the Cerutti answer for the carton board printing world. Quick job change-over thanks to its specialized gravure trolley.

The gravure trolley carries:•The printing cylinder with bearings and bearing housings•The complete inking system including ink pan(s),

ink splash guards, ink tank with pump•The trolley replacement is carried out by one operator only,

thanks to a servo mechanism, pneumatically driven.

Available versions:•Reeltoreel(withcreasingandpunching

subunits for liquid packing)•Reeltosheeter•Reeltodiecutter(rotary-flatbed)

R983


Duplex and Triplex high performance machinefeaturing multijob coating station capable to use interchangeable coating systems such as:•Rotogravure trolley•Flexo trolley•Semiflexo trolley

•Solventless trolley•PVDC Coating trolley•Chamber Doctor Blade system

PROCESSES1- Solvent base process2- Solventless base process3- Water base process

Performance, innovation, flexibility to be closer to converters.Converting Machines.

Coating and laminating machine for flexible materials

MAIN JOBS FORESEEN:Duplex Solvent-based Lamination•Wet coating weight up to 12 g/m2 with a dry coating

weight of approximately 4,0 g/m2

•Production speeds up to 400 m/min according to coating weight, dilution and adhesive type

Duplex Solventless Lamination•Coating weight between 1,3 ÷ 3,5 g/m2

•Production speeds up to 450 m/min

KEY POINTS: REEL HANDLING•Single axis unwinders and rewinders or double axis

fully automatic unwinders and rewinders, according to customer’s requirements

•Shafted or shaft-less reel locking

•The shaft-less system is provided with a pneumatic-mechanical expanding chuck system, to assure operator’s safety and to avoid core damage (cardboard, plastic or metal)

•The rewinder can be equipped with an innovative no-glue splicing system


PRODUCTS1- Alufoil for covers and yogurt lids/cups2- Alufoil for melted cheese3- Alufoil for chocolate wrapping4- Alufoil for pharmaceutical blisters5- Alufouil for pet food and tray containers

Unsupported alufoil coating machine for 1, 2, or 3layers of lacquering, having the versatility to process a wide thickness range of unsupported alufoil and film.

Multijob coating station capable to use interchangeablecoating systems such as:• Rotogravure trolley• Flexo trolley• Semiflexo trolley• Chamber Doctor Blade system• Direct and reverse coating system

Lacquering machine


It allows to easily change product coating weightfrom 2 to 35 g/m2.

•Surface smoothing system with capability to vary: shiny/mat effects

• Immersion type coating system with capability to modify the coating weight on both sides of the substrate

• Innovative lamination group with the capability of adjusting the laminating nip both in height and wrapping angle

•Very short job change-over time•User friendly thanks to advanced HMI system

PROCESSES AND PRODUCTS1- Patterned hot-melt for soap wrapping application2- One side application for soap wrapping3- “Banderole” for yogurt labels4- Wax lamination5- Two-side wax coating for candy6- High viscosity hot-melt coating for labels

Hot-melt / wax coating and laminating machine


A new generation of rotogravure for publication.

The mid-size rotogravure press for publication printingWith a max. web width between 1.9 and 3.18 meter, it is the most economical solution for publication runs from 200.000 copies, thanks to:•Energy savings•Low manning•Low investment cost•High productivity

In 1953, Cerutti delivered its first rotogravure press for publication.Today, it is world leader in this market segment: a long journey crowned with great success.

Rotogravure presses for publication, catalogues, school books and flyersprinting.

AURORA


Aurora presses: product range

FolderEx.: any product between:

Products from 8 to 132 pages (stitched in line up to 96 pages)

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From 2 to 14 ribbons Example of the great pagination variability

Number of ribbons

2 4 6 8 10 12 14

6U <<< 24 48 72 96 120

4U << 16 32 48 64 80 96 112

8U << << 2 x 16 2 x 32 2 x 48 2 x 64 2 x 80 2 x 96 2 x 112

4U < < 2 x 8 2 x 16 2 x 24 2 x 32 2 x 40 2 x 48 2 x 56

6U < < < 3 x 8 3 x 16 3 x 24 3 x 32 3 x 40 3 x 48 3 x 56

Aurora presses: several models with different web widths

MODEL R530 R532 R535 R537 R538 R540 R542

meter 2.00 2.20 2.45 2.65 2.75 3.08 3.18

Aurora – Productivity gains

Net production speed +21%

Job Changeover time 1 hour

Waste at startup -33%

Energy consumption -12%

Manning required on the press -25%

Investment cost for one press -23%

SAVINGS CONFIRMED AFTER PRESS INSTALLATION

Productivity gains in respect to a traditional rotogravure press


The market demands:•More flexibility•Higher speed•High volumes•Minimized waste•Shorter job change-over•Reduced manning and maintenance•Full pre-settable devices•More automation• Integrated production and maintenance management

Our answerWeb width up to 4.320 mm•Mechanical speed up to : 62000 rph•Production speed up to : 57000 rph or 16 m/s•Reel diameter up to 1,5 m• Fully automatic job change-over on printing units,

with motorized cylinder carts and automatic angular preset of printing cylinders by means of short-stroke compensators

• Full automatic preset for: unwinder, printing units, upper and lower folders

•No-splash guard system on printing units•Full automatic printing cylinder washing during

the run and at end of production•Full automatic impression roller washing at the

end of production•Pulling groups driven by independent motors with

automatic tension control•Lower folders driven by independent motors

Options:•Pre-conditioning chamber• Imprinter (flexo)•Former glueing•ADD-A-CARD•Silicon applicator•Variable cutter-folder•Folder stitching•Quarter and double parallel folders•PICO: Cerutti Production & Maintenance •Data Server•Reduction of cost and layout with double ender

configuration

R335The very wide press for publications.


Pages A4 format Cut-off: 216-325 mm Width:

150-250 mm

A5 format Cut-off: 175-216 mm Width:

150-250 mm

32 140,000 copies / h 100,000 copies / h

28 150,000 copies / h 110,000 copies / h

24 160,000 copies / h 120,000 copies / h

20 164,000 copies / h 124,000 copies / h

16 168,000 copies / h 127,000 copies / h

12 250,000 copies / h 190,000 copies / h

8 250,000 copies / h 190,000 copies / h

4 250,000 copies / h 190,000 copies / h

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The Cerutti Cutter: more flexibility to rotogravure! A Cutter in line with the press

What is a Cutter?A Cutter is a “device” that...•does NOT fold• it simply CUTS ribbons that have been folded by

1 or more formers installed on the superstructure

Former Folder CutterIs the most efficient way of producing low paginationsignatures and covers. Very high production speed.

Cutter production possibilitiesProduction speed will depend on:•quality, weight, and printability of paper•size and number of pages• inks and solvents used•cylinder preparation•required printing quality.To calculate the max. guaranteed speed for each product, speed diagrams and their relevant reduction factors must be consulted.

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The “common impression cylinder” full color flexographic press for newspapers and telephone directories

Main technical features:•Up to 128 full color pages in collect or straight mode•Up to 192 full color pages in collect mode•Max. production speed: 14 m/s (2,755 fpm)•Web width up to 2,000 mm (~ 79 inches)•Water-based inks

•CIC compact layout•3/3 or 5/5 folder configuration•Full shaftless technology•Automatic washing system•Possible integration with digital printing•Third cross folder available as option

Every day in Italy, about 1.000.000 newspaper copies bear the Cerutti signature, also appeared on the pride of the English press, The Daily Mail.

Flexographic pressesfor newspaper printing.

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With more than 1,000 installations around the world, Zerand is a global leader in web fed die cutting systems and solutions for the paperboard converting industry. Zerand engineers and manufactures custom platen die cutters and rotary die cutter lines and delivery/stacking systems that set the standard for speed, quality and productivity.

The Zerand brand was established in 1962, but the Company’s engineering expertise and tradition of customer support extend all the way back to 1939.

Zerand custom engineering capabilities are unequaled in the industry. Since 1988, Zerand has been part of the Cerutti Group, which has the availability to offer a variety of press options, including rotogravure and flexographic.Focusing on the specific converting process, and combining proven technology with creative R&D, it’s possible to satisfy virtually any production need.

Zerand equipment is built to last. Heavy-duty construction enables the cutter lines to deliver reliable high-speed performance and low maintenance requirements for years. In fact, it’s not surprising to find Zerand die cutters still going strong after more than a quarter century. What has distinguished Zerand over the years is the precision and quality of its cutters. Narrow and wide-web reciprocating platen die cutters and strippers continue to set the industry benchmark in this field.

Pioneer of the sector, Zerand has produced equipment for the folding carton industry for forty years.

Web-fed platen die cutters and delivery systems for the paperboard convertingindustry.


Some of the markets served by Zerand:•Beverage Cartons – Many beverage packages are die-cut on

Zerand high-speed web-fed machinery, including, beer, soda and bottled water carriers.

•Food Service – Zerand converting machinery die-cuts a wide range of paperboard packaging for the food service industry, from cups, french fry scoops and pie and sandwich clamshells to sleeves and trays.

•Folding Cartons – The ever-expanding global market for folding cartons relies on Zerand’s web-fed die-cutting systems for production of cereal boxes, pizza boxes and liquor boxes, as well as toothpaste cartons, tissue boxes and many other cartons.

•Liquid & Aseptic Packaging including milk and juice cartons.•Mailers – The shipping and logistics industries around the world

rely on the paperboard mailing envelopes converted on Zerand machinery.

•Tobacco Cartons

Key advantages of Zerand platen die cutter lines:•Heavy duty construction•Speed up to 1000 fpm / 425 ipm•Fast changeover thanks to autosetup of the complete line,

quick tool change for the cutter, stripper, belt askew and stacker, motorized movement of all units.

•Roll to blank to stack, reducing plant storage and logistics, easy to interface with palletizing systems.

•Customizable design carton length: up to 40” (1016mm)•Cutting loads: up to 1,500,000 lbs•Delivery systems to suit customer’s specific needs•Substrates from .010” to .040” (.254mm to 1.02mm)•Available in 22” (559mm), 26” (660mm), 32” (813mm),

40” 91016mm), 48” (1219mm) and 55” (1397mm) web width.•Latest generation ELS technology and Safety PLC•Low tooling cost•Low scrap rate•Low maintenance cost.•Hight quality service and spare parts

The Zerand Line Concept: platen cutters cut, crease and strip a continuous web of printed paperboard, to form individual blanks in register with the printed art and deliver them in either shingled streams or stacked batches.


The I-PRESS Series is the new generation of high technology presses made by IBERICA AG. This press is built to IBERICA’s high standards, using original production processes 100% developed in our plant in Barcelona, to ensure long life and high productivity. Including many advanced electronic devices, the I-PRESS Series is one of the fastest and most precise pieces of equipment in its sector.

The I-PRESS Series can be equipped with the new OPMR (Optical Print Mark Register) for the front and side-lays registration. A fully automatic non-stop feeder and a full logistics system, completely removes manual handling of incoming and outgoing piles.•The versatility of the I-PRESS Series gives the possibility to

die-cut several types of substrate including paper, plastic, board and corrugated material.

•The comprehensive range of optional equipment allows the configuration of the “perfect” die-cutter giving our customers the ideal machine for all of their requirements in the packaging industry.

The I-PRESS Series is the new generation of high technology presses made by IBERICA AG; including many advanced electronic devices, the I-PRESS Series is one of the most precise pieces of equipment in its sector, able to die-cut several types of substrate including paper, plastic, board and corrugated materials.

•The I-PRESS Series can be equipped with the new OPMR (Optical Print Mark Register) for the front and side-lays registration. A fully automatic non-stop feeder and a full logistics system completely removes manual handling of incoming and outgoing piles.

•The new blanker I-PRESS 106 K is the most technologically advanced blanker for customers who look for high speed production perfectly combined with an exceptional registration, high quality standards, easy handle and fast preparation.

A Company specialized in the manifacture of sheet-fed platen die cutters for the graphic arts: from the date of its foundation until today, Iberica has been dedicated to the production of machinery for the printing and packing industry.

Sheet-fed platen die cutters.

I-PRESS 106

I-PRESS 106 K

MAIN TECHNICAL FEATURESMax. Sheet Size 75x106 cmMin. Sheet Size 35x40 cmMax. Cardboard Thickness 1.5mmMax. Corrugated Board Thickness 3mmMax. Gripper Margin 17 mmMin. Gripper Margin 9 mmStandard Gripper Margin 12 mmMaximum Operational Pressure 300 TonesMaximum Mechanical Speed 8.500 S/HMachine Approx. Net Weight 24.000 Kg

MAIN TECHNICAL FEATURESMax. Sheet Size 75x106 cmMin. Sheet Size 35x40 cmMax. Cardboard Thickness 1.5mmMax. Corrugated Board Thickness 3mmMax. Gripper Margin 17 mmMin. Gripper Margin 9 mmStandard Gripper Margin 12 mmMaximum Operational Pressure 300 TonesMaximum Mechanical Speed 8.500 S/HMachine Approx. Net Weight 24.000 Kg


The I-PRESS Series is the new generation of 56” / 144 die cutter made by IBERICA AG. This press is built to IBERICA’s high standards, to ensure long life and high productivity.

The I-PRESS Series can be equipped with the new OPMR (Optical Print Mark Register) for the front and side-lays registration. A fully automatic non-stop feeder and a full logistics system, completely removes manual handling of incoming and outgoing piles.•The I-PRESS Series gives the possibility to die-cut several types

of substrate including board and corrugated board mainly, as per most conventional material to run on the large format machines.

•The comprehensive range of optional equipment allows the configuration of the “perfect” die-cutter giving our customers the ideal machine for all of their requirements in the packaging Industry.

The I-PRESS Series is the new generation of 56” / 144 die cutter made by IBERICA AG. This press is built to IBERICA’s high standards, using original production processes 100% developed in our plant in Barcelona. Including many advanced electronic devices, the I-PRESS Series is one of the fastest pieces of equipment in its sector.

The I-PRESS Series can be equipped with the new OPMR (Optical Print Mark Register) for the front and side-lays registration. A fully automatic non-stop feeder and a full logistics system completely removes manual handling of incoming and outgoing piles.•The I-PRESS Series gives the possibility to die-cut several types

of substrate, including board and corrugated board mainly, as per most conventional material to run on the large format machines.

•The comprehensive range of optional equipment allows the configuration of the “perfect” die-cutter, giving our customers the ideal machine for all of their requirements in the packaging Industry.

•The new blanker I-PRESS 144 K is the most technologically advanced blanker for customers who look for high speed production, perfectly combined with an exceptional registration, high quality standards, easy handle and fast preparation.

I-PRESS 144

I-PRESS 144 K

MAIN TECHNICAL FEATURESMax. Sheet Size 104x144 cmMin. Sheet Size 50x70 cmMax. Cardboard Thickness 1.5 mmMax. Corrugated Board Thickness 4 mm Max. Gripper Margin 17 mmMin. Gripper Margin 9 mmStandard Gripper Margin 12 mmMaximum Operational Pressure 600 TonesMaximum Mechanical Speed 8.000 S/HMachine Approx. Net Weight 47.500 Kg

•This new generation of IBERICA blankers are equipped with new tooling technology to do “sheeting” in a fast and easy way. This is the result of the synergy and collaboration with local die-makers, for the continuous improvement of our units.

MAIN TECHNICAL FEATURESMax. Sheet Size 104x144 cmMin. Sheet Size 50x70 cmMax. Cardboard Thickness 1.5 mmMax. Corrugated Board Thickness 4 mmMax. Gripper Margin 17 mmMin. Gripper Margin 9 mmStandard Gripper Margin 12 mmMaximum Operational Pressure 600 TonesMaximum Mechanical Speed 7.500 S/HMachine Approx. Net Weight 49.000 Kg


The IBERICA OPTIMA Series is our basic automatic platen press. Launched in 2008, we proudly announce that the OPTIMA Series has today its version in a new format 106. With its “operator friendly” innovations and ease of handling, this model maintains IBERICA’s quality of building and performance, the combination of which generates a significant increase in productivity.

•The versatility of the OPTIMA Series gives the possibility to die-cut several types of substrate including paper, plastic, board and corrugated material.

•The comprehensive range of optional equipment allows the configuration of the “perfect” die-cutter, giving our customers the ideal machine for all of their requirements in the packaging industry.

• Its 100% manufacture process made only in our plant in Barcelona makes the OPTIMA Series the perfect investment for customers who look for high productivity and long-life of machinery.

The IBERICA OPTIMA Series is our basic automatic platen press. Launched in 2008, the OPTIMA Series has today its version in a new format 106. With its “operator friendly” innovations and ease of handling, this model maintains IBERICA’s quality and high performances.•The versatility of the OPTIMA Series gives the possibility to

die-cut several types of substrate, including paper, plastic, board and corrugated materials.

•The comprehensive range of optional equipment allows the configuration of the “perfect” die-cutter, giving our customers the ideal machine for all of their requirements.

•The new blanker OPTIMA-K 106 is the perfect tool for customers who enter in the blanking world, due to its high quality, high productivity, easy handle and fast preparation as well as for an excellent quality / price ratio.

•This new generation of IBERICA blankers are equipped with new tooling technology to do “sheeting” in a fast and easy way.

OPTIMA 106

OPTIMA-K 106

MAIN TECHNICAL FEATURESMax. Sheet Size 75X106 cmMin. Sheet Size 35x40 cmMax. Cardboard Thickness 1.5 mmMax. Corrugated Board Thickness 3 mmMax. Gripper Margin 17 mmMin. Gripper Margin 9 mmStandard Gripper Margin 12 mmMaximum Operational Pressure 300 TonesMaximum Mechanical Speed 8.500 S/HMachine Approx. Net Weight 22.000 Kg

MAIN TECHNICAL FEATURESMax. Sheet Size 75X106 cmMin. Sheet Size 35x40 cmMax. Cardboard Thickness 1.5 mmMax. Corrugated Board Thickness 3 mmMax. Gripper Margin 17 mmMin. Gripper Margin 9 mmStandard Gripper Margin 12 mmMaximum Operational Pressure 300 TonesMaximum Mechanical Speed 8.500 S/HMachine Approx. Net Weight 24.000 Kg

•This new generation of IBERICA blankers are equipped with new tooling technology to do “sheeting” in a fast and easy way. This is the result of the synergy and the collaboration with local die-makers, for the continuous improvement of our units.


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A global supplier has to be available to his customers at any time. Our 24/7 remote assistance service is our answer to this market request.

A number of highly qualified specialists in Cerutti are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to support customers with Cerutti presses, allowing them to maximise press up-time.

The 24/7 service has been more recently coupled with a preventive maintenance/auditing service in order to anticipate potential issues and eliminate them before they can impair press productivity. Our 24/7 service has been able to support customers all over the world spanning from Australia to the Middle East, to Europe, to Africa and America: the proof that any customer can get benefits from our service.

Our 24/7 service has grown in the number of customers subscribing to it and we believe it will grow more and more.

These are the reasons for success of our initiative:

1.The prompt reply of our technicians day and night has been able to minimize press down-time for fault correction. If spare parts were necessary to solve the problem, the on-line access to the supplier network has allowed our specialists to provide replacements for the damaged items in the shortest time.

2.Those who joined the program were allowed on-line access to the drawings and electronic manuals of the installed presses and they were supplied with comprehensive instructions on how to use manuals to carry out maintenance in the most efficient way.

3.The analysis carried out on a continuous basis by our specialists on the presses under contract and the relevant information provided to the end users, has allowed them to achieve a greater knowledge of press operation, drive details and controls of their presses; thus resulting in optimization of functioning with minimum waste of time.

4.The electronic equipment used by our 24/7 specialists enables them to monitor the origin of press stops and fault history of the presses. This has helped our technicians to identify the recurrent causes of the faults and to eliminate improper usage of press controls by recommending correct electronic set-ups in order to minimize occurrence of problems on the press.

5.Our specialists have prepared a data base of questions and answers to eliminate possible press malfunctioning. This tuition activity for customers enables an exchange of information aiming to supply them with details of the latest available technology on the market and with the possibility of retrofits to improve machine performance.

So, in few words, the 24/7 service is a way to improve efficiency, therefore margins.

24/7 Cerutti Service.

OFFICINE MECCANICHE GIOVANNI CERUTTI SPAHeadquarter66, via Marcello Adam15033 Casale Monferrato (AL)ItalyPhone: +39 0142 459411Fax: +39 0142 76350Email: [email protected]

Production plantStrada per Trino 23013100 Vercelli (VC)ItalyPhone: +39 0161 298211Fax: +39 0161 392031

NORTH AMERICAN CERUTTI CORPORATION - ZERAND DIVISION15800 West Overland DriveNew Berlin (Wisconsin)53151-2882U.S.A.Phone: +1 262 8273800E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

CERUTTI GRAPHIC SYSTEMS LTDUnit 28a, 1 Hanborough HouseHanborough Business ParkLong HanboroughOxfordshire, OX29 8LHEnglandPhone: +44 1993 88 0018 Fax: +44 1993 880173E-mail: [email protected]

IBERICA AG, SAPol. Ind. Pratenc, Carrer 10008820 EL PRAT - BarcelonaSpainPhone: +34 934792780Fax: +34 934792781E-mail: [email protected]

NORTH AMERICAN CERUTTI CORPORATION15800 West Overland DriveNew Berlin (Wisconsin)53151-2882U.S.A.Phone: +1 262 8273800E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

CERUTTI CHINA LTD – SHANGHAI OFFICERoom 811, 8/F., Block 2,Jinling Building,28 Jin Ling Road West, Shanghai, ChinaPostcode: 200021Phone: +86 21-6391 2548Fax: +86 21-6391 2812E-mail: [email protected]

MARUBENI TECHNO SYSTEMS CORP.Industrial Systems DivisionOchanomizu-Kyoun Building2-2, Kanda-SurugadaiChiyoda-Ku, Tokyo 101 - 0062, JapanPhone: +81 3 5283 1233Fax: +81 3 5283 1234E-mail: [email protected]

CERUTTI PACKAGING EQUIPMENT SPA66, via Marcello Adam15033 Casale Monferrato (Al)ItalyPhone: +39 0142 459411Fax: +39 0142 76350E-mail: [email protected]

24/7 CERUTTI SERVICE SRL66, via Marcello Adam15033 Casale Monferrato (AL)ItalyE-mail: [email protected]

CERUTTI CHINA LTD - HONG KONG OFFICERoom 3008,118 Connaught Road West,Hong KongPhone: +852 2587 7388Fax: +852 2587 7688E-mail: [email protected]

E-TEAM INFORMATICA INDIA (P) LTD110N, 10th Floor, Ganga Tower,Phase III SEZ Campus,Technopark, Trivandrum 695583IndiaPhone: +91 471 3048186 Fax: +91 471 3048184

TSC - TECHNICAL SERVICE CENTER FOR PRINTING AND CONVERTING MACHINESRua Carapuceiro, 82551120 - 280 Recife BrazilPhone: +55 81 986881883E-mail: [email protected]: techsc94

CERUTTI GRAPHIC SYSTEMS LTDUnit 28a, 1 Hanborough HouseHanborough Business ParkLong HanboroughOxfordshire, OX29 8LHEnglandPhone: +44 1993 88 0018Fax: +44 1993 880173E-mail: [email protected]

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