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Press statement – for immediate release
Safe printing – safe packagingwith WEILBURGER Graphics at drupa 2012
Gerhardshofen, 25. April 2012 – Also this year, WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH is present asexhibitor in Düsseldorf during drupa and informs its customers and prospective clients aboutits wide-ranging product portfolio of varnishes, adhesives and inks.
Besides the very high-quality of the products, the safe packaging in the food industry is oneof the key issues during the trade fair. WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH has recently re-catalogued its complete range of products and re-evaluated it in terms of its food conformityin accordance with current statutory requirements and the recommendations issued by thekey testing institutes and certifying bodies FABES and ISEGA as well as by the SwissCommodities Act SR 817.023.21.
In its recently published product manual, WEILBURGER Graphics presents its reworkedproduct class list and provides its customers and other interested parties with comprehensiveinformation on the application options of the individual product classes in direct and indirect
contact with food in accordance with current statutory provisions as well as with moredetailed information on the subject and related areas.
Printed samples has been elaborated in the form of beverage packaging (Club Mate andClub Mate Cola) together with STI Group and brewery Loscher and a highly refined foodconform folding box with rlc l packaging, Marbach and Sappi.
Furthermore, the novel chip off effect coating is presented during the trade fair which wasdeveloped with Merck KGaA and Model-Kramp GmbH.
The chip off effect coating is a two component finishing which can be applied by a printingpress with one coating unit with UV drying.
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This innovative effect is based on different surface tensions of the two lacquers andgenerates an optical and haptical 3D structure.
For quite some time WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH also offers under the product classSENOFLEX® a co-ordinated ink and coating series for this market. It resulted from thespecific requirements for special formulations for these products from the customers
Ink quality through:• Ideal processing times
best print technical performance of the ink at the plate or rather at the anilox rollerwhile at the same time low cleaning effort
• Optimized discharging propertiesfor an excellent ink transfer to the plate/printing substrate while at the same timereduced adding of the anilox roller in regard to the cleaning intervals
• High concentrated ink serieslow dot gain, constant vignetted screen tints, good drying characteristics for an
excellent printing
And coating quality through:• Optimized penetration performance
fast drying in combination with our ink system
• Blocking resistance and rub resistancebest possible wet blocking resistance while at the same time high rub resistancefor further processing
• Static and dynamic frictionexcellent static and dynamic friction in regard to transport properties
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The inks and coatings of the SENOFLEX® product class from the company WEILBURGERGraphics have been specifically designed in regard to these quality criterions and are able toachieve excellent results also at high printing speed. Furthermore the optimized dryingcharacteristics and the reduced cleaning effort and cleaning agents contribute to an increaseof economic and energy efficiency.
SENOFLEX® inks are actually available as euroscale inks as well as a mixing system withthirteen basic inks. The special inks which come out of it cover the complete spot inksegment; very brilliant gold and silver inks complete the product program. For finishing mattand glossy SENOFLEX coatings as well a wide range of effect coatings are offered from theextensive product line.
During Drupa WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH will present as give away a refinedquadrinomial packaging which was developed in both sided corrugated direct printing withvarious coating effects. The packaging was produced together with D.&W. Flexo-Manufaktur,Merck KGaA, Smurfit Kappa and Mayr Melnhof.
Further projects will be also presented during the drupa presence of WEILBURGERGraphics:
• refined wrapping paper together with Merck KGaA, Horst Dürrschnabel Druck &Verlag GmbH
• refined drupa fan together with Merck KGaA and K&D• additional collaboration with: manroland, IST Metz GmbH, Gallus Stanz- und
Druckmaschinen GmbH, Steinemann Technology AG• the new image film of WEILBURGER Graphics• 27 highly refined printed samples of PrintCity out of the Value Added Packaging
(VAPack) project.
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Günter Korbacher regarding this year’s drupa presence: “We are very pleased that alsoduring our fifth drupa participation we can appear with a real cornucopia of innovations whichwe can introduce to a wide audience. In our typical manner we are looking forward towelcoming each individual visitor and we would be pleased to take time to introduce ourproducts and our company and to commit extensively to technical questions and problemstatements and to offer solutions.”
The exhibition booth of WEILBURGER Graphics will be located in the PrintCity VAPack area(Value Added Packaging), hall 6 booth C33.
For further information: www.weilburger-graphics.de
Contact:WEILBURGER Graphics GmbHAm Rosenbühl 591466 GerhardshofenGermanyPhone: +49 9163 9992-0
Fax: +49 9163 [email protected]
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Caption: Product range of WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH.
Caption: Günter Korbacher – executive director of WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH
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Caption: Logo WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH
Caption: PrintCity | Alliance Member
About WEILBURGER Graphics
WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH is one of the leaders in the field of print finishing forpackaging, labels and job printing.
The company mainly produces for sheet-fed offset, heat-set web offset and off-line coating,and for the screen-printing, flexo, gravure, narrow web and digital print sectors. Its tailor-made products are available for the market segments involving packaging, labels and jobprinting. It also offers seminars and consultancy services.
WEILBURGER Graphics is one of twelve companies of the GREBE Group, a medium-sizedmanufacturer of industrial coatings.
www.weilburger-graphics.de
