What s new at drupa? Once again, KOLBUS will host one of the biggest exhibits at this show, with a 1,400 square metre stand packed with innovations.

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1 drupa 206 International Media Conference Page 269 Rahden Tel Fax media contact: presse@kolbus.de What s new at drupa? Once again, will host one of the biggest exhibits at this show, with a,400 square metre stand packed with innovations. Headquarters in Rahden, North Rhine-Westphalia, C.H. Kolbus founds a business in Rahden in 775, August Kolbus started production of bookbinding machinery in 900 Over the course of the intervening years, the company has developed into one of the major suppliers of paper processing machinery. In its core business areas, Kolbus is world market leader. Other production plants in Krostitz (Saxony), Gerabronn (Baden-Württemberg), Kalamazoo (Michigan, USA) is represented in over 40 countries around the world by a network of sales and service partners, mainly companies in the Group. For the past 5 years, has been marketing an advanced new product line to the packaging industry for the production of premium packaging made of paper, board and carton. The new production options that Kolbus offers are backed by the company s project planning competence, a team of highly motivated application engineers and a global customer service network. Three years ago, Kolbus teamed up with a US American manufacturer to add rotary die-cutting and flexo printing equipment for corrugated board packaging to its portfolio. Around,00 employees worldwide Export share: 90% Kai Büntemeyer Managing Partner The Book Manufacturing division will present D Format Variation of books on a running machine without stopping for make-ready. The key elements of this presentation are the KM 200 Zero-Make-Ready Perfect Binder with newly enhanced D Format Variation capabilities and the brand-new HD-HD 4 Three-Knife-Trimmer. This new zero-make-ready trimmer can trim books of different thickness, different height and different width without stopping for format adjustment. This will be one of the technology highlights at drupa 206. As always, this is all industrial scale equipment, capable of producing thousands of books per hour just as easily as runs of one book. For feeding printed signatures into the system, will demonstrate the full versatility of its approach. For digital web-fed printing, the bookbinding system will be fed by the WF 00 Webfolder. With a capacity of up to.5 million pages per hour in its current, standard version, the Webfolder has the potential to start working today and outlast several generations of digital presses. The WF 00 imposes no limitations on subsequent finishing operations, perfect binding, sewing, stitching, perforating, gluing are all possible. For the link into the bindery, has a wide array of possibilities. Fully-automatic, intermediate storage, inline coupling, variable speed links are all possible. can also create systems for fully-automatic handling of inserts just-in-time and just-insequence. Alternatively the KM 200 is also equipped for feeding of bookblocks or even stacks of loose-sheets. Furthermore, the KM 200 can easily be switched from paperback to hardcover book blocks. At drupa 206, will demonstrate this capability and, at the same time, introduce the brand-new Hardcover Bookline BF 5. This machine will make all the zero-make-ready features of the flagship BF 50 Bookjet -Edition available for the lower budget, 0 books a minute class. Commercial and Publishing Printing division will present the brand-new KM 60 Perfect Binder. This new line of machines, running upwards from books per hour, will be displayed in its book per hour version. The new KM 60 series has been newly designed to incorporate the user interface structure of the future, taking ease of operation to a new level.

2 drupa 206 International Media Conference Page Rahden Tel Fax Luxury Packaging Production SW.M 400 Magnet inserter SA 260 Inside lining machine SW.G 500 Box case processing line NM 0 Grooving machine SW.H 500 Box machine As a special feature at drupa, will be running the new KM 60 binder at full speed through the new digital zero-makeready three-knife-trimmer HD-HD 4, thereby displaying the unparalleled hybrid capabilities engineered into the system. This time, it will be youngest division that will put the most sensational exhibit on display. For the Luxury Packaging industry, an innovative production system for rigid boxes has been developed that will revolutionise the luxury packaging industry and will even impact the luxury goods industry. At our stand at drupa 206, we will be producing rigid cardboard boxes with lids and metal fasteners on a fully automatic continuous flow line. This will be demonstrated at an unprecedented running speed of more than boxes per hour, and format changeovers will be shown to be just as easy as on a modern case maker. SA 260 inside lining machine For the luxury packaging industry, this is the beginning of a new era. For the first time, product changes will be done by re-setting a machine, rather than retooling it. It will again be possible to produce luxury packaging in the same, affluent economies where luxury goods are sold. Minimum order quantities will drop dramatically, opening luxury goods market to small, artisanal manufacturers. And the famous mega-brands will get the possibility to fine-tune their production to sales trends on a weekly rather than an annual basis. At the same time, the product quality that can be achieved is far superior to today s market standards. Workflow Design On top of all this, there will be a lot of focus on the approach to workflow design and systems control, especially in view of the approaching era of Industrie 4.0. On the occasion of the pre-drupa 206 International Media Conference, has put its XML syntax, in other words, the language that machines speak, on the internet for free down-load for everyone. Workflow design At, after observing the approach to work flow design over the past 5 years it was finally considered deeply flawed in that many suppliers try to sell proprietary systems. A proprietary system is directly opposed to the needs of the modern, networked economy, were processes and resources need to be freely linked. Therefore, found it was time to deliver a powerful signal by giving networking software away for free.

3 drupa 206 International Media Conference Page 269 Rahden Tel Fax With this simple system, it will be easy for customers to design workflow systems within which they and their ultimate customers can communicate directly with the production systems fulfilling the orders, wherever and whenever necessary. hopes that this example may be followed so that the way can be opened to a future, perfectly networked industry including the printing services that it will need. A brief introduction to Luxury Packaging innovative production system for rigid boxes, known as a bookbinding machine manufacturer since 900 and a veteran exhibitor at drupa since 95, is among the biggest exhibitors at drupa 206 with a,400 square metre stand. Still based on the rock-solid foundation of a fully-integrated engineering company, has developed into an all-round systems supplier for the Book Manufacturing, Commercial and Publishing Printing and Luxury Packaging Manufacturing industries and serves industrial users of Embedded Printing Processes. provides product design, process design, systems engineering, supply and installation of manufacturing equipment and all relevant services. While benefiting from a very broad range of machines completely manufactured in house, has developed powerful systems integration capabilities that ensure that users can always be equipped with the best available solution from wherever it is available. Recognising the advantage of being able to draw on its full machine-building resources, will always preserve these as a core competence. But only integrated solutions from virgin paper to finished product will be suitable for many of the challenges facing the printing and paper converting industries and is perfectly prepared. market segments SW.G 500 box case processing line does not consider digital printing a segment. is convinced that digital-related capabilities are a given. The Book Manufacturing industries have been enormously enriched by digital capabilities. Both personalisation and truly customeroriented logistics depend on digital print capabilities. Commercial and Publishing Printing is still a fascinating market. Aesthetically pleasing products with a true wow factor and a surprising affordability will always be marketing tools in a class of their own. has and will keep research and development capabilities available for this industry segment.

4 drupa 206 International Media Conference Page Rahden Tel Fax The consumer and financial industries are no longer satisfied by supplying business forms or manuals. The process of merging a product coming off an assembly line with its technical documentation becomes a process embedded in the manufacturing valuechain. The former commercial printer specialised in manuals for cars turns into an automobile supplier using printing technology. What used to be a business form printer has either closed its doors or turned into a financial services provider using high-tech printing to provide documents on an industrial scale. At, this is referred to as Embedded Printing and caters to the special needs of this newly developing industry. SW.B placing module Another very young product segment for is technology for Luxury Packaging Manufacturing. Based on almost 90 years of experience manufacturing casemakers for the book industry, has created a range of solutions for paper-based rigid boxes. Introducing the industry to consistent quality, rapid and tool-less make-ready and adaption to digital printing, is creating new opportunities for packaging manufacturers and their ultimate customers, the luxury goods industry. Model: Workflow design via XML-syntax

5 drupa 206 International Media Conference Page Rahden Tel Fax NM 0 grooving machine max speed 65 parts/min Box machine WF 00 webfolder KM 200 Zero-Make-Ready Perfect Binder brand-new hardcover book-line BF 5 brand-new KM 60 perfect binder