Koenig & Bauer recently opened its new hall and now offers more than 3,000sqm of floor space for demonstrations at its Radebeul location, near Dresden. The occasion marked the culmination of a project to upgrade the company’s existing demonstration facility into a global Customer Experience Centre (CEC). The CEC offers around one-third more space – packed with the latest equipment – for press and machine demonstrations, application testing, the development of new technologies and for training purposes. The individual sections focus on the specialised areas of packaging, commercial and label production.
The new hall, the Packaging Competence Centre within the CEC, will house three packaging lines comprising three printing presses and four converting machines once fully set up. Koenig & Bauer will then be able to showcase its one-stop-shop concept for packaging production – with flat-bed and rotary die-cutters, folder-gluers and fully automated material flows. Meeting areas with direct views of the production lines, workstations to illustrate digital workflow integration and a full range of modern media equipment contribute to an atmosphere conducive to tests, production trials, demonstrations, discussions and negotiations.
The machinery that is already installed and ready for demonstrations includes a latest-generation medium-format sheetfed offset press, a Rapida 106 X with seven printing units, double-coating facilities, an additional printing unit after the first coater and the coil foil system FoilTronic, as well as an Omega Allpro 110 folder-gluer and a CutPRO X 106 rotary die-cutter. The next step will see the addition of a Rapida 145 and a CutPRO M 144.
Left to right: Dirk Winkler, Claus Bolza-Schünemann, Ralf Sammeck and Thomas Göcke.
