Bobst scores 14th Golden Cylinder Award

Bobst’s advanced register control for precision printing and ECG in gravure has been named Best of the Best in the Technical Innovation category of the 2022 Golden Cylinder Awards.

Kurt Oegerli, sales manager of Bobst North America, receiving the Golden Cylinder Award for Technical Innovation at the AIMCAL 2022 R2R Conference

The recognition was presented to Kurt Oegerli, sales manager of Bobst North America, at the ceremony held during the AIMCAL 2022 R2R Conference in Orlando, FL, USA. 

The advanced register control system consists of a new set-up and advanced functions of Bobst’s automatic register control, Registron. One of its main advantages is that the press operator can correct it immediately after the color is printed without waiting for the images to be displayed on the web viewer. An additional benefit for the efficiency of gravure technology is obtained during job changeovers: downtime for press set-up is significantly reduced, and consequently also the waste that is generated in the process.  

Furthermore, the new advanced function of the register control enables to handle in an easy and controlled way ECG printing in gravure by controlling the register on the whole printed surface, allowing it to provide a reel report of the register quality.  

‘We are proud of this latest achievement that brings gravure to the forefront of the packaging industry transformation and for the potential ahead to improve the operations of our gravure customers,’ commented Jonathan Giubilato, gravure product manager at Bobst. ‘The enhanced agility on print cycles enables the quality of gravure to become sustainable and profitable also in the case of short-run production, bridging the gap that conventionally confined the quality of gravure to higher production volumes.’