New developments at Cerutti Open House

Cerutti’s Open House, held in the Vercelli R&D Centre in November 2010, opened with a demonstration of the new R980 press fitted with Cerutti Automatic Pre-setting System (CAPS).

Cerutti CAPS, developed with Eltromat, reduces waste at start-ups with both repeat and new jobs. Unlike similar systems, CAPS can use existing printing cylinders with standard register marks suitable for Eltromat Regi_star 20 register controls.  This saves re-engraving costs, and the software reads the standard printed marks, without the need for additional photocells to register special marks.
 
CAPS is strengthened by Cerutti’s high efficiency HC hoods, that give a substantially shorter web path length between consecutive printing nips along with a longer drying web path length.  This allows higher speed and reduced solvent retention.  This works well on standard films and polyethylene, without mechanical modifications.
 
The second press to be demonstrated was the brand-new ES-1060, which was in fact sold to the leading Italian textile Group Miroglio to print transfer paper.  It is designed for customers operating in the high-end and specialty markets, where high printing speeds (up to 600 m/min) are necessary.  It has increased flexibility at job change-over with trolleys carrying the inking system, and the printing cylinder, that is placed across the press axis, allowing them to be replaced independently on every printing unit either singly or together.  Also on show was a new driven inking roller.  Developed at the request of Asian customers to avoid ink starvation, it is also interesting for European printers.
 
200 people from 70 companies attended the event, which was hailed as a great success for Cerutti, in a boom year in terms of packaging presses negotiations with 40 sold, and 12 to be shipped by the end of the year.  Speaking for the company, president and CEO Giancarlo Cerutti said: ‘The numbers are the best demonstration of success for our strategy of continuous development, and they are even more significant in the difficult phase the world economy is facing. They prove to us that the market always gives credit for product innovation and technology.’