Tsuneo Baba, president Screen GP, Christian Engel, CEO, BHS Corrugated, and Bill Baxter, director Inca Digital
In cooperation with BHS Corrugated Maschinen und Anlagenbau GmbH, Screen GP is bringing a new modular, inline, roll to sheet, digital corrugated production line to market.
This will be built specifically for corrugated box plants as an end to end installation, and the single-pass, aqueous inkjet system will print onto widths up to 2.8 m wide at speeds of up to 300 m/min. It will be available as an option for new BHS Corrugators, or as upgrade to existing installations.
CEO of BHS Corrugated, Christian Engel, said, ‘Our partnership will enable us to be well prepared for the digital decade that the corrugated industry is entering and one that will bring a revolution of print, processes and machinery layout in box plants. BHS Corrugated focuses on providing high-end and high-speed solutions and I am convinced that the integration of digital print inline during the corrugating process is the superior option which will deliver significant benefits to our customers. The beta machine will be launched in 2019.’
A new company, Screen GP IJC Ltd, has been established to develop the print engine technology. It is based close to Screen GP subsidiary, Inca Digital’s manufacturing facility in the UK. The first alpha installation is planned at a customer site in 2018.
