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  • Arrival of a new era in greeen printing: Richard Timpson, MD Heidelberg ANZ with the Print Bound team; Kulbir Tumber, CIO, Mauro Mattarucco, Director, Ian Leckie, Manager QA, Naresh Gulati in full Movember Avatar and (front) Mark Tomasini Director – Environment and Retail
    Arrival of a new era in greeen printing: Richard Timpson, MD Heidelberg ANZ with the Print Bound team; Kulbir Tumber, CIO, Mauro Mattarucco, Director, Ian Leckie, Manager QA, Naresh Gulati in full Movember Avatar and (front) Mark Tomasini Director – Environment and Retail
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Gulati powers up 1st Heidelberg carbon neutral press

26 November 2014
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Print Bound is now running its new Speedmaster XL106-6+LXLEUV at the old GEON site in Mt Waverly as it ramps up work to fill the 18,000 sheets per hour UV giant.

According to Naresh Gulati, the go-ahead print entrepreneur who is investing heavily in his bid to be one of the major producers in Melbourne, the press gives his company a distinct advantage in being able to pass on green credentials to like-minded environmental customers. It came on line yesterday (25 November) and is sitting alongside his Heidelberg SM 102 6/6 perfector as well as a CD74 five-colour plus coater.

By offsetting the CO2 used in the manufacture of the press to a reforestation project in the African country of Togo, Heidelberg claims it’s the only manufacturer that can certify the entire process as being carbon neutral. The total amount of carbon dioxide used in extracting raw materials, to manufacturing and testing the press as well as transporting it from Germany to Print Bound is taken into account in line with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol.

This is the first of the carbon neutral presses to be installed in Australia and Gulati forwards a list of the enviro-friendly technologies he believes will make a difference not only to the operation of the press but to environmentally conscious customers. He invites anyone in the industry to come along and check it out.

  • The press is equipped with Wallscreen and Power meters, so Print Bound will be able to show actual KW electrical consumption live and per job.

  • The machine has the new Heidelberg UV system, which is 33% more power efficient than the previous model and is also adaptable to ozone free and high reactive inks for energy curing reduction.

  • It is the first in Australia to use the new Heidelberg heat recovery system to recycle hot air back through the dryers instead of channelling it out of the pressroom, this means better efficiency, lower power consumption as you don’t need to generate the hot air again; big electricity savings for customer

  • The press uses the GATF and PIA awarded Inpress control. We see consistently waste sheet reductions of 100-200 sheets when using this device. This again reduced the CO2 footprint of the customer as well as reduces energy consumption and waste consumption.

  • It is equipped with Cleanstar for powder and dust particle removal. This can remove 80% of the powder from the delivery, giving better air quality in the pressroom not to mention down time reduction for cleaning.

  • The CombiStar Pro-Dampening supply and chillers for oscillating rollers allows IPA free printing, as well as Filterstar which means you don’t need to dump the fountain solution monthly instead ever 4-6months. This alcohol free system reduces waste collection/water recycling and VOC emission

  • The new main drive is 8% more energy efficient compared to older models.

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