Amcor Tobacco Packaging invests in Moog press

Amcor Tobacco Packaging has invested in a HC Moog 1-TBR Compact sheet-fed gravure press that it will use to produce mock-ups and carry out short run work.
 
Amcor Tobacco Packaging is part of global packaging company Amcor, based in Australia, but is itself based in Zurich, Switzerland. The 1-TBR has been operational within Amcor Tobacco Packaging’s Rickenbach innovation center in Switzerland since the end of 2011, after being successfully tested at the Moog technology center in Miehlen, Germany.
 
Amcor has used it to produce mock-ups and prototypes for clients in the tobacco industry, allowing its customers to test ideas and approve new designs faster and with more accuracy, said Moog.
 
Moog’s single unit 1-TBR Compact offers: conventional gravure printing with solid gravure cylinders and digital printing plates; continuous tone print; full coverage lacquering and spot lacquering; full and partial embossing, micro embossing and random grain patterns; full and partial coating; hot calendering cylinder temperature regulation up to 150 degrees C with water-based varnish; driers combining infrared and hot air for more efficiency; alcohol- and water-based ink systems, as well as UV lacquers; and other features.
 
Moog said Amcor required the all-in-one press to achieve high print quality on a wide range of product applications, and be efficient, even for short runs and finishing.
 
Additional features for Amcor include a preset non-stop high stack feeder, and drying units in each section that can be individually used in combination (hot air, infrared, UV) for all inks and varnishes available in gravure printing.
 
A new clamping cylinder developed by Moog uses readily available and inexpensive photopolymer plates for gravure printing and blind embossing. This makes it possible to have cost-effective short runs in sheet-fed gravure printing, Moog said.
 
With a print speed of up to 12,000 sheets per hour it can print paper and carton from 80 to 400g/sq m as well as non-flexible foils and numerous other non-absorbent substrates.
 
The 1-TBR Compact can be used by Amcor as a single unit production machine for handling multiple runs, or as a pre- or post-processing off-line production machine in combination with other sheet-fed printing processes.