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Beware the rogues Any guillotine sold in the UK, or any other part of Europe, requires the CE mark to certify that it complies with European regulations. These are already the most stringent in the world and even equipment not intended for export to Europe may carry the two characters to show that its safety requirem Issue Date: February 2008
Cutting joins the production network JDF is making its way into the cutting arena. The major guillotines can all take in JDF information and use it to set up the cutting program. However recent developments have made this far more useful from a user’s perspective. The control screen on the guillotine will display a low resolution image Issue Date: February 2008
Digital print sidesteps cutting stage While small format guillotines to cope with digitally printed sheets are supplied by the likes of Duplo and Morgana, both companies have also come up with technology that turn a sheet fresh from the press into a finished product without a guillotining stage. On some digital presses, image placemen Issue Date: February 2008
Health and safety focus on handling Handling equipment around the guillotine is fast becoming a must both for efficiency and to stay on the correct side of the Health and Safety Executive. While it remains permissible to lift paper from a pallet, the government agency keeps a close eye on the incidence of Work-Related Upper Limb Disor Issue Date: February 2008
Perfecta adapts to suit automation Perfecta plans to show a fully hands-off cutting operation at Drupa. The company has installed several systems at customers in Germany where its guillotine is surrounded by Baumann handling technology to remove sheets from the pallet taken from the press; to deliver, jog and present them to the hand Issue Date: February 2008
Polar looks to match Heidelberg's growth in format Guillotine market leader Polar is introducing larger format machines to partner Heidelberg’s move into large format sheetfed printing. It plans to have a 155cm machine and 176cm guillotine available at Drupa and will build a larger machine should Heidelberg build a bigger press, says joint managing Issue Date: February 2008
Senator joins automation drive Germany’s other great guillotine, the Hamburg-built Schneider Senator, is another that is robotising and automating at least part of the guillotining process. At Drupa it will show a Senator S-Line 137 H cutter which can trim four sides with no operator intervention and can come with automatic joggi Issue Date: February 2008
Specialist needs drive innovation Not all cutting tasks are the same, resulting in developments from the likes of Polar to accommodate specialist requirements. While Perfecta has shown it is able to build machines for non-print requirements – cutting rubber for engine mountings in cars for example – Polar has remained with paper and Issue Date: February 2008
UK flag waver scores well Sales of 700 guillotines over a 20-year period marks the CCM Premier guillotine down as a success for Terry Cooper Services. The reasons for that success are largely down to the value proposition – a new guillotine for the price of a second-hand German-built product with no compromise on specificati Issue Date: February 2008
Wohlenberg production heads east, but stays in Germany Production of Wohlenberg guillotines in Hannover is ceasing this year with production shifting to the Perfecta factory in Bautzen. Both companies share handling equipment supplier Baumann as a shareholder. The move will mean a rationalisation of formats to 76, 92, 115, 132 and 168cm machines. This w Issue Date: February 2008

Beware the rogues

Any guillotine sold in the UK, or any other part of Europe, requires the CE mark to certify that it complies with European regulations. These are already the most stringent in the world and even equipment not intended for export to Europe may carry the two characters to show that its safety requirem
Issue Date: February 2008

Cutting joins the production network

JDF is making its way into the cutting arena. The major guillotines can all take in JDF information and use it to set up the cutting program. However recent developments have made this far more useful from a user’s perspective. The control screen on the guillotine will display a low resolution image
Issue Date: February 2008

Digital print sidesteps cutting stage

While small format guillotines to cope with digitally printed sheets are supplied by the likes of Duplo and Morgana, both companies have also come up with technology that turn a sheet fresh from the press into a finished product without a guillotining stage. On some digital presses, image placemen
Issue Date: February 2008

Health and safety focus on handling

Handling equipment around the guillotine is fast becoming a must both for efficiency and to stay on the correct side of the Health and Safety Executive. While it remains permissible to lift paper from a pallet, the government agency keeps a close eye on the incidence of Work-Related Upper Limb Disor
Issue Date: February 2008

Perfecta adapts to suit automation

Perfecta plans to show a fully hands-off cutting operation at Drupa. The company has installed several systems at customers in Germany where its guillotine is surrounded by Baumann handling technology to remove sheets from the pallet taken from the press; to deliver, jog and present them to the hand
Issue Date: February 2008

Polar looks to match Heidelberg's growth in format

Guillotine market leader Polar is introducing larger format machines to partner Heidelberg’s move into large format sheetfed printing. It plans to have a 155cm machine and 176cm guillotine available at Drupa and will build a larger machine should Heidelberg build a bigger press, says joint managing
Issue Date: February 2008

Senator joins automation drive

Germany’s other great guillotine, the Hamburg-built Schneider Senator, is another that is robotising and automating at least part of the guillotining process. At Drupa it will show a Senator S-Line 137 H cutter which can trim four sides with no operator intervention and can come with automatic joggi
Issue Date: February 2008

Specialist needs drive innovation

Not all cutting tasks are the same, resulting in developments from the likes of Polar to accommodate specialist requirements. While Perfecta has shown it is able to build machines for non-print requirements – cutting rubber for engine mountings in cars for example – Polar has remained with paper and
Issue Date: February 2008

UK flag waver scores well

Sales of 700 guillotines over a 20-year period marks the CCM Premier guillotine down as a success for Terry Cooper Services. The reasons for that success are largely down to the value proposition – a new guillotine for the price of a second-hand German-built product with no compromise on specificati
Issue Date: February 2008

Wohlenberg production heads east, but stays in Germany

Production of Wohlenberg guillotines in Hannover is ceasing this year with production shifting to the Perfecta factory in Bautzen. Both companies share handling equipment supplier Baumann as a shareholder. The move will mean a rationalisation of formats to 76, 92, 115, 132 and 168cm machines. This w
Issue Date: February 2008