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Schades Group is equipping its Bordeaux facility with a Digicon line
Schades Group, a Germany-based company specializing in the processing of paper rolls and the manufacture of self-adhesive labels, has installed a finishing line?a five-color Digicon Series 3 from AB Graphic?at its Bordeaux facility.
Designed for label production, this modular equipment is unique in its configuration. Equipped with five rotary and semi-rotary flexographic printing units, a semi-rotary and rotary die-cutting unit, and a Non Stop Vectra Autoset with automatic core loading, this 430-mm-wide machine is capable of semi-rotary flexographic printing and die-cutting at speeds of up to 150 m/min (in rotary mode). The new line also enables double-sided printing as well as printing on the adhesive side using a delamination and relamination process.
Game in France Installs a Polar Cutting Line
Following the installation of a Heidelberg Easymatrix CS 106 cutting table, Game in France, a board game and card game manufacturer based in Houdemont, Meurthe-et-Moselle, is continuing to modernize its production facilities with a cutting line consisting of a Polar N115 Plus guillotine and a Polar LW1200-4 stack lifter.
The paper cutter is equipped with a touchscreen and a memory system capable of storing up to 1,998 cutting programs. The stack lifter automates the loading of reams and improves working conditions for operators.
These investments are intended to increase the productivity and reliability of finishing operations.
An HP Latex 730W for MG Impression
MG Impression has installed an HP Latex 730W, a large-format printer equipped with white ink.
Founded in 2021 in Jaunay-Marigny, in the Vienne department, by Misaël Guérineau, MG Impression specializes in digital printing and signage for businesses.
The new machine can handle media up to 1.63 m wide and has a production speed of up to 31 m 2 /h. Equipped with white ink, it also expands the possibilities for printing on transparent, colored, or metallic substrates.
A new folder-gluer for Cartonnage du Château
Cartonnage du Château, a manufacturer of flat cardboard and light-corrugated packaging based in Belfort, has installed a Bobst Novafold folder-gluer.
Saica commissions an 86-million-euro biomass boiler in Nogent-sur-Seine
The Spanish group Saica, which specializes in recycled paper and corrugated and flexible cardboard packaging, has commissioned a biomass boiler at its facility in Nogent-sur-Seine, in the Aube department.
Representing an investment of 86 million euros, this facility replaces the old natural gas boilers.
With a thermal capacity of 49.75 MW, the facility will generate approximately 300 GWh per year, or 90% of the paper mill?s steam needs. A 5.5 MW turbine will also generate 37 GWh of electricity per year, covering 28% of the site?s electricity consumption.
The boiler will run on 65,000 metric tons of wood waste collected within a radius of about 100 kilometers and will also enable the recovery of more than 97% of the byproducts from paper manufacturing.
According to Saica, this investment will reduce the plant?s natural gas consumption by 89% and its direct CO2 emissions by 75%, or nearly 50,000 metric tons per year. Following Venizel and Champblain-Laveyron, this is the third biomass boiler commissioned by the group in France.
