DRUPA 2024: BIMEC's report
DRUPA2024, one of the world's most important trade fairs for printing technology, ended on 7 June in Düsseldorf, Germany.
How did it go? Here is our point of view.
TF: big news at the BIMEC booth
We chose this occasion for the public debut of our new TF: the duplex slitter rewinder with winding and unwinding on the same side.
In addition to the traditional advantages that made it so popular in the market such as ergonomics, productivity and compactness, the TF can now process reels up to one metre in diameter in unwind!
Its capacity increases, its stability remains unchanged: a great plus, and the specialists who came to our stand immediately took it up and appreciated it.
TF: the combination of all the range's pluses
Its design blends the best of two Bimec slitter series: compactness, user-friendliness and ergonomics of the STB 550 front model, combined with the speed, winding technical solutions and equipment of the TCA series, such as the cross cutting of the material tails and the horizontally sliding press roll system.
Innovative design and engineering limit spaces and heights and produce results that would normally be achieved using larger slitters with an unwind carriage at the rear.
The front structure not only adds to the compactness of the machine and reduces its footprint, but also gives the possibility of combining other types of machinery at the back such as inspection machines, laser cutting machines, micro or macro perforation units, etc.
The TF model is a concentrate of experience, innovation and performance.
Great results for the TCA
Our TCA was not the star of our stand, because it is a company evergreen: a Duplex slitter rewinder, equipped with 3 asynchronous motors and digital inverters, nevertheless captured the attention of professionals in the sector. This confirms that our technology is always up-to-date and perfectly in line with the productivity and optimisation requirements required by the market today.
Concrete interest and negotiations
The attention that customers, known or new, have dedicated to us has been concrete and definitely aimed at gaining the competitive advantage that our machines are able to demonstrate and propose. And we are proud to say that, our TF, will soon be in the production plants of two large companies that met it at the fair and immediately chose it.
FlexCA is born and we are proud to be part of it!
FlexCA (Flex Converting Alliance) was created to bring together the best flexible packaging specialists in a virtuous chain and so offer the market complete solutions representing the best of the sector's technology. Its member companies, including Bimec, bring their respective specialisations and the alliance is not only a guarantee for users but also an important centre for sharing technology, aimed at profitable and sustainable development and evolution. Precisely during DRUPA, FlexCA presented itself to the public through the faces and voices of its representatives, immediately capturing the interest of specialists.
Conclusions
For us, DRUPA2024 was a success: it confirmed the industry's trust and attention to our established and innovative technologies.
The collaborations we have made and those we will make are taking us more and more in the direction of a global market that recognises, appreciates and demands excellence.
And we keep working in this direction!