Digital Printing
BOBST and Radex announce launch ofMouvent
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OBST, one of the leading suppliers of equipment and services to packaging and label manufacturers, and Radex, a startup
company with a long track record in the field of DOD inkjet digital printing, are embarking on a joint venture, which will become the digital printing competence centre and solutions provider of BOBST. Converter recently attended the unveiling of BOBST and Radex’s new company, Mouvent, which will focus on digital print. The company enforced its intention to create additional reliable and strong machines that customers feel comfortable placing their trust in, ensuring continued and future investments and partnerships. Creating tailor- made solutions in the digital printing sector for the worldwide market is a new venture for BOBST and partner company Radex. Central to the digital innovation at Mouvent is
digital printing technology developed by Radex, which is based on a highly integrated cluster. Due to its intelligent and compact design, it will be the centrepiece of new machines developed by Mouvent for a wide variety of markets such as textile, labels, corrugated board, flexible packaging, folding carton and more. “We truly believe this is a watershed moment
for the future of digital printing independent of the industry or market,” says Jean-Pascal Bobst, CEO of BOBST Group SA. “Current industry trends – including high demand for digitalisation, short runs, fast availability, promotion and versioning, personalised and seasonal products, and increasing sensitivity towards cost and environment – are driving demand for high quality and affordable digital printing machines. Through Mouvent we aim to initiate a quantum leap in this area, ultimately providing the market with what it needs most: highly reliable industrial digital printing on different substrates at a competitive cost.” As well as the digital printing presses, Mouvent
offers a fully integrated, complete solution – it develops, engineers, tests, and industrialises digital printers based on the Mouvent Cluster. It writes the software around the printers, develops inks and coatings for various substrates, as well as providing a full servicing offering. The company is promising a new standard in inkjet label production cost and quality, in ink pricing, head durability, quality and machine performance. Its first machine that has
From left to right: Jean-Pascal Bobst, CEO of BOBST Group SA, Simon Rothen, CEO of Mouvent, Piero Pierantozzi, co-founder of Mouvent
Mouvent LB702-UV
been launched is a digital printer for textiles, which prints with up to eight colours. The cluster design is the base building block for
all systems, current and in development. “Our radical new approach is to use a base
cluster which is arranged in a modular, scalable matrix instead of having different print bars for different applications and different print widths,” explains Piero Pierantozzi, co-founder of Mouvent. “The Mouvent Cluster is the key technology behind the Mouvent machines, resulting in high optical resolution for a crisp, colourful, very high printing quality, as well as flexibility and possibilities in terms of machine development. Simplicity is our engineering philosophy.” “The Mouvent Cluster represents a completely new approach – using a base cluster arranged in a modular, scalable matrix, instead of having different print bars for different applications and different print widths,” adds Martin van Waeyenberge, marketing and sales manager, label machines at Mouvent. “This simple yet completely innovative approach is the key technology that differentiates the Mouvent machines.” There is a full product pipeline to follow,
Textile Machine
inclusive of two high-speed seven-colour UV ink printers (LB701 UV and LB702 UV) and a digital inkjet label printer in the narrow web segment. These web presses print on various substrates such as paper, self- adhesive labels and flexible materials, with a width of up to 170mm/340mm. Production speeds can reach up to 100m/min with a native resolution of 1,200 x 1,200 dpi and an optical resolution of 2,000 dpi. The Mouvent Team will be demonstrating these
20 July/August 2017
Mouvent LB701-UV
presses at Stand A60, Hall 3 during Labelexpo Europe September 25-28, 2017. Mouvent printers are one of the smallest digital
printers in their category – closer to desktop printing than to traditional analogic printers like flexo – making them very compact, light-weighted and easily accessible. The modular, compact system allows easier settings and start-up with less fine adjustments required resulting in a productivity boost. The compact design has many other benefits, including smaller footprint, faster change-over, simple implementation and low cost. “We are very excited to start rolling out the pipeline in the months ahead,” says Simon Rothen, CEO of Mouvent. “Today is the announcement of an exciting journey of bringing large-scale digital printing to various industries. The digital printing solutions offered by Mouvent will present new opportunities for all sorts of companies, bringing more flexibility, productivity, shorter time to market and infinite variation, all with a very compact and energy efficient design. This will revolutionise the digital printing world.”
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