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  The Bengaluru-based Valco Melton India, a part of the US-based Valco Melton – which manufactures dispensing machinery and quality assurance systems for adhesives – demonstrated its camera-based gluing and inspection as well as hot melt systems at the recently concluded IndiaCorr Expo 2022 held in Mumbai from 8 to 10 October 2022. “Inspection system is all about ensuring if the adhesive is present on the box, and at the right place. This ensures no unglued boxes go to the customers or the market,” says Ravi Kiran, director, Valco Melton India. Valco Melton’s GapChek camera vision inspection system detects gap defects. The GapCheck measures the lead and trail gaps and the skew of all boxes of a bundle. It then verifies them within the customer's requirements before they are delivered. Boxes with gaps out of tolerance are detected as faulty and highlighted on the screen for removal by BundleChek, immediately following the GapChek process. The company also showed its regular hot m...

  Meteor Inkjet has taken an interesting approach to the worldwide shortage of computer chips by developing a new electronics platform that’s less reliant on the specialised chips it was using. Meteor has suffered from the same problems that most other printer manufacturers have had since its printer controller cards – or PCC – that are used to drive various printheads all use an electronic chip that’s now in short supply. Meteor was using a specific Field Programmable Device (FPD) array from Intel that also included a microcontroller. This is a highly specialised chip as most use one or the other. The difference is that a micro processor is a multipurpose circuit that can follow instructions and come up with different results according to the data input whereas an FPD is configured to do just one thing, but it will do that one thing very quickly. Combining the two functions made for a very neat device, but that complexity also meant that it would be one of the last items to retur...

  Global climate change, resource scarcity and high energy prices are sending a clear message – sustainable action is not only a question of social responsibility, but also a highly relevant economic factor. Accordingly, Koenig & Bauer is placing a scalable digital tool in the hands of its worldwide customers to help them save energy and thereby reduce costs in future – an optimized energy management system developed specifically for the print and packaging industry. Sustainability as a social challenge Together with the active print industry, Koenig & Bauer has significant leverage when it comes to shaping sustainable print production. “Sustainability is the greatest challenge of our time,” says Koenig & Bauer CEO Dr Andreas Pleßke. “And as a company whose history extends back more than 200 years, we do, of course, also bear responsibility for future generations.” Alongside the development of energy-efficient machines, Koenig & Bauer has been championing the use o...

  A new team of office bearers of the All India Federation of Master Printers (AIFMP) for the year 2022-23 were elected at the 69th annual general body meeting held on 24 September 2022 in Kochi.  Raveendra Joshi of United Multicolour Printers Pune has been elected as its president for the year 2022-23. He takes charge of the apex body of 2.5 lakh printers, which employs around 15 lakh people directly and 10 lakh indirectly, from 1 October 2022.  Established in the year 1953, AIFMP draws its strength from 82 regional associations spread all over the country. The other officebearers are - Raghabendra N Dutta Baruah of Seven Stars Publications as general secretary, Nitin Narula of Colourbar Communications as vice-president (north), K Rajendran of Vignesh Offset as treasurer, Anant Vishwanath Joshi of Sahitya Mudranalaya as vice-president (west), Rahul Mahajan of Narendera Publishing House as joint secretary, Bidyut Ranjan Nag of Nag Offset as vice-president (east), and K ...

  Monotech Systems , a manufacturer of inkjet products and solutions for the printing and packaging industry, has appointed Priyanka Rathi  as deputy general manager, marketing and communications for its brand Jetsci Global.  With a background in business development, media and marketing, Rathi will coordinate Jetsci’s day-to-day marketing activities to help raise the profile of Jetsci and its services, in addition to developing and strengthening Jetsci Global's in-house marketing team. “Over the past 10 years, Jetsci Global has proven that an organization built on innovation can realize its vision and make a difference in the world of the packaging and printing industry. By developing and supplying customized machinery solutions to the world market, Jetsci Global has defied the most popular belief, ‘If something can’t be done, so should not be done ',” says Rathi. Before joining Jetsci Global, Rathi had worked in various business development, media, and marketing positio...