A) Exhibition

The 2nd International Printing Technology Exhibition of China will be held in Dongguan city, Guangdong Province from April 09 - 13, 2011. Our booth is situated in Hall 3, No. IV-004. The focus at our booth will be the production of photobooks, the market that grew the most in the last few years. For the PUR perfect bound book blocks cases will be manufactured on a KOLBUS DA 260 casemaker during the show and afterwards the block will be put into the case on a KOLBUS EMP 511 casing-in machine. Two sets of Aster automatic book sewing machines, one of which is ASTER EL the entry level, and the other one is ASTER 180 for high quality sewing at the top speed of 180 cycles per minute will be on display. Representatives from all our Principlals who are the leaders in the print finishing industry, such as Kolbus GmbH & Co. KG and Sigloch Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG from Germany, Meccanotecnica S.p.A. and Emmeci S.p.A. from Italy will be present at the Show and they will be pleased to meet our customers to exchange ideas on book binding and rigid box making new technology and modern equipments.

B) Product highlights

i) Kolbus

a) PHOTOBOOK MARKET

Digital photography meets photobook

It's a huge and expanding field. Digital photos - so quick to take, so easy to share. Online, phone-to-phone, upload, download, web galleries in the cloud - and in your hands as a beautiful and durable photobook. Which should be simple and inexpensive to produce. To turn a trend into a surge. Self publishing for everyone. Books have a special status.

Catching memories as they fly.

Kolbus was able to close several projects with photobook manufacturers in 2010 successfully and by now has become the leading provider of solutions and systems in the market of the industrial production of photobooks. For one customer not only the machines have been delivered but also the entire bar code tracking system, an essential element for the manufacturing of photobooks, has been supplied by Kolbus.

b) DA + SA for packaging

Automatic production of packaging materials with casemakers

For the production of high value packaging materials consisting of board and cloth (for example leather, linen, printed materials) KOLBUS casemakers and KOLBUS inside lining machines are proven solutions by many worldwide installations.

ii) Meccanotecnica

- Aster EL

Meccanotecnica is proud to present its new entry level model, the Aster EL automatic book sewing machine, offering the same basic features and engineering quality found on larger models of the Aster range.

- Aster 220C

- Aster 220SA

- Aster 180

- Aster 180C

The MC 2004 MEB ST-HM is a revolutionary new machine with unmatched technology in the industry. Rigid boxes can be formed using stay-tape (ST) or the innovative hot-melt system (HM) where a precise quantity of hot glue is distributed into the box angles and within two seconds, complete cooled.

The major advantage of this system is the complete elimination of stay-tape thus removing any stay-tape marks. This is a major consideration in the production of high value-added packaging. A range of kits is now available to produce a variety of beautiful and unique covered rigid boxes that up today you could produce only by hand.

Box samples

C) Intensive Technical Training

Our Company has delegated 7 members from our Servicing Department to Kolbus at Rahden, Germany for one-week's intensive technical training in February, 2009. They are: Mr. Daniel Mok, the Manager of our Servicing Department; Mr. Chan Pak Fu, Mr. Chan Chi Kong and Mr. Chau Yiu Nin from Hong Kong; Mr. Brian Zeng and Mr. Davite Liao from Shenzhen; Mr. Bill Lu from Taiwan. Under the guidance of the educated tutors, our servicing colleagues have learnt a lot from them.

This is the picture of the tutors and trainees taken in the "Blue Saloon" at Kolbus: