Ferag unveils high-speed cover hopper and entry-level inserting line

A group of journalists, including ProPrint‘s UK sister title, PrintWeek, were given demonstrations of both machines at Ferag training site PMC Print Media Corporation, Zurich.

They were shown how the UniCover 40’s rotary technology means the cover hopper can reach speeds of 40,000 copies an hour, twice as fast as other cover hoppers, said ferag.

This is fast enough to enable the cover hopper to be connected inline to a UniDrum gatherer-stitcher, explained the company, allowing users to process unfolded sheets from a web offset press directly to the UniCover and then directly to a gatherer stitcher for the first time.

Sales director Thomas Obenauer explained that the UniCover 40 is designed to work with as many different formats as possible, from 200x110mm to 340x310mm: “When creating the UniCover 40 we said we need to reach the speed of the UniDrum and we need to cover all of the classic formats.

“Eliminating the time-consuming and costly intermediate step on a folding machine is another building block in helping customers to reduce production costs,” he said.

Meanwhile, a Minisert inserting line, first discussed at Drupa and aimed predominantly at newspaper printers in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Central and South America, was also unveiled.

Ferag demonstrated how, with speeds of up to 20,000 finished copies an hour, this entry-level line would allow newspaper printers previously inserting manually to automate this process. The line’s modular design, with a hopper group, inserting module and stacker, was showcased, as was the rotary principle of the machine and its integrated missing-copy control.

Introducing both machines, Ferag chief execuitve Jürg Möckli said: “We want to continue to surprise and astonish the market with new developments, and ensure the continuation of the print industry into the future.”

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This article originally appeared at printweek.com

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