Dr. Thomas Perkovic, head of the printing blanket segment at ContiTech, said, “These printing blankets improve the printing process’s carbon footprint and easily satisfy our customers’ ever more pressing ecological demands.”

In 2009, the company’s blankets were assessed and certified for their climatic impact by the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences, which found that 70 per cent fewer emissions are emitted in producing them than in the conventional manufacturing process for world standard printing blankets.

In addition, ContiTech together with the Swedish company Nip Control is presenting, what it called another world first: a system capable of measuring compressibility in the nip zone between the plate and rubber blanket cylinder in offset printing. This digital pressure indicator measures the maximum force in Newton per square centimeter at the printing nip between the cylinders, thus enabling the printer to adjust the printing process, according to Contitech.

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