At a ceremony held to mark the opening of the Frankfurt Trade Show ‘Ambiente’, Parliamentary State Secretary Dagmar Wöhrl presented the certificate to Dr Jürgen Rautert, management board member responsible for engineering and manufacturing at Heidelberg, and Björn Wilke, who was responsible for designing the Speedmaster XL 105.
An international panel of 10 experts selected 25 from 868 nominated products. Five of these received the Gold Design Award and 20 products were given the Silver Design Award.
Dr Jürgen Rautert says the award winning press was designed to highlight the technology and quality of Heidelberg’s presses.
“Our customers are media companies who themselves deal with design on a daily basis and have demanding requirements when it comes to investment goods,” he says. “After all, their customers often give the go-ahead for final printing at the press itself. The high quality image of the production equipment supports our customers’ image of quality too.”
The Speedmaster XL 105 is a completely redeveloped sheetfed offset press which received its world premiere at drupa 2004 in Dusseldorf.
The Speedmaster XL 105 prints 18,000 sheets per hour on a broad spectrum of materials and on paper formats up to 75 x 105cm. It is used by industrial print shops in the commercial and packaging sectors, which at high capacity utilisation levels can gain significant economic benefits from its speed, high level of automation, and efficient operation.
Since 1990, Heidelberg has won nearly 40 design awards, including a commendation in 2002 for the Speedmaster CD 74 at the German Design Prize.
The German Design Prize is the Federal Republic of Germany’s official design award and is bestowed each year by the German Design Council on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology. It celebrates outstanding product and communication design. It is often referred to as the “award of the awards” as products are only nominated if they have already received a national or international design award.
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