Based in Renningen, about 18km west of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, the family-owned company is headed up by second-generation member, Stefano Palamides, who has been sole managing director since 1997 and was also the brain behind the invention and development of Palamides’ automated deliveries.
Palamides specialises in fully automatic delivery systems for folding machines, saddle stitchers, printing presses and 30″ digital finishing with online finishing lines. The post-press machinery manufacturer evolved from the Palamides Print Processing Company, founded in 1970 by Helga and Sesto Palamides.
A focus on customer-orientated solutions together with constant proximity to the group’s own processing systems guarantees practical solutions. Discussions with customers continue to provide the impulse, its own book binding company provides the know-how and the machine construction company guarantees that the ideas are converted professionally.
The enormous practical experience gained from the development of innovative delivery solutions propelled the development of Palamides as a finishing solutions manufacturer, which now employs 80 staff and has an installed base of approximately 2500 machines worldwide.
Recknagel tells Australian Printer that the company manufactures and ships around 250 machines each year, and is keen to increase its sales down under, where he estimates there are up to 30 Palamides machines currently in operation.
“We don’t sell technology, we sell automation,” he explains. “Our objective is to have a single operator in complete control of an entire production line.”
MAN Ferrostaal demonstrated the Palamides Delta 703 Automated Delivery inline with a MBO T800 automated folder at PacPrint, delivering a three-up job of DLs at a rate in excess of 120,000 per hour, fully counted into paper banded bundles and all of this with only one operator.
According to Recknagel, the Delta 703 automated delivery system comes with many options, including automatic card inserting and is both flexible and easy for one person to move about as and when required.
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