In April, it will be exactly five years since Koenig & Bauer in Radebeul opened a new hall with more than 3,000 m² of demo and production space as an extension of its in-house Customer Experience Centre.
The new building houses the Packaging Competence Center with several packaging lines from printing to die-cutting (flatbed and rotary die-cutting) and folding carton gluing. Workflow solutions for the packaging industry, end-to-end data management in all phases of production and AI-supported, data-based and digital business models that take the entire life cycle of printed products into account are also presented here.
At that time, an official opening in person was cancelled due to the Corona pandemic. In the years that followed, the Packaging Competence Center developed into an excellently utilised meeting point for packaging companies from all over the world.
In addition to machine demonstrations, application tests and process engineering developments, the broadcasts as part of the virtual drupa 2021, for example, came from the new Packaging Competence Center – as did many live broadcasts of demos to all parts of the world. From the outset, the installed technology has mapped the end-to-end packaging workflow from pre-press to printing and die-cutting through to folding carton gluing.
- Print Fusion: end-to-end packaging workflow between pre-press and printing in collaboration with Hybrid Software
- Sheetfed offset: Rapida 76, Rapida 106 X, Rapida 145
- Digital folding carton printing: VariJET 106
- Die-cutting: CutPRO Q 106 and Ipress 106 SB flatbed die-cutters, CutPRO X 106 rotary die-cutter
- Folder gluing: Omega Allpro 110, Omega Allpro 70
The Packaging Competence Center is also well booked for the future: An Open House with the theme “Expand Your Business Model” is planned for May, where all machines will be producing live. In addition, there are daily printing demonstrations for interested parties from all over the world. With its new building, the Customer Experience Center has developed into an important meeting point for the international printing industry.