Laminating

Versatile, flexible and ready to start

  • Designed to handle a variety of substrates including thin alu-foil, metallized film and thin stretchable materials
  • Equipped with sleeve transfer rollers for easy and fast job changeover
  • Plug & play installation – no foundation needed, averages 1 week from arrival to production
  • Standard web widths: 1030 – 1330 – 1530 mm. Other web widths available as option.
  • Lamination speed up to 450 m/min
  • 0 industry ready for post processing data.

Productivity & quality from short runs upwards

  • Job changeovers completed in minutes without tools irrespective of configuration:
    • on-board rotating cantilever system for sleeve type roll
  • Pneumatic opening of metering roller for quick and easy adhesive disposal
  • Automatic reel centering system reducing waste and start-up time:
    • one touch winder setup
    • quick fine tuning after web threading
    • perfect reel alignment with linear encoder
    • no telescopic effect
  • Patented fully integrated automatic washing as standard supply
  • 3-roller laminating nip for superior optical quality of coated adhesive
  • 2 heated rolls for optimal process temperature control
  • Independent setting of thermal regulation for coating unit and metering rolls.

Cost optimization and easy operation

  • Patented design of long-life side retainers improves the laminator’s efficiency and decreases costs
  • Layout enabling full accessibility to the laminating nip for quality and process inspection without stopping the machine
  • BOBST adhesive mixer solutions for effective adhesive quantity control, matching production requirements
  • Micrometric adjustment for perfect coating adhesive distribution
  • Fully integrated HMI
  • Intuitive, easy to read pictogram and commands for the setting, display and storage of individual job working parameters.

 

Compact, ready to start

  • Optimized overall dimensions for limited footprint
  • Web widths 830 mm. Ideal digital market solution
  • Lamination speed up to 350 m/min
  • Handles reels up to 1000 Kg
  • Plug & play installation – no foundation needed, averages 1 week from arrival to production
  • 0 industry ready for post processing data.

Cost optimization and easy operation

  • The narrower-web design enables to optimize the efficiency of very short run productions
  • Patented design of long-life side retainers improves the laminator’s efficiency and decreases costs
  • BOBST adhesive mixer solutions for effective adhesive quantity control, matching production requirements
  • Micrometric adjustment metering roller for perfect coating adhesive distribution
  • Fully integrated HMI
  • Intuitive easy to read pictograms, commands for the setting, display and storage of individual job working parameters.

Productivity & quality with ultra-short runs

  • Designed to handle a variety of substrates including thin alu-foil, metallized film and thin stretchable materials
  • Job changeovers completed in minutes without tools. On-board rotating cantilever system for sleeve type roll
  • Pneumatic opening of metering roller for quick and easy adhesive disposal
  • Available productivity-enhancing options:
    • Patented fully integrated automatic washing
    • Independent setting of thermal regulation for coating unit and metering rolls
    • Cooling roller after laminating unit
    • Coating thickness measurement system
    • Anodized idle rollers.

 

Compact, automated and connected

  • Compact design with lateral trolley extraction

  • The new NOVALAM 800 layout is characterized by a 4 colums design: two separating the coating section from the primary unwider, and two separating the bonding section and the rewinder from the secondary unwinder, granting:

    • Optimum accessibility for easier and faster web infeed 

    • Easier and quicker cleaning and maintenance operations, considerably reducing machine downtime

  • Fully integrated HMI for setting, display and storage of individual job working parameters in easy to recall job recipes

  • The operator can easily and rapidly switch between jobs 

  • Connectivity features for full production and quality control. 

Superb product quality and sustainable operation 

  • Very precise web handling on all substrates types, thicknesses and web combinations. Excellent performance at speed with critical substrates such as thin alu-foil, metallized films, and thin stretchable materials 

  • New 3-roller laminating nip for enhanced optical quality of the laminate

  • Latest trolley design delivering coating uniformity and visual appeal with all applications

  • Flat drying tunnel and perfect web transportation by motorized rollers, avoiding breakages and scratches on critical substrates like alu-foil and metallized film

  • Unique cost saving solution of BOBST flexo trolley:  less adhesive required and up to 50% less solvent 

  • Motorized pressure roller for more accurate and uniform adhesive metering, ideal for multi-roller and reverse coating technology

  • Exclusive Registron® Mark-to-Mark reading technology for in-register cold seal coating and lacquer coating, enabling real time reading and detection of cold seal presence, avoiding costly non-conformities.

High flexibility and productivity

 

  • Designed to efficiently handle different film and paper substrates and consumables types: both conventional substrates and those designed for recycling

  • Highly productive from ultrashort run upwards

  • Multi-trolley design for different process technologies: 

    • Solvent-based and water-based dry  lamination

    • Solventless lamination 

    • In register cold seal coating on pre-printed substrates 

    • In-register printing of one additional color 

  • Lamination speed up to 450 m/min.

High substrate versatility

  • Highly precise control of web tension from rewind to unwind

  • Very accurate solventless  system and unique design of the coating unit

  • Handles a variety of substrates including thin alu-foil, metallized film and thin stretchable materials for a wide range of applications

  • Fully automatic bi-directional reel splice

  • Production speed 450 m/min.

Exceptional product quality

  • Very accurate solventless  system and unique design of the coating unit

  • Highly sensitive control of web tension from rewind to unwind

  • Excellent coating profile consistency.

Easy operation 

 

  • Quick to set up

  • Easy and fast job changeovers without tools

  • Fully integrated HMI for setting, display and storage of individual job working parameters in easy to recall job recipes

  • Optimum accessibility for cleaning and maintenance 

  • Connectivity features for full production and quality control.

High flexibility and productivity 

  • Handles a wide variety of  film and paper substrate and consumable types,  both conventional  and those designed for recycling, at speeds of up to 450 m/min.

  • Multi-trolley design for different process technologies: 

    • Solvent-based and water-based dry  lamination

    • Solventless lamination 

    • In register cold seal coating on pre-printed substrates 

    • In-register printing of one additional color

  • Ideal configuration for efficient operation with minimum downtime  for medium to long run production. 

Premium product quality and efficient operation

  • Flawless lamination quality with all substrate types, thicknesses and web combinations. Excellent performance at speed with critical substrates such as thin alu-foil, metallized films, and thin stretchable materials 

  • The optimal web transportation system by motorized rollers in the flat drying tunnel avoids breakages and scratches on critical substrates.  

  • Widening and diversification of the converter’s applications thanks to the possibility to extend the tunnel length up to three sections, each with independently adjustable temperature. Solvent residue is minimized, the control of web tension is maintained 

  • Latest trolley design delivering coating uniformity and visual appeal with all applications

  • Unique cost saving solution of BOBST flexo trolley: less adhesive required and up to 50% less solvent 

  • Motorized pressure roller for more accurate and uniform adhesive metering, ideal for multi-roller and reverse coating technology 

  • Exclusive Registron® Mark-to-Mark  technology for in-register cold seal  and lacquer coating, enabling real time reading and coating detection, avoiding costly non-conformities.

Operator-friendly, automated and connected 

  • Operator-friendly design: 

    • Lateral trolley extraction

    • Optimum accessibility for easy and fast web infeed 

    • The operator can easily and rapidly switch between jobs 

    • Easier and quicker cleaning and maintenance operations, considerably reducing machine downtime

  • Fully integrated HMI for setting, display and storage of individual job working parameters in easy to recall job recipes

  • Connectivity features for full production and quality control.

Exceptional flexibility

  • Available in two different layouts to best fit production requirements
  • Larger web widths up to 1750 mm and above upon request for industrial applications
  • Customizable in terms of web width, winders and reel diameters.
  • Perfect handling of different substrate types including thin alu-foil, metallized film and thin stretchable materials.
  • High performance production speed up to 600 m/min.

Exceptional quality at high speed

  • Very sensitive web handling on all substrates types, even at high speed
  • Increased machine uptime.

Easy operation

  • Quick to set up
  • Easy and fast job changeovers without tools
  • Fully integrated HMI for setting, display and storage of individual job working parameters in easy to recall job recipes
  • Optimum accessibility for cleaning and maintenance
  • Connectivity features for full production and quality control.

 

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