Company Unveils New Directions in Finishing

Ivrea, Italy – Tecnau today concluded their annual global kick-off meeting under the theme “Ready for the Future” and announced their Product Outlook 2023, focusing on supporting customer demands for innovative, reliable and efficient solutions for production print.

Ready for the Future
With continuous investments in R&D and close cooperation with leading print vendors and customers, Tecnau looks forward to building on the extraordinary performance achieved in 2022. The current product portfolio has proven to be ready to meet customer needs of today, and with recently released and further upcoming enhancements, it will be ready to meet future press requirements for productivity, performance and reliability. Moreover, Tecnau products will continue to build on a strong foundation of labor-saving automation capabilities to help customers navigate today’s challenging labor market.

Production printers are looking more than ever at a mix of print solutions ranging from continuous feed inkjet, cut-sheet inkjet and cut-sheet toner. With an extensive product range for all three print technologies, Tecnau is ready for the future growth of the digital print industry, with solutions incorporating enhanced specifications, reduced service requirements and increased productivity for an optimized Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE).

Tecnau is excited to give its customers and prospects a glimpse of the feeding and finishing innovations for high-speed printers which the company has begun rolling out:

• New Revolution 50 roll-to-roll with enhanced performance and lower energy consumption.
• Popular Revolution 50 series cutting & stacking now with increased flexibility, reliability and automation.
• New StreamFolder 5152 launching soon for book-block production, glued or unglued.
• Established Zero Speed Splicer Roll 40 now supporting higher speeds up to 180m/min and paper weights up to 300gsm.
• Long-offered Tecnau sheet-fed press automated finishing solutions gathering new & increasing momentum.
• Tecnau Connect (IoT platform) rolled out across the new portfolio to supervise production, reduce failures and increase productivity.

The recently announced Revolution 50 Roll-to-Roll system, built on the well-established and highly successful Roll 9 series, provides expanded specifications, including speeds up to 250m/min, web width up to 570mm and higher web tensions ready for future printers and associated finishing requirements. The solution also features significantly reduced power consumption compared to prior generations and competitive products that can lead to energy savings of 50% or more.

Tecnau’s Revolution 50 series cutting and stacking systems was introduced pre-pandemic. With over 50 installations worldwide since then, most of which are connected to the Tecnau Connect IoT platform providing instant and detailed performance data to Tecnau engineers, Revolution 50 has evolved to enhance its reliability, uptime and flexibility over a broad media range, from 40gsm to 300gsm, coated (silk, matte and gloss), uncoated and inkjet treated, all proven with lab validation and customer field experience in 24/7 environments.

New StreamFolder 5152 book-block making solution will be making its debut very soon, featuring the StreamFolder f50 plow folder with enhanced automation available for easy and fast job changeovers and reliable, consistent production. The Stacker s52 features jogging for top-quality stacking andoptional multi-position tack gluing for smooth signature handling.

Zero Speed Splicer Roll 40 eliminates press downtime during roll changes while minimizing waste. Now, specifications have been enhanced to offer on-the-fly roll changes at higher speeds up to 180m/min while supporting heavier paper weights up to 300gsm for graphic arts and commercial print applications, boosting the productivity gain possibilities to easily exceed 25%.

Sheet-fed press solutions – with more than 100 systems installed worldwide, Tecnau can offer inline or nearline solutions for sheet–fed digital printers with a modular field upgradable concept that has proved to be successful among customers. While the TC 1530 C dynamic perforating & scoring module has been popular for some time, the Stack 1010 system for automated cutting & stacking of multi-page impositions to final finished size has been enjoying significant market momentum recently, with an expectation that this will continue to build in 2023, especially with new inline press possibilities expected. For B2+ color digital presses, Tecnau offers the Stack 1212 to reduce manual print handling in a single automated process; Tecnau is working in partnership with other finishing vendors to further empower this product in 2023. The company has also recently introduced BookReady, a completely automated system for short-run and book-on-demand production inline to sheetfed digital printers with on-the-fly application change at speed and without any manual intervention.

Tecnau Connect has proved to be an advanced platform for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) with capabilities that include remote diagnostics and remote software updates, data collection and parts lifetime notification possibilities – increased adoption is expected in automation-eager 2023. This system opens the door to a better and more streamlined production by monitoring and analyzing production and service data in real-time. Tecnau Connect keeps track of productivity and status of the complete line down to single machines; it continuously monitors processes and performances, identifying patterns and trends that can be used to optimize processes and predict when maintenance is required or parts must be replaced, contributing to a steady growth of the line OEE.

"At Tecnau, we pour our hearts and souls into every product we create, and we believe our products represent our commitment to quality as well as our passion for innovation and automation," said Stefano De Marco, Chief Executive Officer at Tecnau. "We are humbled by the trust our customers have placed in us, and we are determined to continue pushing the boundaries of what is possible to bring you products that inspire, delight, and make your digital print production better."

Demonstrations of Tecnau products are available at the Tecnau Experience Center at Tecnau headquarters in Ivrea, Italy, or at the newly opened Tecnau Experience Center in the Tecnau US facility outside Boston.