(1) Depending on material properties
Versatility and control
Whatever type of corrugated board or litho-laminated boxes you produce, EXPERTFOLD 106 | 145 | 165 | 215 has been designed to give you complete control during the folding process. Advanced feeding, accurate prebreaking and a folding process that minimizes fishtailing and gap ensure high productivity and a quality finished product. With its straightline, crash-lock, 4&6-corner capabilities and quick setting times, EXPERTFOLD also provides the versatility and flexibility needed to meet whatever request your customers might have.
Today, the EXPERTFOLD range for corrugated and litho-laminated board includes two further machine widths, which extend its versatility to respond to specific business needs and requirements. The EXPERTFOLD 106 is ideal for converters producing smaller micro-flute boxes, and it allows them to save precious production floor space by keeping the machine footprint at a minimum. The EXPERTFOLD 215 is specially equipped for converting large blanks and is also available as A4 version without pre-breaker. It can be equipped with POLYVACUUM and GYROBOX as an e-commerce version.
Key benefits
Unique folding
- Highly accurate and constant folding, minimizing fishtailing and gap
- Exceptionally smooth and precise folding
- Automatic ejection of non-standard boxes
Easy handling for more uptime
- MATIC setting and remote control
- Easy handling and unhindered access
- Feeder sets in 25% of the time of other comparable feeders on the market
Highly configurable
- Modular, for incredible flexibility and versatility
- For all types of corrugated board or litho-laminated boxes
- Allows a huge range of box variants to be run
Product specifications
| Processed materials | |
|---|---|
| Carton board | max 800 g/m2 (1) max .049 in (1) |
| Corrugated flute type | A,B,C,E,F,N,EF (1) A,B,C,E,F,N,EF (1) |
| Capability | |
| Speed | 20-250 m/min 66-820 ft/min |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 20.20 l 23.80 m 66.27 l 78.08 ft |
| Width | 2.70 l 3.00 m 8.86 l 9.84 ft |
| Height | 2.07 m 6.79 ft |
Features
ACCUFEED
- Integrated BOBST blank aligner, ensuring perfect folding quality
- Alignment left or right
- Feeds all types of material
- Pneumatic locking feature for feeding ramps which reduces set-up times by up to 5 minutes and improves significantly machine ergonomics
- An optional automated blank aligner in combination with the Job and Recipe Management Workflow allows to cut down setup time of the feeder
4 & 6-corner devices
- Runs a large range of box types
- High speed and high quality folding with modulated hook trajectory
- Easy setting with electronically controlled rotary hooks
- Tilting frame adjusts to flap size
- SPHERE controlled, allowing saving and retrieval of settings
Transfer and delivery
- Independent drive for total control of the box stream
- ACCUSQUARE for perfect alignment of every box, guaranteeing high-standard quality
- Belt tensioning and adjustable height ensure a prefect box stream
- Adjustable transfer conveyors for quicker set-up
- Box-stream regulator for precise intervals, higher quality and faster running
- Improved glued box quality with automatic apron centering
Prebreaker
- High speed, variable angle prebreaking with extra-long module
- Ensures reliable and precise opening of the finished product
- Lifting device allowing quick and easy set-up
- Extra wide lower belts and driven upper belts for regular blank transport, even for heavy materials
Folding
- Crease relief device for more natural, smooth and precise folding
- Crease control device ensuring a perfect fold
- 5 meter long folding section for perfect gap and reduced fishtailing
- Driven upper belts ensure more consistent transport
- Optional folding belts and heavy duty central conveyor to handle a larger and heavier range of blanks or material
HMI SPHERE
- Controls all functions the machine
- Up to two 15” full color, high-definition touch screens
- Simple step-by-step procedure guides the operator through the job set-up process
- All settings appear on one screen for more convenient and intuitive navigation
- Fully compatible with the digital BOBST Connect platform
- Allows the saving of up to 5,000 job settings
Crash-lock module
- Motorized lifting frames for fast and easy set-ups
- Quick setting, for short makeready and changeover
- Allows a huge range of box variants to be run
- Prebreaks large boxes and provides a location for additional devices
ACCUEJECT XL
- Easily set quality control device, able to eject a single faulty box
- Automatically ejects non- standard boxes up to 35 mm thickness at full running speed
- Ensures high quality production while simultaneously reducing waste and costs
Ergonomics
- Maximum accessibility for fast set-ups and direct process control
- Additional command panels at each stage of operation that can reduce changeover by 15%
- Easy handling and quick makeready with MATIC setting and remote control
- Complete production overview with LED machine status indication and video monitoring
- Security light barriers for maximum safety
Connects the HMI SPHERE via the BOBST Connect platform directly to the back office, where job recipes can be managed away from the production floor. Then, the job recipes are sent to the production lines and equipments, ready to be downloaded.
This system allows to increase uptime and proactively prepare shifts. Taking into account changes occuring during production, it ensures production consistency and continuous improvements across different shifts and operators. It also gives a real-time follow-up of the packaging production progress.
Analyse and improve your production workflow and planning with BOBST Connect. With Performance Management and Equipment Monitoring, reports provide data which give insights into productivity and output quality as well as a comprehensive production overview of all connected machines.
Energy Monitoring allows to control the air and electricity consumption of the machine and identify eventual energy saving measures.
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