(1) Depending on material properties
Flexibility and precision
Whatever type of corrugated board or litho-laminated boxes you produce, NOVAFOLD 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, NOVAFOLD also provides the versatility and flexibility needed to meet whatever request your clients might have.
Key benefits
Unique folding
- Highly accuarate 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,EB (1) A,B,C,E,F,N,EF,EB (1) |
| Capability | |
| Speed | 20-250 m/min 66-820 ft/min |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 17.52 l 20.22 m 57.48 l 66.34 ft |
| Width | 2.10 l 2.70 l 3.00 m 6.89 l 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
- Sets in 25% of the time of other comparable feeders on the market, considerably shortening makeready times
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
- CUBE³ controlled, allowing saving and retrieval of settings
Transfer
- Independent drive for total control of the box stream
- ACCUSQUARE XL 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
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, especially for heavy blanks
Delivery
- Independent drive for faster changeover
- Box-stream regulator for precise intervals, higher quality and faster running
- Improved glued box quality with automatic apron centering
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
- 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
Main processed material
End-use categories
Complementary products / Quality control
ACCUBRAILLE - Braille embossing
Guaranteed box compliance
ACCUCHECK - Inline inspection system
Zero-fault packaging
CARTONPACK 4 - Automatic packer
High-performance packer
EASYFEEDER / BATCH INVERTER 4 - Prefeeder
High-speed feeding
HANDYFEEDER - Prefeeder
Feeding the most delicate blanks
HANDYPACK GT - Semi-automatic collecting table
Packing without stress
STREAMPACK - Semi-automatic batch collector
Optimized packing
SPEEDPACK - Automatic packer
The ultimate packer
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- Optimize production with equipment monitoring
- Improve productivity with performance management
- Master your quality with reports in the cloud
Maximize your uptime
- Benefit from our 24/7 online support
- Access remote assistance
- Get support from trusted experts
Improve your profitability
- Boost your equipment
- Improve your overall effectiveness
