(1) Depending on material properties
Pure reliability and performance
The reliable, precise and versatile folder-gluer exceeds your needs. The NOVAFOLD allows you to produce a wide range of box styles, in different materials, at speeds of up to 300 meters per minute. Easy to operate, the folder-gluer delivers consistent and superb end-product quality.
Key benefits
Superior quality and performance
- Excellent folding quality, with no marking and precise gluing
- Automatic ejection of faulty boxes
- Robust and reliable
Opening commercial opportunities
- Folds and glues a great number of box styles and types
- Available options allow development of product range with time
User-friendly ergonomics
- Fast and user-friendly set-ups and job changes
- All parts of the machine are easily accessible
- Low maintenance
Product specifications
| Processed materials | |
|---|---|
| Carton board | max 800 g/m2 (1) max .049 in (1) |
| Corrugated flute type | N,F,E (1) N,F,E (1) |
| Capability | |
| Speed | 20-350 m/min (1) 64-984 ft/min (1) |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | A1: 10.10 m / A2: 11.22 m A1: 33.13 ft / A2: 36.81 ft |
| Width | 1.72 m | 2.20 m | 2.32 m 5.64 ft | 7.21 ft | 7.61 ft |
| Height | 2.35 m 7.71 ft |
Features
Feeder & blank aligner
- Handles most types of materials and box styles for high versatility
- Optional blank aligner for perfect folding precision
- Variable speed independent drive enabling a wide range of speed settings
- Quick and rapid set-up for easy repeatability
4 & 6-corner device
- Fast set-up of all types, and most sizes, of 4 and 6-cornered boxes
- Speeds of up to 18,000 b/h
- Tilting frame adjusts to flap size
- Cable guides for 45° panel
- HMI SPHERE control allows for saving of settings, automated positioning and remote control
- Modulated hook trajectory for high speed, high quality production
- Transparent security doors, reducing footprint at the back of the machine and offering space for tool storage
Transfer
- Synchronized kicker adjusts to carton arrival time
- Adjustable transfer conveyors adapt to difficult box shapes
- ACCUEJECT or rotary ejector device on demand ejects non-conforming boxes
- Allows delivery from above or underneath for double-wall, 4-corner boxes or boxes with windows
WONDERFOLD
- Independent folding hook for folding rear flaps
Prebreaker
- 180° prebreaking of all boxes at high speed, regardless of the material
- Long prebreaker for perfectly flat glue flaps
- Extra-wide lower left-hand belt ensures no marking
- High-speed re-opening plough
- Upper left conveyor displacement allows for more flexibility
Lower gluing unit
- Oversized stainless steel glue wheel for high-speed running
- Unique scraper device with micro-metric adjustment for precise gluing
- All components easily removable for quick cleaning
Delivery
- Integrated box stream regulator for precise stream intervals, faster running and less waste
- Automatic apron centering improves box quality and prolongs belt life
- Infeed conveyor for better control of boxes with irregular edges
Crash-lock module
- Processes multiple-fold packaging
- Prebreaks large boxes and provides a location for supplementary devices such as label inserters
- Telescopic upper conveyors easily adjustable to box format
- Allows for front panel folding
Folding
- Minimum folding device for folding down to 35 mm
- Choice of left, right or simultaneous folding
- Automatic belt tensioning ensures quicker makeready
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
Main processed material
End-use categories
Complementary products / Quality control
EASYFEEDER / BATCH INVERTER 4 - Prefeeder
High-speed feeding
HANDYFEEDER - Prefeeder
Feeding the most delicate blanks
HANDYPACK GT - Semi-automatic collecting table
Packing without stress
BOBST Services – Connected to power your performance
BOBST Connect
Digitalize, connect & automate
- 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
