Innovative Technologies

Innovations have to result in benefits for our customers. Implementing new technologies, machine building methods or new organizational structures must have a measurable effect on Van Dam’s core values: quality, robustness and reliability.   Quality, robustness and reliability lead to: satisfied customers from customers, long machine lifetimes, high machines up-times, low maintenance high efficiency fulfilled promises

Market developments

Van Dam always has a sharp eye on market developments, pickes up new challenges and translates them into practical solutions for the plastic packaging industry. We introduced servo motor technology, special cup handling technology for the dual component cups and clamshell products, back color printing, positioned printing, screw take off system, exact counting restacker, first time right plate mounting etc.

All those developments have contributed to higher production output and higher printing quality. Packaging companies and advertising agencies happily embraced new developments of Van Dam. The low printing costs per product combined with bright colored, sharp images and texts has led to a substantial amount of dry offset printed products on the shelves in the supermarket.

Solutions

Today the Plastic Packaging Industry is asking for new technical solutions to achieve

• reduction of machine downtime.
• reduction of energy consumption.
• reduction of consumables.
• reduction of labour costs.
• further improvement of printing quality.

Innovative technologies

Reacting on this market requirements, Van Dam implemented the following technologies on his dry offset printing machines:

• Conical printing, delivering a printing quality comparable with more expensive decoration technologies.
• Automatic Roller Cleaning System (ARCS), cleaning the color head rollers simultaneously while rollers are inside the machine.
• ARCS is significantly reducing the cleaning periods and the cleaning liquids.
• 'First time right' magnetic plate cylinders.
• Automated feeding and packing of stacks.
• Mechatronic color heads.

Information Close contact with progressive suppliers of ink, printing plates, UV systems, PLC systems and pneumatic parts has led to a further reduction of energy consumption, more efficient use of components and higher printing quality. Kindly contact our sales department at sales@vandammachine.com with your specific requirements.