Vale buckles up for take off!

Print Solutions

Vale Press it to take delivery of a Stahlfolder in the new year. The BH66 buckle machine will replace an existing combination model to give the company greater flexibility in the products it can handle and will result in a 40% higher throughput in folding.

The folder range was seen at drupa and has been ordered in the wake of Vale’s decision to add a Speedmaster XL 75-5 with Inpress Control, a machine it believes will give it 30% more output than either of its two Speedmaster SM 74s. The new press is due in at the turn of the year.

Vale’s finishing department works 16 hours a day, the pressroom round the clock. Some 80% of its business is trade work, the remainder print for fine art galleries. The business is based in Broadway in the Cotswolds.

The BH66 is specified with a round continuous feeder, two buckle stations and a knife unit. This model can handle sheets from 140 x 180 mm up to 660 x 1280 mm and grammages of 40 to 250 g/m2.