ImageData Group has purchased and installed a new Multigraf 435-SM folder from Duplo UK at its Brighton site. The purchase follows a period of heavy investment to bring production processes up to higher levels while maintaining efficiency.
Commenting on the third investment from Duplo in as many years, part of a multi-decade relationship, Jason Vivian, operations director at ImageData Group commented, ‘We needed to reduce the touch points on our folding jobs, so the Multigraf replaced an ageing two-plate Foldmaster. The new folder has four plates with a two-plate cross section; this has increased our efficiency and our productivity, with less outwork and less handwork. It was exactly what we needed, and Duplo were on hand again.’
The Multigraf 435-SM is a modular four-plate folder with conventional manual folding plates, suitable for the automation of folding a variety of jobs at up to 25,000sph, depending on the fold type. The unit is said by Duplo to be simple to use, with a graphical touch pad, highly consistent in its fold quality and has minimal power consumption.
‘Our operators have really taken to the new Multigraf folder,’ continued Mr Vivian. ‘With the touchscreen, set-up is very simple and the Duplo engineers covered everything we needed to know in order to start production straight away.’
