German displaymaker Kohlscheinadds Heidelberg diecutter/stripper

Point-of-purchase display converter Kohlschein (www.kohlschein.de/html/e/frame_set.html), located in Viersen, Germany, recently installed the first Heidelberg Varimatrix 105 CS diecutter/stripper (www.heidelberg.com) in that country (at left).

The successful owner-run business has been printing and converting paper and paperboard for more than 70 years. A workforce of 160, split between the company's two sites, develops and produces displays for all major cosmetics manufacturers. The displays have very complicated designs that require many pieces of waste to be stripped. The Varimatrix 105 CS removes these automatically.

“The display-production process is much more effective with the Varimatrix 105 CS because staff no longer have to strip manually and are able to concentrate on more skilled work,” says company manager Oliver Höflich (at left in photo). “The automated production process also eliminates manual sources of error.”