The most important international event for the Print Media, Publishing & Converting sector, DRUPA 2024, saw SERVIFORM® – an all-Italian company and one of the world leaders in the production and marketing of die-cutting machines, software, services and materials – as one of the main players.
After a long 8-year forced hiatus from the pandemic, DRUPA 2024 was the perfect stage to launch a revolutionary technological innovation on the market: the brand new double ejection rubber positioning head of Rubbot 2100, the big size fully automatic robot that installs rubber on flat dies. This innovation already holds several international patents.
Compared to the previous model, the double positioning head results in a 30% acceleration of the ejection rubber positioning process, which is known to be a bottleneck in die-making process. In addition, it reduces rubber waste by up to 30%, thereby also optimising costs. It is possible to schedule operations and thus better organise the entire production process and, last but not least, it ensures very high repeatability.
Rubbot 2100, which was launched by SERVIFORM® in 2020, is a Pick and Place system on a Cartesian table for fully automatic nesting of ejection rubber on the die. A unique solution with the clear objective of an outstanding productivity increase for diemakers. In fact, it was used in the beta-testing phase in the Group’s diemaker, where speed performance (measured on average piece positioning time) has more than doubled in the period from installation to date.
Rubbot 2100 benefits from fully integrated rubber preparation and nesting software – Autorubba – to increase the productivity of the robotic system, without interfering at all with the activity of the CAD office.
Automatic detection of the positioning of each piece is ensured through the use of a video camera.
The Rubbot 2100 can process flat dies up to 2100×1400 mm and use up to five different kind of rubber – all rubber has to be self adhesive, therefore coated with PSA fils – with rubber heights of 7 to 11 mm.
DRUPA 2024 also gave SERVIFORM® the opportunity to present its new corporate identity: “Rationalism: what we strive towards” is combined with a new avant-garde graphic theme called MODERNISSIMO. This new graphic concept was not just a visual artistic exercise, but was implemented on a truly amazing tool: E- Runway, the complete catalogue of SERVIFORM® products well organised and displayed on two high-tech totems.
SERVIFORM® has thus undertaken an all-round product and image revolution and has once again confirmed to everyone, customers, prospects and partners that its vision always stays one step ahead of the future.
