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RSP Green Finishing – for the environment’s sake!
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RSP Green Finishing – for the environment’s sake!

CITO‑SYSTEM GmbH is responsible for the environment. Sustainability and environmental protection are therefore permanently anchored in all processes, is how product manager Roberto Croci explains the importance of environmental protection to his company in an interview with the “Deutscher Drucker” trade magazine for the printing industry.

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CITO ULTIMATE – constantly high and consistent creasing quality – also for corrugated board
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CITO ULTIMATE – constantly high and consistent creasing quality – also for corrugated board

CITO offers in the field of creasing technology the world's largest range of creasing systems. CITO products stand for perfect creasing quality and optimum cost-benefit. A good example of this is CITO ULTIMATE, the high-performance film-based creasing system.

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Rubber makes the champions
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Rubber makes the champions

How high-quality materials reduce diecutting costs. Modern day reports on Formula 1 racing discuss the tyres more than the engines, aerodynamics or even the drivers. Because the specialists know that the condition of the tyres decides whether a race can be won or not. So what has that got to do with us? The question about the situation of the rubber on the cutting die leads to exactly the same statement: “Rubber makes the champions”.

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Riding on the wave of success! CITO solid rubber profiles – for optimum processing of corrugated board
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Riding on the wave of success! CITO solid rubber profiles – for optimum processing of corrugated board

Certified quality and sophisticated developments. CITO is consistently customer-focused and works work intensively on understanding the day-to-day needs of its customers in order to provide always the right solution. Many years of experience and never-ending wish to develop are the basis for successful product development. CITO now offers a comprehensive range of solid rubber profiles for optimum processing of corrugated board. Both producers of cutting dies as well as converters of corrugated board benefit equally from these materials.

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Opportunities in the printing process
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Opportunities in the printing process

Inline finishing in sheet-fed offset printing is one of the opportunities for making the job printing process even more effective and economical. As this market in particular continues to shrink, it is necessary to keep an eye at all times on industrialisation of the further inline processing of the creasing, diecutting and perforation process says CITO product manager Roberto Croci in the conversation with Deutscher Drucker.

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Certified materials for your cutting die – CITOject F
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Certified materials for your cutting die – CITOject F

Are the materials in your cutting die safe with respect to food packaging? With a view to everyone’s health, it is of course essential that only safe packaging is used to pack foods. But what good is this if the safe cardboard or corrugated board is contaminated during processing?

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Higher quality and lower costs do not have to be contradictory
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Higher quality and lower costs do not have to be contradictory

Milling cutter wear accounts for a high share of production costs during the production of Pertinax creasing matrices. In addition, tool wear in the production process always means a gradual decrease of the product quality. Fluctuating parameters in the creasing channels means a lack of process reliability for the diecutting industry and thus faults when filling vending machine packs. What is needed is cost effective production in a constant quality, and there is a matching solution for this requirement.

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CITO ULTIMATE and AC 3 - the perfect combination
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CITO ULTIMATE and AC 3 - the perfect combination

CITO ULTIMATE is characterised by its special flexible surface coating that enables extremely large runs. The perfect combination comprises CITO ULTIMATE used in conjunction with the new CITO AC 3 Cutter. In many cases, the AC 3 Cutter incurs minimal additional handling, which is more than made up for by the consistent crease quality.

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Revolution in Crease Quality Consistency
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Revolution in Crease Quality Consistency

Quality must be measurable – anything that can be measured can also be improved. In times of maximum quality standards in the packaging industry, it is necessary to supply constant quality in packaging items too.

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