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Franconian Lacquer Specialties for safe food packaging
Pickings of 7th Franconian Lacquer Specialties

Gerhardshofen, 17.11.2011 – Under this year’s theme “safe printing – safe packaging”, WEILBURGER Graphics invited selected guests to the Franconian Lacquer Specialties in Gerhardshofen for the seventh time.

Once again the event was fully booked and more than seventy attendees followed the comprehensive programme of Managing Director Günter Korbacher with his team and invited guest speakers.

After the opening speech of Mr. Günter Korbacher, sales director of the company Arno Dürr accompanied through the programme.

The speakers were:
Lars Scheidweiler, Sappi Alfeld GmbH
“The price of (un)certainty”

Santiago Gomez Romero, Jänecke+Schneemann Druckfarben GmbH
“Insight into the analytics of migrating printing ink components“

Dr. Ernst Simon, Nestlé Deutschland AG
“Requirements of branded companies on the folding box industry“

Julia Krogmann, B12 Agentur für bewegte Ernährung GbR
“Success factor human being – the importance of nutrition in everyday work“

Anja Kramer, Chesapeake Stuttgart GmbH
“GMP and compliance work in the folding carton industry"

Dr. Alexander Faber, WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH
“Lacquers with system“

A company tour which was offered during the lunch break as well as a common cross-country run of 5 km for the sportive attendees of the event rounded off the day around “healthy packaging”.

This year’s present was a food safe packaging which was produced at rlc | packaging group and sponsored by Sappi (Algro Design®, 350 g/m2) and Marbach (stamping tools) with a high refining grade (two UV FP lacquers of WEILBURGER Graphics with a “laser gloss” hologram effect embossed in the second lacquer component). The packaging was filled with a ham specialty of the Franconian acorn-fed pig as well as with the new product manual of WEILBURGER Graphics regarding food conformity.

Like every year the evening was rounded off by a common dinner in the restaurant Kohlenmühle in Neustadt a. d. Aisch.
 
For further information go to www.weilburger-graphics.de

Contact:
WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH
Am Rosenbühl 5
91466 Gerhardshofen
Germany
Tel.: +49 9163 9992-0
Fax: +49 9163 654
info@weilburger-graphics.de






Caption: More than 70 guests accepted the invitation to the 7. Franconian Lacquer Specialities




Caption: Günter Korbacher, managing director of WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH




Caption: Lars Scheidweiler, Sappi Alfeld GmbH




Caption: Santiago Gomez Romero, Jänecke+Schneemann Druckfarben GmbH




Caption: Dr. Ernst Simon, Nestlé Deutschland AG




Caption: Julia Krogmann, B12 Agentur für bewegte Ernährung GbR




Caption: Anja Kramer, Chesapeake Stuttgart GmbH




Caption: Dr. Alexander Faber, WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH




Caption: Highly refined food safe packaging as a gift to the 7th Franconian Lacquer Specialties




Caption: Common cross-country run for sport-interested participants.




Caption: Common dinner in Neustadt an der Aisch


Download Press-Kit: http://www.weilburger-graphics.de/files/WG_PR_FLS11.zip
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Chip-Off effect coating – a new finishing process from WEILBURGER Graphics

Gerhardshofen, 2nd November 2011 – The printing and packaging industry is constantly searching on new finishing processes, materials and effects. Such a new process presents WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH located in the franconian Gerhardshofen together with Merck KGaA and Model Kramp GmbH under the designation Chipp Off effect coating.

The chip off effect coating is a two component finishing which can be applied by a printing press with one coating unit with UV drying.

This innovative effect is based on different surface tensions of the two lacquers and generates an optical and haptical 3D structure. This inhomogeneous structure can be mostly described as “dryed foam” in case of full-surface application of both lacquers. By varying the both lacquer types you will get effects, which are reminiscent of surface structures of oxidized metals, polystyrenes or rubber foam. By adding effect pigments you can increase the effect optically. What is special about the application of introduced pigments is the strong generated edge formation in the supreme lacquer by tearing-off the coating surface in the second run. This causes a spatial reorientation of the pigments in the lacquer during drying process whereby pigments in the border area of the supreme lacquer produce a different interference in comparison with pigments in the homogenous interior. Also a combination of different pigments in the first and in the second run is possible as well as a combination of two different pigments in the final supreme lacquer.

This effect is applied by printing systems with full UV equipment by means of two machine runs. The reason for the second run is that the first lacquer must be cured completely before applying the second lacquer. Also an application of the effect in combination with conventional inks or hybrid inks or by an offline varnishing machine is possible. It is, in particular, important that the second lacquer is only applied after the printing ink is cured completely.

Typical application fields of this new chip-off effect are especially cosmetic packaging, electronics packaging and lifestyle packaging as well as high-quality commercial printing as business plans, business reports or brochures, but also printing products in the field of labels, POS and events. At the moment applications for brand protection are considered, a formulation on the basis of low-migrating components is in the development stage and will enable the use of the effects in the field of pharmaceutical and food packaging as well as in the cigarette industry.



Caption: Test form Chip-Off effect lacquers with color-changing-interference-pigment on black ground

Download Press-Kit: http://www.weilburger-graphics.de/files/PR/WG_PR_Chip-Off.zip

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New film laminating adhesive for food packaging

WEILBURGER Graphics enlarges its product class SENOBOND® with a low-migration film laminating adhesive

Gerhardshofen, 10. Oktober 2011 – WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH, settled in the Franconian Gerhardshofen, launches a radical innovation in the field of film laminating adhesives, its new SENOBOND® WB FILM LAMINATING ADHESIVE FP NDC 29-3536 375222 onto the market. The film laminating adhesive was especially developed for the application in the field of food packaging and for odour-sensitive products. SENOBOND® WB FILM LAMINATING ADHESIVE FP NDC 29-3536 375222 is a water-based 2-component adhesive with excellent adhesion values for lamination of all common film types to absorbent substrates. The use of carefully selected raw-materials on a constant high-quality level in combination with an ISEGA certificate enables the legal use of this adhesive for food packaging and for packing of odour-sensitive goods.

“Caused by the development of this innovative adhesive we can close once again a gap in the field of food packaging. The use of film laminated packaging on the basis of the latest regulations was impossible until now due to lacking availability of low-migration film laminating adhesives. Our new product gives completely new opportunities for producers and designers in the field of food conform packaging and we are very excited which new applications can be achieved with our new SENOBOND® WB FILM LAMINATING ADHESIVE FP NDC 29-3536 375222”, Arno Dürr, sales director of WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH.

Also the new SENOBOND® WB FILM LAMINATING ADHESIVE FP NDC 29-3536 375222 sequences smoothly in the recently launched new ident number system of the company. WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH has re-catalogued its complete range of products and re-evaluated it in terms of its food conformity in accordance with current statutory requirements and the recommendations issued by the key testing institutes and certifying bodies FABES and ISEGA as well as by the Swiss Commodities Act SR 817.023.21.

In its recently published product manual “Safe printing – safe packaging”, WEILBURGER Graphics presents its reworked product class list and provides its customers and other interested parties with comprehensive information on the application options of the individual product classes in direct and indirect contact with food in accordance with current statutory provisions as well as with more detailed information on the subject and related areas.

The new 28-page product manual is available in German, English, Spanish and Polish in a handy DIN A6 format directly from WEILBURGER Graphics and can be downloaded as a digital PDF version from the company’s website.

For further information go to www.weilburger-graphics.de


Contact:   
WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH
Am Rosenbühl 5
91466 Gerhardshofen
Germany
Tel.: +49 9163 9992-0
Fax: +49 9163 654
info@weilburger-graphics.de


 


Caption: Product class-Icon for the new SENOBOND® WB FILM LAMINATING ADHESIVE FP NDC 29-3536 375222 for odour-sensitive products.




Caption: New product manual from WEILBURGER Graphics focusing on the food conformity of varnishes, inks and adhesives.


 

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Progress through Technology – Successful SENOFLEX® Workshop at WEILBURGER Graphics

Second SENOFLEX® Workshop dealing with flexography

Gerhardshofen, 04. October 2011 – For the second time WEILBURGER Graphics invited on 15th September to SENOFLEX® Workshop dealing with flexographic printing production. Almost forty invited guests accepted the invitation under the motto “Progress through Technology” and discussed commonly current subjects and possibilities in the flexographic premium packaging printing.

After the official welcome by Günter Korbacher, managing director of WEILBURGER Graphics, Arno Dürr, sales director, guided through the comprehensive programme.

The following consultants were invited:

Arnd van Heijnsbergen, Mayr-Melnhof Karton
Topic: Substrate in the flexography – information regarding MMK and the production of X-Liners, which was also used for the presented test form print sample.

Heiko Döring, D. & W. Flexo-Manufaktur GmbH & Co. KG
Topic: New developments regarding flexo printing plates for post-print, one keyword was the exposure under the influence of nitrogen.

Thomas Holzer, Lohmann GmbH & Co. KG
Topic: Tape base for the flexography and influence of the base on the printing result – one keyword was washboard effect.

Ralf Schiffmann, Göpfert Maschinen GmbH
Topic: Göpfert flexo printing presses – high-quality prints for the premium segment

Klaus Fleischmann, WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH
Topic: Demands and characteristics of ink and varnish on the HD flexo process. Klaus Fleischmann also highlighted the achieved printing results of the test form, which was commonly developed and printed at company Wellpappe Lucka. The test form was also presented during the workshop and served as reference for the HD flexo test series.

The workshop ended for the participants with an invitation in the “Hüttn” at the Nürnberger Altstadtfest with comfortable discussions.

Arno Dürr, sales director of WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH: „We are very pleased that so many participants accepted our invitation and that we can concentrate on the subject HD flexo printing with the help of our extremely competent consultants from different points of view. In our opinion, flexo printing will play in the future an increasingly important role in the premium packaging field. By the interaction of high-quality and optimally adjusted components and processes you can achieve results which were considered impossible only a few years ago. Not least with the top-class collaboration with carefully selected machine builders, suppliers and production companies we were able to develop with our SENOFLEX® product class an exceptionally high-quality spectrum of inks and varnishes for the flexo printing and we are very pleased that it was accepted on the market extremely positive.”

Also the SENOFLEX® product class sequences smoothly in the recently launched new ident number system of the company. WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH has re-catalogued its complete range of products and re-evaluated it in terms of its food conformity in accordance with current statutory requirements and the recommendations issued by the key testing institutes and certifying bodies FABES and ISEGA as well as by the Swiss Commodities Act SR 817.023.21.   

In its recently published product manual “Safe printing – safe packaging”, WEILBURGER Graphics presents its reworked product class list and provides its customers and other interested parties with comprehensive information on the application options of the individual product classes in direct and indirect contact with food in accordance with current statutory provisions as well as with more detailed information on the subject and related areas.

The new 28-page product manual is available in German, English, Spanish and Polish in a handy DIN A6 format directly from WEILBURGER Graphics and can be downloaded as a digital PDF version from the company’s website

For further information go to www.weilburger-graphics.de


Contact:

WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH
Am Rosenbühl 5
91466 Gerhardshofen
Germany

Tel.: +49 9163 9992-0
Fax: +49 9163 654
info@weilburger-graphics.de


Download Pressekit: http://www.ftp-weilburger-graphics.de/files/WG_PR_SENOFLEX_WS.zip
(23 MB)



Caption: Well-attended SENOFLEX® workshop in the seminar rooms of WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH.




Caption: Commonly developed test form for the material and process optimization in the flexographic premium segment.



 
Caption: Arno Dürr – sales manager of WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH

 

Press statement – for immediate release

Safe printing – safe packaging

Varnishes, inks and adhesives from WEILBURGER Graphics now even safer

Gerhardshofen, 22 August 2011 – the packaging industry is on the move and due to various recent food scandals planning to make the food packaging sector and associated industrial sectors such as the tobacco industry even safer than before. The relevant laws are being tightened up and the choice of suitable substrates, inks, varnishes and adhesives minimised. That is good for protecting consumers, but is a cause of sustained uncertainty for many service providers.

It is for this reason that the company WEILBURGER Graphics has re-catalogued its complete range of products and re-evaluated it in terms of its food conformity in accordance with current statutory requirements and the recommendations issued by the key testing institutes and certifying bodies FABES and ISEGA as well as by the Swiss Commodities Act SR 817.023.21.

In its recently published product manual, WEILBURGER Graphics presents its reworked product class list and provides its customers and other interested parties with comprehensive information on the application options of the individual product classes in direct and indirect contact with food in accordance with current statutory provisions as well as with more detailed information on the subject and related areas.

A main focus of the new product catalogue is the new identification number system that enables the food packaging-related applicability for each class and product to be identified by way of simple number codes. The roll-out of the new identification number system is to be launched on 1 September 2011.

In addition, WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH has on the basis of the excellent level of acceptance of the dying of food-compliant UV lacquers introduced in 2009 for enhanced differentiation purposes in the printing room decided to dye dispersion coatings suitable for food industry use too with immediate effect.

Günter Korbacher, managing director of WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH, comments: ‘We have considered the standardised production of safe food packaging and associated products to be an urgent necessity for many years. Only by way of clear statutory requirements, suitable varnishes, inks, adhesives and substrates and complete inspection chains throughout the entire industry will we be in a position to guarantee comprehensive and sustained consumer protection. That this will have implications for all involved in the process chain must be clear to everyone. Our experience shows that the current uncertainty experienced by users is however largely based on the lack or inadequacy of information provided by the manufacturers. As such, our aim once again is to set a good example and provide our customers with absolute certainty in general and specifically in the production of food-compliant packaging by way of comprehensive information, clear cataloguing and a well-conceived product range that already takes future statutory requirements into account.’

The new 28-page product manual is available in German, English, Spanish and Polish in a handy DIN A6 format directly from WEILBURGER Graphics and can be downloaded as a digital PDF version from the company’s website.

For further information go to www.weilburger-graphics.de

Contact:
WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH
Am Rosenbühl 5
D - 91466 Gerhardshofen
Germany
Tel.: +49 9163 9992-0
Fax: +49 9163 654
info@weilburger-graphics.de



Download press kit: http://www.weilburger-graphics.de/files/WG_PR_FP.zip
(39 MB)



Caption: New product manual from WEILBURGER Graphics focusing on the food conformity of varnishes, inks and adhesives.




Caption: Comparison of SENOLITH® WB, dyed SENOLITH® WB FP dispersion coating for direct food contact, SENOLITH® UV and dyed SENOLITH® UV FP lacquer for indirect food contact.




Caption: Günter Korbacher – managing director of WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH

 

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WEILBURGER Grafik-Polska Sp. z o.o. celebrates 10th anniversary

Poznan, 23rd September 2010 – The anniversary year of WEILBURGER Grafik-Polska is another milestone in the ten year old company history. In April 2010 the subsidiary company of WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH in Gerhardshofen moved into a new corporate building on the outskirts of Poznan with a large office space of 250 m² as well as a 1.000 m² big warehouse.

The success story began in the year 2000, when Josef Kurzok founded the company as a “one-man show” and managed it with great support of Marian Schwark. The high product quality of WEILBURGER Graphics in association with the technical know-how and the respective knowledge of the Polish market of Josef Kurzok proved to be an excellent combination so that the success soon followed. In the following years the turnover as well as the number of employees of the Polish selling agency increased continuously. Already in 2002 the first relocation into a bigger company building on the premises of BSC took place. Regular events throughout Poland – among other things the organization of the first varnish seminar in Szczecin at the end of 2006 as well as the realization of a seminar in Warsaw concerning “brand protection” at the end of 2009 – popularized the name WEILBURGER Grafik-Polska even further.

By now WEILBURGER Grafik-Polska is counted with its six employees and a turnover of just over 2 Mio as a constant within the Polish printing industry.

The festivities for the 10th company anniversary as well as the official inauguration of the new corporate building – to which numerous long-time costumers and members of the GREBE family are expected – will take place in November of this year.

For further information go to www.weilburger-graphics.de

Contact:
WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH
Am Rosenbühl 5
D - 91466 Gerhardshofen
Germany
Tel.: +49 9163 9992-0
Fax: +49 9163 654
info@weilburger-graphics.de





Caption: Successful team of WEILBURGER Grafik-Polska Sp. z o.o. From left to right: Marek Nowaczyk, Przemysław Plewa, Marta Czerniecka, Josef Kurzok, Andrzej Styszewski, Małgorzata Nowak, Michał Hoffmann




Caption: New corporate building – relocation April 2010




Caption:     The WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH logo



 

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Caption: Josef Kurzok – Managing Director WEILBURGER Grafik-Polska Sp. z o.o.



About WEILBURGER Graphics

WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH is one of the leaders in the field of print finishing for packaging, labels and job printing.

The company mainly produces for sheet-fed offset, heat-set web offset and off-line coating, and for the screen-printing, flexo, gravure, narrow web and digital print sectors. Its tailor-made products are available for the market segments involving packaging, labels and job printing. It also offers seminars and consultancy services.

WEILBURGER Graphics is one of twelve companies of the GREBE Group, a medium-sized manufacturer of industrial coatings.

www.weilburger-graphics.de

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WEILBURGER Graphics reinforces export business
New branch in Spain and new sales office in the emirate Sharjah

Gerhardshofen, April 21st 2010 – WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH with ancestral seat in Gerhardshofen concentrates increasingly on the extension of its export business. Current success stories are both a new company foundation in Spain and a new sales office of the long-term export partner Anoop Plastic Products in the gulf region.
   
WEILBURGER Graphics Iberia S.L.
Already on 1. January 2010 the company WEILBURGER Graphics Iberia S.L. in the Spanish region Comunidad Valenciana was set up. The company WEILBURGER Graphics Iberia is a new member of the GREBE Group and cooperates directly with the manufacturer of coating systems WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH.

Mr. Fernando Sanz Piqueras, Managing Director of Fernando Sanz e Hijo S.L. as well as Mr. Arno Duerr, Sales Manager of the company WEILBURGER Graphics in Germany form the managing board of WEILBURGER Graphics Iberia S.L

Due to the close collaboration with the German varnish manufacturer and its laboratory department, customer requirements can be attended quickly and more effective.

Furthermore, customers and interested people will receive by Fernando Sanz and its sales team comprehensive consulting service and regularly information about new developments and product innovations from WEILBURGER Graphics.
   
New sales office in the emirate Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
For seven years successful partner of WEILBURGER Graphics in the gulf region, Anoop Plastic Products opened its new sales office in the emirate Sharjah in February 2010. After years of continuous growth, Anoop Plastic Products is one of the top ten partners of WEILBURGER Graphics.

The strength of the company lies in the customer focus and the solution proposals for the graphic arts industry.

Anoop Plastic Products is able to serve almost all application processes of the graphic arts industry with consumables and to counsel competently.

WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH was represented by Mr. Arno Dürr, head of sales department of WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH. Arno Dürr signified the opening as a further highlight of the successful collaboration for the last seven years.
   
For further information go to www.weilburger-graphics.de

Contact:   
WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH
Am Rosenbühl 5
D - 91466 Gerhardshofen
Germany
Tel.: +49 9163 9992-0
Fax: +49 9163 654
info@weilburger-graphics.de




 

Caption:     Arno Dürr inaugurates the new company building of Anoop Plastic Products in Sharjah.

 
Caption:     Babu, Manoj and family (on the left and right side), Arno Dürr ( in the middle).


Staff members of WEILBURGER Graphics Iberia S.L.
 

Fernando Sanz Piqueras, Managing Director
Tel.:     +34 902 366 760   
Mobile:     +34 660 403 226         
E-mail:     f.sanz@weilburger-graphics.es
 

Francisco Martínez Marqués, Sales Manager
Tel.:     +34 902 366 760    
Mobile:     +34 663 716 384          
E-mail:     f.martinez@weilburger-graphics.es

 
Mayte Sánchez Estañ, Financial Manager
Tel.:     +34 902 366 760    
Mobile:     +34 687 520 055          
E-mail:     m.sanchez@weilburger-graphics.es

 
Juan Manuel Montes, Sales Manager Region Catalonia
Tel.:     +34 902 366 760    
Mobile:     +34 600 485 375          
E-mail:     jm.montes@weilburger-graphics.es


Victor López García, Sales Representative   
Tel.:     +34 902 366 760    
Mobile:     +34 617 002 715          
E-mail:     v.lopez@weilburger-graphics.es


 
M. Asunción Maciá Irles, Customer Service
Tel.:     +34 902 366 760        
Mobile:     +34 687 814 788
Fax:     +34 965 682 381       
E-mail:     comercial@weilburger-graphics.es  

 





Caption:     The WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH logo



 

Caption:     PrintCity | Alliance Member



 
Caption:     Arno Dürr – Sales Manager of WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH


 

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SENOLITH^® UV FP lacquers by WEILBURGER Graphics - now even safer to use

WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH Newsletter

WEILBURGER Graphics Newsletter concerning Benzophenone and 4-Methyl-Benzophenone

Gerhardshofen, 23.02.2009 – On the basis of a report published by the “immediate warning system“ of the Federal Ministry for nutrition, agriculture and consumer protection dated 16th February 2009 relating to a case in Belgium of migration of the photoinitiators Benzophenone and 4-Methyl-Benzophenone caused by UV-hardening printing ink and –varnish in a box for cereals(SWN 2009/0118), as well as to other documented cases of migration of the same substances in cardboard boxes of chocolate bars from Belgium (SWN 2009/0118-add01, 2009/0118-add02, 2009/0118-add03) and the Netherlands (2009/0118-add04), the food packaging branch is stirred up. By the use of this newsletter, we would like to inform you, as our customers, about the backgrounds.

Dear Sir or Madam,

As already announced in our last correspondence, we revised our internet performance and established probably the first online community worldwide regarding varnishes in the graphics industry. The purpose and aim of this community is the lively exchange of experiences of all members regarding questions concerning print production. Furthermore we would like to use this community to carry on improving our products and our services in direct contact with you. It goes without saying that these services include in our opinion also an extensive training programme. One of our aims herefrom is the setup of a special training programme for selected topics within the industry.