TWO COMPANIES – ONE VISION
Sandra Wörle, Bachelor professional screen printing / Marketing Grünig and SignTronic, outlines the need for automation and standardisation to simplify screen printing.
Until recently, screen printing has been one of the most widely used finishing methods. This application – despite expectations and prognostics – has been refined and improved. More and more, companies set their stakes on this printing process or find the best results using serigraphy screens.
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Simplifying screen printing on glass surfaces
The quality of a screen-printed glass product will only be as good as the previous process, i.e. the screen making procedure, explains Sandra Woerle from SignTronic/Grünig-Interscreen.
The demand for glass screen printing technology is rapidly growing, whether we are talking about disposable or
reusable products, solar panel plants covering the electric requirements of entire cities, decorative glass elements, or interior applications as well as generally in the automotive sector. In particular, the high-quality decoration and functional printing sectors are particularly versatile and interesting, and these are exactly the ones that require top quality and standardised procedures.
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Start to finish professionalism for perfect screens
Professional final inspection and measurement data logging of screens for printing on glass can be achieved with Grünig’s inspection and packaging machine, writes Sandra Woerle.
Topics such as quality and ISO processes are becoming more and more important in today’s world, and the world of screen printing is no exception here. The increasing demands also require higher professionalism in the last step of the manufacturing process.
Art for Athlets
Andreas Ferndriger interviewed Fischer Sports GmbH management to find out why the Austrian winter sports company chose printing equipment and technology from SignTronic/Grünig for decorating its products.
SignTronic and Grünig offer overall solutions on a worldwide level for automatic screen making. With distribution partner Putz Drucktechnik, and in close co-operation with Fischer Sports in Austria, they were able to come up with a state-of-the-art solution to help Fischer optimise the printed designs on its skis.
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Upgrading to automation for standardised screens
Andreas Ferndriger explains how automated screen-making equipment from SignTronic and Grünig has helped German glassware manufacturer Glaswerke Haller to modernise and optimise its operation.
A specialist in glassware for 75 years, Glaswerke Haller offers optimal solutions for any type of individual requirements – from smaller to larger projects and even up to exclusive single parts.
One step ahead
Shaping chaos into productivity: David Forrester Zamith looks at how screen printing adapted to the pandemic and what it needs to do to continue to evolve.
As a result of the Covid-19 global pandemic, lockdown in Portugal, as elsewhere, caused normal economy to halt, with no sales and no orders, and with production and logistics chains broken. In Europe a chaotic situation emerged with a lack of adequate face masks and PPE due to dependence on overseas products, particularly from Asia.
Grünig presents the all new G-COAT 414
The main features are as follows: It is available for screen sizes - 1,000 x 1,200 mm and 2,000 x 2,000 mm. For smaller sizes, it is available as a plug & coat system: unwrap - set up – coat. Other noteworthy aspects are the solid lightweight construction, uncomplicated operating concept, input of the coating parameters via Touch-Screen Terminal, freely programmable with number of programs, state-of-the art SPS control and continuously variable drives, compatibility with Industry 4.0 standard, data exchange by means of OPC-UA architecture.
Grunig presents G-PROOF 390
The growing requirements related to the QS and ISO processes demand increased professionalism down to the last step of the screen making procedure, including handling and dispatch of the perfect printing screen. The latter must be checked and measured in many different aways, and all the measured values need to be logged in order to be available in digitized form at any time. Careful packaging is the last activity at the end of the process; it not only ensures efficient protection against external effects during transportation but in addition represents the business card of the screen printing service provider.
Advancing with automation
David Zamith explores the importance of automation in digital CTS screen stencil making, and discusses how to position screen printing at the forefront of the 4th Industrial Revolution
From my e-work platform I wish all of you and your loved ones the best of health! The economy must go on and we have to be prepared for future recovery; perhaps working in different ways from those in which we operated before the COVID-19 pandemic.
High-tech from Swiss countryside to the global market
The homes of Grünig and SignTronic are no fancy big city manufacturing sites but medium-sized production and company offices in small villages near Niesen mountain (Grünig) in the western part and the Säntis (SignTronic) in the eastern part of Switzerland.
Focused on suitable production premises to cover the needs of its internal departments, as well as to highly educated and professional employees, both companies sign also for modesty in their appearance, says Andreas Ferndriger. Many customers are astonished to find the production of such high-tech products in small villages. International companies supplying clients in more than 40 countries around the world with high-tech products are – normally – not to be found up in this countryside.