Germany-headquartered packaging and display supplier Brohl Wellpappe has added Baumer hhs’s Easyfold water-scoring to its five inline flexo folder gluers, hailing it as a “comparatively small tool with a big impact”.
According to Baumer hhs, water-scoring enables the targeted application of a folding fluid to crease lines, in fine lines or dots, making the material more pliable along the fold line, and giving cleaner and more stable folds, with less waste and greater process reliability.
Dominique Lopez, production manager at the 240-year-old Brohl Wellpappe, which has sites in Germany and The Netherlands, commented: “The effect is particularly evident with FEFCO 201 boxes. Fishtailing and dimensional deviations have practically disappeared here. Even custom designs with interlocking closures or break-away flaps benefit noticeably from the targeted application of the folding liquid.”
Baumer said that water-scoring is most effective on E-flute and B-flute boards, particularly in the direction of the fluting. Gap deviations during standard operations are, it said, therefore a thing of the past. Flaps are also less likely to split when folded as the water-scored material remains more elastic.
At Brohl Wellpappe, water-scoring is now playing a key role in ensuring consistent high-quality creasing and folding of corrugated packaging, with project manager Wilfried Heintz saying: “Water-scoring has the potential to establish itself as a standard technology in corrugated board processing in the long term. A comparatively small tool with a big impact.”
