The joint venture announced the Delta SPC 130 FlexLine Eco+ at a recent open house event in Lienz, Austria.
K&B Durst pitched the new single-pass device as offering corrugated converters “a new route into digital packaging”.
It handles media up to 1.3m x 2.8m in size and is targeted at the post-print market, and users producing volumes of 4m-8m sqm per year.
Inks are water-based and food-safe, and the new Eco+ model is the first to use K&B Durst’s new Dynamic Nozzle Management (DNM) system, described as reducing printhead maintenance cycles of the firm’s “industry acclaimed, long-lasting printheads”.
DNM will be fitted as standard on all new models, while existing customers can upgrade.
Priced from around €3m (£2.57m), the Eco+ can also be upgraded to the full Delta SPC FlexLine Automatic specification.
K&B Durst managing director Robert Stabler said that raw material shortages, cost pressures and mitigation strategies “continue to be high on the agenda for customers”.
“It was clear from discussions at our SPC Open House that converters increasingly need to have the capabilities and competencies to mass customise without any compromise on quality, and all at an effective total cost of ownership, which we provide,” he stated.
K&B Durst's other products are the CorruJet and VariJet.
