Rossini SpA revolutionizes gravure printing

Rossini SpA presents Ecograv System: the world’s first production line for rotogravure cylinders without copper and chrome coating ready for electromechanical engraving. The Rossini group thus proposes itself as a solution provider for the supply of innovative technologies with a ‘turnkey’ formula by leveraging its Equipment Division. Rossini again demonstrates its technological leadership and launches a highly innovative solution in rotogravure printing. The large Italian manufacturer of rollers and sleeves has found the alternative to the hexavalent chrome coating of printing cylinders by finalizing a research and development work personally supervised by its president Felice Rossini over the last ten years. The chrome surface of the printing cylinders guarantees today the high quality of the work carried out with this technology, but at the same time generates environmental and health problems, so much so that the competent authorities will prohibit its use within a few years (see box). The solution developed in Rossini is called the Ecograv System and replaces the copper and chrome cladding with a special polyurethane based technopolymer that has passed all…

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