Excellent lubricants meet expertise in industrial printing

Why wet the entire sheet when you can just map the tool contour?

No aerosols - No spray mist - No compressed air
Perfect result - precise unit costs

When deep drawing or punching sheet metal, lubrication is only required where heavy forming actually takes place. Many areas on the sheet metal could actually remain dry. With conventional dosing systems, however, the entire sheet or a very coarse pattern of punching oil is applied. This leads to an unnecessarily high consumption of lubricant and ensures that the sheets are still covered in 'unused' oil/lubricant after forming.

The combination of oil-free LBI lubricants and the REA DOD pressure system was developed precisely for these cases.

With the TITAN control system, print images can be stored for each component, which are then transferred 1:1 to the sheet metal with unprecedented accuracy. Very similar to an inkjet printer. No spray mist is produced as no compressed air is used.

Honoured with the Best Award at Blechexpo 2023

The system was honoured with the Best Award at the Blechexpo 2023 trade fair.
A video clip of that topic can be found at messe.tv

Adjust point spacing by tilting

The printer creates a lubricant pattern from individual droplets, just like an inkjet printer. To ensure that there are no dry spots within the printed area during forming, the droplet size and the distance between the individual print dots must be adjusted.

By tilting the print head, the distance between the individual dots can be reduced to achieve a higher resolution than the nozzle distance. It is then still possible to cascade several print heads.

Precise printing of lubricants

When the press is closed, the individual drops are crushed. The distance between the dots is selected so that the individual drops touch each other and no dry spots are created on the sheet.

Precise cost and consumption control

By using printing technology with digital control instead of spray technology, it is possible to track exactly how much lubricant has been applied:

The quantity of lubricant ejected during an opening sequence of the nozzles is always constant. The digital control system monitors the number of opening sequences of each individual nozzle. This can then be used to determine the exact amount of lubricant per component and therefore the costs per component can be determined very precisely without the need for expensive flow meters.