01/08/2024 – Cable production
Prysmian banks on Leibinger’s expertise in inks
Prysmian, a global market leader in energy and telecommunication cables and systems, prints extrusion products at its plant in Neustadt near Coburg, Germany, with solutions from Leibinger.
The special white ink from Leibinger adheres excellently to the dark extrusion products from Prysmian. © Leibinger
“From Leibinger’s ink portfolio we defined an ink that guarantees superb abrasion-resistant adhesion on virtually all different materials, we use in our plant. LEIBINGER printers are also exceptionally reliable and need very little maintenance, especially in the production process.“ Andreas Bachmann, Senior Manager-Process Engineering Plant Neustadt, Prysmian. © Leibinger © Leibinger
Working in close collaboration, the two companies found a special white ink that adheres securely and reliably to a wide range of materials used in Prysmian’s cable production.
Wanted: One ink for many substrate materials
At its factory near Coburg, Prysmian manufactures special cables for industrial applications from materials such as rubber, PVC, ETFE, XLPE and polyurethane. Permanently coding and marking all these materials is a challenge. “With Leibinger, we have found an ideal partner, especially as the company has been developing and producing its own inks for several years now,” explains Andreas Bachmann, Senior Manager Process Engineering at Prysmian in Neustadt.
Reliable and low-maintenance in the production process
Be it to print simple numbers on leads or complex texts on the cables’ sheath surface, Prysmian requires an ink that adheres well to different materials. They found it in Leibinger’s extensive ink portfolio. The printer used is the “Jet 3up PI”, which Leibinger developed specifically for high-contrast printing on dark surfaces. Andreas Bachmann is very impressed with the solution: “The Leibinger printers have proven to be extremely reliable and very low-maintenance in the production process.”
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