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Kolbus a family-owned company for more than 250 years.
Kolbus is one of the leading suppliers of new post-press / book bindery machines. In the year 2018 Kolbus was taken over by Müller Martini worlds largest supplier of new post press / book bindery machines. Although Müller Martini is gaining strength in the used machine market for book production lines, Kolbus nowadays remains the most wanted!
In this blog we focus on the Kolbus BF 530 book finishing line.
The Kolbus BF 530 high speed book production line was the last generation book lines produced by Kolbus. In the category up to 70 cycles/minute, the KOLBUS BF 530 book production line offers all the performance features you mat expect from Kolbus. These include uncompromising quality, a wide format range, easy operation and fully automated set-up. The BF 530 has a compact design and small footprint with the book forming and pressing machine as a component of the basic machine. The BF 530 can process all generally used types of book blocks in all standard formats.
Suitable for rounding, backing and casing in of book blocks in hard cover covers and inline pressing and joimt forming of books.
Configuration Kolbus BF 530: (standard equipment)
* Copilot system with four touchscreens
* Block supply via telescopic infeed conveyor from the left, barrier and star feeder
* Block spine heater in the infeed for adhesive bound and hotmelt glued blocks (hot-air-heating)
* Block position detection device (spine and front cut) with vacuum
* Automatic block thickness control
* Rounding and backing station
* Spine gluing unit with circulation
* Headbanding station
* Pressing station with teflon band and an integrated foam rubber rub-down element
* Case prestacking conveyor
* Case bending machine
* Double case control
* Case forming station with counter holder
* Case magazine
* Spring-loaded block thickness batch splitter
* Pointed and bottom splitter for flimsy papers and gilt edge
* Rubbing down unit and thin block device
* EMP glue pump monitoring
* Timer for glue preheating
* Electrically heated joint forming rails 45°
* 1 pressing station up to 100 KN
* Line control
* Servo-controlled drive technology based on Siemens SIMOTION D
* Active Line Module for energetic recovery of operating power in the line network
* Safety standard according to CE directives and specifications
Configuration Kolbus BF 530: (optional equipment)
* Spine gluing unit with circulation
* Gauzing station
* Equipment for processing undersize formats (hxwxt 100 x 70 x 2-30 mm
* Hotmelt nozzle gluing unit (Control via Copilot system)
- for spine gluing in the EMP
- for joint gluing in the EMP
- for spine and joint gluing in the EMP
* Premelter for all hotmelt nozzle gluing units required
* Marking ribbon gluing device
* Special equipment for the processing of covers with pre-scored flaps
* Special equipment for processing of book blocks with wire-O
* Viscosity control device for automatic water supply
* Special equipment for processing books with a centre strip width up to 4 mm wider than the block thickness
* Special equipment for processing books with a centre strip width up to 7 mm wider than the block thickness
* Special equipment for processing asymmetric cases
* Special equipment for processing asymmetric cases
* Special equipment for processing of flexible cases
* Equipment for remote diagnosis, coupling with KOLBUS 3•60 model AFS 702
Technical specifications Kolbus BF 530 (subject to change)
Size range book block:
Width x Height x Thickness
Max. 280 x 375 x 80 mm
Max. 300 x 375 x 30mm
Min. 100 x 100 x 2 mm
Size range opened case:
Max. 660 x 385 mm
Min. 210 x 105 mm
Max. thickness 7.0 mm – Min. thickness 0.1 mm
Size range finished book
Max. 285 x 385 x 90 mm
Max. 315 x 385 x 30 mm
Min. 105 x 105 x 5 mm
Mechanical speed:
Up to 70 cycles/min. Net production is subject to sizes, materials etc.
Machine dimensions:
Kolbus BF 530 – 3 stations (excluding gauzing) 12,5 x 5,3 x 3 mtr
Kolbus BF 530 – 5 stations (including gauzing) 13,8 x 5,3 x 3 mtr
Weight 3 stations (excluding gauzing) 27.450 kg
Weight 5 stations (including gauzing) 29.100 kg
Kolbus developed a large range of book finishing lines: Kolbus BF 36, Kolbus BF 40, Kolbus compact 2000, Kolbus BF 523, Kolbus BF 524, Kolbus BF 525, Kolbus BF 526, Kolbus BF 527, Kolbus BF 530, Kolbus BF 530, Kolbus BF 530.
