Game Changers Smooth Banknote Production

Ergonomics and automation are well-known terms these days. But where does the banknote industry stand in these areas? Do printworks have to address both areas, which benefit employees and companies alike?

Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions (K&B) certainly thinks so, with the announcement that it has developed three game-changing new solutions to automate one particular aspect of banknote production that is mainly manual and imposes heavy physical strains on employees – namely substrate handling.

The first solution is the company’s reel sheeter, which it says fundamentally changes the way machines are fed by replacing piles with reels. This small conversion has a number of benefits, from avoiding pre-counting and pre-stacking to allowing much more efficient storage, and results in fast payback thanks to savings of up to 20% of substrate prices.