A new noncontact system for cross-web glueing will be previewed by Planatol at DRUPA.

The company says it will have a product study of the Crossjet system, based on a valve technique. Glue dots are shot onto the paper web with positionable applicator heads arranged across the web.

Planatol claims to be the only supplier offering cross-web glueing systems, which can also be used to glue paper ribbons across the web travel, creating short-grain products.

The innovation is one of a number from the 80 year-old Planatol group, which now also owns Gammerler, following its acquisition from an insolvency administration late last year.

For longitudinal glueing, the Combijet 9NET and 9DT systems have applicator heads with a service life of hundreds of millions of switching cycles, and ceramic nozzles designed for more than 400,000 km of contact application. At DRUPA, Planatol will show a new compact system cabinet for the 9NET.

New functions such as web edge scanning and glue line monitoring will also be presented at the Düsseldorf show. Web edge scanning means that a sensor scans the paper web which will stop the glue application when the web is not there. With glue line monitoring a constant glue application can be ensured.