Case Study
Using Industrial Tube Pumps on Printing Presses
Using Industrial Tube Pumps on Printing Presses Across Europe we have successfully installed many Rapide R6 & Rapide R8 industrial tube Pumps into printing press industries. Tube pumps for customers such as SCA Packaging, Saica; and Smurfit Kappa replacing the traditional solution of Air Diaphragm pumps. The tube pumps are used to load a printing press’s printing head with ink & to recirculate the unused ink, using an inverter to reverse flow. Customer Benefits: Using AODD pumps 3 litres of ink were lost per cleaning cycle. Using tube pumps reduced this to 0.6 litres, an 80% improvement. There are typically 40,000 ink changes annually generating ink savings of €90,000 p.a. Additionally, tube pumps eliminate any compressed air requirements, generating additional operational cost savings, wh