FlexoDry // DigitalDry

WHAT IS THE RIGHT SYSTEM FOR YOU?

Duo-Technik is building drying systems for more than 30 years. In this time Duo-Technik has been always a reliable and trustable partner for its custmer. Today Duo-Technik is the only supplier on the market that is able to offer the complete range of drying systems for all types of printing machines. Our dryers can be used in many different printing segments such as flexographic, gravure or digital printing.

Under the motto TAILORMADE DRYING, we adapt our systems to your individual needs. We can choose from our extensive product range between infrared dryers of all types and air dryers and combine them.

// Our objectives in designing Drying Systems

  • elevated production speeds combined with high-energy efficient technology
  • higher safety standards for operators, machines and the company
  • low cost of maintenance over the lifecycle, including service and spare part expenses

// Our Product range in Drying

Infrared

IR emitter from NIR, short wavemedium wave & combinations available


For all kind of printing machines in flexo, corrugated and digital

Hot-Air

All kind of heating resources possible: steam, natural gas, thermal oil, hot water, electrical

Unique widths adjustment feature.


Available mainly in stationary printing machines like High Board Line, Rapidset or Web-to-Web.

Combinations

Tailormade: Combine the advantages of both IR and Hot-Air.


Get your unique design for your individual situation and printing machine.

Basics of Drying - Good to know

Infrared Drying

  • Drying with infrared readiators the water is evaporated using the radiated heat.
  • For most infrared dryers tempratures of 250-300 °C are used. That is higher than the flash point of paper.
  • The ideal absorbtion of energy take playe with a IR wave length of 3µm.

Air Drying

  • The water in the ink is evaporated by the air flowing over the board and is evacuated from the printing area.
  • Heating the air is used only to accelerate this process
  • With 120 °C air temprature, the maximum drying efficiency is achieved; higher tempratures do not accelerate the process very significantly.
  • The air dryer process is mor efficient. It requires lower temperatures so a lower energy consumption thanan IR dryer.

// Modular means

  • The infrared dryer is built as modular cassette system.
  • Each dryer cassette is equipped with 4 short wave, NIR or medium wave emitter
  • Through a reflector plate, the rear radiation is reflected evenly on the drying surface.
  • The lamp area is protected by a glass plate and guide bars against the ingress of sheets and pieces of paper
  • The system is available in 2 power classes

// Our unique air management

The cooling & process air is directed through the emitter area and is fed into the drying area in the inlet area of the dryer cassette as hot process air to absorb the moisture

  • The quartz plate has only a temperature under 150 °C -> lower danger of fire
  • The hot-air-nozzle makes effective process air available and helps cleaning the surface of the dryer from dust

// With the Power Management you save energy

  • Control of the dryer via modern touch panel (all machine interfaces possible)
  • Each cassette can be controlled individually according to the needs of the printing process
  • The power of each drying module can be infinitely adjusted from 0-100%
  • The emitters of each cassette are monitored. A failure is displayed.
  • The configuration of the dryer modules can be saved per order.

// Savety First - Our ToolBox

Even though our IR drying systems are build as save as possible there is still a small prossibilty that a fire can occure. For this we provide in our ToolBox additional safety features. You can choose between:

  • SafetyGuard - light curtain observing the surface of the drying unit
  • SentryCam - HD digital camera observing the area of the drying unit
  • PowerDropDown - Swing down the dryer at machine stop

We offer the full range of IR emitter on our ColorCure NT

On our ColorCure NT system you can choose which kind of IR emitter is the best for your drying solution.

Our standard are medium wave emitter but you can also choose short wave emitter or a hybrid combination.

// The savest-ever InfraRed dryer

  1. Air as process air absorbs the humidity and lead it away
  2. Air for cooling the IR emitter guarantee a longer life time of the emitter
  3. Air as safety barrier for paper and dust and as air pad over the dryer which is under the flaming point of paper
  4. Due to the air management the temperature is under the flaming point of paper – means the risk of fire is minimized

The air can be provide by integrated ventilators or external ventilator depending on the situation at your machine.

// Savety First - Our ToolBox

Even though our IR drying systems are build as save as possible there is still a small prossibilty that a fire can occure. For this we provide in our ToolBox additional safety features. You can choose between:

  • SafetyGuard - light curtain observing the surface of the drying unit
  • SentryCam - HD digital camera observing the area of the drying unit
  • PowerDropDown - Swing down the dryer at machine stop

// Our modern Air Drying Systems have some special and unique characteristics:

 

  1. Heating the air with different heat sources is now possible (steam, gas, hot-water, thermal oil, or electrical).
  2. The air volume of each interim dryer can be regulated from 0-100% by an electronic control flap. 
  3. The operator can control the power consumption by adjusting the temperature set point.
  4. Our use of frequency-converter controlled ventilators based on air volume needs reduces power consumption.
  5. Our unique widths adjustment feature allows the operator to adjust the drying widths required delivers (25% energy saving).
  6. The Intelligent air volume management using only the required air volume results in an average 30% energy savings.
  7. The Intelligent control of the dryers ensures the wait-time for warm-up is reduced to a minimum2) The air volume of each interim dryer can be regulated from 0-100% by an electronic control flap. 

These unique features designed in our Air-dryer system compares favourably to the results using an IR dryer

// The big advantage: energy sources other than electricity can be used to heat the air like steam, gas, hot-water and thermal oil.

// The Duo-Technik engineering department will adapt the design of our equipment to meet our customer’s needs.

Contact us and we will create a solution to meet your individual requirements.