BROADCAST: The Evolution of Automated Cleaning Technologies and Consumables

Walter Cano and Darren Andrews discuss automatic cleaning systems and consumables in printing and manufacturing

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Printers and manufacturers worldwide use automatic cleaning systems to optimize productivity, worker safety and quality while decreasing their impact on the environment's cleaning process.

The innovations in cleaning technology and the consumables used in the process deliver ever-advancing value and advantages in these competitive environments.

Baldwin Technology brings more than 30 years of experience designing, building and installing automatic cleaning systems and consumables to these industries. Baldwin’s Walter Cano, Director of Product Development, Consumables, and Darren Andrews, Director of Aftermarket UK, Africa and Australia, lent their expertise to a recent discussion on automatic cleaning systems and consumables with Tyler Kern.

Both Cano and Andrews have extensive careers with Baldwin in developing and engineering printing solutions. They’ve seen firsthand the importance of meeting the needs of an ever-changing market.

“Keeping up with the global environment, the world we sit in, we have to be aware of our global footprint and constantly looking at that and new technologies all the time,” Andrews said. “We look at where we are now, and it’s a different world, but we’re moving with it.”

“Every year, new presses come to market that are more technologically advanced; they run faster and hotter,” Cano said. “We are forced to change our systems accordingly — our wash programs, the types of PREPAC® solvents we utilize, the types of PREPAC® media we utilize. Reducing the carbon footprint is one of our major objectives and advantages over any other competitor. We’re already the originators of this PREPAC® technology, and Baldwin has substantially reduced the carbon footprint on printers worldwide, and we continue to evolve in a way to meet today’s environmental challenges.”

But, as Cano pointed out, Baldwin was well ahead of these challenges and environmental concerns for years.