Stora Enso Oyj

Nextrom Holding S.a.

Mika Aunola

Kaj Backfolk

Panu Tanninen

Risto Vesanto

Noora Nylander

Ville Laalo

Bo Sundqvist

Jukka Olkkonen

Jari Nyk&auml;nen

The invention relates to a method of providing board containers (V) with prints and a printing machine that applies the method. According to the invention, the printing machine comprises a turret head (), with uniformly spaced radial arms () diverging from its rotational axis, each arm ending in a mandrel () that carries a container (); and stationary stations () that are located on the path of the turret head for gripping a container, printing it by a printhead (), and removing the printed container (V). At the printing station (), the container () is digital-printed by the printhead (), past which the surface of the container is conveyed by means of a rotational motion. The container can be a conical drinking cup (), which is ink-jet printed by the stationary printhead () by rotating the cup by 360&#xb0; by means of the mandrel () that is pushed inside the cup. The cups () can be produced at a plant in mass-scale production runs and divided into smaller lots, which are delivered to customers and which the customers then print according to their own individual needs.

Method and a printing machine for manufacturing printed board containers

The invention relates to a method and an arrangement in connection with coating of an optical fibre, in which a first fibre ( ) is directed from a fibre pay-off forward in the process via a press head ( ) forming the coating, and when the first fibre ( ) ends, a new fibre ( ) is directed to the press head ( ) in advance, and when the first fibre ( ) ends, a roll device ( ) grips both the first fibre and the new fibre so that both fibres ( ) are caught between freely rotating rolls ( ) of the roll device ( ), whereupon the tail of the first fibre ( ) makes the rolls ( ) of the roll device rotate, and the rotational movement of the rolls pushes the new fibre ( ) to the press head ( ) at a speed equal to that of the line.

Method and arrangement in connection with optical fiber coating

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Imatra, Finland

Mika Aunola