Buhrs has its own production, research and development facilities for high performance poly wrapping and paper wrapping systems in Zaandam, The Netherlands.
Due to their reliability in production, as well as easy operation, service and maintenance, our systems provide low costs per unit. The ability to use different packaging materials offers outstanding presentation of journals, magazines and other media products.
Buhrs 1000
The Buhrs 1000 is a poly-wrapping system with a maximum mechanical speed of 13,000 products per hour. The system is the entry level mailing solution for all printers, finishers and mailing houses.
Buhrs 1000 – Principle of the system
The use of motorised adjustments and automatic settings help to reduce set-up times for the wrapping module. This, in combination with the new user-friendly operator panel, makes the Buhrs 1000 easy to operate. The new design ensures safe and ergonomic operation, not only meeting the operator's requirements, but also providing quick and easy access for operation, cleaning, service and maintenance.
The new wrapping module has been equipped with a fully servo-driven seal mechanism to produce a high quality and reliable wrapped product. The new unwinder with tension control is equipped as standard with end of roll detection. Motorised adjustments, together with job settings from the touch screen panel, allow quicker and easier set-up.
Buhrs 1000 – Benefits
- Productive
- High quality
- High reliability
- Reduced set-up times
- Cost-effective
- Excellent price/performance ratio
- Low cost maintenance
- Long product life cycle
- High return on investment
- Operator-friendly control panel including storable job settings
- Easy to use and service
- Short learning curve
- Safe & Ergonomic
- Safety chain lug fitted as standard
Buhrs 1000 technical specifications
| Mechanical speed: |
Maximum 13,000 products/hour
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| Poly and paper thickness: |
Poly 15-80 micron
(PE, PP, others tested on request) |
| Product dimensions: |
Minimum 160 mm x 100 mm
Maximum 420 mm x 300 mm |
| Product thickness: |
Maximum 25 mm |
| Product thickness variation: |
Maximum 4 mm |
Buhrs 3000
The Buhrs 3000 poly and paper wrapping system greatly improves the presentation of journals, magazines and other quality media products. The Buhrs 3000 has been adapted to meet the operator's ergonomic requirements, is easy to clean, and provides quick and easy access for set-up, operation, service and maintenance.
Buhrs 3000 – Principle of the system
The Buhrs 3000 is a poly and paper wrapping system for the mid-range market at all printers, print finishers and mailing houses.
The new wrapping module has been equipped with a fully servo-driven seal mechanism to produce a high quality and reliable wrapped product. The new unwinder with tension control is equipped as standard with pneumatic shafts for faster changeovers. In addition, the new mechanism has significantly reduced noise levels. The touch screen panel and storable job settings are also important elements to the success of the Buhrs 3000.
Buhrs 3000 - Benefits
- Productive
- High quality
- High reliability
- Short set-up times
- Short changeover times due to pivotal feeders and pneumatic shafts
- Cost-effective
- Excellent price/performance ratio
- Low cost maintenance
- Long product life cycle
- High return on investment
- Equipped as standard with BuhrsWrap®
- Operator-friendly control panel including storable job settings
- Easy to use and service
- Short learning curve
- Safe & Ergonomic
- Safety chain lug fitted as standard
Buhrs 3000 technical specifications
| Mechanical speed: |
Maximum 15,000 products/hour |
| Poly and paper thickness: |
Film 15-80 micron
Paper 45-120 gm² |
| Product dimensions: |
Minimum 160 mm x 100 mm
Maximum 420 mm x 300 mm |
| Product thickness: |
Maximum 35 mm
Optional: 60 mm |
| Product thickness variation: |
Maximum 4 mm
Optional: 20 mm |
Buhrs 4000
This innovative, high quality poly and paper wrapping system is not just more flexible and safer, it is also characterised by its reduced set-up and maintenance times. As a result of this the system offers more productivity than any other system currently available. The Buhrs 4000: offering the ultimate design to help you make more money in the mailing industry.
Buhrs 4000 – Principle of the system
Owing to the modularity of the Buhrs 4000, the system can be configured ideally for co-mailing. It has a low gathering section, automatic feeder synchronisation and individually controlled feeders via the new Buhrs System Controller.
Buhrs 4000 – Benefits
Selectivity, increased product variations and job complexity are today's major issues in the mailing industry. In addition price pressures and shorter production times to run jobs are common occurrences.
Buhrs 4000 – Flexibility
Your ability to handle increasing job variations and to respond to last-minute changes in job configuration strongly depends on the flexibility of your equipment. The possibility of quickly optimising the machine configuration for specific jobs enables you to obtain short production times. Easy variable positioning of feeders and page openers improves the quality of inserting. The Buhrs 4000 offers you the competitive advantage to anticipate your customer's needs of tomorrow and increases your business today.
The flexibility of the Buhrs 4000 results from the following properties:
- The mobile feeders are interchangeable between systems
- Feeder type, position & orientation can be changed in less than 2 minutes
- Opener position can be changed in less than 2 minutes
- Simple switch from paper to poly wrapping within 20 minutes
- Modularity for easy future system expansion
- Easy integration with equipment both upstream and downstream
Buhrs 4000 – Reduced set-up times
Set-up times strongly influence your ability to handle an increasing number of different jobs. The increase of automatic regulated functions and decrease in the number of mechanical parts contributes to reducing the number and length of set-up procedures. System adjusting is tool-less and trial and error cycles are unnecessary. It is even possible to set up feeders off-line.
Buhrs 4000 – Increased productivity
Increased reliability of the system contributes to reducing downtime of the machine.
The system, designed for an optimal number of operators, is user-friendly. This aspect of the machine shortens the learning curve for operators and increases their satisfaction. Quick reset and restart, after system stops, simplifies the handling of difficult products without effecting the net output. Result: your system is more productive!
Buhrs 4000 – Reduced maintenance times
Fewer parts and the use of servo technology reduce maintenance times. This in turn decreases the downtime of the equipment and minimises system maintenance costs. The following parts of the system ensure reduced system maintenance:
- Timing belts reduce lubrication and chain tensioning procedures
- Off-line maintenance of feeders allows autonomous production schedule
- Quick default diagnosis provides clear reporting of faults in MMI and feeders for preventive maintenance (see photograph)
- Use of servo motor reduces need for spare parts
Buhrs 4000 – Safety and ergonomics
Safety and ergonomic regulations are becoming increasingly obligatory. Safe ergonomic systems, like the Buhrs 4000, enable you to comply with safety regulations without limiting your net system output. Improved operator confidence results from prevention of injuries.
System characteristics that make the Buhrs 4000 safe and ergonomic:
- Automated push-button adjustments lead to short set-up times
- Safety chain lug mechanism with optional detection
- Clear and easy access to Man Machine Interface (MMI) and control panels
- Lowered gathering section reduces body stress
- Mobile RF5 feeders with optional in-line nose extension for accurate placement
- Direct servo drive motors on the sealing knife to reduce number of parts
- Lowered noise level from the use of timing belts and absence of a control drive shaft
- Start-up audio and light signals
Buhrs 4000 technical specifications
| Mechanical speed: |
Maximum 18,000 products/hour |
| Poly and paper thickness: |
Poly: 15-80 micron
Paper: 45-120 gm² |
| Product dimensions: |
Minimum 160 mm x 100 mm
Maximum 420 mm x 300 mm
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| Product thickness: |
Maximum 35 mm
Option 1: 60 mm / Option 2: 80 mm |
| Product thickness variation: |
Film: maximum 4 mm
Paper: maximum 1 mm |
Buhrs 4000 DPW Dual Paper Wrapping System
The Buhrs 4000 DPW Dual Paper wrapping system offers mailing shops ultimate flexibility and productivity. It can perform paper wrapping in dual mode as well as paper or poly wrapping in single mode. This system is well suited for creating personalised envelopes and obtaining high processing speeds with transactional mail.
Buhrs 4000 DPW Dual Paper Wrapping System – Principle of the system
The innovative, high quality Buhrs 4000 DPW system was developed with similar functionality as the Buhrs 4000. As an added benefit this system can create two envelopes at the same time. This leads to relatively low linear speed and in return results in higher net output.
Buhrs 4000 DPW Dual Paper Wrapping System – Benefits
The system offers the following benefits:
- The ability to enclose thicker and bulkier products than with envelope inserting
- Greater flexibility and possibilities with respect to envelope size
- In-line printing and personalisation of envelopes
- Greater in-house value and added benefits for in-line web printers
- Merging of different envelope prints/sizes to realise higher postal discounts
Buhrs 4000 DPW Dual Paper Wrapping System – Technical Specifications
| Mechanical speed: |
Maximum 36,000 products/hour |
| Paper thickness: |
70-110 gm² |
| Product dimensions: |
Minimum 160 x 100 mm
Maximum 300 x 158 mm |
| Product thickness: |
Maximum 8 mm |
Buhrs 4500 – Co-mailing Solutions
Buhrs offers co-mailing systems in excess of 30 pockets and advanced inkjet and label application capabilities.
Co-mailing combines individual pieces of mail into new, better, pre-sorted bundles and has a huge impact on pre-sort and drop-ship eligible pallets. This results in significant savings on postage. Buhrs has been very successful in designing, manufacturing and installing co-mailing system solutions for leading companies such as RR Donnelley, MetroGroup, Quebecor World and Brown Printing.
Buhrs co-mailing systems are also capable of performing poly wrapping. This important feature greatly increases the utilisation of the system and improves the justification for investment.
Buhrs 4500 – Principle of the system
Owing to the modularity of the Buhrs 4500, the system can be configured ideally for co-mailing. It has a low gathering section, automatic feeder synchronisation, and individually controlled feeders via the new Buhrs System Controller.
Buhrs 4500 – Benefits
- Automatic Feeder Synchronisation (AFS)
- Unique shuttle feeder with Venturi system
- RF5 feeders with in-line nose extension
- Product registration
- Optional variable label position
Buhrs 4500 technical specifications
| Mechanical speed: |
Maximum 21,000 products/hour |
| Product dimensions: |
Minimum 160 (l) x 100 mm (w)
Maximum 420 (l) x 300 mm (w) |
| Product thickness: |
Maximum 35 mm
Minimum: single sheet (60-80 gm²) |
| Product thickness variation: |
20 mm |
| Approved standards: |
CE, EMC, UL approved
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Buhrs 4700
The Buhrs 4700 poly and paper wrapping system is specially designed for distribution of non-addressed sets of retail brochures and promotional mail. The system boasts a perfect combination of a low gathering section with mobile feeders, a servo-driven wrapping module and the new Buhrs System Controller.
Buhrs 4700 – Principle of the system
On the Buhrs 4700 it is no longer necessary to stop the system in between two different jobs, thereby increasing productivity enormously! Ideal when processing promotional mail composed selectively for many different zones.
Changeover from one production run to another can be performed whilst running. Three main features make this possible. The feeders are synchronised automatically with the gathering chain of the system by the AFS (Automated Feeder Synchronisation) and will be engaged automatically based on information from the BSC (Buhrs System Controller) database.
By measuring the length and thickness of the product just before the wrapping section, the AWS function enables the wrapping unit to set itself and adjust the seal position automatically. When gathering and wrapping sets of non- addressed retail brochures and promotional mail for zoned distribution, this can improve net output enormously! This is all possible in combination with BuhrsWrap®, which guarantees tightly wrapped products without any overlap.
Buhrs 4700 – Benefits
- Automatic Feeder Synchronisation
- Ability to set up and engage feeders whilst running
- Reduced set-up times
- Possibly less feeders required
- Automatic Wrapping Synchronisation®
- The wrapping unit sets and adjusts itself automatically
- Less rejects
- Less missed seals
- Higher net output
- Buhrs System Controller
- Changeover between jobs without stopping the system
- MIS (Management Information System) including performance statistics
- Real Time View
- Universal inkjet controller (types available on request)
- Controller for intelligent applications
- RF5
- Flexible feeder positioning
- Change of feeder position within 2 minutes
- Ergonomically designed, loading from 3 sides
- Each feeder has an individual operator panel where information is displayed concerning the actual enclosure and the next enclosure
- Servo-driven seal mechanism
- Low noise level (normally 75dB, maximum 82 dB)
- BuhrsWrap® quality
- Lower maintenance costs due to fewer parts
- Tightly wrapped products without any overlap (certain restrictions apply)
Buhrs 4700 technical specifications
| Mechanical speed: |
Maximum 16,500 products/hour |
| Poly and paper thickness: |
Film: 15-80 micron
(PE, PP, others tested on request) |
| Product dimensions: |
Minimum 180 mm x 200 mm
Maximum 320 mm x 370 mm |
| Product thickness: |
Maximum 35 mm |
| Product thickness variation: |
Maximum 4 mm |