Market requirements regarding product quality are growing more stringent, particularly with respect to shaping. Simultaneously, today's trend toward more products in smaller numbers calls for maximum flexibility of production.

To help the ceramic industry meet the challenge, LIPPERT has designed the NC roller technology. Yesterday's hydraulics and profiles have been replaced by ceramic-specific NC technology in combination with best-available driving equipment.

Maintenance-free a.c. servomotors acting on high-precision recirculating ball screws execute the movement of the vertical and lateral pull axes. In the course of rolling, the mould is elevated, while the roller head descends into into it. The resultant stability of guidance ensures maximum product quality. The control system is operator-controlled and demands no programming skills whatsoever. All shaping- and production-relevant data are stored for recall.

LIPPERT's roller technology is available as a broad spectrum of efficient roller installations for all conceivable tasks: For cups, bowls and plates: as individual rollers, turntable-mounted single and double rollers, production lines with multiple rollers of diverse size and custom design - for multifarious cups, bowls and plates. Including all elements required for complete production lines, from the vacuum extruder to the white dryer. LIPPERT even tailors automatic tie-ins with upstream and downstream production areas, including transport, handling and storage, all the way up to complete material handling systems.

You, too, can benefit from our proven leads in product quality and production flexibility.
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Various leading manufacturers producing peak quality and the shortest of series rely on NC rollers by LIPPERT.

Advantages

LIPPERT's NC-roller concept provides a combination of extremely variable, high-precision adjusting options, maximum-accuracy roller-head movements, and exactly reproducible production sequences. For your production, this means:

Maximum product quality

• Optimal shaping runs for each different article
• Production of unusual articles of difficult shape
• Reduced body thickness for very thin, fine porcelain and bone china
• Reliably high product quality, time after time

Enhanced flexibility of production

• Extremely short retooling times for lightning-speed product changes
• Capacity for simultaneous production of different articles with double-head rollers
• Very broad service range, for everything from sturdy hotel ceramics to translucent porcelain of practically any shape
• Single type of roller sufficient for an entire range of products