From the first continuous drying oven to a modern MetalStar 3 decorating line

The loyalty of the Beiersdorf company as a customer plays a significant role in the history of metal decorating and is closely linked with the very roots of Koenig & Bauer MetalPrint. LTG Lufttechnische, a specialist supplier of industrial air conditioning systems, entered the metal decorating market with the first continuous drying oven for metal sheets in 1932. The first LTG drying oven installed after a Mailänder metal decorating press in 1932 The newly designed oven was an absolute innovation and was paired with a metal decorating press from the Mailänder company, which printed the distinctive blue Nivea Creme tins. The first metal decorating line was born. In the past, the sheets had been transported to a batch dryer and then unloaded again by hand, but now they could be conveyed to the oven automatically, carried through the thermal drying process by way of a chain drive, and subsequently unloaded automatically. A Nivea Creme tin from the 1930s. Photo – Beiersdorf Manufacturing Hamburg A letter of recommendation dating from 1937 proves just how much Beiersdorf…

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