A Smarter Doctor Blade Chamber for Flexographic Printing

Carbon is an ultra-light material that makes it easy to install, handle and maintain the doctor blade chamber.

Therefore, BFT Carbon chambers are manufactured entirely from structural carbon fiber, with a smooth, glossy surface and stainless-steel components, to guarantee an absolute ease of handling and long life in harsh environments. BFT Carbon chambers are also compatible with, and therefore installable on, all printing press models available on the market.

Lightness, stability, easy cleaning and maintenance, no backdoctoring, reduced ink and water consumption: the advantages of carbon doctor blade chambers are absolute.

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The BTF Carbon doctor blade from Eaglewood Technologies

Smart Chamber Options Built Around Your Pressroom

Clamp2Go Smart Blade Closure

Clamp2Go: Smart Blade Closure

Non-Waving On The Blades
Thanks to the uniform distribution of the clamping force on the blade, the corrugation of the metal blade is completely removed once it has been mounted, with unrivalled doctoring precision.

Blade Change In Record Time
Just 120 seconds to change the blades of a carbon fiber doctor blade as opposed to an average of 45 minutes for other products available on the market. BFT Carbon effectively removes the need for downtime.

Multi Thickness And Material Blades
The Clamp2Go system has the great advantage of being extremely flexible in the choice of blade material, which can be either metal or plastic, depending on requirements.

Touch2Go product

Touch2Go: Uniform Chamber Pressure

Efficiency starts with innovation: a pneumatic cushion for uniform and optimal pressure

Less Pressure Plus Lasting
Low pressure along the entire length of the chamber reduces consumption and considerably limits wear, allowing a longer natural life cycle for the blades and side seals. A cost-saving benefit.

Alignment To The Anilox Roll
The doctor blade approach system, equipped with a special pneumatic cushion, allows to perfectly align the chamber to the surface of the anilox roller, creating an extremely delicate contact, ideal to obtain the best printing performance

Ready2Go product

Ready2Go: Standard or Customized Chambers

Standard or customised, the choice is always BFT

Every BFT Carbon doctor blade chamber is developed and manufactured with the intention of guaranteeing the highest standards of performance required by the market. For this reason, the "ready to sell” solutions enjoy customer satisfaction rates of over 95%.

Customised chambers, on the contrary, answer precise and often unique needs of a company's production phase. Therefore, BFT Carbon's customised solutions are designed in every detail, from inking to coating, and can be applied in minutes as a replacement for the aluminium chambers, without need for any alteration to the existing machine. The custom-designed products also provide the perfect harmony of design, image, functionality and price.

Engineered for Precision, Safety, and Ease of Use

BFT Carbon technical features

Why Printers Choose BFT Carbon

Stop Corrosion

The water-based inks used for aluminium doctor chambers can inevitably corrode the surface. BFT Carbon totally removes this problem, guaranteeing a practically unchanged surface even after years of use.

Extreme Lightness

Carbon is an ultra-light material that makes the doctor blade chamber easy to install, and handle. Unlike aluminum systems that require two people to handle, BFT Carbon requires only one operator.

Long Service Life

Like new, even after 10 years. The BFT Carbon doctor blade chamber boasts unparalleled resistance to repeated use over time, guaranteeing a surface as good as new even after ten years. The carbon fiber eliminates the corrosion process that typically attacks aluminium chambers. The easy maintenance and washing process of the carbon chamber completes the efficiency maximisation.

Easy Cleaning

Thanks to the high surface tension of the epoxy resin, the ink does not stick to the surface. Thus, with very little downtime, a 50% reduced amount of water is sufficient to remove the ink, easily.

Reduced Ink Consumption

Improved chamber stability and doctoring performance can help reduce excess ink use and support more controlled print results.

Application Areas:

Flexographic printing presses
Corrugated board applications
Coating and converting lines
Tissue applications
Presses using inks, coatings, varnishes, or similar chemistries
Retrofits where traditional chamber systems need to be upgraded

Designed for Flexographic Printers, Converters, and Press Upgrades

ON300 Roll2Chamber

Roll2Chamber Conversion

Great ideas are a collective asset and should be made available to everyone. To make it easier for those who have chosen traditional solutions in the past, BFT Carbon has developed a conversion pack for rubber roller machines (open system), allowing them to innovate and convert to doctor blades (closed system). The pack includes the complete supply of all necessary elements, from the anilox roller to the engine. The design and testing of the conversion is guaranteed by BFT Carbon, and the benefits are immediate, starting with an increased production capacity.

ON300 Single Blade Solutions

ON300 Single Blade Solution

ON300 represents an unprecedented innovation in single-blade carbon fiber doctor blade systems. Ideal for applications ranging from corrugated board to coating and tissue, its open design allows the circulation of inks, varnishes, and adhesives with viscosities from 10s to 40s without any flow issues. The carbon fiber construction provides lightness, easy cleaning, and significant vibration reduction. The BFT positioning system, available in stainless steel or carbon fiber, ensures precise placement of the doctor chamber on the anilox roller.

The ON300 carbon fiber doctor chambers can reach a maximum length of 6200 mm and accommodate anilox diameters ranging from 250 to 450 mm.

Custom-Built Support From Design Through Installation

Design

Every single project involves a dedicated engineering development that includes: Reverse engineering, to get all the measurements of the machine already in use and on which the doctor blade chamber will be installed, the creation of the 3D drawing with which the system is designed and integrated into the machine, and the drafting of each component of the system, with its coding.

Construction

Each part of the system is carefully constructed to the highest quality standards in order to guarantee a fully functioning and efficient system at the end of assembly. In-house quality control ensures that each part meets the required construction requirements. During assembly, all parts are followed by applying the KanBan method to optimize the construction process without any unforeseen events.

Installation

The installation phase completes the customization process on the machine without having to modify existing systems and structures, thus allowing an easy and quick installation and avoiding long and costly downtime. BFT also provides dedicated training for the customer's staff to ensure the best possible use of the system.

Ready to improve chamber performance, reduce corrosion, and simplify press maintenance?

Contact Eaglewood Technologies to discuss BFT Carbon fiber doctor blade chambers for your flexographic printing operation.