According to the company, the sales boost means that Schneider’s Hamburg-based guillotine manufacturing factory has a full order book until late autumn.

Complete cutting systems were sold to customers in Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria, while an Australian firm replaced its 50 year-old Senator with a new one.

Schneider’s centrepiece at Drupa was its Roboload system for automatic jogger feeding, which attracted interest from German and other European customers.

The robot is equipped with a gripper that can transfer a ream of paper from a pallet to a jogger. The measuring of the sheet size and pallet layer can be managed automatically, and the system can handle a variety of paper and cardboard sizes, while only requiring a few metres of space.

Schneider has sold a Roboload for a sheet size of 70x100cm to a Belgium-based company and the first 7B sheet size Roboload has been sold to a German firm.

The Roboload was demonstrated in conjunction with an advanced four-cut cutting system for automated four-side trim, which eliminates the need for operator intervention.

At the heart of the system was the Senator S-Line 137H high-speed paper cutter, which features a patented direct hydraulic drive on both sides of its knife carrier, meaning less knife wear and higher cutting accuracy.

The 137H is also equipped with the Trimm-Master, a front table that automatically opens for waste removal, and a high-end large colour screen at its control terminal.

Schneider Senator also exhibited a number of options on its fully hydraulic S-Line 115H with XXL side tables. This machine includes CIP-4 data processing and holders specially designed for coated sheets.

One peripheral tactic used by Schneider to attract visitors to its stand at Drupa was to have a chef on hand to prepare meals for hungry attendees.