The CreaseStream mini series has won the International Platinum Award for design at the 2013 British Inventions Show, 23-26 October, at the Barbican Exhibition Centre, London.
Graham Harris, managing director of CreaseStream and Tech-ni-Fold, commented, ‘My team is thrilled at this new award, considering that such an accolade is usually bestowed upon companies who create solutions on a wider consumer scale. We were delighted to reach the Grand final and to collect such a prestigious award, sharing the lime light with scientists, professors and entrepreneurs, some of whom had developed potentially lifesaving and enhancing technologies.
‘The judges told us that we had three to five minutes to present our products and to explain why we felt they were inventive and innovative, and they were still with us 15 minutes later. I think they were impressed with how we had evolved our technology to develop a range of machines based on a simple rubber o-ring concept that had already served us so well to crease materials and combat the threat of cracking in the offset market. It helped that we could demonstrate the three mini machines, two of which required no electrical input, and could feed digitally printed sheets without using vacuum pumps, avoiding the problem of marking the sheets during transportation. Both judges seemed to appreciate how we packaged our products and included instant instructional video technology, something of which they hadn’t seen before.’
The CreaseStream mini series provides three desk top models that deliver creasing and micro-perforating for low to medium volume work. Each model comes with the latest instant video card, which starts playing as the new owner opens the box. The video is loaded with information on unpacking and installation, how to achieve the best performance and trouble-shooting tips.
The CreaseStream range incorporates the rotary creasing method, developed by its sister company Tech-ni-Fold, that totally eliminates fibre cracking.
