www.midamericaequip.com
6209 Mid Rivers Mall Dr. Ste. 153 Saint Peters, MO 63304 USA
ABOUT US
Michael Ramshaw, MidAmerica Equipment Solutions, LLC, is
located in the St. Louis, Missouri area and has been working in
the Graphic Arts Printing Industry since 1982.
Thousands of plant visits Coast to Coast over 41 years, have
provided an extensive insight to a wide variety of unique process
& solution applications which drive the industry today.
Plant Merger & Acquisitions, Equipment purchases and Liquidation services.
U.S.A. & International Export sales for Offset Presses - Sheetfed & Web, Bindery/Finishing, Mailing, and Digital Print & Web Finishing Equipment.
Contact us if you have any questions regarding consulting on a process solution, application, or equipment needs.
Michael Ramshaw
MidAmerica Equipment Solutions, LLC
Collating Sheets - Signatures - Smart - Custom Solutions
New Collators
Col-Tec offers a broad range of new collating machines with standard sheet sizes and any number of feeders. For further information including an initial guide price and basic machine specification, please click on the link below.
Signature Collating
Col-Tec manufactures a purpose-built signature collator as an alternative collator to our flat sheet models. The design is focused on the machine's ability to efficiently handle the collation of folded sections from 4 to 32 pages and includes the ability to reliably collate stitched and perfect bound books. We believe this makes the Col-Tec signature collator the world's most versatile, cost effective collator for the perfect binding and mail fulfilment sectors. Please click on the link below.
Smart Collators
Col-Tec leads the market with its 'On Demand' collator. In simple terms this means when required, all collated sets can have individual set patterns. To achieve this the Col-Tec collator reacts precisely to job sheet data with the result that no two collated sets need necessarily be the same. Please click on the link below.
Customised Build
On many occasions the industry is faced with exceptional paper weights and sheet sizes, which make collating on conventional equipment troublesome, or sometimes impossible. For many years Col-Tec have been able to solve these problems by designing purpose-built collator equipment. This, together with over 50 years' experience in the manufacture of suction feed collators has made Col-Tec the market leader in special application collating equipment. Please click on the link below.
FAQ's
- Belted conveyor with automatic knock up of all sheets throughout the collation process
- Computer programming options including automatic miss correction, double ejection, and multiple feeding of more than one item from any feed station
- Wide range of extras and other in-line finishing equipment
- Machines built to customised formats when required
- Suction feed
- High speed performance. Speed range subject to sheet size and number of stations
- Most stock types 30 - 1000gms
- Virtually unlimited potential for collation of stocks including film, plastics, business forms, bank, bond, art paper and board, etc
- Continuous operation, loading on the run in standard pile format or pre-loaded pallets using deep pile feed stations
On many occasions the industry is faced with collating exceptional paper weights and sheet sizes, which make collating on conventional equipment troublesome, or sometimes impossible.
For many years Col-Tec's collator engineers have been able to solve these problems by designing purpose-built collator equipment. This, together with over 50 years' experience in the manufacture of suction feed collators has made Col-Tec the market leader in special application collating machines.
Should equipment out of our extensive range not fulfil your exact needs, we are able to customise our collators to meet any specific requirements.
In order to support automatic production lines, Col-Tec will produce the necessary interfaces to conveyors, binding equipment, film-wrapping machines, etc. all to individual specification.
LithoFlash Fully Automated Inline Color Control
Streamlining Commercial Printing Workflows
Reduced make-ready time increases job throughput.
High waste savings directly lower substrate costs.
Moreover, the use of a measurement and control system additionally ensures production quality and color consistency throughout the run.
Packaging Printing
- Reduced Paper Waste on Make-Readies
- Reduced Run Waste Sheets
- Quickest Path to Color
- Color Consistency throughout the press run
- ROI in under 12 months
Commerical Printing
Shrinking the gap between digital printing and sheetfed
- When your market is pleasing color, Litho-Flash is the ultimate tool. With Litho-Flash, 9 out of 10 jobs the pressman runs are within tolerance in under 100 sheets. Start the press – make your first pull, check content and adjust register – Re-start the press and DON’T stop. Let technology take control.
- With Litho-Flash and most presses, the crossover of profitability from Digital to Sheetfed is under 200 sheets.
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Equipment
Press - Bindery - Packaging - Digital Web Finishing
Used Press Equipment
- Offset Press
- Web Offset
- Digital Web Press
- Additional items available upon request
- Export equipment available
Used Bindery Equipment
- Paper Cutters & Loading Systems
- Paper Folders
- DieCutters
- Folder Gluers
- Digital Finishing - Slit/Crease/Cut/Score
- Shrink Packaging Systems
- Specialty Finishing Equipment
- Additional items available upon request
- Export equipment available