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From First Continuous Drying Oven to Modern MetalStar 3 Decorating Line

The first metal decorating line was installed at Beiersdorf in 1932. Metal tins for Nivea Creme have been decorated on Koenig & Bauer presses ever since.

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy editor, New York Post

LTG Lufttechnische GmbH, 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 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 unl...

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