Pressroom Chemistry

To maximize the service life of your Böttcher roller and ensure consistent print quality, we recommend using Böttcher-brand chemicals. Böttcher offers many roller maintenance products and printing aides, including the best-selling Feboclean 2000 roller cleaning paste, which is the most effective way to remove build-up of insolubles and calcium deposits from your rollers.
A leading world manufacturer of washes for blanket and roller cleaning, Böttcher is so concerned about chemistry and its compatibility with your press that we will be glad to test for our customers any new or unknown chemicals free-of-charge. Contact your Böttcher representative for further information.

Böttcher understands the importance of using proper chemicals on your presses and printing rollers. Often, when our technical advisors are called in to a customer to diagnose what they suspect is a roller problem, the issue is really the result of using the wrong chemicals, or using chemicals in the wrong way.
The easiest way to ensure you are using the right chemicals with your Böttcher rollers and blankets is to use our Böttcher-brand chemicals. Böttcher offers many roller maintenance products and printing aides, including specialty press and printing roller products.
Utilizing environmentally responsible ingredients and manufacturing processes, BöttcherFount solutions are formulated to meet your requirements.

To ensure proper performance of your dampening system, removing contaminants/ink build up on dampening rollers is essential. This will both enhance the lifespan of the roller and improve overall print quality. For effective cleaning of dampening system/metering rollers Böttcher offers a variety of specially formulated maintenance products. Böttcher is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of washes for blanket and roller cleaning, with a range of dedicated washes tailored to the specific needs of each type of automatic washing system.Utilizing environmentally responsible ingredients and manufacturing processes, BöttcherFount solutions are formulated to meet the corrosion requirements of the OEMs.

Bacterial growth in fountain solution circulation systems can post a problem. Böttcher products such as Böttcher Molex can effectively reduce the formation of bacteria, fungus and bio-films in fountain solution circulating systems. Böttcher Molex is particularly suitable for use in the fountain solution circulating systems of newspaper presses.
An additional newspaper accessory provided by Böttcher is the Drum Pump, which is used with fountain solutions as well as a stainless steel drum pump for washes only.

The applications of BöttcherPro Silicone Spray are many and diverse. Whether you are lubricating machine parts or reducing ink accumulation, Böttcher can help. Böttcher understands the importance of using proper chemicals on your presses and printing rollers for fountain solutions and cleaning. The easiest way to ensure you are using the right chemicals with your Böttcher rollers and blankets is to use our Böttcher-brand chemicals. Böttcher offers many roller maintenance products and printing aides.

Among Böttcher’s products are the standard spray powders BöttcherPro Silux 20 and BöttcherPro Silux 35 in 1-kg stand-up pouches with screw caps.
Sprayer units on presses can be filled easily from the stand-up pouch without spilling and press soiling and then simply closed with the screw cap. That is an advantage over the conventional plastic pouches commonly offered in the market, which have to be cut open at one corner to remove the powder.

Böttcher offers a cleaning cloth for automatic blanket cleaning devices without direct feed lines for washes. The system consists of a dry cloth roll and Böttcher Supreme Wash, the washing agent soaking the cloth roll immediately prior to use.