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Kolbus BF 530
The Kolbus BF 530 is a top-of-range hardcover book production line. It runs at up to 4,200 cycles/h. No longer in production — we still supply tooling for machines in service.
Each job you run comes with its own specific problems, and more often than not the culprit is found on the tooling shafts. The standard finishing tools supplied with your machine aren’t accurate, versatile or delicate enough for the results you and your customers expect. At Technifold we design and build bespoke, retro-fit premium finishing tools to solve both common and complex finishing problems.
Your BF 530, finished properly.
Patented in the UK · 45,000+ tools running in 79 countries · since 1999
The BF 530 at a glance
- Rated output
- 4,200 cycles/h
- Max binding thickness
- 80 mm
- Control
- Copilot
- Format range
- Book block: max 280x375x80mm (alt max 305x375x30mm), min 100x100x2mm; opened case: max 660x385mm, min 210x105mm, thickness max 7.0mm/min 0.1mm; finished book: max 285x385x90mm (alt max 315x385x30mm), min 105x105x5mm
- Compressed air
- 350 l/min
Built for: The Kolbus BF 530 is a top-of-range hardcover book production line. It runs at up to 4,200 cycles/h. No longer in production — we still supply tooling for machines in service.
Tooling for the BF 530
If it’s a wheel, a blade or a rib that touches paper or board, we can make it.
Tech-ni-Fold manufactures precision finishing tooling: 45,000+ tools running in 79 countries over 25 years. Alongside our patented systems, we engineer and machine components to order for finishing machinery of every kind, including machines like the BF 530.
Precision rotary tooling is what we do
Creasing ribs, scoring wheels, perforating blades, slitting knives, blade holders, anvils and custom shaft components, designed and machined in-house in the UK, by the company that invented and patented rotary creasing.
Engineered to order
Most of what we make started as somebody's problem, not a catalogue page. Send us the part, the drawing, or just the job that's going wrong, and our engineers will tell you straight whether we can make it better, sharper or cheaper.
OEMs buy from us already
Machine manufacturers source blades, holders and finishing components from us under their own part numbers. If you build or maintain machines, you get a supplier who actually understands why the part is shaped the way it is.
Talk to the engineers
What does your BF 530 need?
Tell us the part, the problem, or the price you’re paying now. We’ll tell you honestly what we can make, what it would cost, and how quickly it can be on your machine.