Anilox RollersThe Heart of Precision Coating

Engineered for the Finest Film of Ink, Glue, or Lacquer

At gravion, precision is more than a promise — it’s our profession.
Our Anilox Rollers are designed to transfer the perfect amount of liquid, every single time. From ultra-fine gravure coatings to industrial glue applications, Gravion provides laser-engraved perfection for consistent, repeatable, and efficient production processes.

With every revolution, our Anilox Rollers bring stability, consistency, and excellence — built for performance, crafted for endurance.

gravionMastering Laser Precision

Our state-of-the-art laser engraving technology enables exact cell geometries — defined by depth, angle, and volume — to achieve unmatched transfer efficiency.
We manufacture custom roller surfaces for printing, coating, laminating, and embossing processes across a broad range of industries.

Whether you need open or closed cells, ceramic coatings, or custom volume calibrations, gravion ensures the perfect match between roller, substrate, and process.

Every cell counts – Anilox rollers engineered for ultimate ink transfer.

gravion Anilox RollersApplications Across Industries

Our Anilox technology is trusted wherever controlled coating and transfer precision are essential:

Tissue and hygiene product manufacturing
Flexible packaging and plastic film
Paper and board finishing
Foil coating and lamination
Adhesive and glue application
Printing and converting industries

Each roller is engineered to maximize efficiency and lifespan, while reducing waste, downtime, and rework.

gravionDimensions & Materials

Our Anilox Rollers are available in a wide range of specifications:

Width: up to 3500 mm
Length: up to 4250 mm
Diameter: from 42 mm up to 520 mm

We use premium steel or lightweight aluminum bodies, coated with ceramic or chrome layers, depending on your process requirements.
Each roller is balanced, tested, and certified for concentricity, ensuring absolute precision even under high-speed conditions.

Coatings crafted for durability, elegance, and precision.

VariousSurface Coatings & Treatments

Gravion develops special ceramic coatings in collaboration with leading partners, designed to:

Increase wear resistance
Minimize cleaning cycles
Optimize ink or coating release
Extend the overall roller lifespan

Our rollers achieve hardness levels of up to 4500 Vickers, ensuring maximum durability and performance stability even under extreme process conditions.

gravionInnovation That Drives Consistency

Each Anilox Roller is a fusion of material science and engineering precision.
We offer:

Custom cell geometries (hexagonal, trihelical, elongated, hybrid)
Laser calibration for consistent volume transfer
Inspection and regeneration services for complete lifecycle management

With gravion, your rollers don’t just perform — they elevate your production standard.

The essence of print quality lies within every gravion Anilox cell.

Where accuracy meets assurance – Gravion quality in every dimension.

gravionQuality Control & Lifecycle Management

Every Anilox Roller undergoes multi-stage inspection, including:

Concentricity measurement
Surface hardness verification
Cell volume and shape control
Dynamic balancing

Beyond manufacturing, our Lifecycle Management Program ensures your rollers remain at peak condition — with cleaning, re-engraving, and restoration services that extend their active lifetime.

Custom EngravingEvery Idea Deserves its Perfect Texture

We develop custom-made embossing rollers, precisely tailored to your product’s functional and aesthetic goals. Through our direct laser engraving, we achieve micron-level accuracy, ideal for industries demanding absolute control — from hygiene and tissue to automotive, packaging, and specialty materials.

Your design, our precision — unlimited by tools, defined by imagination.

Design & Development

Innovation begins long before the engraving starts. At Gravion, design and development form the beating heart of our process. We act as your creative and technical sparring partner, transforming ideas into engineered perfection. Using 3D modeling, texture simulation, and iterative prototyping, we refine every pattern for maximum embossing performance and optimal material flow.

Systems

We provide integrated embossing systems in collaboration with trusted partners — ensuring seamless compatibility from mounting to control integration.
Our complete setups are engineered to boost throughput, reduce downtime, and maintain flawless embossing consistency across materials and environments.

Life Cycle Management

A Gravion roller is not just built to perform — it’s built to endure. Our Lifecycle Management Program covers every phase: from production and precision refurbishment to re-engraving and recycling. This holistic approach extends the lifetime of your tools, maximizes ROI, and contributes to a circular, sustainable production chain.

Precise embossing for your industryThese Industries Are Already Benefiting Today from Our Revolutionary Laser Technology

Exceed your expectations with our embossing rollers. gravion is the innovative embossing roller manufacturer for all industries that rely on precise, fast, and clean embossing results.

Aluminum Industry

Finish aluminum foils for applications in the packaging, automotive, shielding and foodstuff industries. A variety of material thicknesses can be used – our technology does not limit the possible material thickness. Our customers also enjoy complete freedom when it comes to the design.
With our innovative technology, we can create embossing structures with a depth from a few micrometers to four millimeters.

Automotive Industry

Create embossing structures for your leather and artificial leather applications, as well as embossing aluminum for cars, trucks, buses and other applications. There are no limits for the variety of embossing designs we can produce. Embossing structures for leather and artificial leather applications are usually lasered into copper surfaces. For aluminum embossing structures in the automotive industry, we laser the structures into hardened surfaces, with a range of different materials available for the customer to choose from. gravion is able to meet any requirements relating to the degree of gloss or other technical framework conditions.

Coatings Industry

From single to triple structures, for toilet paper, kitchen towels, napkins, interfolded sheets, tablecloths, and away-from-home products — we ensure superior precision across all applications.

Stainless steel Industry

The stainless steel embossing industry is incredibly varied, as are the potential roller sizes used. We are able to manufacture small rollers with widths as small as 50 mm, as well as special rollers for Sendzimir embossing rollers. We laser embossing rollers with extremely hard surfaces, including HSS steel rollers, on the sanded surfaces after a corresponding finishing process.

Lid Industry

Produce and finish hygienic films and screen films to your exact requirements using our rollers. We can produce everything from extremely delicate structures to 3D structures measuring over 1000 micrometers in depth without a problem.

Gift wrap Industry

The gift wrap industry is a niche sector, but one that gravion also supplies. Our design freedom and ability to directly laser machine steel are an incredible help for this very specialized sector. gravion's unrivaled abilities in this industry include embossing structures for aluminum, paper and composite materials. We are also more than happy to perform test embossings in advance, which are created on rubber or paper on our in-house test rollers.

Glass Industry

Use our technology to manufacture embossing rollers for technical glass, design glass and Plexiglass. These can also be lasered into hardened surfaces. Designs can be created at any depth up to 4 mm for the glass sector.

Plastics Industry

gravion manufactures all embossing rollers for any design in the plastic plate, plastic panel and plastic border industries. In this sector, our innovative technology is replacing conventional manufacturing methods, as well as applications in steel and copper surfaces.

Leather Industry & Artificial Industry

gravion produces all embossing rollers for the leather and artificial leather industries. These applications are typically embossed in copper surfaces.

Furnishings Industry

gravion is the perfect partner when it comes to surface embossing for the furnishings industry. We can create any design for your surface embossing structure.

Paper Industry

For businesses that use embossing rollers to emboss paper, gravion is the right choice – the perfect future-oriented partner. We are capable of producing linen embossings, worm-shaped embossings, damask embossings, pyramid embossings, handmade paper embossings, and playing card embossings. We are setting new standards when it comes to implementing new design possibilities. Our outstanding precision helps our customers to reduce the contact pressure against the counter rollers and to significantly increase movement speeds.

Pharmaceutical Industry

Seal grids in a range of designs are used in the pharmaceutical industry; gravion is able to manufacture these using the company's laser technology. gravion is also capable of producing these delicate structures in a standardized manner. Existing designs are transferred into the digital world using 3D scans.

Wallpaper Industry

gravion is able to manufacture embossing rollers for the wallpaper industry. We directly laser steel or copper surfaces, depending on the customer's request. Our employees in the digital data production team are on-hand to draw up every design detail. If requested, we are also able to create a cut-off embossing design.

Tissue Industry

The tissue industry is one of the largest sectors to use embossing rollers. gravion's innovative technology is ideal for any application in this industry. We are able to create single embossings as well as double or even triple embossing structures. The embossing rollers can be manufactured as single embossing rollers or as positive/negative embossing rollers made of lasered normal steel or hardened steel. Our unique technology enables us to achieve significantly higher precision and to create embossings at any depth required in this sector.

Strapping Industry

The embossing rollers sets needed in the strap industry, which are typically positive/positive sets, are manufactured to the highest standards of precision and accuracy using our innovative technology; gravion is able to supply and adjust designs of any kind. For a dedicated development partner in this sector that can offer you unlimited freedom for future designs, look no further than gravion.

Packaging Industry

Working with customers in the packaging industry is one of gravion's many strengths. For embossing rollers designed to emboss lettering on paper or rubber, or for union sets (positive/negative) for the lid embossing industry or logo rollers for aluminum packaging. All existing structures in the union roller industry can be implemented using gravion's innovative technology.We are also more than happy to offer solutions in the event of wear problems with rollers; our expert team is on-hand to optimize your processes.

Nonwoven Industry

All embossing roller designs in the nonwoven industry can be created directly on steel using the laser process. At the moment, the only limitation is the current possible cylinder sizes.

Napkin Industry

High-precision designs for steel/steel and steel/paper applications — engineered for consistent quality. The napkin industry is yet another sector that can benefit from gravion's innovative technology. Here, design possibilities and highly accurate embossing structures are of the utmost importance. We are able to manufacture embossing rollers and union set embossings (positive/negative) for this field of industry.

Special Projects

If it’s unique, complex, or needle-based — we support it. Nothing is too special.

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gravionYour Partner in Precision

At gravion, we don’t just manufacture embossing tools — we engineer reliability, consistency, and beauty in detail. Our Union Rollers are built to turn precision into performance and ideas into reality.

Contact us today to discuss your steel-to-steel embossing application:
info@gravion.eu | +49 7623 74 790-00 or reach out to our global Gravion sales network.