Coast to Coast September 2010
ECO Folder/Gluer Adds to Finishing Lineup
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Flower City Printing has added capacity to its finishing capabilities with the installation of a 41˝ ECO 105 folder/gluer from Heidelberg. The company, which specializes in retail signage, POP, POS, folding cartons, litho labels, packaging, and kit-packing/fulfillment, was impressed with the ECO 105's productivity—up to 50,000 lockbottom cartons per hour—as well as its flexibility to process lock- and double-wall boxes, along with four- and six-corner cartons. According to Director of Marketing Tina Beauchemin, the ease of use and fast makereadies enabled by the new folder/gluer are also a big plus for the handling of frequent job changeovers needed to process multiple short runs from 5,000 to 50,000 pieces.
"The ECO 105 has become a valuable addition to our folding and gluing operation due to its ability to handle a wide range of folding configurations and sizes," says Kevin Neureuter, Director of Operations.
Established in 1970 and with annual sales revenue in the $60 million range, Flower City operates three facilities in the Rochester area employing a total of around 285 employees.
CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES—Digital Room, Inc. and U-Printing Network have purchased a five-color 40˝ automated Mitsubishi Diamond 3000S sheetfed press with aqueous coater to expand the offset capabilities at U-Printing's production facility here. The new press will feature the SimulChanger plate-changing system for plate changes on all units in just over one minute.
ILLINOIS
WILLOWBROOK—Splash Graphics, Inc., a premedia and graphics company, has invested in a KODAK FLEXCEL NX digital flexographic system to expand into printing plate production for flexographic printing.
MASSACHUSETTS
EVERETT—Agfa has announced that H.K. Graphics has installed an :Anapurna Mw as part of its overall strategic business growth plan. The unit adds single pass pre-white and multi-pass post-white to the :Anapurna M series. This wide-format industrial UV inkjet printer is designed to produce photorealistic quality for POP, displays, retail signage, trade show graphics, and more. It features a print resolution of 720 x 1440 dpi and a maximum printing width of 62 inches.
MINNESOTA
MINNEAPOLIS—Imagine! Print Solutions has added an HP Indigo 7000 sheetfed digital solution with the capacity to produce high-quality print at an economical rate. With the addition of this new press, Imagine! Print Solutions now has a total of seven digital presses and is able to offer its customers even greater flexibility to their short-run print programs.
NEW YORK
DEER PARK—Overnight Labels has added a 16˝, eight-color Nilpeter press with eight color stations, up to a 203-mm layflat for shrink sleeves, cold-foil capabilities, and additional laminated structures and flex packs. The label printer expects the unit to increase not only its production capacity, but also allow it to accommodate wider web widths.
NORTH CAROLINA
BURLINGTON—Meredith-Webb Printing Company has agreed to purchase a 41˝, six-color, 10-unit KBA Rapida 106 that includes coaters and 12-ft. extended delivery. The press offers output of 18,000 sph, and includes the KBA Logotronic Professional management system, the KBA Densitronic combined density and color measuring system, and the Drivetronic feeder with presetting capabilities.
OHIO
LEXINGTON—While awaiting the arrival of a three-layer VAREX co-extrusion line from Windmoeller & Hoelscher, Next Generation Films in Lexington, OH, has placed an order for another VAREX line. This marks Next Generation's sixth investment in W&H machinery, and the third in the past year. Both new high-output VAREX lines have grooved feed extruders (105.30/135.30/105.30D), a 35˝ OPTIFIL® P2 die, and FILMATIC® T dual turret winder.
These lines will add more than 50 million pounds of capacity per year, all of which has been pre-sold for the production of custom films.
PENNSYLVANIA
YORK—A new lamination line from Davis-Standard, LLC has added capacity and precision for food packaging manufacturer C-P Flexible Packaging (C-P). Davis-Standard supplied the line with custom profile control between the gauging system and flex lip die to attain very flat profiles across the web and in the machine direction. The line is also wider to better support the company's press-printing capabilities. The new line features Integrator control technology, a regenerative shaftless turret unwind splicer, and produces laminated structures comprised of extruded polyethylene between two films including OPP and PET, primarily for C-P's snack food industry customers.
SOUTH CAROLINA
FORT MILL—Martin Automatic has installed a splicer and rewinder combo on a narrow web label press at Flexographic Trade Services. The unit will be combined with an STR turret rewinder to provide non-stop roll changing for FTS's new Mark Andy P5 Performance series press. Matching the press speed of up to 500 fpm, the new MBSC/STR combo can boost productivity and reduce materials waste for more profitable operations.
UTAH
PAYTON—Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC) has announced the sale of a new eight-color, 59˝ gearless, sleeved Fusion printing press to flexible film packaging company Temkin International. The press features the PrintReady automatic impression memory system and allows full press wash-up of all color decks in four to eight minutes.
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