Dirty Static Problems

Even with this success, the company was having a hard time dealing with the dust generated by paperboard stock. Since they supply packaging to the pharmaceutical industry and have to meet high standards, the company was scrapping as much as 20 percent of its printed product.

At the time, the John Henry Co. was using a web cleaning system with a rotary brush and many moving parts, which complicated the cleaning process and required the addition of tack rags to clean off the remaining dust.