In-Line Folding Carton Converting

To make the situation more complicated, many end users see packaging as a commodity. In a commodity market converters need to follow time-tested business practices:

• Improve production processes—get lean and focus on driving costs out;

• Add value to your product—value innovate.

Printers that are still using the multi-step manufacturing technology from 10, 20, or 30 years ago will have a difficult time answering these production challenges. However, today's in-line flexographic production process provides folding carton converters the means to meet customers' demands and maintain profit margins. Flexo is no longer a secondary citizen of the printing world. Flexo press and prepress technologies have advanced so much in recent years that flexo printing can now be included among the best solutions.