Hold ‘Em, Fold ‘Em

Turnaround: Your customer doesn’t care about your speed, but certainly cares about your turn time.

Steve Leibin, sales manager, Matik North America—Three important selection factors are ease of changeover/set ups, versatility, and quality of construction. Finishing departments are being effected by short-runs. Folder/gluers need to be able to changeover quickly and easily to enable finishers to run more jobs in a shift. In addition to being asked to produce more quicker, finishers are being challenged to produce new and different designs as well as to provide value-added capabilities such as inserting CDs, pharmaceutical inserts, or applying windows into cartons during the folding & gluing operation. Folder gluers need to be versatile to be able to produce a wide range of cartons.