In the constantly evolving package printing industry, folder-gluer suppliers recommend that converters keep pace, as well as keep an eye on the future.

By Missy Smith

Automatic folder-gluer

ADI/PDM Trade Group’s fully automatic one-pass, two-piece box folder-gluer offers a dual feed table set-up with center joint pre-gluing, eliminating the need to pre-fold two-piece boxes. Sheet one is fed through a glue station and under sheet two. Both sheets are fed into the folding section with a center compression rail, ensuring adhesion on the center seam. The box continues to a PLC-controlled automatic adhesion station on the center seam and a stacking section, which sends the completed unit to the plant conveyor system.—ADI/PDM Group, www.arcdoyle.com