CardPak Places Order for KBA Rapida 106 41” Ten-Color Press

SOLON, Ohio—KBA North America has announced that CardPak, Inc., a supplier of packaging products to consumer brand companies across the globe, has placed an order for a 41˝ KBA Rapida 106 10-color perfecting press with coating tower and twelve foot extended delivery. The new KBA press is currently being built and will be installed at CardPak’s headquarters in Solon, Ohio in mid-November of this year.

“In the past three and a half years, we have completely transformed our company,” says Tony Petrelli, president of CardPak. “We’ve established a strategic plan that has improved our operations so that we can practice lean manufacturing and produce environmentally sustainable packaging products. This plan has taken us to our full manufacturing capabilities and the installation of our new KBA Rapida 106 41-inch ten-color press will open up 20–25 percent more capacity in our facility.”

The new Rapida 106 41-inch ten-color perfecting press being installed at CardPak features a press speed of 15,000 sph output, fast makeready times, and expanded automation and productivity. The press provides a wide choice of automation options, including the KBA DriveTronic dedicated drives, as well as the DriveTronic feeder, with its presetting capabilities. The press also features the GATF InterTech award–winning sidelay-free infeed, DriveTronic SIS. Its KBA Logotronic system allows for presetting of ink fountains. New technology on press also includes the KBA Densitronic Professional closed-loop color management scanning spectrophotometric system and Qualitronic In-Line Color Control. The substrate range runs from lightweight papers to heavy board, from plastic films to corrugated—all without adjusting any grippers.

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