SPIRITED COMPETITORS OF GCI CONVERTING (COVER STORY)

With the construction of its new facility completed in 2000, GCI purchased a new Heidelberg six-color LYL sheetfed offset press, employing twin tower coaters for the in-line application of tinted metallic and high gloss UV coatings, to complement its two existing Heidelberg presses. Also in 2000, a fourth Vega folder/gluer joined GCI's cadre of carton finishing equipment, along with a glue detection system, a label applicator (for in-line and off-line application), and a bar code reader. In the last year, a third Bobst diecutter joined the production line.