Time for the Payoff

According to Tropper, reducing the number of flexo presses from six to three (plus adding the digital press) has enabled Prestige to produce a higher quality product to a broader array of end-use markets and applications. "In addition, we found that our capacity actually increased due to the higher run speeds and quicker changeover and setup times," he states. "In fact, we expect the addition of FAST to add somewhere between 500 and 700 additional hours to our annual capacity."