Weyerhaeuser’s Flexo Printing Facilities Streamline Plate Mounting

Likewise, if a print job is in progress and a plate has to be replaced, the cylinder can be pulled out, the plate pulled and replaced with another, which will be positioned in exactly the same place as the prior plate. It is a very exacting and easy process.

Production downtime reduced

The amount of time it takes to get a job on press is typically the same whether it is a one-roll job or a twenty-roll job. Weyerhaeuser runs a lot of smaller orders of one and two rolls. Instead of spending up to four hours mounting plates for a new one- or two-roll job like before—and running another job as a fill while the next job is being set up—they simply pull the cylinders out of the press, go back to the mounter, and have the cylinders back and ready to go back on the press in a fraction of the time. Downtime has been greatly eliminated with the Leader system.