Finishing - Conventional

To keep work flowing from pressroom to post-press, and out to the customer, Ultimate Paper Box, under the leadership of Janak Patel, has boosted its folding and gluing department with a new Koenig & Bauer AllPro 110 folder/gluer.

BOBST has revealed several new solutions to support its packaging industry vision, all built on the four cornerstones of Connectivity, Digitalization, Automation, and Sustainability, helping customers to deal with packaging production transformation.

An efficient production process is imperative to a successful packaging operation, and finishing is a key component that should not be overlooked.

This new equipment is being installed in C-P Flexible Packaging's Buffalo, N.Y., facility and will support growth in a variety of bag formats for food, health care, and industrial applications through traditional retail distribution as well as rapidly growing e-commerce channels.

Mauro Consalvi has joined Matik, Inc. and will be responsible for North American sales of OLBRICH coating/laminating products. Consalvi has more than 30 years of experience in the printing industry, ranging from product development and design to capital equipment sales and sales management.

Equipped with a series of automated setting functions, the BOBST MASTERFOLD 75/110 enables very short makeready times and supports non-stop production, able to produce up to 2.7 million perfectly executed boxes per day.

Advantage Corrugated & Packaging, a Hopkins, Minn.-based manufacturer and distributor of boxes, is continuing its expansion and growth with a third machine from Kolbus America in three years — an AutoBox AB 300.

ASL Print FX's Napa, Calif., facility has added a Prati Saturn TE450 slitter/rewinder. Totally flexible and based on the recently developed open-platform technology called Futura, the Saturn range of slitter/rewinders run at high speeds and offer maximum adaptability.

Nobelus LLC has announced that Steve Truan has been appointed as its new chief executive officer. Prior to becoming CEO, Truan worked in various functional areas such as research and development and supply chain, and held leadership roles in sales and marketing.

A new technical paper from Nordmeccanica, Dow, and Enercon discusses solventless laminating, and takes a holistic approach to the process for optimizing adhesion and productivity.